MIAD’s annual Senior Exhibition returns April 11 – May 10, 2025

​Digital and traditional innovations meet in MIAD’s 2025 Senior Exhibition. The exhibition celebrates works of MIAD’s graduating class of emerging creative professionals representing all of MIAD’s Bachelor of Fine Arts majors, programs and minors. Explore our galleries and meet the class of 2025.

• April 9, Preview Night, 4 – 8 p.m.
  • Business and gallery representatives, VIPs and family and friends of exhibiting seniors are invited to view the exhibition and discuss the work.
• April 11, Gallery Night public opening, 5 – 9 p.m.
  • All are welcome to view the exhibition. Free admission.
• April 12, Gallery Day, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • All are welcome to view the exhibition. Free admission.

MIAD Galleries are open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Senior Exhibition and MIAD Galleries are located at 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI 53202.

Senior projects from last year include:

• An animated miniseries app to support children suffering with PANDAS syndrome, a debilitating pediatric autoimmune disorder.
• A guerrilla marketing campaign and large-scale video about Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls whose faces are crafted from 5,712 dots representing each of the missing. Using varying statistics, and based on the student’s heritage, the dots change to fire representing tribal funerals for them.
• A line of bespoke luxury garments for users with physical disabilities that allows them to show up in formal spaces confidently, without hindering their abilities.
• A garment cleaning solution for astronauts living on space stations in microgravity that could be used for longer space travel (such as to Mars).
• A triptych of oil paintings encased in a built wooden cabinet that combine Renaissance and Baroque era influences while highlighting intergenerational inspirations of teachers, parents and athletes in Milwaukee.
• Pattern and design work that combines western cowboy and Chinese textiles and fashion based on the student’s cultural roots.
• Sculptural works that combine bejeweled bronze metalworking and a representation of the student’s belly button to embrace feminine power and showcase subversive femininity.
• An animated pilot about sisters Sam and Bug who come across a mysterious mansion that transports them to fantastical worlds accompanied by character toys and an art book.
• A mobile app and para-social gym buddy to support users through their social anxiety surrounding fitness.
• A children’s book and triptych of oil painting techniques and embroidery by a student with a double major in Illustration and Fine Art. Both capstone projects explore themes related to dreaming.
• A design for a small, luxury boutique hotel located in downtown Chicago that includes a full-service restaurant on the first floor and a bar on the first and second floor.