Press Release Archive
Learn about MIAD news and events from 2007 through 2018. For current news and information, see our News page or Contact Us.
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New MIAD exhibit honors late alumnus & Harley-Davidson licensed artist Mathew Hintz
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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MIAD senior designs portable Kevlar shelter to protect kids from gun violence
Release Date: May 1, 2018
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MIAD senior launches philanthropic fashion company focusing on women’s empowerment
Release Date: April 2, 2018
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PNC Bank, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design present Creative Fusion FUNdraiser, “Party By Design”
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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MIAD Develops First-of-Its-Kind DesignshipSM Program to Address Gap for Wisconsin’s Employers and Designers
Release Date: January 26, 2018
- Iconic contemporary artist-designer and Milwaukee Art Museum exhibitor Jaime Hayon presents MIAD Creativity Series February 13
Release Date: January 12, 2018
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New exhibition at MIAD aims to foster empathy in current divisive social and political climate
Release Date: December 12, 2017 - MIAD welcomes Sarah Zimmerman to Board of Trustees; new faculty and staff
Release Date: December 7, 2017 - MIAD’s galleries launch nationwide call for art & design exhibitions
Release Date: November 2, 2017
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MIAD’s annual sale of student and alumni art & design work, November 30 – December 2
Release Date: November 1, 2017 - “Embrace the Dumb: The Rob Schrab Experience” at MIAD features Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated writer & director, November 15
Release Date: October 15, 2017 - Two MIAD exhibitions open October 20: Chair^5, an interactive exploration with the Chipstone Foundation, and FANTASTIC: Four Contemporary Illustration Artists
Release Date: October 1, 2017
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Release Date: August 8, 2017
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Release Date: July 14, 2017
- MIAD’s 2017 Senior Exhibition stresses connections to both one another and the natural world
Release Date: March 24, 2017 - As women march, the Guerrilla Girls shake up perceptions at MIAD, February 22, 6 p.m.
Release Date: January 17, 2017 - MIAD’s Just the Facts exhibit reveals hidden politics and perspectives January 9 – March 4
Release Date: December 19, 2016
- Forbes Art & Style 30 Under 30 Designer Asher Israelow joins MIAD Creativity Series November 16
Release Date: October 13, 2016
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Release Date: October 6, 2016
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Release Date: September 22, 2016
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Release Date: June, 2016
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Release Date: May 17, 2016
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Release Date: April 26, 2016
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Release Date: March 10, 2016
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Release Date: February 9, 2016
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Release Date: December 16, 2015
- Designing high schoolers set their sights on Milwaukee flag, Friday, Nov. 20
Release Date: November 10, 2015 -
MIAD Creativity Series with letterpress artist Amos Kennedy
Release Date: October 20, 2015 - MIAD 2015-2016 Exhibitions and Events
Release Date: September 22, 2015 - MIAD’s AIM High Wisconsin program awarded $3 million federal grant
Release Date: September 14, 2015 - MIAD names Jeffrey Morin college president
Release Date: May 7, 2015 - MIAD 2015 Senior Exhibition highlights dedication to service, innovative approaches to problem solving
Release Date: March 26, 2015 - New York Times best-selling Robert Sabuda joins MIAD Creativity Series Feb. 25
Release Date: January 28, 2015 - Engendered opens at MIAD Gallery Night, Jan. 16 Curated by Pfister Artist in Residence Niki Johnson
Release Date: January 6, 2015 - MIAD selects Korn Ferry for Presidential Search; MIAD President Neil Hoffman to retire in May 2015
Release Date: December 18, 2014
- MIAD selects Korn Ferry for Presidential Search; MIAD President Neil Hoffman to retire in May 2015
Release Date: December 18, 2014 - MIAD 2014 Student/Alumni Art & Design Sale offers thousands of gift ideas December 4 – 6
Release Date: November 19, 2014 - Mark Dziersk – award-winning designer of Lunar Design – talks Design Thinking, Creativity & Risk at MIAD Creativity Series Nov. 12
Release Date: October 29, 2014 - Rothschild appointed MIAD Vice President of Development and Communications
Release Date: September 24, 2014 - MIAD 2014-2015 Exhibitions and Events
Release Date: August 2014 – May 2015 - Mayor Barrett to lead Ribbon Cutting of TWO50TWO – MIAD’s new res hall – at college’s 40th birthday party
Release Date: August 7, 2014 - Talent at MIAD 2014 Senior Exhibition showcases awe-inspiring and lifesaving work
Release Date: April 8, 2014 - MIAD student creates children’s story book app for Demibooks; on sale on iTunes
Release Date: March 12, 2014 - MIAD hosts 2014 NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition, March 4 – 22
Release Date: February 27, 2014 - ‘Change Is Possible’ at MIAD Creativity Series with Dana Arnett, brand, design and enterprise leader, March 25
Release Date: February 25, 2014 - Jennifer Florsheim, Shelley Paxton join MIAD Board of Trustees
Release Date: February 25, 2014
- Cuban artists challenge perceptions in MIAD’s First Person: Contemporary Cuban Art, open Gallery Night, January 17
Release Date: December 17, 2013 - International artists Nicola López & Gandalf Gaván offer new ways of envisioning oneself at MIAD Creativity Series
Release Date: October 16, 2013 - Collage of energy fills MIAD for Fall Gallery Night
Release Date: October 2, 2013 - Brooks@20 celebrates 20 years of pioneering industrial design gallery at MIAD
Release Date: September 25, 2013 - MIAD 2013-2014 Exhibitions
Release Date: September 10, 2013 - MIAD and Marquette to collaborate on innovative curriculum for industrial designers and engineers
Release Date: August 21, 2013 - Cross section of creative talent comes ‘Out of the Suitcase’ at MIAD’s Nohl exhibition August 17 – October 5
Release Date: August 9, 2013 - MIAD elects Cummings, Hansen, Heaney, Florin to board
Release Date: July 9, 2013 - MIAD new residence hall to open in fall 2014
Release Date: June 19, 2013 - Global designer James Ludwig, Steelcase VP, continues MIAD Creativity Series
Release Date: April 10, 2013 - MIAD 2013 Senior Exhibition opens Gallery Night with reimagined gallery space, performances and more
Release Date: April 3, 2013 - Augment your reality! Revisit Milwaukee’s Bridge War of 1845! March 22 offers day of visual global treats!
Release Date: March 14, 2013 - Acclaimed artists Dana Schutz and Ryan Johnson to give Artist Talks at MIAD
Release Date: February 20, 2013 - MIAD printmaking alumni, faculty Make Connections in Print: MKE juried exhibit
Release Date: February 6, 2013 - MIAD Gallery Night features international printmakers;
Juried student works from all majors
Release Date: December 19, 2012 - Industrial Design and Painting faculty join MIAD
Release Date: December 14, 2012 - Madeleine Lubar elected MIAD Board Chair
New officers, members elected; Creativity Series announced
Release Date: October 23, 2012 - Madeleine & David Lubar found MIAD Creativity Series
Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, selected as first visiting ‘creative’
Release Date: October 23, 2012 - MKE<->LAX at MIAD transforms gallery into a platform for cultural exchange
Release Date: October 2, 2012 - MIAD’s Designing Desire exhibition explores the influence of marketing on cultural norms
Release Date: October 2, 2012 - MIAD 2012-2013 exhibitions span the globe & media
Release Date: September 1, 2012 - IDSA honors MIAD Professor of Industrial Design Caruso for Education Excellence
Release Date: May 9, 2012 - Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Honored for Community Service
Release Date: April 30, 2012 - MIAD Senior Exhibition celebrates newest ‘creatives’: Exhibition grows larger; BMO Harris sponsors
Release Date: April 4, 2012 - January exhibition promises interactive, experimental exchanges
Release Date: January 12, 2012 - GE’s Schwartz, UPAF’s Tillisch join MIAD Board, Simmons joins faculty as Communications Design professor
Release Date: December 1, 2011 - MIAD Student/Alumni Art Sale to feature diverse works by generations of artists and designers Oct. 20 – 22
Release Date: September 28, 2011 - Hires and promotions support MIAD’s growing enrollment
Release Date: September 7, 2011 - Area artists take diverse works ‘Out of the Suitcase’ at MIAD ‘Out of the Suitcase IV’ celebrates Mary L. Nohl Awardees
Release Date: August 8, 2011 - MIAD Senior Exhibition celebrates state’s creative future in largest show of its kind; M&I Foundation sponsors
Release Date: March 30, 2011 - MIAD selects The Park at 1824 as residence hall New residence hall offers students’ ‘suite’ life
Release Date: March 9, 2011 - Art Meets Science in Breathtaking Dual Exhibition at MIAD
Release Date: January 5, 2011 - MIAD Industrial Design program ranked 10th in nation (see related release: Two students win international awards)
Release Date: December 9, 2010 - MIAD Industrial Design students win international competition with low-cost eco-friendly products
Release Date: December 9, 2010 - MIAD exhibitions show Illustration’s breadth and diversity: Kroninger and Society of Illustrators span decades and genres
Release Date: November 2, 2010 - MIAD faculty share inspiration as visual artists and educators in 2010 Faculty Exhibition
Release Date: September 14, 2010 - MIAD Senior Exhibition celebrates creative talent, students’ interdisciplinary, multimedia skills
Release Date: April 16, 2010 - Growing Power’s Will Allen to receive honorary doctorate
Release Date: April 1, 2010 - $1.4 million donation of materials from Harley-Davidson Motor Company helps MIAD students re-design campus
Release Date: March 16, 2010 - The Art of Science takes to the ice; MIAD Limnology students drill to the heart of freshwater science
Release Date: February 18, 2010 - Levatich, Marcus, Mortara, Schwebel, Strauss, Wilson join MIAD Board of Trustees
Release Date: February 17, 2010 - Transitional/Transcultural: New Paradigms for a New Century; 8 artists explore multiculturalism’s complexity
Release Date: January 4, 2010 - Transitional/Transcultural: New Paradigms for a New Century; 8 artists explore multiculturalism’s complexity
Release Date: December 28, 2009 - Harley-Davidson Museum ‘Helmet Project’ marks MIAD first
Release Date: September 24, 2009 - MIAD exhibitions mark 2009-2010 with diversity of techniques, media, cultures, themes and partnerships
Release Date: September 9, 2009 - MIAD exhibitions mark 2009-2010 with diversity of techniques, media, cultures, themes and partnerships
Release Date: September 9, 2009 - MIAD’s “Great American Kitchen 1900 – 2010”; Exhibiting a century of cultural values, product innovation & consumerism
Release Date: July 17, 2009 - Generate exhibition marks first in off-campus series curated by and for alumni
Release Date: June 24, 2009 - MIAD trustees elect officers Allen W. Williams, Jr., chair, Madeleine Kelly Lubar vice-chair
Release Date: June 10, 2009 - Head of Urban Ecology Center to receive honorary doctorate May 9
Release Date: April 27, 2009 - Gallery night’s largest exhibition celebrates creative talent; engages viewers with new conceptual themes
Release Date: April 6, 2009 - MIAD taps Jones as controller/business manager; Announces director of cultural & alumni relations; new hire
Release Date:February 26, 2009 - Personal Culture: New Art from Latin Americans
Release Date: December 19, 2008 - Daniels joins MIAD as director of development; ID Professor elected to national and regional post
Release Date: November 20, 2008 - ‘Media Projects’ create fluid view of contemporary artwork.
Release Date: October 8, 2008 - Faculty Exhibition II to open Sept. 16
Release Date: September 16, 2008 - MIAD’s Guido Brink Visiting Lecture Series brings renowned artists unbounded by medium or discipline
Release Date: August 27, 2008 - MIAD 2008-2009 exhibitions span disciplines, generations and Latin American cultures
Release Date: August 27, 2008 - Media Alert: Largest incoming class to create giant permanent wall mural
Event Date: August 17, 2008 - Faculty’s dynamism reflected in exhibited work
Release Date: August 8, 2008 - Utrecht art supply to open second WI store at MIAD
Release Date: June 23, 2008 - New Intersections’ brings ‘A Whole New Mind’ to design
Release Date: July 17, 2008 - MIAD appoints dean, associate dean of students as new positions, promotions announced
Release Date: June 4, 2008 - Select B.F.A. work celebrated in MIAD 2008 Juried Exhibition
Release Date: May 15, 2008 - MIAD trustees elect officers; welcome members Jason W. Allen, Judy Guten, Michael T. Jones, Desmond Mason
Release Date: May 15, 2008 - Baird execs; wives to host “Creative Fusion” May 3
Release Date: April 9, 2008 - Media Alert: Lawton Press Conference at MIAD
Event Date: March 28, 2008 - MIAD’s “designing women” continue to reap national awards.
Release Date: January 10, 2008 - Miller ‘taps’ MIAD design students for Free Rides project
Release Date: December 18, 2007 - This Land Is My Land exhibition communicates across America’s cultural and social divides
This Land Is My Land: Artist Bios and statements
Release Date: December 11, 2007 - Media Alert: Bruce Guadalupe Middle Schoolers partner with MIAD at Latino Geriatric Center
Event Date: November 15, 2007 - Portfolio Day: National high-school talent review rivals ‘Idol’
Event Date: October 20, 2007 - Open Canvas ‘artfully’ set for Nov. 17
Release Date: October 10, 2007 - WISN-TV’s Jan Wade joins MIAD board; College announces new hires
Release Date: October 5, 2007 - Media Alert: Monster sand sculptures go presidential
Event Date: August 24, 2007 - Collaborative art performance, sale and benefit for MIAD scholarships hosted by MIAD alumni at Flux Design. Saturday, September 15, 5 – 10 p.m. at Flux, 811 E. Vienna Ave.
Release Date: August 22, 2007 - Personal Forms/Universal Content shows abstraction’s contemporary vitality, diversity
Release Date: August 7, 2007 - MIAD announces 2007-2008 exhibition schedule Diverse cultures, disciplines, media and talents explored
Release Date: August 6, 2007 - Guido Brink Visiting Artist Lecture Series features internationally renowned interdisciplinary artists
Release Date: August 6, 2007 - ‘Visions to Vintage’ brings design to the fore as it looks back in time
Release Date: July 16, 2007 - MIAD trustees elect officers; welcome Arpe to board
Release Date: June 5, 2007 - MIAD graduates to join coveted creative class May 12
Release Date: April 25, 2007 - Next generation of creative leaders shines at MIAD 2007 Senior Exhibition
Release Date: April 9, 2007 - New MIAD president, Neil Hoffman, is nationally recognized arts and administrative leader
Release Date: March 28, 2007 - Media Alert: A ‘cool’ Milwaukee tradition helps MPS students with disabilities
Event Date: March 26, 2007 - MIAD hosts national FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory & Education) Conference March 28-31
Release Date: March 13, 2007 - Lubars to host new ‘Creative Fusion’ benefit May 5
Release Date: March 8, 2007 - Media Alert: Powered by rubber bands, MIAD students vie to avoid ‘egg on their face’
Event Date: March 1, 2007 - Media Alert: Sculpting the body; molding ‘the human side’ of doctors
Event Date: February 22, 2007 - Dual photography exhibition brings international talent to U.S. and Milwaukee for first time
Release Date: February 13, 2007 - Learn the business of photography
Release Date: February 1, 2007 - ‘Sacred Texts’ panelists to discuss contemporary book arts; texts in myriad faith traditions; digital future of books
Release Date: January 31, 2007
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