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February is Black History Month! While you shouldn’t wait for a specific day or month to learn about and explore Black history, now is as good a time as any. Black history is American history, and it is world history. The past informs our present and can help us to …

Industrial Design (Product Design) alums Adam Carter ’16, Paul Rossetto ’95 and Rachel Wallace ’05 were recognized at the 2020 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for their designs that promote innovation and excellence.  Every year IDEA honors products and services that enhance, influence and push the industrial design industry …

Work created by MIAD students as part of the LOTUS Legal Clinic’s “Untold Stories” project is on view at the Milwaukee Art Therapy Collective November 14 and 21.

Professional experiences, such as internships, are an important part of a MIAD education. During summer 2020, three MIAD Communication Design students – Hanna Norland ’21, Krysta Oelhafen ’22 an …

Over the summer, MIAD’s Knox Chair of Drawing/Associate Professor Brad Bernard ’93 and MIAD fine arts students Taylor Morant, Reagan Mulvey, Darienne Hood and Mario Hamilton created a Black Lives Matter mural at RSR Services in West Allis, Wisconsin, in collaboration with Milwaukee Lutheran High School and …

Four AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellows joined the MIAD faculty this fall – Gabriela Escovar, Zuhal Feraidon, Yeon Jee and Aasawari Kulkarni. MIAD is one of only two colleges in the country hiring new AICAD Fellows this academic year.  The fellowship program, run by the Association of Independent Colleges of …

The MIAD Pre-College program provides an opportunity for high school students to develop their artistic skills and prepare to attend an art and design college. Pre-College went virtual this summer due to the pandemic. Students and professors met online everyday for class lectures, critiques and projects. The two …

Google recently launched its partnership with 16 world-class Milwaukee institutions, including the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), bringing the city’s culture, people and stories online on its Google Arts & Culture platform. Milwaukee is the first city in the Great Lakes region and second in the country to be …

Every year, MIAD students complete thousands of volunteer hours with more than 200 Milwaukee area nonprofit organizations through MIAD’s Service Learning program. Due to the pandemic, service learning courses this summer and opportunities for students to contribute to the community shifted online.  Students studied various topics and issues involving …

Today, I am sharing the college’s Three-Year Equity and Inclusion Action Plan.  This Plan is the result of a year-long study into organizational models, high-impact practices for learning and persistence, and analysis of student-reported data, resulting in 27 steps we will take to serve our community, including our BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and disabled students and the Greater Milwaukee community.

“Works of art history should not be forgotten but instead emphasized within a wider context that might begin to dismantle our society’s engrained western notions of postcolonial nationalism,” said Emily Beall ’24 in a video project presentation. 

MIAD will commit $10,000 to match dollar for dollar donations by students, faculty, staff and alumni to selected nonprofit organizations in the City of Milwaukee fighting racial injustice.   Participants should make their donations directly to any of the organizations below, and then submit a gift receipt from the organization …

Dear MIAD community,  In some ways, it feels the world has changed drastically since I wrote to you last Monday. And yet, we all know that structural inequities simply have not changed for Black Americans.  I have heard from many of you, via social media or directly by …

Dear MIAD Community, Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the events of the past week have brought renewed attention to another ongoing pandemic: the continuous killing of unarmed black people. For far too long, our nation, our city, and this college have been complacent in addressing the needs of …

Matthew Lee, instructor at MIAD, spent 13 months at the Geographic South Pole for Antarctic winter to learn field medicine and teach watercolor classes. Last Friday during a virtual meetup hosted by the MIAD Innovation Center, he shared about his experience and advice for staying positive and creative in isolation …

For the fifth consecutive year, Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) magazine has named MIAD a Top Graphic Design School.

March 24, 2020 … For the fifth consecutive year, Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) magazine has named MIAD a Top Graphic Design School.

Megan Piunti ’20 (Industrial Design) struggled to care for her dog, Emmie, last April when Emmie had a painful Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD) injury that left her temporarily paralyzed.