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Where you can seriously major in comics

Where you can seriously major in comics

Surrounded by comics on the classroom walls and below a Superman comic on a video monitor, MCAD adjunct faculty member Jim Keefe is critiquing junior Kyle Kruegor’s draft comic project in today’s “Introduction to Comics” class. Students such as Kruegor have already practiced the various stages — plot, penciling, lettering and inking. In this last…
by Alex Friedrich

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How fine-arts students can get experience at MCAD

How fine-arts students can get experience at MCAD

Campus has been buzzing with the 14th annual art sale, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday. It’s apparently the largest campus art sale in the nation, from what officials say, and a big reason why non-artists know about MCAD in the Twin Cities. Today the halls are decked out with 9,000 prints, paintings and…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why you'll grow a thicker skin after going to MCAD

Why you'll grow a thicker skin after going to MCAD

I’m at MCAD adjunct faculty member Ed Charbonneau’s “Painting as Object” class, and standing with him and some students in the hallway. The group is critiquing junior Kayleigh Fichten’s work — a painted canvas with some trash bags attached to it, and which is draped over a fixture instead of hung on the wall. She…
by Alex Friedrich

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The 1 p.m. witching hour at MCAD

The 1 p.m. witching hour at MCAD

So I grabbed some lunch in the MCAD cafeteria — juicy turkey, stuffing and huge mound of mashed potatoes and gravy, a cola and cookie for just over $10 — and noticed that the place was hopping. Truly a buzz. Next thing I know it’s a ghost town: Apparently, liberal-arts classes are in the morning.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Photos: Breakfast at AJ's digs at MCAD

Photos: Breakfast at AJ's digs at MCAD

As you might guess, having breakfast in the cafeteria of Minneapolis College of Art and Design could be a lonesome affair. MCAD students tend to sleep late, so apparently most eat breakfast at home, which is either off-campus or in one of the college’s seven apartment blocks. So I figured I’d have breakfast MCAD style:…
by Alex Friedrich

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How to mix art, 18 credits and 40-plus hours of work

How to mix art, 18 credits and 40-plus hours of work

So you think Minneapolis College of Art and Design students have the life, eh? Whiling away the hours sketching, smoking and pondering the essence of chartreuse? Yeah, right. Meet Anthony “AJ” Warnick and think again. At 28, the senior in Web and Multimedia Environments studies full time while cobbling together several outside jobs into 40-plus…
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