MIAD Board of Trustees Chair talks MIAD’s impact

Lake Country Neighbors March 2025. The Tillisch Family.
Deanna Tillisch, Board of Trustees Chair at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), was featured with her family in Lake Country Neighbors‘ March 2025 issue. Tillisch discusses how MIAD has impacted her family, including her daughter Morgan Tillisch ’24 (Illustration) and her Lake Country community.
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