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Megan Ramirez: Senior Exhibition 2025
Megan Ramirez ’25 (Interior Architecture and Design), “The Sentinel Apartments.” Megan is a President’s (Honor) List student from Milwaukee, Wis.
International students drawn to MIAD’s creativity and community
International students Eeshaan Dutt ’26 and Chelsea Mody ’25 share more than both being from India; they came to MIAD based on the creativity and welcoming community they found at the college.
MIAD seniors receive 2025 Alumni Senior Thesis Awards
Thanks to the generosity of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the college, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) will award $7,085 to 44 seniors to directly support the fabrication and installation of their senior exhibition capstone projects.
MIAD students sweep 2025 United Adworkers Showcase Awards
The United Adworkers, Milwaukee’s premier organization dedicated to advertising, marketing and creative excellence throughout and beyond Wisconsin, awarded all of 2025’s Student Showcase Awards to current or recently graduated MIAD students.
Career insights: Bridge Work offers students professional guidance
The “Bridge Work: Ten Years of Making” exhibition on view at MIAD has offered not only a showcase of creativity and professional accomplishments by 23 recent BFA graduates, but also a unique opportunity for current students to learn from them and build a plan for their own careers.
MIAD Board of Trustees Chair talks MIAD’s impact
Deanna Tillisch, MIAD Board Chair, and her family were featured in Lake Country Neighbors’ March 2025 issue.
Failure and resiliency: MIAD professor talks adaptation and process
When he first applied for the Ruth Arts + MIAD Grant program, Jason S. Yi planned to attend the Berlin Biennale. However, the MIAD fine art instructor needed to change gears and shift the focus of his project after discovering the biennale wouldn’t take place until 2025.
Ruth Arts + MIAD Artists grantees launch multidisciplinary projects
The projects being undertaken by the 12 faculty and staff at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design who received 2024-25 Ruth Arts + MIAD Artists Grants are as varied in disciplines and topics as the artists themselves.
MIAD professor founds nonprofit for Tourette support
With its gently sloping lines evocative of individuals celebrating and embracing their identity together, the logo designed by MIAD Professor Nicole Hauch for Tourette Support & Education, the non-profit she founded, reflects the values of Community & Belonging; Personal Growth & Acceptance; Mindfulness & Understanding.
MIAD writing instructor publishes critically acclaimed book
Sean Enfield, critical studies and writing instructor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), published Holy American Burnout! in December 2023. Since then, Enfield’s collection of essays has received critical acclaim and widespread support.
MIAD professor Lee digs dinosaurs to paint human condition
For 10 years, MIAD First Year Experience Assistant Professor and painter Matthew Lee has visited and worked in a 66-million-year-old dinosaur bonebed near Ekalaka, Mont. On three occasions, he’s taken MIAD students with him as part of MIAD’s Study Abroad Programs, to dig and create art there.
Between Space & Place: Cultural narratives of the BIPOC community
MIAD faculty Lexi S. Brunson ’14, one of ten faculty and staff members who received a Ruth Arts + MIAD Grant for the 2023-24 academic year, recently shared with the college a presentation of her year-long project, “Culture: Between Space & Place.”