Jacob W. M. Yeates
jwmyeates@gmail.com
Education
2017 MFA in Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2013 BFA, Drawing/Minor, English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2012 Fall Session Art Courses, Studio Arts Centers International, Florence, Italy
Teaching Experience
2021 Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Courses Taught: Editorial Illustration, Advanced Illustration Seminar, Tools of the Trade)
2020 Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Courses Taught: Introduction to Illustration, Illustrated Notebook, Tools of the Trade, Advanced Illustration Seminar)
2019 Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Courses Taught: Concepts and Metaphors, Editorial Illustration, Advanced Illustration Seminar)
2018 Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Courses Taught: Introduction to Illustration, Editorial Illustration), Fall 2018
2017 Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Course Taught: Introduction to Illustration), Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Course Taught: Senior Project: Drawing and Painting [Andy DuCett]), Spring 2017
2016 Instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN (Course Taught: Drawing for Illustration), Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Course Taught: Intro to Illustration [Tom Garrett]), Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN (Course Taught: Drawing for Illustration, [Ryan Peltier]), Spring 2016
Professional Experience
2021 Facilitator/Panel Member, Abolition Teach In, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN March 16, 2021 (in collaboration with Gudrun Lock and Dawn Pankonien)
MCAD Faculty Union Adjunct Steward, Minneapolis, MN
2020 MCAD Faculty Union Adjunct Steward, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Critic, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN (Course: MCAD MFA Graduate Critique Seminar [Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez]), December 1, 2020
Faculty Facilitator, Thinking Beyond Employability: Faculty Development Workshop, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN, February 24, 2020 (in collaboration with Julie Van Grol)
Faculty Speaker, Thinking Beyond Employability: Faculty Development Presentation, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN, January 15, 2020 (in collaboration with Julie Van Grol)
2019 Guest Speaker, KidLitLab! Illustration, Design/Materials Workshop, University of Minnesota [College of Education and Human Development], Minneapolis, MN, October 28, 2019
MCAD MFA Midprogram Review Panelist, MCAD, Minneapolis, Spring 2019
Guest Panelist, Future FAIR, FAIR School Downtown, Minneapolis, MN, February 22, 2019
2018 Student Mentor, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN (Course: Senior Project: Graphic Design [Jan Jancourt]), Fall 2018
2015–2017 Academic/Exhibition Services Staff, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (Assistance in gallery maintenance, prep and installation)
2013–2015 Illustrator, Little Village Magazine, Iowa City, IA (Frequent freelance work)
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2021 Freedom and Captivity Art on Abolition Exhibition Grant
MCAD Faculty Development Grant
2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2018 MPD150 Making It Real: Our History With Police and Our Future Without Them Exhibition Grant
2015 MCAD MFA Trustees Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
Exhibitions
2021 The End is Nigh, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN [TBD]
Freedom and Captivity: Art on Abolition, Fox Field Park/Online, Portland, ME
Pandora's Box/The Tomb, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN
Solo Exhibition: Byproducts of an Empire, Second Floor Gallery, University of Minnesota Coffman Memorial Union, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Faculty Biennial, MCAD, MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019 BoK(s): Bodies of Knowledge, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
C4W: 2019, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Down to Clown, White Rabbit Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2018 MPD150 Making It Real: Our History With Police and Our Future Without Them, New Rules, Minneapolis, MN
Faculty Biennial, MCAD, MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Manual Transmission|Fourth Gear: Trade Show, Red Garage Studio, Minneapolis, MN
2017 The DegeneraTe Show, Red Garage Studio, Minneapolis, MN
Sight and Sound: Illozine, Solid State, Minneapolis, MN
Art-A-Whirl: 70 Artists of A-Mill Artist Lofts, A-Mill Artist Lofts, Minneapolis, MN
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, MCAD Graduate Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Trump: Backward/Forward, MCAD Gallery 148, Minneapolis, MN
SILA Illustration West 55, The Society of Illustrators LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 410 Bike Project, The 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, MN
CO.NFLUENCE, Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
Apoptosis, MCAD Graduate Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
MCAD Open Studio Night, MCAD Graduate Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015 The Meeting Waters, Whittier Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Small Works Show, The Chait Galleries Downtown, Iowa City, IA
Art Attack, Chariton Chamber of Commerce, Chariton, IA
Art for Access, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
2013 Solo Exhibition, And We’ll Keep Swimming: BFA Thesis Show, Art Building West University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Art Attack, Chariton Vision Center, Chariton, IA
Lucas County Arts Festival, Freight House, Chariton, IA
2012 SACI Student Exhibition, Art Institute Florence, Studio Arts Centers International, Florence, Italy
Collaborative Projects
2019 Send the Jester! There is No Bard! Poetry Chapbook, White Rabbit Gallery, Iowa City, IA (in collaboration with Sara McGuirk)
2018 A Dark Blue History with MPD150’s Making It Real: Our History With Police and Our Future Without Them, New Rules, Minneapolis, MN (in collaboration with Sishir Bommakanti, MPD150)
2017 Trump: Backward/Forward Panel Discussion, MCAD Gallery 148, Minneapolis, MN (collaboration with Zoe Cinel, Jonathan Herrara, Essma Imady, Shun Li, Samantha Russell, Damon Stanek, and Piotr Solzhenitsyn)
2016 410 Project Bike, The 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, MN (collaboration with Dana Sikkila and True Façade Pictures)
HalfwayHaus with Preston Drum, Thomas Contemporary, Saint Paul, MN (collaboration with Preston Drum)
2014 Earthwords: Undergraduate Literary Review Issue 34 Book Drop and Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA (collaboration with Earthwords: Undergraduate Literary Review)
2013 Fair Re-Tales, Iowa City, IA (collaboration with Sabrina Leung of Monsoon: United Asian Women of Iowa; R.A. Frumkin of Iowa Youth Writing Project; Iowa Public Library)
Publications
2018 Creative Quarterly No. 49/50 [Online Gallery], (Summer 2018). www.cqjournal.com
The Matador Review No. 8, (Spring 2018). www.matadorreview.com
Paper Darts: March 21, 2018. www.paperdarts.org
2017 IH8 WAR: Artists and Designers Against War...or whatever they call it Archive. http://www.ih8war.com/gallery
3x3 Illustration Directory 2017, 2017.
Illozine No. 19: “Into the Unknown,” (Spring 2017).
2016 Illozine No. 18: “Big Bad,” (Fall 2016).
Illozine No. 17: “Games,” (Summer 2016).
Creative Quarterly No. 42/43, (Summer 2016): 79.
2014 Earthwords: Undergraduate Literary Review 34, (Spring 2014): 45, 47 2013-2015 Little Village, Vol. 15, Issue 143, 2013 to Vol. 19, Issue 188, 2015.
Collections
Iowa State University Museums, Ames, IA
Technical Skills
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator | Oil Paint/Oil-Based Media | Screenprint/Intaglio/Lithography | Artwork Installation/Gallery Preparation