MFA at MCAD

Master of Fine Arts Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. http://www.mcad-mfa.com/ Paul.

The MCAD MFA program is a community of makers, thinkers, researchers, and creative professionals. We are an active part of a contemporary and vibrant creative community in Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Our student body is diverse with a robust international presence. Students pursue creative work in a lively, interdisciplinary environment that includes graphic design, printmaking, paper & boo

k arts, painting, photography, illustration, sculpture, drawing, animation, interactive media, film, comic arts, furniture design, and installation art. The MCAD MFA program is built around a rigorous one-on-one mentor-based model. For three semesters, mentorship is augmented by critique seminars and theory courses. Midway through the process, students engage in a formal review with a committee of faculty, who suggest, evaluate, and guide students’ work. The concluding semester, candidates exhibit their work and go through review with a committee of their choosing.

11/26/2025

🎉 🔥 CONGRATULATIONS to our second-year candidates for their excellent Public Research Presentations yesterday!! So wonderful to hear about the depth in each of these artist’s practices, and to hear what inspires them in their work and what they’re doing in their studios with that inspiration. We are beyond excited for their Thesis exhibition in the spring!✨

12/06/2024

✨ Save the Date! ✨
🎨 MCAD MFA Open Studios 2024 🎨

Dive into the creative world of MCAD’s MFA candidates! Explore their studios, discover their interdisciplinary practices, and interact with the artists who are shaping tomorrow’s art world.

📅 Friday, December 13, 2024
🕕 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 MFA Studios, 2201 1st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
🎟️ Free and Open to the Public!

This is your chance to experience the thought-provoking works of our MFA artists:
Mubarak Al Thani, Montana Becker, Elizabeth Blackwell, Alberth Chacon Salas, Matthew Clara, Graciela DeAnda, Devin Gallucci, Michayla Grbich, Courtney Hammer, Miranda Hoover, Ranran Hu, Fairooz Nazifa, Madeline Kaudy, Yiran Li, Nelson Liu, Vivian Lu, and Soph.

Whether you’re an art enthusiast, a community member, or just curious, come witness the talent, engage in conversations, and immerse yourself in artistic expression. Don’t miss it!

12/01/2024

🙌 CONGRATULATIONS to Round 1 of our fabulous MFA 2’s and their Public Research Presentations last week!✨ We loved hearing about and seeing where your creative work comes from, and where it’s going. Looking forward to Round 2 TOMORROW! (🔗 in bio for schedule and livestream links)✨

03/22/2024

Join us for 🎉 Mid-Program Review After-party 🎉 March 29th 6-8pm at MFA Gallery!!

03/12/2024

MFA ‘23 shared her solo exhibit experience at with us, in ~both~ English and Spanish! Link to full story in bio 🔗🧬

03/07/2024

After 13 years at MCAD, we’re saying goodbye to Kiley Van Note. Kiley has been such an extraordinary individual to have at our program and while we’re sad to see her go, we’re excited to see her start a new journey at The Nature Conservancy. The Conservancy is incredibly lucky to have gained someone who is committed, diligent, and kind.
We’re grateful to have had someone on our team like Kiley for so many years. Congratulations on what great things lie ahead ❣️

02/29/2024

Visiting faculty will have an artist talk on March 13, as part of her current show, “Recite a Poem When Feeling Hopeless.” Join the Ziba fan club (we are life-long members 🥺) and go see the talk and her beautiful, thoughtful work! Details below

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I’m very excited to share that the “𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒎 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔” is now up in the Conkling Gallery at Minnesota State University, Mankato through March 21st. The artist talk will take place on March 13th, 7-8 PM at Ostrander Auditorium and the reception will be the same night 8-9 PM at the gallery. If you happen to be in Mankato, please stop by to see the work. Many many thanks to Josh, Liz, and Alisa at for the invitation and all their help and support.

02/22/2024

We’re always keeping up with what our alumni are getting into! Check out Nick Chatfield Taylor’s ‘23 tribute to Robert Irwin for Faces Of Death.

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‘s tribute to Robert Irwin for FOD 2023
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“I really wanted to honor his thoughts on perception and non-perception. Thought about drawing him between two lines like his early paintings, drawing half of him with the other half disappeared or refracted behind a clear column. Couldn’t figure it out, then just started drawing him and eventually arrived here.

Go read Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees.”- Nick Chatfield-Taylor

Such a great book!

02/15/2024

🙏 Many thanks and 🙌 👏🫶 to alumni and mentors Roshan Ganu (‘20) and Peng Wu (‘13) for a wonderful tour and discussion of their current Jerome Foundation Fellowship installations last week! Current students and faculty got the chance to learn even more about their expansive, experimental, precise (and beautiful) interdisciplinary approaches to making their work. Don’t miss your chance to experience the work in person!! Show continues through March 2 (with great work by Jerome fellows and , too)!
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02/04/2024

Congratulations to Andrea Carlson (MFA ‘05) for winning a 2024 Creative Capital Award! We’ve been posting a lot about our alumni achievements, but our alumni do amazing things!carlson

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Congratulations, 2024 Creative Capital Awardees in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image! Creative Capital awarded artist grants totaling $2.5 million to create 50 new works to 54 artists across the U.S. and Puerto Rico on the basis of their innovative new approaches to painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, video art, architecture and design, printmaking, installation, documentary film, experimental film, narrative film, and socially engaged forms.

The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project funding up to $50,000, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities. Hit the 🔗 in our bio to see the full list of projects and artists 🌟
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