Marketing & Communication
The Marketing & Communication Office promotes MIAD’s mission, values and vision through creative communications and consistent reflection of our brand. We champion enrollment in MIAD’s programs through innovative marketing and communications that exemplify our educational offerings, diverse faculty and outstanding facilities. Marketing & Communication sees their work in service to the MIAD community.
Brand Resources
At MIAD, we collaborate, innovate and solve problems together. We connect in meaningful ways and take inspiration from the vibrant world around us. We believe in the power of art and design to not merely reflect the world, but to change it. This is where passion finds purpose.
We invite the MIAD community to utilize the college’s brand resources. Our Brand Guide provides downloadable assets, including the college’s logos, as well as fonts and templates.
Templates
For the Media
MIAD’s Marketing & Communication Office is the first point of contact for all media inquiries. We are happy to provide information about the college, our community programs and galleries. Press releases, images and media interview scheduling are all available through our office. You can find more on our News page, which offers the latest information on all things MIAD. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Let’s connect!
Stacey Steinberg
Senior Executive Director for Marketing & Recruitment Strategy
staceysteinberg@miad.edu, 414.847.3236
News
MIAD Values Recognition Award: Leslie Fedorchuk
Leslie Fedorchuk, Professor of Writing & Humanities and Director of Service Learning, received the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) MIAD Values Recognition Award for February 2026. Leslie received nominations that highlighted her embodiment of MIAD’s Core Values, especially Integrity, Kindness and Community.
MIAD Innovation Center and MAM provide career experience
Through a partnership with the MIAD Lubar Innovation Center, stunning campaign artwork by a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) once again is helping to launch Art in Bloom – the Milwaukee Art Museum’s annual celebration of art and spring. Illustrations by senior Emily Porven ’26 are both vibrant and subtle, colorful and evocative, capturing the essence of the event.
Nohl Alumni Award propels lasting impact for MIAD professor
Receiving a Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award has both immediate and longer-term impacts for Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Professor Jon Horvath; for himself as an artist, for the arts community and for MIAD students. Horvath, who teaches in MIAD’s Fine Art + New Studio Practice major, was one of three artists and one collective recently given the award, which provides $25,000 in unrestricted funds to each.
Arts education lays groundwork for MIAD alum curatorial role
Nikki Ranney ’22 (Illustration), the new curator of the Cedarburg Art Museum, says she “is so grateful that I went through my Bachelor of Fine Arts and got to experience a traditional art education at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design because it laid the groundwork for the more academic side of the curatorial field.”
Museum Studies class: Hands-on exhibition and career experience
Last fall’s Museum Studies class at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) has solidified a career choice for at least one of the 16 students who took it. The class was on the go all semester, visiting museums throughout Milwaukee, meeting with professionals and thinking critically about the role of museums in our society.