Awards & Honors
Discover MIAD students, faculty, staff and alumni being recognized for their innovation, creativity, success and positive contributions to the world around us.
Product Design students and alumni win national & international awards
Product Design majors and alumni from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) received national and international awards.
MIAD alum part of team to create longest mural in Minnesota
Ua Si Creative, co-founded by Christina Vang '09 (Communication Design), was selected by the City of Bloomington (Minnesota) to create the WE mural, which will be located in the city's South Loop neighborhood on the 9000-square-foot walls at the corner of American...
Two alumni named to 2021 gener8tor Art cohort
New Studio Practice: Fine Arts alums Phoenix Brown '19 and LaNia Sproles '17 were named to the 2021 gener8tor Art cohort. Learn more in this Milwaukee Neighborhood News Services article or on Gener8tor Art's website.
Two Product Design students win Zinc Challenge international student design competition
Two MIAD students were among the top three students recognized in the 2020-2021 Zinc Challenge Student Design Competition. Bryce Lee ‘22 (Product Design) and Szymon Salamon ‘22 (Product Design) each won a $2,000 prize for their designs. The faculty sponsor Pascal...
Dominic Chambers gives artist talk
Dominic Chambers '16 (Integrated Studio Arts) has work on view at the Norton Museum of Art in Florida. He recently gave an artist talk, "Dominic Chambers: I Came Alive, I Could Fly." Learn more about the exhibition and View the video.
Fromm Petfest selects Illustration student design for 2021 poster
Fromm Petfest partnered with MIAD for the fourth year in a row on its Petfest Poster Contest, challenging the senior class of Illustration students to design the 2021 Fromm Petfest poster. The poster designed by Bowen Schultz '21 (Illustraton) was selected as the...
Colectivo chooses five cup designs by MIAD Illustration students
For the sixth consecutive year, Colectivo partnered with MIAD to create a series of cup designs. This year, Colectivo chose five MIAD Illustration student designs to appear on Colectivo Coffee cups. Congratulations to Jessica Cardenas '21, Tala Drescher '21, Amira...
MIAD Product Design senior honored as an award finalist
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) recognized Olivia Paul '21 (Product Design) as a 2021 Student Merit Award Finalist. The nationwide competition seeks to highlight the very best creativity, problem solving and design brilliance in each of IDSA's five...
MIAD junior accepted into the 2021 Yale Norfolk Summer Program
Ben Herbert '22 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) was one of only 16 students selected across 80 schools to be accepted into the 2021 Yale Norfolk Summer Program.
MIAD seniors honored with the Sarah Ball Allis Thesis Award
The Sarah Ball Allis Thesis Award is a one-time award to four Spring 2021 MIAD seniors. The awards support thesis projects by feminist artists that help propel the feminist movement forward, and is generously funded by the feminist artists of the Sarah Ball Allis Art...
