Anda Tanaka Shares Time at Emerging Artist Program | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Anda Tanaka Shares Time at Emerging Artist Program

June 24, 2025
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St.Olaf Emerging Artists Program participants 2013, from left to right: Anda Tanaka, Anders Nienstaedt, Arielle Rebek, James Wilson, Justina Ny, Mathew Brutger, and Sheila Novak.

Anda Tanaka ’22, MFA shares her wonderful experience under St. Olaf’s Emerging Artists Program. During her time in the program, she majored in music and studio art before going on to complete her MFA at MCAD and apprenticing at Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

Tanaka wound up returning to St. Olaf to teach printmaking and drawing. She cites that the Emerging Artist Program is what prepared her for the world of professional art and gave her the connections and skills needed to thrive in it.

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