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October 2025

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Fri, Oct 17
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Fri, Oct 17  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Fri, Oct 17  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Fri, Oct 17  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

  • Gallery Night

    Fri, Oct 17  5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sat, Oct 18
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Sat, Oct 18  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Sat, Oct 18  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Gallery Day

    Sat, Oct 18  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Sat, Oct 18  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

Sun, Oct 19
  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Sun, Oct 19  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

Mon, Oct 20
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Mon, Oct 20  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Mon, Oct 20  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Mon, Oct 20  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

  • The Dry Points Panel Discussion

    Mon, Oct 20  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    160 Community Auditorium, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Tue, Oct 21
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Tue, Oct 21  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Tue, Oct 21  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Tue, Oct 21  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

Wed, Oct 22
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Wed, Oct 22  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Wed, Oct 22  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Wed, Oct 22  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

Thu, Oct 23
  • Constant Practice: New Work from Faculty & Staff

    Thu, Oct 23  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    MIAD faculty and staff are accomplished, practicing artists and designers working across animation, communication design, fashion and apparel, fine arts, illustration, interior architecture, performance, product design, textiles and more. Constant Practice celebrates their diverse, innovative approaches to ideas, media and disciplines. Their creative work enriches MIAD’s academic community—promoting exploration, clarifying complex ideas, inspiring new perspectives, and contributing to cultural and social change. While their work is regularly exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, Constant Practice offers a unique opportunity to collectively experience these pursuits.

    Curated by Monica Miller and Steven Anderson.


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website

  • Encounter and Exchange: Exploring The Burren and Paris

    Thu, Oct 23  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    “Encounter and Exchange” showcases how place inspires creativity and dialogue across cultures. Experience fresh perspectives as MIAD students reflect on art, history and culture in innovative new studio work that reflects their journeys in the vibrant streets of Paris. View work that reflects both the intimately personal and extraordinarily powerful aspects of living in the Burren, Ireland for a month.

  • Our Mothers Ourselves + The Dry Points

    Thu, Oct 23  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

    Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

    The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

    Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


    The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

    In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

    Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


    For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

  • Faculty + Staff Reading Event

    Thu, Oct 23  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    160 Community Auditorium, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI