Highlights – the Public is Welcome!: Scroll below or click here for Gallery Talks and a Performance to be held February 15, February 23 and March 1. Monday, February 27 – Friday, March 2 Inspire Me, Inspire You Join senior Courtney Morgan and Professor Leslie Fedorchuk for a visual and literary collaboration …
MIAD’s Adult Learning program will host a January lecture series open to adults and teenagers who are interested in art and design professions. Mural painter Timothy Haglund will close out the series on Saturday, January 21 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Haglund creates exquisite large murals for private residences by …
MIAD Photography class Professional Practices and its exhibition of semester-long work “de novo: to photograph anew” have taught Grant Gill ’13 (Photography major, Printmaking minor) that “opportunity is a rare thing when you just wait for it to happen.” “The main thing that I learned from the class was …
Samantha Mainiero ‘ 12 (Communication Design) has a leg up on most college seniors graduating this spring. She won’t have to spend hours searching for a job. Mainiero spent the summer of 2011 interning in Kohl’s marketing department. Kohl’s was so impressed with her work that they offered her a full …
Bryan Padovano ’12 (Communication Design) and the rest of the OrangeAid interns asked Milwaukeeans to “give hunger the finger” and participate in FoodFightMKE. OrangeAid is an internship program run by Jigsaw. The program assigns the students to come up with a topic they feel passionate about, and plan a campaign …
Works by five 2010 MIAD Communication Design graduates were recently exhibited in China as part of Beijing Design Week. Former MIAD Communication Design professor Anne Ghory-Goodman submitted the senior capstone projects of recent alumni Scott Bednar, Ed Dominique, Jillian Duckwitz, Xavier Ruffin and Heidi Stieber. All of Ghory-Goodman’s …
Sophomores in Time-Based Media Professor Jamal Currie’s Video 1 class and the Portrait Society Gallery forged a mutually beneficial relationship for the new exhibition “Giotto’s Eyes.” Students learned new perspectives from the opportunity to exhibit work in a well-known Milwaukee gallery, while the exhibition benefited from the student …
The Alumni of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design” recently completed its run at the Portage Center for the Arts. According to Curator Erica Lyn Schmidt ’06 (Illustration), the exhibit aimed to “demonstrate what can be accomplished in the arts using resources that are available in the state of Wisconsin …
Foundations student Uriah Fracassi sees his Research, Practice and Methods class, which is part of MIAD’s First-Year Experience, as a filter. Students pour information from other classes and experiences into the RPM class, which helps inform their personal choices about media and disciplines, and their own contemporary art and …
American Fantasy Classics, a collective of four recent MIAD alums, wants to “expand the capabilities of our community and be an example of collaboration and cooperation,” according to Alec Regan ’10 (Integrated Studio Arts), one of AFC’s co-founders. So it’s fitting that a community organization with similar goals, the …
At MIAD’s 2011 Senior Thesis Exhibition, discovery was the resulting compound when Kaycie Dunlap ’11 (Time-Based Media: Animation) combined a molecule of art with a molecule of science. Dunlap’s project consists of illustrations personifying the elements on the periodic table. Her project “Elements – Experiments in Character Design” grabbed the …
One of the most acclaimed graphic novelists of today – Craig Thompson – spoke at MIAD Tuesday, November 16, about his latest novel, Habibi. The talk was arranged through a partnership with Boswell Books. Habibi, which Thompson authored and illustrated, is receiving great reviews nationally. “To read Habibi is to sink into …
