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RPM Exhibit shows range of Foundations students

It’s all the Foundations students who take an RPM class,” explains Lynn Tomaszewski, Chair of Foundations. “It stands for Research, Practice and Methods, and it incorporates different conceptual angles to students doing their own research, students inventing their own practice and then contextualizing that within contemporary art of design.” Looking …

Designing Desire explores influence of marketing

Designing Desire: The Cultural Effects of Marketing, examines marketing’s influence on creating, promoting and perpetuating cultural norms and its social impact on specific groups of people. The exhibition is on view October 8, 2012, through February 9, 2013, in the Brooks Stevens Gallery. An Opening Reception will be held Gallery …

MKE-LAX at MIAD transforms gallery into a platform for cultural exchange

Through a series of installations, programs and residencies, the non-traditional exhibition MKELAX turns MIAD’s Frederick Layton Gallery into an incubator for cultural exchange from Gallery Night, October 19, through December 8. The exhibition is embedded within an overarching, multiple-year initiative of the same name directed by Sara Daleiden …

MIAD 2012-2013 Exhibitions

2013 Juried Senior Exhibition June 4 – July 27, 2013 Frederick Layton Gallery If you missed MIAD’s renowned annual senior exhibition, it’s time to see faculty-juried works from all majors in the 2013 Juried Senior Exhibition. Pre-College MAJORS Exhibition Gallery Night & Day, July 26 – 27 Brooks Stevens Gallery Works …

Faculty Exhibition Aug. 18 – Oct. 6

An opportunity to share the passions that inspire MIAD faculty as visual artists and educators. From traditional media used in innovative ways to 21st century technologies and themes, the works invite dialogue and discussion among students, their faculty members and the public. “With 11 majors, and a faculty whose members …

MIAD exhibits feature alumni, high school students

Exhibitions filled MIAD’s galleries with a variety of work from alumni and high school students in the Pre-College Advanced MAJORS Program and from Ronald Reagan High School. Gallery Night and Day, July 27-28, offered a final opportunity to view the 2012 Juried Senior Exhibition, in which selected talented artists …

MIAD 2012 Juried Senior Exhibition

Selected talented artists and designers showed their work in MIAD’s 2012 Juried Senior Exhibition, June 5 – July 28, in the college’s Frederick Layton Gallery. MIAD faculty chose 23 students’ work from the 2012 Senior Exhibition, with the now graduates representing each of MIAD’s 11 majors. The capstone projects on view …

Foundations students impress at 2012 juried exhibition

This entire exhibition is a beautiful cross-section from the students. This is a learning moment and it is a celebratory moment,” Professor of Humanities James Barany commented at the Sixth Annual Juried Foundations Exhibition opening reception. Foundations students submitted 184 works, and 69 were chosen by juror Lee Ann …

Seniors share their vision at 2012 Senior Exhibition

You are a single-cell attempting to become a multi-cellular organism. You’ll need to choose between your abilities such as absorb, mitosis and infect to evolve past your rivals. It’s the greatest contest on the smallest scale. It is a game, but to you it is real. “Bacterium” – a …

Alumni 2012 Juried Exhibition

Fifteen alumni whose works span the media of painting, pastels, furniture, fiber art and illustration, are showing at the MIAD 2012 Juried Alumni Exhibition March 23 – May 29 at Arts Mill in Grafton. All of the artists, both emerging and established, have exhibited widely in individual and group exhibitions. They …

RPM Exhibit was a Window into First-Year Students’ Futures    

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 …

Gallery talks for fall exhibitions

Generation Next” Artist Gallery Talk Series Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. through November 22 “Style, Innovation and Vision” Gallery Discussion Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. A series of gallery talks have been taking place at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design for both of the college’s major fall openings …