Awards & Honors

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...

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

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.    

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...