Abbi Allan

Abbi Allan’s life work is about creating hybridizations between art & science.

Abbi is the Interim Director of MCAD's Teaching Artist Minor, while putting a focus on the development of the Foundations Program's success, a practicing artist with a Biologic focus in content, along with many other diverse areas of interest and work.

She attended the Alfred University: NY School of Ceramic Art and Design; where she majored in Mixed Media, while minored both in Biology and Art History. She got her Masters of Fine Art in sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has taught and designed several courses at the Science Museum of MN since 2001 – teaching science through visual projects. She has been with MCAD Since 2008, and has developed and taught courses at the College of Visual Arts, STAR Academy, the Phipps and more working with preschoolers to adults in the arts and sciences.

Abbi has run her own business, starting with selling her ceramic sculptures and other artwork since she was 17, and continues to do so while constantly experimenting with new projects in a variety of media. Her own work examines the fragility of nature: both its beautiful resilience and power and the potential for grotesque accumulated effects when abused. https://abbiaallan.com/home.html

She also loves her Dobermans, gardening, making art, rock and roll, radio, and really strange things that happen in our natural world. She’s a programmer on KFAI with her own Radio Show. She is also working as a vet assistant just to learn new things and has too many dogs and cats not to want to learn more. She also volunteers and orders for Extreme Noise Records - focused on the international reach of punk and DYI culture.