Awards & Honors

Lauren Marvell ’16 (Integrated Studio Arts) illustrated this year’s Milwaukee Art Museum holiday ornament. “Milwaukee on a Cloudy Day” features Milwaukee’s skyline against a yellow and blue background and is available for sale at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

David Najib Kasir, ’01 Painting, will present his lecture “A Conversation in Cultural Shapes & Landscapes” at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art on Tuesday, November 15th at 5 p.m. Kasir, a Milwaukee oil painter, produces deeply personal work that “surrounds the act of coming to terms with the challenges of family, life, love, and loss.”

Kelsey Robinson (’21 Communication Design) and Sarah Madden (’24 Communication Design) want you to vote! The MIAD alum and student both competed and placed in a new design competition.

Two MIAD New Studio Practice: Fine Arts alumni, Nick Drain ’20 and Z Moralez ’21, will be featured in the Villa Terrace Museum’s new exhibition “Grounded,” opening October 27th at 6 p.m.

Amy Cannestra, Communication Design ’06, makes up one third of feminist art group SPOOKY BOOBS, which won a 2022 gener8tor art fellowship.

Jason S. Yi, Professor of Art in New Studio Practice: Fine Arts at MIAD, recently installed his exhibit “Dissimulations” in the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan. “Dissimulations” references a Korean peninsula environment, although with an eye to universal notions of what landscape and environment mean for people.

Two MIAD students were among the top three students recognized in the 2020-2021 Zinc Challenge Student Design Competition. Bryce Lee ‘22 (Product Design) and Szymon Salamon ‘22 (Product Design) each won a $2,000 prize for their designs.