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Faculty Exhibition at the Gordon Park Gallery (Metropolitan State University), St. Paul November 19, 2026 - January 16, 2027
Faculty Exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Exhibition: August 22–October 31, 2026
Reception: Friday, September 11, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Throughout the fall, the gallery will spotlight the art and research undertaken by both full and part-time faculty in the 2026 MCAD Faculty Biennial. Some fifty faculty members in the college’s Creative Entrepreneurship, Design, Fine Arts, Media Arts, and Liberal Arts Departments will be participating in an exhibition in the Main and Concourse Galleries. The wide variety of media and formats will showcase the breadth of the faculty’s expertise and offer audience members multiple in-person and remote engagement opportunities.
Reception: Friday, September 11, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Throughout the fall, the gallery will spotlight the art and research undertaken by both full and part-time faculty in the 2026 MCAD Faculty Biennial. Some fifty faculty members in the college’s Creative Entrepreneurship, Design, Fine Arts, Media Arts, and Liberal Arts Departments will be participating in an exhibition in the Main and Concourse Galleries. The wide variety of media and formats will showcase the breadth of the faculty’s expertise and offer audience members multiple in-person and remote engagement opportunities.
Reversing Dissection was awarded a 2026-27 UMN Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residency!
“Reversing Dissections” brings together a diverse group of artists, activists and scholars to acknowledge, grieve and reckon with the exploitation of marginalized bodies that has systematically operated within western medicine and its biomedical visualization. In medical research the noble goal of diagnosing and curing (often reserved to privileged bodies), has justified the use of violent, discriminatory and extractive practices of experimentation (often endured by vulnerable bodies). This project reverses the dissecting medical gaze by collectively demanding accountability, humanization and celebration for the anonymous bodies whose contribution helped countless people heal across times and geographies.
This project aims to draft new community-led paths to reconcile medical trauma with scientific progress; recognize the impact these images have beyond the medical field, into mainstream representations of the body; develop creative, empowered, collective language that responds to archives and accompanies biased historical material.
This project is a collaboration with UMN Professor and artist Jenny Schmid, Emily Beck, Curator at the Wangensteen Historical Library and a diverse cohort of artists, community members, activists and scholars.
MPR Art Hounds review by Laura Hutchinson of Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/04/art-hounds-new-swana-plays-5minute-films-and-art-meets-healthcare
Lauren Hutchinson lives in Rochester, having previously worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She recently enjoyed seeing the exhibition “Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body” at Rochester Center for the Arts.
It’s a thought-provoking multi-artist exhibition that explores the field of medicine and its interaction with human bodies as well as the ethics of representing human bodies in medical texts. The show includes 2D work, sculptures and an opportunity for visitors to sit for portraits. It runs through January 2027.
Lauren says: It really makes you question: Can one body be used to represent an entire population of diverse individuals?
I hope lots of doctors and medical staff will get to experience the exhibition and see the creativity and artistry that's hidden behind a lot of their work.
About the exhibition
Featured artists: Leslie Barlow, Marra Evans, Sarah Faris, Jessalyn Finch, Ni-Ka Ford, Life Drawing for the End of the World, Lucia Garces, May Ling Kopecky, Marianne Petit, Steven Premo, Jenny Schmid, Christopher Selleck, Dan Thompson, Megan Vossler, Jess Kiel-Wornson.
Curators: Zoe Cinel and LaVanda Mireles
Exhibition on view: Saturday, May 16, 2026 - January 31, 2027
Reception: Saturday, August 22, 2026, 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Free
Coming up in 2027!
Residency at Soovac, summer 2027, https://www.soovac.org
Solo Exhibition, MSP Airport, Terminal 2 summer 2027 - summer 2028, https://www.airportfoundation.org/about-artsmsp
Solo exhibition at UW-La Crosse Art Gallery, October 29 to November 19, 2027, https://www.uwlax.edu/university-gallery/
Stay tuned!