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Date Posted: 05/10/2010
Commencement Exhibition
Running through Sunday, May 16, work by students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Bachelor of Science degree are highlighted in the annual commencement exhibition. All BFA majors are represented, including advertising, animation, comic art, drawing/painting, filmmaking, fine arts studio, furniture design, graphic design, illustration, photography, print/paper/book, sculpture, and web + multimedia environments.
Rogue Taxidermy Kunstkammer
Robert Marbury '04 is curating the show Rogue Taxidermy Kunstkammer which runs May 7-30 at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles.
The show features various artists including Robert Marbury '04 and Sarina Brewer '93 with an opening reception on Friday, May 7 from 8-11 p.m.
Deluxx Fluxx in NYC
What do you get when Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused store front on the Lower East Side? Deluxx Fluxx, a functional video arcade will be open to the public from April 30 to May 27. The installation is entirely interactive, and invites viewers to play a round of psychedelic foosball and take part in the art itself. It is the artists' intention that viewers will forget they are looking at art, and be captivated by the carnivalesque.
MCADers involved in the creation of Deluxx Fluxx include Patrick Miller '02 (Faile), Eric Ishii-Eckhardt '01 and Matthew Cooley '03 (Adapted Studio), Justin Bakse '01, and Greg Schomburg '06.
Deluxx Fluxx was covered recently in the Village Voice and the New York Times.
New Videos Added
New videos of the inauguration preparations and activities have been uploaded. Check them out now.
Task Party @ MCAD
Photo by Caitlin Longley '09
On Tuesday, April 20 MCAD hosted its first TASK Party. TASK, founded by artist Oliver Herring, is an improvisational event with a very simple structure and very few rules. The idea is that each participants picks up a task, usually involving building something out of construction paper, foil, cardboard, markers, ladders, balloons, etc and uses it as a means to interact with other people. MnArtists.org has the full story.
Dean Lucker and Ann Wood Featured On Minnesota Original
The new series on Twin Cities Public Television, Minnesota Original, featured husband/wife artists Dean Lucker '85 and Ann Wood '86 work to create visual sculptures which capture the whimsical simplicity of yesterday through mechanical sculpture and mixed-media paintings. Their work is simple, yet intricate providing a lighthearted conversation about the collaboration of mechanics and art.
Seeworthy and Noteworthy
- Monica Haller, MFA '05, has been named a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.
- Caitlin Nolan, senior at MCAD has been selected by Terry Anderson Photography to professionally shoot her piece, Ugly Dolls
- MCAD inhouse agency DesignWorks has partnered with GOOD and Pepsi's refresh campaign to create an action sheet to visualize the average household carbon emissions per region. The work was also featured on FastCompany.com
- New work from Justin James Reed '03 will be included at the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago as part of the Humble Arts Foundation.
- Shawn McCann '02 was a featured illustrator at the LA Times Festival of Books for his children's book The Sick Bug.
- Kathleen M. Heideman '91 has been selected for the Aspen Guard Station Artist-in-Residence Program in Colorado. Her June 2010 residency in San Juan National Forest will follow on the heels of a May 2010 writer's residency at Andrews Experimental Forest at the Willamette National Forest in Oregon.
- Gregory Euclide '08 was recently asked to represent the US in the Biennial of the Americas taking place in Denver this July.
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