After Macalester

2010s

• 2025

  Nicholas Moiseyev ’25 was awarded the Donald D. Celender prize in Art History.

  Asa Rallings ’25 is the 2025/26 post graduate apprentice in Printmaking at Macalester. He received the Exceptional Merit award in Studio Art.

  Max Carlin ’25 and Piper Gordon, ’25 were awarded the Joan Mondale Award in Ceramics.

  Aahanaa Tibrewal ’25 and Macie McIlvain ’25, had work in a group show, Beyond Metal: Metal + Anything at Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, Mpls. MN,  March, 2025. They both attended the Southern Graphics International printmaking conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 2025.

  Arian Ghafoori, ’25, was awarded the Ella Bandes Memorial Scholarship to attend IAU College’s Marchutz School of Fine Arts, in Aix-en-Provence, France, Fall 2023. The scholarship was created in memory of Ella Bandes, a former Macalester and IAU Marchutz School of Fine Arts student.

  Aahanaa Tibrewal ’25 and Asa Rallings,’25 participatied in EKPHRASTIC 4.0,  an experiment in collaborative drawing via multi-panel storytelling, facilitated by Prof. Megan Vossler at SooVAc gallery, Mpls., July-Aug. 2024. They are both post-graduate apprentices in the Art Department, 2025-2026.

  Ramier Villarama ’25 is attending graduate school in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Design program, Fall 2025. He received a department Merit award in Studio Art, 2025.

• 2024

  Libby Peterson, is a Visual Arts Studio Assistant at Interact Gallery and Performing Arts Center, St. Paul, MN, whose mission is to “create art that challenges society’s perception of disabilities.”

  Chloe Bischoff  ’24 was in the September 2025 Cohort of art residents at Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN. Chloe had a booth at the Sheldon Theater pre-party for Red Wing Hispanic Heritage Festival on September 12.

  Amanda Wong ’24, is working for Blue Grotto Inc, a St. Paul, MN PR firm, as a Social Media Content Creator.

  Ada Bruno ’24 received a scholarship to attend the Middlebury Italian Language School, Middlebury, VT, Summer 2024.

  Zeke Cambey ’24 is in the graduate program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  Noah Hanson  ’24 had work accepted into the Great North juried exhibit, July 2024.

  Taylor Sibthorp ’24, participatied in EKPHRASTIC 4.0,  an experiment in collaborative drawing via multi-panel storytelling, facilitated by Prof. Megan Vossler at SooVAc gallery, Mpls., July-Aug. 2024.

  Caitlyn Bergstrom ’24, was a 2025 summer education intern at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis.

• 2023

  Henry Tyson, ’23, is attending the graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Henry won a best in Show Award, at The Periphery of Power, Gamut Gallery in Minneapolis, August 2023. He had been working at Deneen Pottery in St. Paul.

  John Gross ’23, has an exhibition, There are Bridges Over Rivers, SRISA Gallery, Florence, Italy, September, 2025. They had a 2023-’24 Studio Monitor Art Residency at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy.

  Tobias Gilbert ’23, is attending graduate school at the Kolding School of Design, in Denmark, studying industrial design, Fall 2025. He taught Ceramics at Silverwood Art Park, St Anthony, MN 2023-Summer 2025.

  Owen Burgdorf-Hibbs ’23 assisted former Technical Supervisor Mark Knierim, hand building a house in Grand Marais, MN. He had small sculptural works on display in the window gallery of the Art Building Sculpture Studio, Summer 2024.

  Kate Skalicky ’23, is a Junior Digital Designer at Coates Group, Chicago, IL.  She was previously a Graphic Designer and Social Media Specialist at Vertical Endeavors, Minneapolis, in 2023-24. See her work at kateskalicky.com

  Asa Gutow ’23, is a Assistant Stage Manager at Six Points Theater, in St. Paul, MN.

• 2022

  Alex Thomas, ’22, is attending the MFA program in Architecture at Yale University. He was awarded a 2021 Imagining America/Joy of Giving Something Fellowship, elevating photography and digital media as pathways for students to pursue their careers and to make a difference in their communities. He also earned the 2021 National Organization of Minority Architects Foundation Fellowship including a stipend to work with FXCollaborative, a NYC architecture firm. As part of a team tasked with renovating a Times Square building, Thomas worked on everything from floor plans to 3D models. In 2020-’21 he was an intern at Seitu Jones Studio, St. Paul, MN where he worked on the pdf stencil files for the historic Blues for George project.

  Rebecka Ibarra, ’22, is in the Master’s degree program in Curating Art, Management, and Law at Stockholm University. She was the Co-Director of the Girls EmpowerEd Program in New York City. She received the Donovan travel award in Art History from Macalester. In  2021 she worked remotely as an administrative intern at the Institute for Therapy through the Arts (ITA). 

  Becca Gallandt, ’22 is attending the MFA program in printmaking at the University of Minnesota, Mpls., Fall 2025. They had work accepted in “The Fine Print,” a juried show at White Bear Center for the Arts, March, 2025. They also had work accepted for Untitled 19, a juried exhibit at SooVAC in Mpls. March 2025​. They were a 2023 post-graduate apprentice in Printmaking at Macalester and worked in the print studio at Bread & Puppet Theater in VT.

  Jiwen Fan,’22, is in the Masters of Science in Historic Preservation (Architecture Conservation) program at the University of Pennsylvania.

  Phoebe Wang, ’22, is in the Master of Arts in Visual Arts Administration program at NYU.

  Emily North, ’22 participatied in EKPHRASTIC 4.0,  an experiment in collaborative drawing via multi-panel storytelling, facilitated by Prof. Megan Vossler at SooVAc gallery, Mpls., July-Aug. 2024. .

• 2021

  Zarra TM, ’21, created large scale puppets for Where Do Pigeons Go in Winter? a performance for the January 2025 Art Shanty Projects on frozen Bdé Umáŋ in Mpls.. NBC Nightly News featured the project. Zarra also created large scale puppets for the 2024 and 2025 Bare Bones Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganzas, the community-created spectacle pageants held in Powderhorn Park. Zarra had work included in “Dream Sequences,” a pop-up public art project sited at the former Elsa’s House of Sleep, produced by  36th A.R.T. (Avenue Revitalization and Transformation), 2023. Zarra won a 2021 Distinguished Merit Award in Studio Art and was a 2022 post-graduate apprentice in Painting.

  Long Nguyen, ’21, is in the SEA Change Lab Cohort, a program “aimed at growing social empowerment and leadership development through creative storytelling in young people with heritage roots in Southeast Asia.” He won a 2021 Merit Award in Studio Art. Long taught at a youth photography camp in NY, Summer 2021. He was awarded a 2020/2021 Imagining America/Joy of Giving Something Fellowship.

  Mai Xor Vang ’21, won a Merit Award in Studio Art. She worked with St. Olaf College Trio Upward Bound students in Summer 2021.
  

  Malini Basu ’21, has been workinging at SooVisual Arts Center, Mpls. She received an MFA in Illustration at The Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2024. She is part of the Ekphrastic Drawing Project hosted by Prof. Megan Vossler at SooVisual Arts Center, Mpls. Summer 2024. She designed the Macalester College International Roundtable poster Fall 2023. She won a 2021 Merit Award in Studio Art. Malini was a 2022 post-graduate apprentice in Printmaking.

  Nora Stewart ’21 is the Curatorial Department Assistant for the Art of the Americas at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

  Felipe Fernandez ’21  won the 2021 Donald Celender Prize in Art History.

  Ivy Flemmer ’21 was a 2021 summer studio assistant to the Art Technical Supervisor at Macalester.

  Chloe McWhirt, ’21, is Nicole Wittenberg’s assistant in NYC. She previously worked as Ugo Rondinone’s assistant Studio Manager at his Harlem studio in NYC and has been doing contracted translation and archival work for a Latin American Arts Institute there.

  Camille Severi, ’21 is in the Art Management Master’s program at the Bocconi School of Management in Milan, Italy. She was the 2021 winner of the Joan Mondale Ceramics Award in Studio Art.

• 2020

  Ema Erickson, ’20, is an independent illustrator in Minneapolis. She won a 2020 Merit Award in Studio Art. She was a Design Intern for the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2019. See her work at emaerikson.com

  Rebecca Grossi, ’20, is a Graphic Designer at BambooMN. She was the 2020 winner of the Joan Mondale Ceramics Award in Studio Art.

  Michael Khuth, ’20, created a sculpture at Macalester College which “acknowledges and commemorates the past, present, and future of alumni of color,” located outside Markim Hall. He had work in Weaving Fragments: Dreams of the Contemporary Moment at Form + Content Gallery, Mpls., 2022. Khuth received an 2022 Fellowship from the Emerging Curators Institute. He was one of 47 students selected nationally for a 2020 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a one-year grant for purposeful, independent exploration outside the United States. He is the Founder and Chief Editor of Generation Magazine, engaging with Khmer diasporic communities. The publication was started with a Macalester Live It! fund award.

  Marissa Mohammed, ’20,  is a Student Supervisor for the Grounds department of the Facilities Services at Macalester. She was a 2019 fellow in a Minnesota Historical Society  program focused on inclusion and community engagement in museums. She won a 2020 Merit Award in Studio Art.

  Joanna Seifter, ’20, was accepted to NYU’s Museum Studies graduate program.

  Maya Varma, ’20, is a PhD student in Art History at UCLA . She won a 2020 Merit Award in Art History.

  Dada Wang, ’20, is in the PhD Program in Art History at UC, Irvine. She presented her paper “On the Periphery, In Flux: David Diao’s Counter-Hegemonic Abstraction” as part of the panel “New Painting: Recentered Perspectives” at CAA in NYC 2025. She completed a Master’s degree at UC San Diego. She was awarded a 2022 ArtTable fellowship to work with the Museum of Chinese in America in NYC. She was the 2020 winner of the Donald Celender Prize in Art History at Macalester.

  Ruby Elliott Zuckerman, ’20, is a Studio Manager at Tiwa Select craft gallery in Los Angeles. She won a 2020 Merit Award in Studio Art. 

  Joanna Seifter, ’20, is in the Master of Arts Museum Studies program at NYU.

• 2019

  Sebastian Eising, ’19, is an intern at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. He was an intern at the Walker Art Center in Mpls., where he wrote this post about the WAC retrospective for Siah Armajani ’64. He won a Donovan Art History Academic Travel Award in 2018. He was the Collections Assistant in the Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester 2016-2019.
  

  Bade Turgut, ’19  is the Director of Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, a gallery with a focus on modern and contemporary photography. She spent Election Day 2024 photographing in Wisconsin for Vanity Fair magazine. She had work in an exhibit, Change of Plans, 2022 at Mixer Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. She was featured in a Mpls. Star Tribune article by Alicia Eler  “How Minnesota artists are staying creative and beating the coronavirus blues” May 2, 2020.

  Ellie Hohulin, ’19, is the creative policy fellow at the Metropolitan Council, Mpls. working with the with Imagine 2050 project. She was a digital content creator at the Walker Art Center in Mpls. and a Regional Parks Intern at the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities. She was a recipient of the Macalester 2019 Presidential Leadership Award for outstanding seniors. She was a Public Relations Intern at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2017. She received the Donovan Art History Academic Travel Award to support her capstone research project on Belgian Surrealism in 2018. She collaborated with artist Amanda Lovelee on the Naturewood Shanty, a project for the Art Shanty Projects On-Ice program on Bde Unma/Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, 2020.

  Sydney Petersen, ’19, is  the 2024-25 Production Director for the Art Shanty Projects, an interactive art event held on frozen Bdé Umáŋ (formerly Lake Harriet), in Minneapolis, MN.  Sydney had work in Overflow, an exhibit at Q.arma Gallery in Mpls. associated with Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial, 2021. They were previously a Studio Assistant at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. With Norah Ntagungira, ’22, Sydney created a 2020 mural honoring George Floyd, on plywood covering the Patagonia storefront on Grand Ave in St. Paul. Sydney was a post-graduate apprentice in Painting, working with Prof. Willcox. They completed an original mural in the main hallway of the Studio Art Building, with assistance from Phoebe Mol in 2019.

  Noah Heil, ’19, is the Ceramics Technician and Fabricator at Powerhouse Arts – a non-profit arts organization in Brooklyn, NY. He was a studio technician and instructor at ClayHouse, Brooklyn. See his work at @noclaypologiez!

  Miya Ito, ’19 was one of three selected for the Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program for 2019-2020 along with Sydney Petersen, ’19, and Isabel Le.

  Ruby Arnone, ’19 is attending the MFA program at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, as of September 2024.

   

• 2018

  Sophia Songmi Hill, ’18, was in Queer Forms, a multdisciplinary exhibit, held at Nash Gallery at the University of MN , Mpls. in 2019. She had a residency and solo exhibit, It Comes in Waves, at SooVAC gallery in Minneapolis in Sept. 2018. She participated in Professor Megan Vossler’s 2017 Ekphrastic Drawing 2.0 collaborative project at SooVAC. She was a dancer with Ananya Dance Theater, a professional contemporary Indian American dance company.

  Rachel Poli,’18 is a Medical Illustrator at Osso VR, based in San Francisco. She received a Master’s degree in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2020.

  Anna Hitchcock, ’18 had work displayed at Women Made Gallery’s 24th International Open in Chicago, and won an Honorable Mention in the Telling Tales woodworking exhibit at the Wharton Esherick Museum, in 2023. She had work in the Miniature Monumental show at the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, UK, in 2023. She received an endowed fellowship at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine for Fall 2022 and returned in Fall 2023. She had work in the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Alumni and Fellows 2021 exhibit, in Rockport Maine. She was the Education Department Administrative Assistant at the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau, Alaska in 2019. The nonprofit organization helps perpetuate and support Southeastern Alaskan Native cultures. In Summer 2019, she was a Woodworking and Furniture Intern, at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass CO.

  Rachel Meyer, ’18, is a Video Editor at Wright State University Center for Teaching and Learning in Yellow Springs, OH, where she edits video content for distance learning academic classes.

  Shaonan Xi, ’18, is a PhD student in Theater and Performance Studies at Brown University, where he studies the history of performance art with a focus on Asian and Asian-American avant-garde. Prior to Brown, he was a curatorial intern at ONE Archives in Los Angeles, managed an international artist residency program in Beijing, and worked as a writer and art critic in Shanghai. His writings about art, queerness, and nightlife have appeared in various artist books and Chinese/English bilingual publications.

  Coco Banks, ’18, was a Curatorial Assistant for Chinese, South, and Southeast Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

  Isabel Lê ’18, is attending the MFA in Lighting Design program at Parsons School of Design, NYC, 2025.

• 2017

  Maja (Bendtsen) Daley, ’17, is a Visual Arts Teacher at Aarhus Gymnasiumis  in Aarhus, Denmark. She received a Master’s degree in Intercultural Studies at Aarhus University in 2020. She was selected for the Macalester Art Department’s 2017 postgraduate apprenticeship program. She was the recipient of a Joan Adams Mondale Scholarship for ceramics 2016/17.

  Jordan Breslau, ’17 received  a CPS Teacher Resident and Masters in Teaching Early Childhood degree, 2022 for Chicago Public Schools. She was the Administrative and Development Assistant at Public Art St. Paul, a private, non-profit organization working in partnership with the City of Saint Paul to create a more just, sustainable, and beautiful city.

  Chaim Budenosky, ’17, was a designer and collaborator with Baki Z. Porter for OFFERINGS: BareBones 2020 Live Pop-ups:  at R.A.R.E. House in Mpls.. They contributed art to the 2019 Art4Shelter benefit auction for Simpson Family Housing Services in Minneapolis. They were selected for the Macalester Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program in 2017.  They completed a mural, Stop Requested, on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul as part of Midway Arts public art program, 2017.

  Di Cui, ’17, is a Program Manager at Citizens Committee for New York City. She received her Master’s degree from Pratt Institute in 2019. Her thesis was “Participatory Place-Based Art: Anchoring Communities Through Creative Placekeeping.” She is the Program Coordinator at Citizens Committee of New York City, a non-profit that micro-funds grassroots community improvement projects.

  Lachlan Hinwood, ’17, had a dual exhibition with artist Amy Mackay at Chandler Gallery in Mill Valley, CA, Oct. 2025. He had a solo exhibit of paintings at Nancy Margolis Gallery in Maine, 2024. He was in a 3 person show, Curtains, at My Pet Ram Gallery in the Lower East Side, NYC, January 2023. He attended the graduate painting program at the University of Iowa. He was selected for the Macalester Art Department’s 2018 postgraduate apprenticeship program.

  Juliette Myers, ’17, led Summer Cut Paper Art Activities in Minneapolis parks June 2025 through Stevens Square Community Organization and the New Nicollet Public Art program. She painted a mural on the Roundtable Coffee building, funded by the Creative Enterprise Zone, St. Paul, 2024, on the theme of the wood dragon, drawing from her Chinese-American mixed heritage.  She works as an artist assistant at Mosaic On A Stick studio and is a part of the mural collective Creatives After Curfew.

  Dex Nguyen, ’17 is a Video Editor for Little Red Ants Creative Studioworks in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam. He worked for BlueR Productions, a digital imaging and design firm in Hồ Chí Minh City, 2018.

  Victoria Leixin Qian, ’17, received an MFA in photography from Parson’s School of Design, NYC in 2019. She is a User Experience designer, at Kaplan.

  Vincent Siegerink, ’17 works at the Centre for Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (OECD WISE Centre), Paris FR.

  Siyan Zhang ’17, started her Media Art Diplom study at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany in 2024.

• 2016

  Hao Guo, ’16, is a freelance fimmaker in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focused on documentaries. He was a Visual Storytelling Intern at Berkeleyside, the independent online journal and a production specialist at SkyLink TV. While at Mac, he was an Intern at  Andy Richter Photography, Mpls. See his work, online.

  Sherry Muyuan He ’16,  is an assistant professor of art at the City College of New York in NYC. Her book, Typography Beyond Borders: Design with multiscriptual typographic Elements is due out in Nov. 2025 from BIS publishers. See work from her 2020 exhibit through Kasini House, Burlington VT.  She was previously a member of the Art Department at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. She completed an MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2018. She participated in Art Professor Megan Vossler’s Ekphrastic Drawing 2.0 collaborative project at SooVAC gallery, in Minneapolis, 2017, along with an interactive project entitled Art is Why I get Up in the Morning.

  Simon Koda, ’16, is a freelance photographer. He was selected for the Macalester Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program.

  Michael Kreher, ’16, is a preparator at SFO Museum in San Francisco. He was a Building and Technical Operations Assistant at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2016-2019.  He was selected for the Macalester Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program. In July, 2016 he was a conservation crew member at Horvat Omrit, Macalester College’s archaeological site in northern Israel.

  Ollie Schminkey ’16, is a ceramist operating Sick Kitty Ceramics in Minneapolis. They were interviewed in a May 24, 2019 Star Tribune article, ‘Traveling Expo of ‘Oddities & Curiosities’ comes to Minneapolis.”

  Egzon Sadiku, ’16, received his graduate degree from the University of Glasgow School of Education in 2022. He is teaching Digital Design and Communications at RIT Kosovo. He recieved one of 3 inaugural Joan Adams Mondale Endowed Scholarships in ceramics at Macalester, presented in person by US Vice President Walter Mondale in 2014.

• 2015

  Parker Field, ’15, is an art researcher and writer in New York. He currently researches for the Arshile Gorky catalogue raisonné and the Paul Cézanne Works on Paper catalogue raisonné. He presented a paper at the CAA conference in NYC 2025. He presented a paper at the ACTC Symposium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2015, titled “Reflections on Tomatsu Shomei’s Atomic Bomb Damage: Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9, 1945, Nagasaki.” He is currently undertaking an MA in Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York.

  Sam Landsberg, ’15, is the Program coordinator for Vetri Community Partnership, a non-profit organization that provides nutrition education through hands-on experiences in Philadelphia. He was selected for the Art Department’s 2016 postgraduate apprenticeship program.

  Marlys Mandaville, ’15, is a Teaching Artist at the Museum of Children’s Art, in Oakland, CA and at Leap Arts in Education in the Bay Area. She had work in Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA in 2022. She was in the 2021 Grand Opening exhibit at Friedli Gallery, St. Paul, MN. She received an MFA in painting from Mills College, Oakland, CA, in 2021. She was previously an assistant at Melissa Loop Art, in Minneapolis, MN.  She showed work in The Goddess Show at Mosaic On A Stick Gallery, St. Paul, MN, 2018, and Art ‘N’ Motion, Art-A-Whirl Exhibition at Gallery 332 in the Northrup King building in Minneapolis. She was selected for the Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program.

  Cynthia Scott, ’15, was selected for the Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program.

• 2014

  Maya Aguayo Schmidt-Feng, ’14, is a freelance video editor and previously worked as an associate producer at Interactive One in Brooklyn, NY. She worked as an assistant video editor for the Netflix/Higher Ground production Crip Camp, which won the Audience Award at Sundance, 2020. She was a Managing Editor at Tomorrow Magazine in Brooklyn, New York. She was also a research intern with the Visual Arts department at the Walker Art Center. Maya was a recipient of the 2014 Art History Merit Award.

  Anna Van Voorhis, ’14 is an Operatons Specialist at Weissman Foundry, an open-door design studio, supporting transdisciplinary collaboration between Babson, Olin, and Wellesley colleges, in Wellesley, MA. She was in was in Queer Forms, a multdisciplinary exhibit, held at Nash Gallery at the University of MN , Mpls. in 2019. She received her MFA in sculpture from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2019.

  Hannah Campbell, ’14, is a CNC Manager/CAD Drafter at Kidzbits Inc. in St. Paul, MN. She completed her MFA in Furniture Design at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University (Indianapolis, May 2017).  She was a Digital Fabrication Lab Technician for IUPUI.

  Camille Erickson, ’14, is the Energy & Natural Resources Reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming. She completed a Master’s degree at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 2019 . She was the Administrative Assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her postcard project at the Soap Factory was featured in a 2017 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  She was the Exhibiting and Consigned Artists Coordinator at the  Minnesota Center for Book Arts, where she co-curated Collected Voices: 30 Years of Quatrefoil Library, an exhibition featuring publications from the country’s second largest LGBTQ library. She served as the co-director of the Minneapolis Art Lending Library, a nonprofit sharing the joy of art with all members of the community through the free lending of artwork. Read a review she wrote of a 2015 exhibit at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. She received a Humanity In Action International Fellowship to do research in Poland in 2015.

  Noah Exum,’14,  is an Associate Interior Designer at HGA Architects in Minneapolis. Noah is also a Board Member of Trans Lifeline, “a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.” Noah was a postgraduate apprentice in the Macalester Art Department in 2015. Noah is a member of Living Proof printmaking collective in Minneapolis and was featured as one of Minnesota Monthly’s “Top Up-and-Coming Minnesota Artists to Watch“.  See a portfolio of Noah’s work.

  Anna Johnson, ’14, performed Live at Un Singe en Hiver in Dijon, France and Tony Collectif in Paris in July, 2024. They participated in Sonic Arts Week at The Auxiliary Project Space in Middlesbrough, UK, June 2024. They had a video installation and a performance at 6018North gallery, Chicago, as part of their Water series, for the @chicagoarchitecturebiennial 2023 and another performance at Not Not in 2023.  They completed an MFA in the Performance Art Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023. Their film, In Passing, premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2023. Their video piece Cell Memory was featured in the exhibition Observing Motherhood at Chicago’s @arcgallery 2021. They had work in the 2017 show Memory Palace at Pinwheel Arts, Minneapolis. They were a visual artist and Creep Wrangler for the Haunted Basement at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. They were an Associate Stage Manager and actress appearing in the world premiere of the immersive opera Wise Blood, based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor. Co-sponsored by the Walker Art Center, the innovative work was staged at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2015, and traveled to Art Basel. It was directed by Michael Sommers of Open Eye Figure Theater and featured a surrealist sculptural installation set by Chris Larson of the University of Minnesota; read the review by MPR.

  Michelle Lee, ’14, is in the PhD program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received an MA in American Studies at Purdue University in 2017 where she was the Instructor of Record for “Bad Asians: Contemporary Representations of Asian/Americans in Visual Culture and the Material World.” She was a Research and Curatorial Fellow at the National Public Housing Museum and a Curatorial Intern for Museum Diversity at the Asheville Art Museum in 2018. She presented a paper at the CAA annual conference in 2017. She received a Mellon Mays Undergraduate fellowship at Macalester and was the recipient of a 2014 Art History Merit Award.

  Samael Leopold-Sullivan,’14, is a teaching artist at Chicago Ave Fire Arts Center, Mpls.. They had a solo exhibit, Holding Pattern, at Squirrel Haus Arts, Mpls.  2022 and had work in Come As You Are, A Pride Exhbition at Artistry, Bloomington MN, 2022. They had work in(Un)Natural Boundaries and Borders at Silverwood Park Gallery, 2021. They received an MFA in sculpture from Alfred University in 2019.  Their sculpture, Home of Vulnerability No. 1, won an Honorable Mention at the 2020 Minnesota State Fair exhibit. They had a solo exhibit at Red Garage Gallery in Minneapolis, 2019. They displayed work in the show A Conspiracy of Strange Girls at CO Exhibitions in Minneapolis, 2016. They and Erin Holt (’14) had a two-person exhibit in the installation Sad Boys Pop‐Up Gallery #2 at Hamline University in St. Paul, 2016. They interned with artists Harriet Bart and Yu-Wen-Wu, assisting them with the assembly and installation of Random Walks and Chance Encounters at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in 2015. Leopold-Sullivan assisted artist Tamsie Ringler with the River of Iron live iron foundry pour during the Northern Spark all night art festival at the Wesiman Art Museum (Minneapolis, 2015). They also participated in the 46th annual iron pour in the foundry at the University of Minnesota Studio Art program (2015) and showed work in Body and Machine: An Exhibition of Kinetic and Interactive Art at the Northrop King Building (Minneapolis). They were a postgraduate apprentice in the Macalester Art Department.

  Lily Parmenter, ’14, is a freelance Web Designer and Developer through her business, Halcyon Studios, Minneapolis.

  Julia Sillen, ’14,  is an Environmental Educator & Teaching Artist at the Horticultural Society of New York. She teaches K-12 students all over the city, outdoors in their school gardens. She was an Education Intern at Highpoint Center For Printmaking in Minneapolis.

  Drew Mintz ’14 is co-owner and Creative Director at Edition Studios, a design firm in Minneapolis. He was previously Creative Director for Nerland Co. in Minneapolis. See his work at https://www.editionstudios.com/