Student Support and Wellness
College is an exciting time full of new experiences and personal growth. Student Support Coordinators are here to help you as you grow your artistic identity, celebrate wins and navigate any challenges you experience as a valuable member of the MIAD community.
Student Support Coordinators provide non-clinical mental health support to help students adjust to college, manage stress, foster coping skills, connect with therapists or other community resources and more.
Student Support Coordinators are available for individual or in-person appointments Monday-Friday from 9am – 4pm. To make an appointment or learn more about available campus or community resources, email studentsupport@miad.edu.
Counseling
While MIAD does not offer clinical counseling on site, full-time MIAD students are eligible to receive free mental health support through the Marquette Counseling Center. Information can be found here.
Medical Care
Full-time MIAD students are eligible to receive free or low cost basic medical care through the Marquette Medical Clinic. Please note that the Marquette Medical Clinic is unable to provide students with doctor’s notes. Information can be found here.
Health Insurance
Students are strongly encouraged to obtain health insurance while attending college. International students are required to carry health insurance. Optional coverage is available through The Affordable Care Act Marketplace. Information about the coverage options and costs is available at https://www.healthcare.gov/.
Student Accessibility Services
MIAD provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Visit the Student Accessibility Services page to learn more.
MIAD student support system receives national 2024 SMILE Award
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Haggerty Museum of Art features work by MIAD Fine Art professor
A towering column of life-size red-crowned cranes molded out of mulberry pulp has visitors to the Haggerty Museum of Art craning their necks to take in the sculpture. Work by Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) Professor Jason S. Yi is featured as part of the Haggerty Museum’s exhibition “This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi.”
MIAD Future Creatives supports high school students and educators
Digital design students at Franklin High School say their class project through the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design’s Future Creatives program provided new skills in teamwork while increasing their awareness of career pathways in design.
MIAD professor, alum named 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fellows
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) Communication Design professor Laura Farahzad Mayer and alum Nomka Enkhee ’25 (Fine Art + New Studio Practice) each received one of five Mary L. Nohl Fellowships for 2026. The recipients of emerging artist awards, Farahzad Mayer and Enkhee were selected from among 168 applicants.
MIAD Independent Inquiry Program: Building knowledge, confidence
From a Fine Art major to Illustration, Communication Design and Product Design – first-year student to senior – participants in the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design’s Independent Inquiry Program say they are building both knowledge and self-confidence.
Pallas Textiles winner reflects as 2026 competition to launch
MIAD senior Julianna Frixione ’26 (Product Design) says winning the 2025 Pallas Textiles Student Design Competition will mainly affect her remaining studies at MIAD by “pushing me to continue working hard at the path I’m on.”