Friday, September 3
Auditorium 150
1:00pm

MCAD is pleased to welcome Lewis Hyde to our campus.

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde is currently at work on a book about our "cultural commons," that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce.

A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Lewis Hyde interview

Friday, September 3
Children's Theatre
9:00pm - 1:00am

Deep veins of crystallized light run underneath MCAD. Over the eons sunlight has dripped though the earth's crust, forming aggregates of pure white light in the darkness of the sub-terra. We have discovered a portal into this spectral underworld, a deep drop through the Children's Theater leading to a grotto of shimmering light: the Lazer Cave! Join us Friday, September 3rd as we use concussive bass technology to dance the light deposits loose. Our laser prospectors for the evening are Wants & Needs, Lookbook, and Flosstradamus, and the spelunking starts at 9pm!

This party is paid for and produced by MCAD students FOR MCAD students. Any exceptions need to be approved by Megan or Brett. All guests will be required to sign in at the event.

Click through for more info on the performers.

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Friday-Sunday, September 24-26

What? You haven't registered yet for SGMS: Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits, MCAD's annual weekend conference that is all things anime and manga? We think that you may be the only one, so grab your friends, head to the Records office, and register yourselves for this year's SGMS 10th anniversary conference and bash!

On the schedule for 2010 is the Full Fashion Panic show, the famous Otaku bazaar, anime screenings, hands-on workshops, and a series of lectures presented by local, national, and international manga and anime scholars including Sean Michael Wilson, Crispin Freeman, and others.

Get more info at:
http://schoolgirlsandmobilesuits.com
http://www.facebook.com/SGMSatMCAD

Contact the Records Office to register or Continuing Studies.

This Monday, September 6, 2010 is Labor Day, and that means celebrating the social and economic achievements of American workers, and remembering the people who died in the Pullman Strike of 1894.

It also means that there are no classes, administrative offices and many (if not all) academic support areas will be closed.

So, enjoy this day of rest and the symbolic end of summer, and don't forget to take time to appreciate deep fried cheeseburgers at the State Fair.

Congratulations on your enrollment here at MCAD! We're looking forward to seeing you in the new school year.

As part of your Orientation, you're expected to read the Back-to-School issue of Student Health 101, and complete the wellness survey within Student Health 101.

Read on + check out "Future School", an amusing video by Alum Timmer O'Phelan (BFA '10).

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MCAD is a proud sponsor for Nice Bike, the new Minneapolis public bike sharing program.

Our Nice Bike kiosk is located in front of the Main Building.

Here is how it works:

• Subscribe at niceridemn.org. You can subscribe for the day, the month, or the year.
• Once you have subscribed, you can use any of 1,000 Nice Ride bikes in 75 kiosks throughout downtown, the U of M campus, and the Uptown area.
• If you use the bike for less than 30 minutes there is no additional fee.
• Fees for use over 30 minutes are detailed on the Nice Ride website.
• Bikes will generally be available from April to November.

Exhibition:
June 19 - October 10

The works of MCADers Vince Leo, Jennifer Jenkins, MFA '00 & Adam Caillier, MFA '10 is part of Ordinarily Here at the Weisman Art Museum.

Works inspired by aspects of common experience make up the exhibition Ordinarily Here. The exhibition's ten Minnesota-based artists explore how place can re-contextualize everyday life, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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August 20 - 22

New student Orientation is almost upon us! So, I wanted to share with you all the schedules for the weekend.

Click to view the preview postcard for undergrads, a full/detailed schedule for families and undergrads, and the MFA schedule.

If you have questions about the MFA components please contact Rik Sferra and Kristin Annhorn. All other questions can be directed to yours truly.

Excited for campus to brimming with student energy again!
Best, Megan