Sanjit Sethi (he/him) is currently President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has over two decades of experience as a 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, at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute.
As an artist, writer and curator, Sethi’s work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting Stories and a body of ceramic work completed at the acclaimed Archie Bray Foundation. Curatorial and writing projects have included Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers, 6.13.89: The Canceling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition and the essay, Leading with Panic,Why Leaders Need to Talk More Openly About Anxiety.
He is invited to speak internationally and nationally on such topics as creative leadership, cultural equity, and radical accessibility. Sanjit serves on the boards of the Jerome Foundation, the Archie Bray Foundation, the Association for Independent Colleges of Art and Design and the Artist Communities Alliance where he is currently the board chair.
Sanjit has a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia, and an MS in Advanced Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sanjit is a passionate advocate for the role that creativity plays in creating social change.