Awards & Honors

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.

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.

Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) recognized Olivia Paul ’21 (Product Design) as a 2021 Student Merit Award Finalist.

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 Museum Exhibition.

Ck Ledesma (Painting) and Nirmal Raja ’08 (Painting) have received 2020 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships. Finalists included Phoenix Brown ’19 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) and MIAD instructor Janelle VanderKelen.

Two works by Katie Grinell ’21 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) were accepted into the “Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show,” exhibition at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver.

Three MIAD New Studio Practice: Fine Arts students – Abby Schwab ’22, Sara Moralez ’21 and Michie M ’23 – were recipients of the 2020 LGBTQ+ Scholarship presented by Cream City Foundation.

Director of Human Resources Dusty Hoot receives a 2020 HR award from the Milwaukee Business Journal.