Sustainable Design faculty member Holly Robbins will be participating in an upcoming design panel at the Sustainability Summit on April 18. She is also the founder of the award-winning design studio This Is Folly.

As both an innovator and educator, Holly brings valuable insight into how thoughtful design can help shape a more sustainable future. The Sustainability Summit will take place at the PAIKKA Event Venue in Saint Paul, MN, on April 18, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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David Hytone ’91 gave a visiting artists lecture at the School of Visual Arts as part of their annual Anderson Lecture Series in April. He recently also gave a visiting artists lecture to the J.Miller School of Architecture at the University of Indiana.

Martino Nguyen ’04 is one of six co founders for the new Non Profit Vietnamese Minnesotan Museum. Founded in March 2025, the museum has an online archive as well as doing traveling showcases while they work on getting a physical space.

Their collection includes photos, calligraphy, paintings, documentaries, contemporary art, traditional clothing and recordings of oral histories. “I have been part of the artistic community, and I felt like my people’s art, culture and history were missing from Minnesota’s multicultural scene,” Nguyen told the Sahan Journal.

Work from Lucy Mink ’95 will be on view for a new three-artist exhibition titled Non Sequitur that runs through June 26 at The Phoenix Gallery and Music Hall in Vermont. Mink lives and works in Contoocook, New Hampshire, and her art has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including Big Town Gallery, Rochester, Vermont, McGowan Fine Art in Concord, New Hampshire, Jaffe-Freide Gallery at Dartmouth College, and other venues from St. Louis to Brooklyn to Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Lisa Kill ’15 and Matt Reimers Kill ’13 present Kill Kill Telephone, a collaborative feedback loop of painting, collage and experimental installation. As described by the gallery; “a game of telephone played between two people is a feedback loop. Sustained feedback will oscillate, slip in and out of discordance, and become a third thing entirely.”

Kill Kill Telephone had it’s opening receptions on March 28, and the show will remain on view through April 26 at After Hours Skateshop.

After Hours Skateshop Art Gallery is run by Jamie Owens ’13.

Lindsay Nohl ’03 collaborated with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) and Minnesota Aurora FC to design the club’s 2026 jersey. The partnership between Mia and Aurora began as a potential sponsorship discussion but evolved into a broader creative collaboration centered on art, sport, and community.

Visiting MFA faculty member Gabriel Saloman Mindel recently returned from a series of international performances and a prestigious residency with Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), one of the world’s leading centers for electroacoustic music.

Mindel and his longtime collaborator Pete Swanson, performing as the experimental music duo Yellow Swans, were commissioned to compose and present a new work for GRM’s annual PRÉSENCES électronique festival in Paris.

Ngân Huỳnh ’23 has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their debut children’s book, When We’re Under the Same Roof, a project rooted in themes of childhood, memory, and cultural identity.