2023 – 2024 Friends & Donors Report
Your support of our students enables them to change their lives, and ours.
Our vision is to be a galvanized educational and creative community, addressing universal needs through our thought, design and expression. Each year we share with you highlights of our college community’s amazing achievements and acknowledge our generous supporters who help ignite curious minds through art, design and service.
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Five-Year Strategic Plan
Advancing Our Creative Future
2024 – 2029 Strategic Plan
MIAD’s 2024-2029 Strategic Plan embraces the college’s values in service to our students and our greater Milwaukee Community. The plan – Advancing Our Creative Future – amplifies MIAD’s people, programs and place to ensure our college’s ability to adapt to and thrive in changing educational and technology landscapes while advancing its long tradition of education excellence.
People
Succeeding Together
Key Initiatives
- Strengthen our Community both within and beyond the college
- Increase Student Success: retention, academic progress and graduation rate
Programs
Preparing 21st Century Professionals
Key Initiatives
- Enhance Institutional Financial Sustainability by optimizing and diversifying programs
- Leverage Institutional Technology and Digital Assets to prepare 21st century creatives & professionals
Place
Building Community
Key Initiatives
- Implement the Facilities Master Plan
- Implement the Sustainability Plan
- Expand Student Housing
(Updated January 2025)
Accreditation
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) is a private, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Wisconsin for the purpose of providing a professional education to students of the visual arts and related design fields. The college offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Communication Design, Illustration, Industrial Design (Product Design), Interior Architecture and Design and New Studio Practice: Fine Arts.
MIAD is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), (info@hlcommission.org, 800-621-7440).
The Wisconsin State Approving Agency under Title 38, US Code, approves the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree of MIAD for the training of veterans for federal veterans’ education benefits.
HEERF Grant Reports
MIAD is eligible to receive funds under Section 18004(a)(1) and 18004(a)(2) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
View Reports
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CARES Act Grant Report – Student Emergency Funds – ARP – 123121 FINAL
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CARES Act Grant Report – Student Emergency Funds – ARP – 093021
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CARES Act Grant Report Q2 – 2021-0630
CARES Act Grant Report – Student Emergency Funds – CRRSSA – 03/31/21 FINAL
CARES Act Grant Report Qtr Ended – 03/31/21
CARES Act Grant Report Qtr Ended – 12/31/20 REVISED
CARES Act Grant Report Qtr Ended – 12/31/20
CARES Act Grant Report Qtr Ended – 9/30/2020
CARES Act Grant Report – Student Emergency Funds – 09/30/20 FINAL
CARES Act Grant Report – 09/30/2020
CARES Act Grant Report – 08/07/2020
CARES Act Grant Report – 06/24/2020
CARES Act Grant Report – 05/20/2020
News
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.”
MIAD professor’s work supports community
A self-described artist, social practitioner and storyteller, MIAD Service Learning and Critical Studies faculty Hj Bullard leads a life of community support, within MIAD and beyond.