November 04, 2020 Jacob Yeates Meet the artists of the 2020 MCAD Faculty Biennial Through modes of visual storytelling in the traditions of drawing, printmaking, and illustrated journalism processes, I look to moments of social extremity in order to draw attention to larger, more pervasive, power structures, particularly within the context of the United States and other colonial entities’ continual sponsorships of violence, and by extension, my and others’ culpability in these conditions—however subtle or overt said involvement may be. By incorporating analog and digital drawing methods with reportage in which personal research, found documents, and writing are developed in conjunction with visual elements, all within easily-reproducible formats such as digital prints, zines, and book-forms, I attempt to navigate politically challenging content via familiar methods of drawing, written word, and illustration. About Jacob Yeates Jacob Yeates is an artist-educator originally from Iowa City, Iowa, specializing in drawing and illustration. He attended the University of Iowa, where he received his BFA in drawing with an English minor in 2013, and received his MFA from MCAD with an emphasis in drawing and illustration in 2017. Yeates’s teaching experience includes past instruction at MCTC and MCAD, and his work has been featured by Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, The Matador Review, Candid Theater Company, Creative Quarterly, Paper Darts, MPD150, Illozine, Street Fight, IH8 WAR, and Little Village Magazine, as well as appearing in various exhibitions throughout Minnesota and Iowa. In January of 2020, Yeates was awarded funding by the Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant to begin developing his first longform graphic novel: a nonfiction, visual history and critique of the legacies of U.S. law enforcement. Explore more about Jacob Yeates