Meet MCAD's President: Sanjit Sethi Sanjit Sethi has over two decades of experience as an artist, curator and cultural leader. Sethi’s previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, Barclay Simpson Professor, and Chair of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute. Additionally, Sethi has taught at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sethi received a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in Ceramics from University of Georgia, and an MS in Advanced Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sethi has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to India. As an artist and curator, Sethi’s work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting Stories; the Gypsy Bridge project. Recent curatorial projects have included Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers and the upcoming exhibition, 6.13.89 The Canceling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition. Sanjit Sethi is the 19th President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Executive Leadership CommitteeSanjit Sethi, PresidentAdam Buhr, Vice President of Institutional AdvancementAnnie Gillette Cleveland, Vice President of Communications and Marketing StrategyMelissa Huybrecht, Vice President of Enrollment ManagementMary Alma Noonan, Vice President of Finance/CFORobert Ransick, Vice President of Academic AffairsJen Zuccola, Vice President of Student AffairsNick Raverty, Sr. Advisor & Director of Board Relations2024/25 Board of TrusteesChris Barry, Co-ChairM.E. Kirwan, Co-ChairMark D. Pihlstrom, Immediate Past Co-ChairHunter Palmer Wright, Immediate Past Co-ChairSanjit Sethi, PresidentKristine AndersonKobby Appiah '11Laura AustrianBruce W. Bean Susan Calmenson Tara K. DevMartha DaytonCy DeCosse ’52 Elliot FelixJean FreemanGreg Hoffman ’92Win HornigHeather MatteraGreg McGeeClinton H. MorrisonMarion ParkeKen PiperBatala McFarlaneNeil TuliRosemary UgboajahGreg VanBellingerLife TrusteesBruce W. BeanSusan Calmenson Cy DeCosse ’52Clinton H. MorrisonAtherton Bean* Charles Bell* Philip Harris*Clinton Morrison*Trustees by Virtue of OfficeSanjit Sethi, PresidentTrustees EmeritiDavid Andreas*Gail Blake Patricia Bratnober SaundersWilliam ByarsThomas ColwellJohn CuninghamSheridan Fenwick*Shirley FitermanMichael Halvorson ’66Paul HileKent HodderWayne HuelskoetterDean Koutsky ’57Larry LambJames LarsonMary Ash LazarusB. John LindahlKen Lindgren*Lee LynchBetsy MassieBradley NuoralaDwight OglesbyBrian PalmerPaul Pesek*Craig RiceJim Ryman ’65Terry SaarioWilliam SandsDiana ScheffRachael SchererMissy Staples ThompsonGary SternHideki YamamotoSue Zelickson*Deceased