What might your own ‘future history’ be? Imagine 25 years from now… Peng: It’s my future, not my history! But history is so abstract; you have to embody it in actual things. I moved around so much in China, and always saved one thing from the last place I lived when I got a new apartment. I never plan more than one year ahead.
Gross: Published and successful! Petersen: I don’t see a limit on what I can do — could be both design and illustration. I’d like having a clothing line, maybe even sew it myself. I sewed this hat!
Henry: I can’t even fathom the first year after graduation! But James Casebere ‘76, "La ndscapes with Houses (Dutchess County, NY ) #8”, 2010.
certainly to be part of a making community, like indie films on a local basis.
— Phil Anderson
James Casebere ’76 is going to be on campus in 2012. What do you think of this work? Albornoz: These are plaster? Cardboard? This older one looks like some really fancy cake.
Peng: These are from stop-motion films? Oh…wow, it
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becomes more and more sophisticated.
Johnson: Is he an architect? Oh, a photographer? I wonder how he took these shots.
Gross: Is he a set designer?… It’s very theatrical, that’s for sure.
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Martin: It seems like a micro/macro experiment, or like
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Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau work. You can make profound statements with miniature objects…and it’s so precisely done. I feel I could go to these places.
1988 After more than a century of shared history through the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, MCAD and the MIA become autonomous organizations.
1998 1994 DesignWorks, the in-house, on-campus design studio, opens.
The MCAD Art Sale launches, giving students a chance to create, showcase and sell their work to the public. Since 1998, it has raised more than $1 million.
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lley ‘0 6.
2000s MCAD is one of the nation’s first colleges to issue a laptop to every incoming student, a trend soon followed at other colleges nationwide.
2011 MCAD celebrates its 125th anniversary.