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Once Upon A Time: An Exhibition By and For MCAD Students

Exhibition: Saturday, April 15–Wednesday, May 17 MCAD Library Gallery

Exploring New and Vintage Folk and Fairy Tale Books Curated by students in AH2105 (Print Culture, Art, and Communication in the Age of Mass Reproduction); HU3328 (Folk and Fairy Tales); and HU3919 (Young Adult Literature).

This exhibition is funded by the MCAD Library, the Liberal Arts Department, and the M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History from the Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia.

#mcad library #mcad library gallery #library gallery @mcad #Folk and Fairy Tale #Once Upon A Time

[garadinervi]

Susan Angebranndt, Snow Flakes, [artist's book of Emily Dickinson's poem 'Snow Flakes', 1858], Green Chair Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2014, Limited to 40 numbered copies [Green Chair Press, Santa Fe, NM. 23 Sandy Gallery,  Portland, OR. MCAD Library, Minneapolis, MN]. Designed, printed and bound by Susan Angebranndt

Snow Flakes by Emily Dickinson

I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town – And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down – And then they grew so jolly I did resign the prig – And ten of my once stately toes Are marshalled for a jig!

– The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by R. W. Franklin, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 

#graphic design #art #poetry #visual writing #book #cover #book cover #susan angebranndt #emily dickinson #green chair press #mcad library #23 sandy gallery #harvard university press #1850s #1990s #2010s

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Hickerson visit 2019

Victors for breakfast on the patio, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MCAD (and library), Fulton Brewery to visit Kev (2 days), Five Watt NE, Familia HQ skate park, Vertical Endeavors Prospect Park area for a climb, Reverie/Lake Monster, Tori Ramen, First Ave/The Depot for Parquet Courts show, Dogwood Coffee Midway, Midtown Global Market/Tacocat, Walker Art Center for mini golf/galleries, Esker Grove to visit Cody, Design studio tour w/ Ian, and Young Joni back bar for pizza

#mpls #minneapolis #msp #walker art center #stp #st paul #minnesota

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Transcendental Mervy Pueblo x Atsuko Yamagata

14 November 2019 to 9 February 2020 Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (CCP Little Theater Lobby) Opening reception: 14 November, Thursday, 6pm

Pueblo and Yamagata, visual artists based in Manila, have met, created and exhibited their works at the recently concluded 7th international art festival called the Nakanojo Biennale in Japan last September 2019. This 14 November 2019, Thursday, 6pm, the Cultural Center of the Philippines unveils their work from the biennale to bid visitor to look-in to the insights of the artists in this exhibition who address historical, contemporary and societal specters.

Working both individually during their artist in residency of the biennale, Pueblo and Yamagata have realized projects that respond to the physical and nonphysical realm. Pueblo’s installation is interjected with coded references, creating socially charged mysterious draperies that function as a portrait of our contemporary reality. Yamagata playfully explores animist processes and presents a materialistic definitions of the immaterial just like how one’s journey is recorded by one’s own footprint. Transcendental offers an immersive experience that sets the space for an examination of one’s own values and of the indelible tracks that continues even after one’s presence is relinquished.

About the artists

Atsuko Yamagata Born 1982 in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, Yamagata is a self-taught practicing visual artist since 2006 with a B.A. degree from Foreign Studies Program of Tokyo University majoring in Indonesian language: Southeast Asian Cultural Studies. In 2012 she entered Musashino Art University in Tokyo, but withdrew after a year as she moved to the Philippines. Yamagata has numerous solo exhibitions in 2018: Uncontrolled Artificiality at Finale Art File, Born Softly at MO_Space, Belongingness at West Gallery, and in 2017: Breathing, Breeding, Blowout , at Artinformal, and Borrowed Scenery at Underground gallery, and Made Roots Here at Hotel Nikko Sapporo. On the same year she participated to the 6th Nakanojo Biennale in Gunma Prefecture(Japan) as resident-artist and exhibitor. She has been participating in numerous exhibitions mainly in the Philippines, but has exhibited internationally: Japan (from 2012-2019), Indonesia (2016) and Singapore (2018 and 2015).

Mervy Pueblo Born in Quezon City in 1982, Pueblo graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design with an MFA degree under the flagship of the Philippine-American Education Foundation and Fulbright Scholarship in 2013. She has received several awards from different institutions such as the Award for Continuing Excellent Service: for Visual Arts and Art Education by the Metrobank Foundation Inc. (2019 PH), AICAD Post graduate Teaching Fellowship by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design MN, USA (Nomination, 2016); Thirteen Artist Awards (2015 CCP, PH), Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Award (2013 USA), Ateneo Art Awards (Finalist, 2012 PH), the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence: Sculpture Competition (Special Citation 2006, and Finalist, 2007 to 2010 PH), and Recognition of Talented Youth in Arts and Culture conferred by the office of the Pasig City Mayor (2006). Pueblo had solo exhibitions at Gotanda Community Center, Gunma, Japan (Coming Home, 2019), Artinformal, MM, PH (Fearless, 2014), Bliss on Bliss, NY, USA (Capital Values, 2013), Northrup King, MN, USA (Expectation Kits, 2013), MCAD Library Gallery, MN, USA (Remember to Forget, 2011), and at the Black Room, Whittier Studios, MN, USA (Project Mediating Stone, 2011). Moreover she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and symposiums, locally and internationally such as; Japan 2019, 2018, 2016, 2012 and 2009; Malaysia 2018 and 2016; Singapore 2017 and 2014; France in 2014; the United States of America in 2011 to 2013; South Korea in 2011, 2010 and 2008; Russia in 2008; and Vietnam in 2007. She continues to work at her studio in Rosario, Cavite.

Exhibit viewing hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. Hours are extended until 10pm on days with evening performances at the CCP Main Theater. For more information, please contact: Visual Arts and Museum Division, Production and Exhibition Department at (632)8832-1125 loc. 1504/1505 and (632)8832-3702, mobile [phone], email [email protected] or visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph.

#ccp #cultural center of the philippines #ccp visual arts #transcendental #mervy pueblo #atsuko yamagata

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SLFND: Creating a Social Enterprise & The Ubuntu African Award of The Year

On December 1st, 2018, SLFND awarded the students from MCAD that worked with their organization with the Ubuntu African Award of The Year. AE faculty Arlene Birt, the main faculty lead, and her students working with SLFND building their websites, collateral, learning about permaculture, exploring strategic planning for the exportation of products from SL to the US, et al. were all presented with this award at SLFND’s annual award ceremony. 

Olivia Schroeder, one of the students who received the award, shared with us her experience working with SLFND! 

Before studying at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, I started my higher education career at Century College. From there I had the opportunity to study as the School of Art Schools in Chicago. In the Spring of 2017,  I transferred from School of Art Schools in Chicago to MCAD. I am now in my second year of the Entrepreneurial Studies Program and plan to minor in both Public and Engagement and  Art History. My creative practice is curation with an interest in gallery work in the future, but my greatest joy comes from working with other artists. Someday, I hope to own a library, but for now I am enjoying being a mom to my two rats, Pippy and Sissy, and focusing on perfecting my craft while expanding my horizons at MCAD.

This semester I am taking a selection of Entrepreneurial Studies and Art History courses. In my Aesthetics of Sustainability course with Arlene Birt, the other students and I are tasked with the opportunity to work with clients from the Minnesota community that have partnerships with our institution. The client I have the opportunity to work with again is the Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy (SLFND). Their organization builds preschools in Sierra Leone Africa with a focus on permaculture and nurturing their communities. I had originally met their leader, Hindolo, during my first semester at MCAD in the spring of 2017. During our work with him at this time we threw SLFND a gallery show, brought their website up-to-date, and cleaned up their logo. Now they are nearly two years further into their mission. Their school has been officially built along with their permaculture farm. They are now looking to initiate a form of income for their local citizens as a next-phase in their ultimate goal: to revitalize the people of Sierra Leone. I chose to work with SLFND again because I am inspired by their mission and want to be a part of their progress.

If you are unfamiliar with the country of Sierra Leone, know that they are in western Africa not far from Mali and Ghana. The people of Sierra Leone have recently dealt with a bloody civil war that they continue to feel deep trauma from. SLFND’s work is about educating the children of rural Sierra Leone and training all ranges of adults in skills of permaculture, cultivating positive interaction along the way.

In our group was Tyler McKeever, Sarah Hormanski, Charlene Vang, Amy Yang, and Olivia Schroeder. We began by conducting research into what types of products are being purchased right now, and what will be hot in the future. From an ethical and sustainable point of view, we are looking to cultivate an audience within Minneapolis peoples who shop at co-ops. Hindolo had given us a wide list of potential products, so we had room to explore.

We found that self-care products are an important niche in the market, and will continue to be so. My research in imports and exports unearthed that food and coffee can be hard to bring out of Sierra Leone and into the USA, but that soap, labeled by the FDA under Beauty and Cosmetics, could be less complicated to get here. One of our team members conducted real-time scouting of local co-ops and did find that handmade soaps are present there (as we had suspected).

Together we agreed that soap would be a feasible item for the people of rural Sierra Leone to produce. Further research into the at-home production of African Black Soap in particular proved the process to be simple enough while allowing for great variety and creativity beyond the lye/oil/water ingredient necessities. Ultimately we hope that the soap will become a positive source of training and income for the villagers connected to SLFND. The Sierra Leone economy is suffering from the aftermath of their civil war and years of government corruption. Making sales in other countries and bringing the profit back to Sierra Leone is a boost to their economy and this soap production aims to make a step toward that vein of progress.At the end of the semester we presented our social enterprise idea to SLFND along with an installation of how the soap could look like in-store. We provided extensive research on the personal hygiene and beauty market, as well as a marketing plan for the future of SLFND’s social enterprise. 

For more information about SLFND visit their website at: https://www.slfnd.org/about

Written By: Olivia Schroeder

Edited By: Amy M. Yang

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This is happening tomorrow at 7 pm in #Frankfurt at #staedelschule! Come! #HemanChong: Ifs, Ands, or Buts Dienstag, 5. Dezember, 19 Uhr, Aula "This lecture begins with a work that I didn’t make (it was an #accident) and ends with a #performance involving #sentences I didn’t write (other #artists did). In between, I would like to discuss a number of things that has passed through my #eyes, #hands and #mind that have become a substantial part of what most people consider a part of my work; #novels, #bookshops, #libraries, #trees, #calendars, #postcards, #words, #stories, #situations, #exhibitions, time, texts, magazines, conferences, memories, #translations, rumours, #relationships, resistance, #speech, #secrets, #distributions, #bridges. This discussion will take place via deconstructing 10-15 works that I have made since 2003." Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. He has recently produced a series of interconnected exhibitions located in Art Sonje Center (Never, A Dull Moment, Seoul, 2015), South London Gallery (An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories, London, 2015) and Rockbund Art Museum (Ifs, Ands, Or Buts, Shanghai, 2016). He is the co-director and founder (with Renée Staal) of ‘The Library of Unread Books’ which has been installed in NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila and is currently installed in Casco Projects, Utrecht. He is currently working on a novel ‘The Book of Drafts’ which will be published by Polyparenthesis in 2019. Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. (at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule Frankfurt am Main)

#speech #artists #translations #relationships #novels #staedelschule #bookshops #hands #frankfurt #accident #situations #sentences #distributions #mind #exhibitions #libraries #bridges #words #postcards #calendars #performance #hemanchong #trees #stories #eyes #secrets

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Slow-stitched Navigation

A Library Gallery exhibition by Malini Basu

We highly recommend making your way to see Malini Basu's exhibition: Slow-stitched Navigation, in the Library Gallery.

Exhibition: Tuesday, February 14–Monday, March 6 Library Gallery @mcad

Introduction to the installation by Malini Basu:

I have never been good at directions—short walks that should be second nature to me could turn into hour-long meanders. When I moved from my home in India to the Twin Cities, I embraced the GPS system on my phone wholeheartedly, enjoying the ease with which I was able to navigate the public transit systems and the city at large. I followed the guiding blue line unquestioningly, trusting that I was being fed the most efficient path. Unsurprisingly, my mindless navigation did not assuage the disconnect I felt towards the cityscape I walked in and land I lived on. In this body of work, I lean into slower modes of traversing the city. I focus on building an observational practice for myself, using objects found on the sidewalks as cues to look up and take note of my surroundings. I gradually build out my own mental map by tying the object to the surrounding intersection, the plants in season around me, the smells, the cracks in the sidewalks, my personal memories in that area. This practice led to tactile explorations of how I can connect my body to my movements through a place. While this project began as a response to navigating Minnesota, I was able to continue this mindful observation while in India this past winter. The works in this show thus reflect walks in both Minneapolis as well as Kolkata.

Recommended library books:

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys, 1967-2017, by Rachel Adams, Rebecca Solnit, Lori Waxman, and Jane McFadden

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine A Harmon and Gayle Clemans

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, by Karen O’Rourke

Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths, by Ernesto Pujol

The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

Fray: Art and Textile Politics, by Julia Bryan-Wilson 

Drawing from Memory, by Allen Say (on order)

#maps #Minnesota #India #Kolkata #library gallery #mcad library gallery #library gallery @mcad #minneapolis college of art and design library #MCAD Library #mcad

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange. 

Exhibition:  Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#mcadlibrarygallery #librarygallery #mcad #librarygallery@mcad #Minneapolis college of art and design #mcad library gallery #library gallery #library gallery @mcad

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Until the day comes, when the last bubble pops … many life’s memories remain A Library Gallery exhibition by Joy Li (Yuanrong Li)

Exhibition: Sunday, September 25–Sunday, October 16 Library Gallery @MCAD

The bubbles represent the permanence of fond memories. No matter if time may try to burst them, they will remain as sturdy as life’s many memories.

Reading List:

Uta Barth : to Draw with Light, by Uta Barth

Lynda Benglis, by Franck Gautherot, Caroline Hancock, Seung-Duk Kim, and Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis : Water Sources, by Lynda Benglis

Dale Chihuly : Installations, 1964-1992, by Dale Chihuly and Patterson Sims

Chihuly, by Donald B. Kuspit

Lucio Fontana, by Lucio Fontana and Sarah Whitfield

Georgia O’Keeffe : Watercolors 1916-1918, by Georgia O'Keeffe and Amy von Lintel

Gabriel Orozco : Asterisms, by Gabriel Orozco

Tomás Saraceno : 14 Billions (working Title), by Tomás Saraceno and Sara Arrhenius

Sarah Sze, by Sarah Sze and Okwui Enwezor

Steve Tobin’s Natural History, by Donald B. Kuspit, Steve Tobin, and George Erml

James Turrell : a Retrospective, by Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Alison de Lima Greene, Edwin C. Krupp, Florian Holzherr, and James Turrell

Extraordinary Ideas - Realized, by James Turrell

Fragile Fortress : the Art of Dan Webb, by Dan Webb and Stefano Catalani, Jenni Sorkin, and Nora Atkinson

Peter Zimmermann, by Peter Zimmermann and Marietta Franke

Another World : Colors, Textures and Patterns of the Deep, by Dos Winkel and Kalli De Meyer

Thin Skin : the Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, by Barbara Clausen and Carin Kuoni

Plastic Matter, by Heather M. Davis

Lust for Light, by Hannah Stouffer and Katie Roseff

Biophilia, by Christopher Marley

The Color of Nature, by Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, and William Neill

Vitamin 3-D : New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, by Phaidon

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#mcad library gallery #library gallery #library gallery @mcad #mcad #minneapolis college of art and design #bubbles

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Through the Flock of Clouds A Library Gallery exhibition by Ngan Huynh

Exhibition: Tuesday, August 23–Monday, September 19 Library Gallery @MCAD

An illustration exhibition for the whimsical wanderlusts. Join us in this summer dream of tales and illusions where characters face their stories, and challengers dare for impossibles.

Reading List: 

Peter Pan, by J.M Barrie

The outlandish adventures of Orpheus in the underworld, by Paul Newham

The original folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm : the complete first edition, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Under the spell of Orpheus : the persistence of a myth in twentieth-century, by Judith Bernstock

The dreamer, by Il Sung Na

My first day, by Huynh Kim Lien Quang

The magic fish, by Trung Le Nguyen

Modern mythology : Poems about gods, mortals, and monsters, by Nadia McGhee

Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience, by Brené Brown

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#mcad library gallery #library gallery #library gallery @mcad #fairy tales #mythology #mcad #minneapolis college of art and design

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Interstice A Library Gallery exhibition by Abe Shriner and emmy e smith

Exhibition: On view through Sunday, November 13, 2022 MCAD Library Gallery

Enjoy spiritual nourishment at the supple metaphorical mammæ of this library gallery show. Knowledge is the seed that launched a thousand plants. Wait, that idiomatic expression got screwed up. What does a fax from god look like? Blonde Mary, quite contrary. Accidentally hit my godhead on the cupboard door. Monstrance got knocked over but the candles still burned brightly. Paschal mystery becomes paschal we’ve-figured-out-who-the-killer-is becomes wait, there’s a surprise twist and that big bird was the Holy Ghost all along.

Recommended library books:

Joan Mitchell (1988) by Judith E. Bernstock (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)

The Cult of the Virgin: Offerings, Ornaments and Festivals (2000) by Marie-France Boyer

Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) by Marina Warner

Saints in Art (2003) by Rosa Giorgi and Stefano Zuffi

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) by Marshall McLuhan

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#Minneapolis College of Art and Design #minneapolis college of art and design library #mcad library gallery #library gallery @mcad #library gallery

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! You should make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange.

Exhibition: Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#mcadlibrarygallery #librarygallery #mcad #librarygallery@mcad #mcad library gallery #library gallery #library gallery @mad #minneapolis college of art and design library

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Holding Space

A Library Gallery exhibition by Alexis Schramel

New exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make a detour to the MCAD Library to see Alexis Schramel's installation: Holding Space.

Exhibition: Tuesday, November 29–Friday, December 16, 2022 MCAD Library Gallery

Poetry Reading: Tuesday, December 6 MCAD Library Gallery 6:00 p.m.

Introduction to the installation by Alexis Schramel: Holding Space is a site-specific installation, that shifts and changes with each iteration. The catalyst for this installation was initiated in response to my need for human connection through being physically, mentally, and emotionally there for other humans and non-humans. Reflecting on the patterns of my life, I associate autumn with pain, loss, decay, displacement, and transition. This installation is a way of sitting and moving with these emotions. I imagine how this installation solidifies and complicates how I understand the relationships and spaces I inhabit now and in the future. I believe by holding space for each other we can find a tender and loving space which we all carry. Together.

Artist statement: Alexis Schramel is a queer artist practicing across disciplines for exploration within social practice, bio-wilderness, collaboration, and installation. She grew up rooted in rural farming communities of the Driftless Area along the Mississippi River. Growing up in this region, she explores the whimsy and brutality of nature during her childhood. She attempts to make sense of the unspoken and unseen materialization of the senses related to site-specific installations and human experience. Her work experiments with the thresholds of sensory perception- looking and seeing, hearing and listening, giving attention and awareness to what lies in between. 

Recommended library books:

The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard and M. Jolas

Uta Barth: to Draw with Light, by Uta Barth

The Art of Light + Space, by Jan Butterfield

Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, by Amy Chaloupka, Leslie Umberger, and Anne Davis Basting

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, by Brian O’Doherty, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, G. Wayne Clough, Edwin C. Anderson, Elizabeth Broun, and George Gurney

Whole Cloth, by Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reuter

Art Therapy for Children: Activities for Individuals and Small Groups, by Jodi Dorson

Ann Hamilton: Habitus, by Ann Hamilton, Patricia C. Phillips, Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Natalie Shapero, and Susan Stewart

Agnes Martin: the Distillation of Color, by Agnes Martin, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, and Bruce Hainley

Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art, by Jenelle Porter, Louisa Elderton, Rebecca Morrell, and Catalina Imizcoz

Do Ho Suh: Drawings, by Do-Ho Suh, Rochelle Steiner, Clara Kim, and Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Glass, by Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Laura Addison, Ivy Bridgewater, Tina Oldknow, Diana Gaston, and Jean Norelli

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#installation #Poetry #Light in art #mcad library gallery #library gallery #mcad #Minneapolis college of art and design library gallery #librarygallery@mcad

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The Library is accepting Library Gallery exhibition submissions for the Spring 2023 semester.

The Library Gallery is a Library staff-run exhibition space available to students at MCAD.

In the form below, you will find the submission process for exhibiting in the Library Gallery. Please apply! The deadline is Monday, November 28, 2022. Please contact the Library ([email protected]) with any questions.

Click here to fill out the submission form: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (for Spring 2023).

The form is also found on the library’s web page, the school’s News and Events (intranet page), and in the What’s Up at MCAD (email newsletter).

Best of luck, The Library

Poster by Avery Luthardt | Instagram and YouTube: @averyluthardt

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I'll meet u there A Library Gallery exhibition by Anda Tanaka and Genie Hien Tran

Exhibition: Saturday, February 12–Monday, March 25 Library Gallery

In their first collaborative exhibition, I’ll meet u there, Genie Hien Tran and Anda Tanaka explore the rich, fun, beautiful, messy, complicated relationship that exists between artist-friends. Genie and Anda met through a shared interest in papermaking during the fall of 2021 and have since grown as both collaborators and friends. This exhibition includes works created through a variety of collaborative methods. In some, the artists worked simultaneously on the same surface. In others, a shared set of parameters set the course for independent work. Given the mixed-media practices of both artists, the featured work is materially complex, including techniques such as papermaking, ink making, drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Thus, I’ll meet u there is both documentation and commemoration of the connection between Genie, Anda, and the materials they use to communicate.

Reading List:

Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer, by Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Interaction of Color, by Josef Albers

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes

Bluets, by Maggie Nelson

The Parameters of Our Cage, by Chris Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth

The Complete Book of Papermaking, by Josep Asunción

Make Ink: a Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, by Jason Logan

Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing

*Due to COVID-19 campus access will be limited. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

#collaboration #papermaking #ink making #drawing #painting #sculpture #printmaking #library gallery @mcad #mcad library gallery #library gallery #mcad

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WAYFINDING

A Library Gallery exhibition by Dan McAvey 

Exhibition: On display through Tuesday, November 9

Introduction to the exhibition by Dan McAvey:  I was a sailor, once. 2600 miles at sea. Nautical miles, to be precise. I’ve climbed the foremast, the yardarm. Ridden the widowmaker. I’ve navigated by the stars. And the lighthouses.

Some lighthouses warn of danger. Some just tell you where you’re at. After seeing nothing but water for weeks, a light flashing every ten seconds says you’ll set foot in Bermuda by morning.

Lighthouses make a connection; let you know there are humans out there. Humans that will guide your way. 

Along the Mississippi River, you’ll find beacons in unusual places. At the tops of silos and grain elevators are red lights that tell travelers Turn to starboard. Now. But why is a grain elevator a lighthouse? Why is a lighthouse a flour mill?

The fog of this past year has made finding our way a particular challenge. In the confines of quarantine, it is hard to know when we’ll set foot on land again. Through these paintings, I am exploring the unusual places we can find guidance and connection. In a cold, monochromatic image, a red dot can offer connection.

The two most recent paintings, however—the largest of the set—don’t offer such guideposts. In these works, I’m exploring the space between isolation and connection. And the subtle discontent that’s lurking there.

Reading List:

Lost Twin Cities, by Larry Millett

The vital gesture, Franz Kline : Cincinnati Art Museum, by Harry F. Gaugh, and Franz Kline

Milton Avery : the late paintings, by Robert Carleton Hobbs, and Milton Avery

Mark Twain's Mississippi; a pictorial history of America's greatest river, by Tom H. Watkins, and Mark Twain

The river we have wrought : A history of the upper Mississippi, by John O. Anfinson

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