Learning for the 21st Century

What can MIAD students expect to learn in their four years?

Last year, MIAD faculty focused on this question.

Rather than compile a long list of specific skills and characteristics, we tried to devise a list of the most comprehensive and critical outcomes we want for all of our students. What will it take to be successful in the 21st Century?

Where do Innovation and Insight meet and lead to startling new ideas?

Where do Creativity and Deep Play team up to form an inspiring and transformational partnership?

Where do Art and Design join Science and Technology to field ingenuity and rich crossfertilization?

Where do Entrepreneurship and Expression find common ground?

A new intersection, a new and exciting collaboration, has formed, between the college on the river and the extraordinary resource on the lake.

In December, Milwaukee's two leading creative incubators, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and Discovery World, joined forces in a unique commitment to exploration and excitement. The result, we think, will be a unique opportunity not only for MIAD students and Discovery World visitors, but also for the greater community, and the world.

There’s a lot of concern about oil prices lately. Understandable, because it hits each of us in the wallet. Energy prices influence the cost of everything. Eight years ago, crude oil sold for roughly $30 a barrel. Now it’s over $130 a barrel. We are entering a sobering reality.

How does one deal with this?

Innovation.

After all of the rain, the day was resplendent with sun and the Third Ward was filled with students lugging portfolios of drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, sketchbooks, sculpture, and design. Artists! Designers! Students seeking advice, insight, critique! A confluence of talent! A gathering of skill and expression and gesture!