One of humanity’s earliest forms of mark-making, patterns are a rich genre which reveals much about the porous borderland between the disciplines of art and design. In MIAD’s newest exhibit, A Dual Exhibition: Contemporary Visual Patternmaking, digital technology is used to create vibrant patterns. The exhibition is comprised of …
The annual Research, Practice & Methods Exhibition (RPM) “is a landmark moment for the entire Foundations class, celebrating all of the first-year students,” said James Barany, chair of MIAD’s Foundations program. This year is a little different, with themes ranging from political to printmaking, the exhibit offers a diverse view …
Anastasia Samoylova, an artist and educator based in upstate New York, finds inspiration in her Russian roots. Samoylova is inspired by the work of Russian Romantic poets, drawing from their intense descriptions of nature and employing them in her own work. “Landscape Sublime” is on view in the Perspectives Gallery …
MIAD alumni create digital-media works that examine the diversity of motion-based media in Motion 15: A Juried Alumni Media Exhibition. The exhibit features 16 MIAD alumni from a variety of majors, each creating a unique motion-based digital media work that expresses how time-based media functions within …
Everyday products can offer tremendous insight into a culture, providing a glimpse of what everyday life may entail. The Japanese Design Today 100 traveling exhibition allows viewers to explore 100 works that represent Japanese product design, ranging from innovative designs to those that are more modern. Japanese Design Today …
Artist group “Boy Heavy, Girls Welcome” has deep roots in the MIAD community. Several core group members, Chris Andrews ’91 (Sculpture), Pete Schassler ’90 (Painting), Todd Dakins ’95 (Illustration) and Troy Tatlock ’92 (Painting), met while students at MIAD. The group also includes faculty member Christian Ricco and Gallery Manager …
New Studio Practice faculty member Kevin Miyazaki has traveled across the nation with the help of the Mary L. Nohl Fund grants, working to complete his project, ‘Camp Home,’ which explores his family’s history as Japanese Americans, and is on view in Out of the Suitcase VI. “Both of my …
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Twenty-four artists take their work ‘Out of the Suitcase’ August 18 – October 3 during this sixth biannual exhibition at MIAD. “Out of the Suitcase VI” celebrates the awardees of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Fund, which allows artists to exhibit their work globally. The Suitcase Fund …
Summer Gallery Night & Day, July 24 – 25, showcases the best and brightest of the 2015 graduating class, high school students’ advanced works and a scavenger hunt for families. On view in the Frederick Layton Gallery through Gallery Day, Saturday, July 25, the 2015 Juried Senior Exhibition features capstone work from more …
If you missed MIAD’s impressive 2015 Senior Exhibition, this is your chance to see the best and brightest talent of the 2015 graduating class in the 2015 Juried Senior Exhibition. The exhibition was juried by faculty from the 130+ projects in the 2015 Senior Exhibition, and represents all the majors …
During the course of each year, MIAD offers no less than three juried exhibitions for students to gain real-world exhibition experience, and for one week in March, Foundations students submitted 225 artworks for the 2015 Foundations Juried Exhibition. Only 38 pieces were accepted into the stringently juried show. According …
