MCAD - Key Persons

Annie Gillette Cleveland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Communications and Marketing Strategy

Atherton Bean

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Batala McFarlane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Belle Arti di Firenze

Job Titles:
  • Accademia Di

Betsy Massie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Bradley Nuorala

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Brian Childs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Brian Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Brock Rasmussen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Operations and Technology

Bruce W. Bean

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Charles Bell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Chris Barry

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Executive Leadership Committee

Clinton H. Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Craig Rice

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

David Andreas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Diana Scheff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Dwight Oglesby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Elliot Felix

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Emily Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Institutional Advancement

Gail Blake

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Gary Stern

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Greg C. Heinemann

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Immediate past Chair

Greg Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Hideki Yamamoto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Hunter Palmer Wright

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Co - Chair

James Larson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Jen Zuccola

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Student Affairs

John Cuningham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

John Lindahl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Ken Lindgren

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Ken Piper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Kent Hodder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Larry Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Laura Austrian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Lee Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

M.E. Kirwan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Marion Parke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Mark D. Pihlstrom

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Co - Chair

Martha Dayton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Mary Alma Noonan - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Finance

Mary Ash Lazarus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Melissa Huybrecht

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Enrollment Management

Missy Staples Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Neil Tuli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Patricia Bratnober Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Paul Hile

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Paul Pesek

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Philip Harris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Rachael Scherer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Rajiv Tandon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Robert Ransick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Vice President of Academic Affairs

Roderic Southall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Rosemary Ugboajah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Sanjit Sethi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • President of the Executive Leadership Committee
  • Meet MCAD 's President
  • President of the Minneapolis College of Art
Sanjit Sethi has over two decades of experience as an artist, curator and cultural leader. Sethi's previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, Barclay Simpson Professor, and Chair of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute. Additionally, Sethi has taught at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sethi received a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in Ceramics from University of Georgia, and an MS in Advanced Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sethi has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to India. As an artist and curator, Sethi's work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting Stories; the Gypsy Bridge project. Recent curatorial projects have included Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers and the upcoming exhibition, 6.13.89 The Canceling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition. Sanjit Sethi is the 19th President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Sheridan Fenwick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Shirley Fiterman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Sue Zelickson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Susan Calmenson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Tara K. Dev

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Terry Saario

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Thomas Colwell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Todd Paulson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

Wayne Huelskoetter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

William Byars

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee

William Sands

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Committee