Marketing & Communication
The Marketing & Communication Office promotes MIAD’s mission, values and vision through creative communications and consistent reflection of our brand. We champion enrollment in MIAD’s programs through innovative marketing and communications that exemplify our educational offerings, diverse faculty and outstanding facilities. Marketing & Communication sees their work in service to the MIAD community.
Brand Resources
At MIAD, we collaborate, innovate and solve problems together. We connect in meaningful ways and take inspiration from the vibrant world around us. We believe in the power of art and design to not merely reflect the world, but to change it. This is where passion finds purpose.
We invite the MIAD community to utilize the college’s brand resources. Our Brand Guide provides downloadable assets, including the college’s logos, as well as fonts and templates.
Templates
For the Media
MIAD’s Marketing & Communication Office is the first point of contact for all media inquiries. We are happy to provide information about the college, our community programs and galleries. Press releases, images and media interview scheduling are all available through our office. You can find more on our News page, which offers the latest information on all things MIAD. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Let’s connect!
Stacey Steinberg
Executive Director of Marketing & Communication
staceysteinberg@miad.edu, 414.847.3236
News
Keith Negley: Award-winning illustrator and writer
When award-winning illustrator and author Keith Negley ’00 isn’t completing projects like his most recent book of “forgotten trailblazers,” he’s creating portraits of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Emma Stone and Chelsea Clinton, and doing editorial illustrations on topics like neurodivergence, organ transplants and the opioid crisis.
Two MIAD alumni named Mary L. Nohl Fellows for 2025
Two alumni from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) have received Emerging Artist fellowships from the 2025 Mary L. Nohl Fund for its 2025 cycle: Margaret Griffin ’23 (Fine Art + New Studio Practice) and Open Kitchen, co-founded by Rudy Medina ’12 (Integrated Studio Arts).
FYE Juried Media Arts Festival 2024 celebrates first-year student works
Seven students received awards at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design’s juried FYE Media Arts Festival – an in-house screening and celebration of video, animation and sound design works by current and former First-Year Experience (FYE) students held on November 26. The 56 entries were judged by multimedia and filmmaking professionals Emma B. Barany, Gabe Leistekow and Sara Sowell.
MIAD professor brings love of branding to projects and students
Brian Bowles ’01, professor of Communication Design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), finds freelance projects “deeply fulfilling” and beneficial to himself and to his students.
Independence First and MIAD students produce adaptive clothing
Students in a junior-level Fashion and Apparel Design class at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) collaborated with Independence First to design adaptive clothing. Two Independence First employees worked closely with MIAD students on customized outfits specific to their needs and preferences.