As we start a new semester, we are pleased to introduce our fall 2022 MFA faculty. Nancy Ariza Community & Context MA, Education and Graduate Certificate in Culturally Responsive Teaching – Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota BA, Art History and BFA, Printmaking– Minnesota State University, Mankato I am a printmaker, educator, and arts and cultural engagement organizer. My work draws on themes of multigenerational relationships, storytelling, and memory. Through prints and installation I explore the ways material culture and ephemera can aid in further understanding and preserving identity. My studio practice is intertwined with my roles as educator and organizer. Since 2012, I’ve been developing and implementing arts programming in museums, schools, and community spaces. Currently, I’m the Associate Curator of Learning and Engagement at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and have taught at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Books Arts, Walker Art Center, East Side Arts Council, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and more. My aim is to foster creativity and self-expression through collaborative, inclusive, and culturally responsive programming. William Franklin Criticism & Theory I MLS, minor in Art History – University of Minnesota BA, Mass Communication and Rhetoric – University of Minnesota William G. Franklin "Billy" is a college professor, bilingual educator, and an independent art curator. Franklin has curated more than a dozen exhibits locally and served as panelist reviewing applications for grants and artist-in-residence programs. This year he served as juror for the Anderson Center at Tower View Artist Residency Program in Red Wing, Minnesota, and led inquiry-based bilingual tours for the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Franklin is authoring and curating an upcoming publication on Latino, Latina, and Latinx MN-based artists with support from the Minnesota Historical Society Legacy Grant. Kathryn Savage Criticism & Theory I Studied creative writing at The New School MFA in fiction from Bennington College MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota Kathryn Savage is a hybrid writer whose debut lyric essay collection, GROUNDGLASS, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press (August 2, 2022). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, BOMB Magazine, Ecotone Magazine, the Guardian, Poets & Writers, the Academy of American Poets poets.org, the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, Virginia Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, and The Best Small Fictions of 2015, among others. Recipient of the 2018 Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize, she’s been awarded grants, fellowships,