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Jon Horvath, Associate Professor in the New Studio Practice: Fine Arts department, recently published “This Is Bliss,” a multimedia project centered around the “disappearing” town of Bliss, Idaho.

Today, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts announced the 140 arts organizations who received one of their Fall 2022 grants inspired by how artists live, make, and are remembered. The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is honored to be recognized among the recipients.

The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design invites artists nationwide to submit proposals for exhibition in 2024. MIAD, a non-profit art and design college located in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward, features two professional on-campus galleries, the Frederick Layton Gallery and the Brooks Stevens Gallery.

James Barany, Professor of First Year Experience, treated MIAD students, staff and faculty last week to a tour of the Vardo that he constructed during COVID.

Madison Arts + Literature Laboratory hosts the exhibition “The Shape of the Environment,” curated by Lelia Byron, which seeks to “​​convey the importance of different environmental issues for people across the globe.”

In a move that delighted Milwaukeeans, National Geographic recently named the city one of the top 25 places to visit in the world.

Edith Hibbard, a longtime supporter of MIAD, passed away on September 29, 2022. She and her husband William Hibbard (1927-2020) established the Cookie Hibbard Scholarship in honor of their late daughter Mary Ellen “Cookie” Hibbard.

Four MIAD students and two alumni completed a quilt-themed mural on the new Taxco Apartments in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood. The company developing the new apartments, Mandel Group, Inc., contacted the MIAD Lubar Innovation Center to source artists for the project.

General Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. MIAD students are able to vote in this upcoming election with the required documents and by registering to vote. What documents do students need to vote? One of the following: • A valid Wisconsin Driver’s License • Wisconsin State ID Card …

Douglas R. Ewart, an interdisciplinary artist from Minnesota whose work spans musical performance, instrument making, painting and teaching, was named the 2022 McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist. Ewart is currently displaying work in MIAD’s “Then as Now: Woodland Pattern 1980-2022” gallery exhibition.

Larry “Murf” Murphy, Product Design adjunct professor at MIAD, has a unique way of thanking his cancer care team. Each year since 2018, on the anniversary of his surgery, Murf creates designs on lab coats for his doctors.

Jeff Morin, president of Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, represented the college on Spectrum News 1 recently to discuss career prospects for MIAD graduates and the school’s strategy for financially and academically supporting students.

Chicago-based advertising agency O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP) recently hired MIAD alum Matt McNulty, Communication Design ’13, as a Group Creative Director for Burger King.

Jimmy Cobb, New Studio Practice: Fine Arts ’22, is one of six finalists selected for Honda’s Design and Drive Art Contest.

MIAD receives Molson Coors Project Justice Scholarship Awards

MIAD student interns design, create mural for Milwaukee Public Museum

MIAD’s Design Internship program was featured in Toolkits as part of discussion on the Greater Equity 2030 challenge

MIAD is pleased to announce Rafael Francisco Salas as our next MIAD Identity Series speaker. Please join us for Salas's artist talk on Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the MIAD Union. Rafael Francisco Salas is a Wisconsin-based artist. He combines landscape, the...