Julian LaVerdiere, co-creator of the “Tribute in Light” temporary memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001, will lecture on Art after Crisis – the Tribute in Light on Friday, September 15, 2006, 7:30 p.m. The free and public lecture is sponsored by MIAD’s Board of Trustees …
Foundations Plugged and Unplugged This panel will look at how courses are building traditional skills and aesthetics based on historical precedents and techniques and evolving those skills and techniques by incorporating new technologies such as digital imaging, and video. Foundations must look to the future where digital technology has a …
Assessing Assessment: The role of evaluation in the foundations program As studio pedagogy continues to shift from a modernist context, how does, or how should, the evaluation of foundations programs and student performance shift in correspondence? What aspects of the foundations program should be assessed? In the midst of a …
Assess, Situate, Disperse Addressing Diversity of Artistic Approaches in Foundations In addition to students who continue to navigate and place themselves within more traditional contexts, many students will invent paths that will lead them to structure their own specialties (e.g., to become a sculptor/writer/geographer). A foundations program can …
Some 150 people attended Art in Flux August 5, an inaugural benefit hosted by and at Flux Design that raised more than $30,000 in support of MIAD’s academic programs. Twenty artists, most of whom are alumni or faculty, participated in the event, which featured woodcut steamroller prints created in the …
President Robert Rindler has announced that Stratiformis, the first handmade public artwork in the Historic Third Ward, is now on view in Catalano Square. The work was dedicated on May 3, 2006. • Robert Rindler and Jill Sebastian discuss “Statisformis” on Milwaukee Public Radio’s “At 10” (May 1, 2006, MP3) The …
MIAD Open Art Project Stratiformis Dedication, Catalano Square Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 3:30 p.m. What is the Open Art Project? The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) launched the collaborative Open Art Project in fall 2004 to: • Enrich the city’s landscape with a new work of art by a nationally …
Call for Session Proposals FATE and MIAD invite you to submit a paper for a panel discussion at the Biennial FATE Conference in 2007. We are interested in papers that deal with the theme, Shift Connect Evolve, as well as relevancy to panel discussion topic. Educators dealing with the introductory …
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design hosted the 11th Biennial National Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference on March 28-31, 2007. Conference attendees and participants were asked how we, as art educators and administrators, shift, connect and evolve with the millennial generation and re-think traditional teaching strategies …
