April Fools Featuring Kinji Akgawa | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

April Fools Featuring Kinji Akgawa

April 13, 2025
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April Fools Postcard. It features four portraits of (From top left to bottom right) Kinji Akagawa, Nancy Gripple, Jan McKeachie Johnston, and Randy Johnston.

Professor Emeritus Kinji Akagawa is exhibiting paintings in April Fools, a four-person show at the Grand Hand Gallery. The opening reception was on April 3, and the exhibition runs through May 1.

During Akagawa's retirement in 2010, and after four decades of teaching, MCAD offered him an exhibit of his work to celebrate his career; he insisted on a student exhibition, which culminated in a 150-person gallery of works from every medium. Ankagawa has been working and expanding his own artistic practices ever since his retirement.

April Fools
Grand Hand Gallery (Saint Paul, MN)
April 3–May 1, 2025

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