Awards & Honors

Amanda Levinate '20 (Communication Design) was awarded a professional American Web Design Award by GDUSA for her 2020 Senior Exhibition project called Co- The Together App. The app helps partners overcome communication challenges to better their relationship. Learn...

Vanessa Lara '23 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) won the VIVO Masks $1,000 Masquerade Scholarship Design contest with the mask she created celebrating Mardi Gras and "Dia de Los Muertos" in Mexican culture.

Three New Studio Practice: Fine Arts seniors were selected as recipients for the fifth annual Grilled Cheese Grant.  Yhazmin Sanders-Sanchez, 2nd place, $500 Maria Alfaro, 3rd place, $400 Nick Drain, 5th place, $285  The grants provide support for seniors working on...

Eric Bailey '01 (Illustration) took top honors in the Wisconsin Sign Association’s 2019 Sign Design Contest. He won first and second place for brand signs at Saint Kates Arts Hotel and Ironworkers Local 8. Read more. 

Teena Wilder '20 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) is the recipient of the 2020 McClure-Scanlin Visual Artist Residency award. She has had numerous exhibitions in South Carolina and Wisconsin, and her work has appeared in publications such as Jet Magazine.

Maria Alfaro '20 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) received the 2020 SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International) Gamblin Student Award. Each year, Gamblin presents awards to three SGCI members.

LaNia Sproles '17 was named a 2019 recipient of the Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship! Sproles was one of three chosen for this prestigious prize for Wisconsin emerging artists. Alumni David Najib Kasir '01, Grant Gill '13 and Daniel McCullough '18 also were...

Deb Wolf '95 (Interior Architecture and Design) won first place in VMSD (Virtual Merchandising and Store Design) magazine's Retail Renovation Competition for her redesign of a Ben Bridge Jeweler store. She works at SkB architects in Seattle. Read more.

Shantal Ramos '20 and Kristina Lemajic '21 (Interior Architecture and Design) were awarded 2019 Student Scholarship awards by the American Society of Interior Designers' (ASID) Wisconsin Chapter. They were honored at ASID Wisconsin Chapter's annual meeting at Badger...

Several MIAD alumni have been chosen for Milwaukee County Parks' Maptacular project. In the project, illustrators and artists create a new map for a Milwaukee County Park in their own distinct, artistic style. The newest crop of posters is on sale now, with proceeds...