Fine Art + New Studio Practice Major

Hone your creative identity

Fine Art + New Studio Practice is a multidisciplinary major centered on making, community and entrepreneurship that positions you to flourish and thrive in a competitive 21st century market and the contemporary visual arts world.

In the studios, a supportive community of peers who will embrace you and your visual identity. Internships, visiting artists, guest critics, curators, writers and more will connect you to the community and opportunities.

You’ll apply learned knowledge to the creative world as a responsible art citizen and make visual work with a comprehensive understanding of how your creative identity relates to the world around you. As a graduate, you’ll live a sustainably creative life, changing the world one person at a time.

Fine Art + New Studio Practice Major

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Student Work

A large linocut print of a group of Hmong people and families. Colorful folded paper in green, purple, blue and pink flow across the installation.

Kalia Lor, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A triptych of three paintings: a teacher in a classroom, a parent greeting a child off a school bus, and a basketball player giving a shirt to a person.

Isaic Pulliam, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

An abstract floral painting with pink, red, green and orange against a light blue background.

Emma Utz, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

Large soft sculptures of a pencil, eraser and guitar.

Korian Chronowski, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A sculptural installation on top of circles of fake grass. Includes a desk, monitor, old TV and dvds, and a soft sculpture that says "Text"

Lee Judilla, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A sculpture of a yellow cat with human legs on a red pedestal with blue yarn. The cat is missing an arm, which is on the ground next to it.

Kiki Lyzenga, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A painting of a person in a red dress and green shorts with floral high-heeled boots and a large red hat. She is surrounded by velvet-looking red fabric.

Squire Robinson, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A sculptural work of four intricate wooden panels suspended from the ceiling, framing a wooden sculpture on a blue wooden pedestal.

Seth Ter Haar, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

A sculptural installation of a herd of red deer leaping out of a mirror.

Ravel Higgenbotham, Fine Art + New Studio Practice Senior Exhibition, 2024

Eduardo Zavala, Fine Art + NSP, 2022

Chloe Mack, Fine Art + NSP, 2015

Marsha Abramson, Fine Art + NSP, 2021

Hannah Jo Malaczynski, Fine Art + NSP, 2019

Olivia Lorber, Fine Art + NSP, 2022

Amber Suttles, Fine Art + NSP, 2019

Kya Harris, Fine Art + NSP, 2022

Zachary Swearingen, Fine Art + NSP, 2014

Alyssa Kaboskey, Fine Art + NSP, 2019

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Our Curriculum

In Fine Art + New Studio Practice, you will have the choice to focus your practice in a single field, such as photography or painting, or work across approaches. With the support of your FA+NSP advisor, you’ll create your own path while honing your skills and deepening your interests.

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Fine Arts in the world. Our fine arts graduates are influential in their communities, often using their creative path to better the world around them. MIAD fine arts students are regularly selected for the prestigious Yale Norfolk Summer Program. The Creativity Series and visiting artists programs bring local, national and international makers to campus each year to lecture and work alongside our students.

Collabs, Awards & News

A lifelike watercolor of butterflies and two bees flying and sipping nectar from yellow and red flowers.

Painting is alive at the Painting is Dead Gallery

A black and white photo of the seven Milwaukee artists selected for the fall 2024 gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix cohort

gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix announces 2024 Fall Cohort

An abstract metallic gold scuplture with fine, melted-looking details

MIAD students win International Sculpture Center awards

A detailed painting of a person wearing a blue dress which fades into water, surrounded by flowers and forest life.

MIAD alumni, faculty featured in Baird Center art collection

What Can I do with my Major?

FINE ART / NEW STUDIO PRACTICE

A
Art Appraiser
Art Collection Administrator
Art Critic
Art Dealer
Art Educator / Professor
Art Historian
Art Investment Advisor
Art Conservationist
Art Therapist
Art Writer
Artist Representative
Artistic Programs Administrator
Arts & Culture Program Director
Arts Grant Writer

C
Ceramist
Computer Artist
Costume Designer
Cultural Journalist

D
Director of Public Art

E
Exhibition Designer

F
Fine Artist

G
Gallery Owner / Director / Manager

M
Muralist
Museum Curator / Director / Manager

P
Portrait Artist
Printmaker

S
Sculptor
Set Designer

T
Textile Artist

V
Video Artist / Designer
Visual Culture Writer/Critic