Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 6 pm –Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 5 pm Main Gallery Gallery Exhibition Image This annual juried exhibition features the best work submitted by current MCAD students pursuing all degrees in design, fine arts, media arts, and entrepreneurial studies. This year students submitted over 350 works for the jurors’ consideration and 51 pieces were selected for exhibition. Participating Artists Josh Anstrand Hershel Auberon Gaby Beilke Katherine Bockelmann Rudy Brumm Skylar Bull Lyon A. Simone Sally Carr Charlie Douglas Tiff Dresher Sarah Dyar Nico Enstrom Jo Farley Sophia Fox Lauren Frontuto Kara Faye Gregory Link Guist Ren Harris Maz Hawj Yifei He Breanna Hickmott Caleb Kerkman Ian Kim Kassie Kodet Lokho Kotile Naoto Lichtblau-Tepley Avery Luthardt Anna Lyle Ashley McNamara Claire McKevitt Nicholas Nicome David Okoronkwo Juliana Olave Abby Owen Lyssa Owens Joanna Quick Reghan Sage Luke Smith Camryn Smith Wesley Speakman Kasandra Suarez Chance Tatum Shreya Tuladhar Kiaan Van Dusseldorp Vernon Vanerwood Fin Weber Jurors' Choice Awards A. Simone (Junior, Illustration) Pretty For A Black Girl Digital prints, zine “I selected Pretty for a Black Girl by A.Simone, a series of illustrations that address the treatment of Black women in Western Society. The work recounts a history of oppression and modes of resistance through carefully crafted illustrations that are as beautiful as they are urgent. In addition to the series of illustrations, the work is accompanied by a pamphlet which provides further context through imagery and text. Simone's style of illustration operates as a throughline between the past and the present, creating a cohesive narrative with an important message.” - Jaś Stefański, 2023 Made at MCAD juror Maz Hawj (Sophomore, Fine Art Studio) Urban Disconnections Mixed media collage, found objects “I chose these pieces for their striking visual language/use of material, subjectivity, and presentation. Both pieces offer a single vivid and fixed entry point into a potential memory—a notoriously unstable part of the mind—where the viewer is able to draw on their own memories. There is a recall of emotion through the material usage, capturing the physical parts of a flame or crayon in the hand of a child. In both pieces they challenge the ideas of drawing or painting as stand-in documentation for real life.” - Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, 2023 Made at MCAD juror Claire McKevitt (Sophomore, Fine Arts Studio) Leaving The Nest Acrylic, oil pastel, hair, gesso, sourced material from my father “I chose these pieces for their striking visual language/use of material, subjectivity, and presentation. Both pieces offer a single vivid and fixed entry point into a potential memory—a notoriously unstable part of the mind—where the viewer is able to draw on their own memories. There is a recall of emotion through the material usage, capturing the physical parts of a flame or crayon in the hand of a child. In both pieces they challenge the ideas of drawing or painting as stand-in documentation for real life.” - Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, 2023 Made at MCAD juror Fin Weber (Junior, Comics) WANTED Ink on paper, digital color “I selected Wanted by Fin Weber, a silent comic that is set in the American West. The comic tells a story about a confrontation between a bounty hunter and fugitive with an unexpected conclusion. Weber uses a limited color palette to create an atmosphere that is almost palatable. The seemingly simple panels are dynamic and range dramatically as the story progresses. Although only 10 pages in length, the comic manages to capture a range of emotions and complex characters.” - Jaś Stefański, 2023 Made at MCAD juror President's Choice This year we invited MCAD President Sanjit Sethi to introduce a new award to the Made at MCAD exhibition. After the juried exhibition was installed, Sethi was invited to consider all works and select one piece that exemplified MCAD’s vision to “embolden creative leaders to collaboratively transform society through equity, empathy, and imagination.” Sarah Dyar (Sophomore, Fine Arts Studio) Delicacy Tables Glass, wood 2023 Made at MCAD Jurors Kehayr Brown-Ransaw is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Mnísota (Minneapolis/Minnesota). Brown-Ransaw’s practice engages in conversations of familial histories, concepts of gendered work, tradition, and Blackness/Black identity through quilting, weaving and printmaking. His curatorial and teaching practices are concerned with access, representation, and the presentation of marginalized communities. Brown-Ransaw received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has exhibited work at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, FilmNorth, Vine Arts Center, Soo Visual Arts Center, with public works at Franconia Sculpture Park. He is the recipient of a 2023 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellowship, 2020/21 Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) Emerging Curator Fellowship, 2020/21 Jerome Early Career Fellowship, 2021 Franconia Sculpture Park Mid-Career Artist Fellowship, and 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum & Gallery. He is the recipient of a FY2021 State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant, 2020 Visual Arts Fund Community Relief Grant from Midway Contemporary Art on behalf of The People’s Library, and FY2020 Next Step Fund Award from the Metro Regional Arts Council. Jaś Stefański is a graphic designer and developer working out of Minneapolis, MN. He is ½ of Studio-Set, a collaborative practice with Lauren Thorson since 2013. Previously he was a digital designer at the Walker Art Center and a Designer-in-Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University. Many thanks to all who made this exhibition possible: Jordyn Brennan Kendall Dickinson Melanie Dowding Molly Froman Madeline Garcia Jamie Kubat Alicia Kuri Alamillo Melanie Pankau Sara Suppan MCAD DesignWorks MCAD Media Center