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Please join us on Saturday, May 30, 3:00–6:00 p.m. for the opening of our summer exhibition "Fragments Reimagined: A Call to Action to End Gun Violence Now."

Featuring over 35 artists, "Fragments Reimagined" serves as a call to end gun violence in our communities, harnessing the transformative power of art to provoke dialogue, foster healing, and advocate for change.

This exhibition is a collaboration between MCAD and Art Is My Weapon.

@art_is_myweapon_

Check out 2024 McKnight Fellow @mignhad interview (link in bio) with Laura Laptsevitch @lauralaptsevitch from MPLSART.com @mplsart and Dahn's new work featured in a group exhibition at The M @mnmuseum through June 7.

Please join us on Thursday, May 7, 6:00–8:00 p.m. @mnmuseum for the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley.

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

In anticipation for the 2024 McKnight Fellows upcoming group exhibition at The M @mnmuseum (opening May 7, 6-8 p.m.), we have partnered with Laura Laptsevitch @lauralaptsevitch from MPLSART.com @mplsart to create a series of articles profiling these distinguished artists. This essay features the work of Rachel Breen @rbbreen (Link in bio)

As the 2024 McKnight Fellows prepare for their upcoming group exhibition at The M @mnmuseum (opening May 7, 6-8 p.m.), we have partnered with Laura Laptsevitch @lauralaptsevitch from MPLSART.com @mplsart to create a series of articles profiling these distinguished artists. This essay features the work of Chris Rackley @rackleystudio (Link in bio)

As the 2024 McKnight Fellows prepare for their upcoming group exhibition at The M @mnmuseum (opening May 7, 6-8 p.m.), we have partnered with Laura Laptsevitch @lauralaptsevitch from MPLSART.com @mplsart to create a series of articles profiling these distinguished artists. This essay features the work of Alison Hiltner @alisonhiltner (Link in bio)

As the 2024 McKnight Fellows prepare for their upcoming group exhibition at The M @mnmuseum (opening May 7, 6-8 p.m.), we have partnered with Laura Laptsevitch @lauralaptsevitch from MPLSART.com @mplsart to create a series of articles profiling these distinguished artists. This essay features the work of Sophia Chai @sophiachainyc (Link in bio)

Thank you to all that came out to the opening of "Made at MCAD: All-Student Juried Exhibition"!

A heartfelt congratulations to this year's juror and president choice winners:

Mia Binsfeld
Kenya Zuniga
Shimeng Wei
Montana Becker
Isa Estrada (not pictured)

Exhibition through April 11.

Thank you to all that came out to the opening of "Made at MCAD: All-Student Juried Exhibition"!

A heartfelt congratulations to this year's juror and president choice winners:

Mia Binsfeld
Kenya Zuniga
Shimeng Wei
Montana Becker
Isa Estrada (not pictured)

Exhibition through April 11.

Thank you to all that came out to the opening of "Made at MCAD: All-Student Juried Exhibition"!

A heartfelt congratulations to this year's juror and president choice winners:

Mia Binsfeld
Kenya Zuniga
Shimeng Wei
Montana Becker
Isa Estrada (not pictured)

Exhibition through April 11.

Thank you to all that came out to the opening of "Made at MCAD: All-Student Juried Exhibition"!

A heartfelt congratulations to this year's juror and president choice winners:

Mia Binsfeld
Kenya Zuniga
Shimeng Wei
Montana Becker
Isa Estrada (not pictured)

Exhibition through April 11.

Thank you to all that came out to the opening of "Made at MCAD: All-Student Juried Exhibition"!

A heartfelt congratulations to this year's juror and president choice winners:

Mia Binsfeld
Kenya Zuniga
Shimeng Wei
Montana Becker
Isa Estrada (not pictured)

Exhibition through April 11.

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Mark your calendars! For the opening of "What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows" featuring new work by: Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley @mnmuseum

Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: The M (Minnesota Museum of American Art) Securian Financial Studio, Josephine Adele Ford Center for Creativity
Exhibition Dates: May 7–June 7, 2026 (more info in bio)

“What Holds and What Breaks” explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea, and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological, and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction, and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting.

Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory formats, the artists engage with themes of transformation, fragmentation, and process. Breen uses reclaimed clothing to critique global labor systems through repetitive acts of unmaking and mending. Chai approaches photography as a linguistic expression, returning to her earliest memory of learning to read her mother tongue, Korean. Gim reconfigures found objects and personal effects to reflect cultural hybridity and displacement. Hiltner creates speculative environments that simulate organic systems with synthetic components to explore community synthesis. Matea incorporates archival materials and lived narratives to examine personal history and institutional memory. Rackley reconstructs participatory spaces that address utopia and alienation embedded in childhood memories of American shopping malls.

Together, their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit, and imagine what else might be possible when the familiar begins to break apart.

This exhibition is co-presented by: The M, The McKnight Foundation, and MCAD.

@rbbreen
@sophiachainyc
@mignhad
@alisonhiltner
@tinyocelot
@rackleystudio

Please join us on Friday, March 27, 6:00–8:00 p.m. for the opening of two exhibitions!

+ 2026 Made at MCAD: An Annual All-Student Juried Exhibition

+ From the Ground Up: Selections from MCAD Foundations Courses

Both exhibitions run through April 11.

Please join us on Friday, March 27, 6:00–8:00 p.m. for the opening of two exhibitions!

+ 2026 Made at MCAD: An Annual All-Student Juried Exhibition

+ From the Ground Up: Selections from MCAD Foundations Courses

Both exhibitions run through April 11.

Only one week left to apply for the 2026 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships! Deadline is Friday, March 20 at noon CT. For more info: link in bio

Spotlighting the work of 2024/25 MCAD-Jerome Fellow Ger Xiong! Only two more days to check out the exhibition which closes on March 7. 

"In a recent interview, when asked which single word best encompassed his practice, Xiong’s response was “longing.” This longing, he elaborates, is a yearning for place, for belonging, for the lost way of life of a nomadic people deeply attuned to the rhythms of the land. It is anaching for what the elders in his community grieve for when they tell stories of what once was. Yet Xiong’s artwork is not nostalgic: It reckons with loss and investigates how to mourn collectively." wrote Christina Schmid, this year's exhibition catalogue writer.   

@gerxiong55

Spotlighting the work of 2024/25 MCAD-Jerome Fellow Ger Xiong! Only two more days to check out the exhibition which closes on March 7. 

"In a recent interview, when asked which single word best encompassed his practice, Xiong’s response was “longing.” This longing, he elaborates, is a yearning for place, for belonging, for the lost way of life of a nomadic people deeply attuned to the rhythms of the land. It is anaching for what the elders in his community grieve for when they tell stories of what once was. Yet Xiong’s artwork is not nostalgic: It reckons with loss and investigates how to mourn collectively." wrote Christina Schmid, this year's exhibition catalogue writer.   

@gerxiong55