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Date Posted: 04/20/2009

Vote MCAD!

Furniture design projects by five MCAD students were selected by venerable retailer Room & Board to compete in the 2009 Room & Board Furniture Design Competition, and this year, the public will help choose the winner. Design boards and models by Summer Covell, Mina Jang, Kaitlin Kahn, Steve Mullenbach and Matthew Sairio are on display at the Room & Board store in Edina, Minn., where voting is now open until noon on April 24, 2009. The public's favorite project will be considered alongside six professional judges' picks, with the winner to be announced on April 27, 2009. Find out more, then get out and vote!

MFA work at Soap Factory, SooVAC

Check out thesis work by 13 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates in the MCAD/MFA Thesis Exhibition 2009, opening May 1 at The Soap Factory and Soo Visual Arts Center. A reception will be held on Friday, May 15, from 6 to 9 p.m., and the work will be on display through May 17--find out more.

Summer Expressions Sessions--apply now!

May 1 is the deadline to apply for Summer Expressions Session 1: Music and Media, MCAD's outstanding pre-college residential program for teens ages 16 to 18. Students get an amazing opportunity to work with a local band while "majoring" in digital photography, documentary video, graphic design and multimedia, music video or sound design and recording. During the two-week session, teens also get to live on campus, earn college credit and make friendships to last a lifetime! Find out more about the program and how to apply.

MCAD+MIMA on April 27

Join us for the fourth of five guest lectures in the MCAD+MIMA lecture series Conversations About the Future of Advertising (CATFOA) on April 27 at the Fine Line Music Cafe in downtown Minneapolis from 6 to 8 p.m. David Armano, senior partner at Dachis Corporation and blogger at Logic+Emotion, joins us to discuss developing strategy and creative that acknowledge the increasingly empowered consumer. This free event is sponsored in part by the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. Visit catfoa.blogspot.com or the MCAD events page for more information.

Alumni news and notes

"To Thy Self Be True," a solo exhibition of work by Mary Bergherr (BFA '82), is on view through May 24 at Gallery 360 in Minneapolis. A reception for the artist takes place Saturday (April 18) from 7 to 10 p.m. Find out more and check out the artist's work.

"Almost Homeless," a group exhibition featuring work by Keiko Yagishita (BFA '99) (keikosprints.com), is on view through Tuesday (April 21) at First Amendment Gallery in Minneapolis. Read the Minnesota Daily review to find out more.

Laura Fulk (BFA '07) (laurafulk.com) will debut her new collection, Suffocate, at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis on Tuesday (April 21). The runway show begins at 8 p.m. following a reception from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Fulk's new collection incorporates images by Melissa Breitenfeldt (BFA '06) (mb4graphics.com) in its fabrics. Visit the designer's event page for ticket information, images and more.

Todd Deutsch (BFA '92) (todddeutsch.com) will deliver an artist's talk on Tuesday (April 21) at the Mpls Photo Center coinciding with the opening of his solo exhibition, "Gamers," at the same venue. Find out more.

Lucky, a children's book featuring illustrations by adjunct faculty Melodee Strong (BFA '06) (melodeestrong.com), was recently published by the Avian Welfare Association. The book is based on the true story of a captive parrot that is set free by the child who receives it as a pet. Proceeds from the sale of the book benefit avian welfare, rescue and conservation. Find out more at luckythelorikeet.com.

Work by Amanda Kalinoski (BFA '06) is on view through the month of April at the Women's Studio Workshop in Kingston, N.Y., where she is currently an artist-in-residence. She is in the process of completing a limited edition artist's book, Patterned Pleasures, which she plans to make available in May. Find out more and read her artist's statement.

Emily Johnson (BFA '05) (ecdesignstudios.com) is exhibiting work this weekend at The American Craft Council Show, the largest juried show of its kind. The show begins today (April 17) and runs through Sunday (April 19) at the St. Paul RiverCentre. Find out more.

Caroline Karlen (BFA '92) is the costume designer for John Bryant's The Overbrook Brothers, an independent feature screening during the 27th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. The film can be seen at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 24, and at 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, at St. Anthony Main. Get ticket information and find out more about the film.

Mariam Stephan (BFA '95) received the Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro College of Arts and Sciences and recently placed work in the permanent collection of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. Visit mariamstephan.com to see the artist's work.

Made at MCAD/MOMENTUM: final days!

This weekend is your last chance to see (or revisit) the juried student exhibition Made at MCAD and the City Pages A-List pick MOMENTUM: The New Comics, featuring original work published in the Fantagraphics quarterly Mome. Both shows are on view only through Sunday (April 19)--visit www.mcad.edu/events to find out more.

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