Designed to identify and support outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists, the McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists provide recipients with $25,000 stipends, public recognition, professional encouragement from national visiting critics, and an opportunity to participate in a speaker series. The fellowships are funded by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation and administered by MCAD.

The 2017 McKnight fellows were selected from a group of 231 applicants by a panel of arts professionals of varying backgrounds whose careers intersect with the visual arts in different ways. This year’s jurors were Hasan Elani, associate professor of art at the University of Maryland; Jan Williamson, executive director of the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica; and Julie Rodrigues Widholm, director of the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago.