MCAD's Assistant Director of Admissions, Cristopher Alday ’13, recently finished his two week residency at Cellar Press. His practice experiments with the very medium of printing, and how it can transform into a sculptural art form.

As Cristopher explains, “I really like letterforms as objects or shapes. I sometimes think about setting the type in the press bed as creating small, impermanent sculptures that I then print as evidence of that sculpture.” He does this by exploring the form of the paper itself, how it can be folded, cut and manipulated.

Momentum Revolutions, a rolling conference for Creative Leadership, will be hosted at MCAD from August 5-6, 2026. Faculty, staff, and the public are all welcome, and students are able to join at a discounted rate.

The central conversation of the conference is what systematic and structural alternatives non profits and other organizations have to boards. The discussion explores what practices are already in place, and how current creative leaders can use different systems to evolve their organizations.

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Zamira Mendoza ’24, MA is pleased to announce the City of Red Wing Arts & Culture Commission has selected their Inaugural Creative Laureates. The Creative Laureates Program is an extension of Mendoza’s Creative Leadership Masters capstone project at MCAD.

Gallery 218 in Milwaukee has recently announced Woody Olsen ’76 as a new member. Olsen, alongside other member artists, will be showcasing their work for Gallery Night on July 17 from 5:00–10:00 p.m., located in the Third Ward Marshall Building on the second floor.

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Luke Gehring ’80 was part of the 53rd Annual Hoyt Juried Art Show at the Hoyt Center for the Arts. His works featured are two acrylic paintings Ceci N'est Pas, One Pipe and Who Was Thomas Marcus Martin.

The show exhibition is on display at the Hoyt Center for the Arts through July 23. He was also recently rewarded best in show at the City gallery in Erie PA.

53rd Annual Hoyt Juried Art Show
Hoyt Center for the Arts (New Castle, PA)
May 28–July 23, 2026

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Leslie Barlow ’16, MFA recently finished a new mural that was commissioned by The McKnight Fellowship Foundation for their Minneapolis Headquarters. The mural, titled Belonging to the Entire Universe, is part of the new McKnight Fellowship public art series.

Around 66 feet wide, the mural features similar motifs of humanity and inter connectivity as Barlow’s other work. As Barlow explains "This mural emerges from collective storytelling, engaging public space as a site of reflection and as a space for imagining more just and interconnected futures.”

Sarah Evenson ’16 was in conversation with Edie Fake at the 2025 McKnight Fellowship for Book Artists Panel talk at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Evenson worked with Edie Fake over the year of their McKnight Fellowship.

Evenson’s work as a gay, transgender artist revolves around queer joy, embodied by their bright and colorful zine work, animation, and prints. Fake’s work as a painter reflects similar themes of analyzing “trans identity and queer spaces through the lens of architecture and ornamentation”.

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David M Scott ’98 showed off new works in his most recent exhibition Other Worlds at the Rosalux Gallery. As Scott explains, "my abstracts are studies of line, form, color, and gesture. They are a distant cousin to the architectural world of design I was part of for many years. The object is to give the viewer a respite from the pace and overload of our everyday world, a non-representative place of quiet and meditation."