Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit four-year and postgraduate college specializing in the visual arts. Located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, MCAD currently enrolls approximately 650 students offering curriculum that includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, illustration, graphic design, book arts, furniture design, liberal arts comic art, and sustainable design. MCAD is one of the few major art schools to offer a major in comic art. MCAD was founded in 1886 by the trustees of the Minneapolis Society of... Fine Arts and originally named the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. Douglas Volk , an accomplished American portrait painter who studied in Paris with renowned French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme , becomes the school’s first president. Its inaugural class was held in a rented apartment in downtown Minneapolis and had an enrollment of 28 students, 26 of whom were women. In December 1889, the School found a more permanent home on the top floor of the just-finished Minneapolis Public Library at 10th Street and Hennepin Avenue.
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