2024 – 2026 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) Viewbook
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Toebi Waters, Product Design ’26
Everyday Carry Bag
Emma Utz, New Studio Practice ’23
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Leah Beining, Interior Architecture and Design ’24
Goodland, an SCP boutique hotel
We ignite curious minds through art, design and service.
We believe in courage to seekyour ownpath. We believe in integrity topursue our lives and work withmeaning. We believe in kindness to thoughtfully engage with others.
We believe in innovation to meet universal challenges in new ways.
We believe in community to positively contribute to the world around us.
We believe in inclusionto find strength in diversity.
WE ARE MIAD.
IT’S DIFFERENT HERE. In the best possible ways. This is a culture of creativity, a place where what you imagine and what you make matter. A community dedicated to nurturing and stimulating your creative life and career. As you join students from all corners of the world, our faculty will inspire and prepare you for your future as a professional artist or designer.
You’ll take on real-world projects, internships and service learning with businesses and organizations that recognize MIAD’s reputation and impact on the region’s creative vitality and vibrant design community. Your education will position you to succeed in your profession and entrepreneurial endeavors. And as a contemporary artist or designer, you will influence the direction of our global community.
Your education will be the foundation of your creative career. At MIAD, you’ll find a community where your passion finds purpose. Where you’ll find your path to a future to do what you love for life.
MIAD COMMUNITY & STUDENT LIFE
MIAD will likely be your first home away from home. It will also be the place where your passion and education extend beyond the walls of the classrooms and studios. Whether you’re hanging out on the Riverwalk, volunteering in the neighborhood or attending an event in the Equity & Inclusion Center, you’ll find your community.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Some of MIAD’s all-school annual traditions include the back-to-school Street Party, AIDS Walk, Halloween Party, Homecoming, MIAD Talent Show, MIAD Holiday Sale and Movie Marathon. Take a road trip to nearby Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison or the Wisconsin Dells. Get free and discounted tickets from Student Services so you can unwind at a nearby concert or take in a performance. You’ll find so much so close to home.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
MIAD students create and run their own organizations, providing opportunities to lead, socialize and propel community awareness.
Organizations have included:
A Capella Group
Alpha Lambda Delta
American Society of Interior Designers
Animation Club
Anime Club
Asian Creative Union (ACU)
Basketball Club
Black Student Union (BSU)
Dungeons & Dragons
Exercise Club
Fibers Club
Fighting Game Club
Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA)
Genshin Impact Club
Gradients
Graphic Novel Book Club
Industrial Designers Society of America
Intervarsity
Magic: The Gathering
MIAD Adventure
Pocket Gallery
Student Party
Tea Party Club
TypeUnion
Unearthed Collective
Volleyball Club
Zine Club
STUDENT PARTY (STUDENT GOVERNMENT)
MIAD’s Student Party takes action to foster community, communication and change. Student Party is an open forum committed to the betterment of the college and community. Bring your talents and ambitions and take an active role in your college experience.
CAMPUS & FACILITIES
What is it about this place that is so compelling? Is it the way the light pours through the windows, bouncing off polished concrete floors? Is it the way the sawdust smells when you enter the 3D Lab — one of the most expansive maker facilities in the nation at 250,000 square feet? Is it the sounds of making — pencils to paper, keyboard clicks, a laser etching at full speed, the sanding of wood and foam?
The MIAD campus is a hive of creativity centered on you. In its interactive, dynamic spaces, you’ll experience learning and connect with your peers through research, creation and discussion.
Our studios, our residence hall and the surrounding Historic Third Ward are an integral part of your education, providing you with a close-knit community of inspired individuals, environments, businesses and culture to further your pursuit of a creative life and career. This is where you find, and define, the path to your future.
Two50Two: MIAD Student Apartments
Living on campus at Two50Two puts you at the heart of your MIAD experience — your supportive campus network and the thriving art and design district of the Third Ward, ranked the fifth best arts district in the U.S. with the top ranked Public Market (USA Today).
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee is different from every place you’ve been. From music to food, unique neighborhoods to incredible small businesses, the city offers something for everyone — a vibe and a welcoming Midwestern undercurrent.
MIAD’s prime location positions you at the heart of it all. Explore Lake Michigan (four blocks from campus!), visit Third Ward galleries, restaurants and shops, see the world-champion Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum, check out great local bands at live music venues around town or name acts at Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival, grab a custard at your favorite stand or bike through one of the many parks in the city. Visit MKE and it might just feel like home.
Cream City Miss Katie’s Diner
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Visit Milwaukee visitmilwaukee.com
MisterClips istockphoto.com
EMMA MAY TRAVITZ
2024 Product Design
Soft Goods minor
Material Developer, Nike Beaverton, OR
““I got a fashion design book for my tenth birthday and a pair of Nikes….”
“My time at MIAD really allowed me to grow into who I am as a designer, while also specifically focusing on what makes me me.”
JENNA SEDOVIC
Me as a Vomero 5 (turning pieces of my process and myself into a shoe).
2023 Interior Architecture and Design/Illustration
Natural Sciences minor
Zoological Designer, WDM Architects Wichita, KS
‘I was trying to figure out how to blend art, architecture and science, and MIAD was a place where I found I could do all three of those things.’
As she was interviewing for jobs, Sedovic said, “I’m seeing the list of requirements and I’m meeting every single one of those because I’ve built those skills across the disciplines that I’ve been working with….”
The Outbackyard zoological design
2024 Communication Design
Illustration minor
Graphic Designer, Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons team Bellevue, WA
“What you can receive at MIAD goes beyond plain career and professional development. Acceptance into a community of thoughtful and genuine people to learn and grow with goes beyond any job or title. I think having that is success.”
PAOLO VACALA BRADY
VANDERHART
2024 Communication Design
2024 Student to Watch, GDUSA
Graphic Designer, Savage Milwaukee, WI
“We are taught graphic design skills, of course, but also the ability to make confident and considered creative decisions. MIAD CD graduates make incredible art and creative directors because of this fundamental capacity.”
Wobble branding
Daybreak video game concept
LAUREN PARRA
2017 Illustration
Communication Design and Sciences minors Graphic Designer III, The Pokémon Company International Bellevue, WA
“During my time at MIAD I was able to explore how I wanted to use my passion for illustration in my future career. You can make a career out of doing what you love! It takes hard work and perseverance, but being able to work within your passion is amazing!”
AMIRA HUMES
2021 Illustration
Communication Design minor Illustrator & Designer
A Very Asian Guide to Filipino Food, written & illustrated by Hume Artist Assistant, Kohl’s Milwaukee, WI
“I found it so important to reach back out to people I graduated with to get critiques, get feedback and advice. When [the professors] say that they’re here for you, even after you graduate, they mean it. I so appreciate the knowledge that I’ve learned from so many of the individuals I’ve crossed paths with at MIAD….”
A spread from a kid’s flap book featuring Pikachu and various Water-Type Pokémon.
Kain Tayo! kitchen textiles collection
2024 Animation Track in Illustration
Freelance Animator and Illustrator
Clients include Unfinished Legacy, Reginald Baylor Studio, Alive and Fine, and Cactus Club. Milwaukee, WI
“My whole time at MIAD, I’ve felt motivated. So many faculty and instructors, all they do is tell me to just keep going. If I have a crazy idea, they’ll always support it. I feel like I can do really whatever I want within the limitations of challenging assignments and deadlines. There’s a lot of freedom here.”
Installation view at Var Gallery from the 2024 Emerging Artist Exhibition
PENELOPE BOWLES GEORNICA DANIELS
2023 New Studio Practice
M.F.A. Sculpture program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2024 Emerging Artist, Var Gallery Milwaukee, WI
“Transferring to MIAD was the easy choice. The majors really aligned with what I was aiming for…. There seemed to be a freedom to pursue any and all mediums and subjects that you wanted to, so I was really drawn to this major because it wasn’t so specific and I didn’t have to stick to one medium or one thing.”
Penelope Bowles x Unfinished Legacy is a short looping animation created for Bowles’ Senior Exhibition project in partnership with the brand Unfinished Legacy for its Third Ward retail space.
LIFE AFTER MIAD
At MIAD, you’ll obtain the skills needed to flourish in diverse professional experiences. Your focus on lifelong learning will extend the classroom and college experience to kickstart your life of creativity. You’ll tie your experiences to the real-world at every turn, and be the leader of your education and success.
Your degree might take you places you never expected, allowing you to redefine the role of artist or designer in contemporary society. And, as far as success goes, you’ll define it in your own terms.
Taj Pollard
New Studio Practice: Fine Arts ’22
Notable Current Alumni Employers Adidas, Arc Worldwide, Ariens, Baird, BVK, CramerKrasselt, Delta Faucet, Discovery World Museum, Dyson, Fiskars, Ford Motor Company, GE Healthcare, GMR Marketing, Generac, General Motors, Google, Hallmark, Hanson Dodge Creative, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Hyundai, Jockey International, Johnson Controls, Kimberly-Clark, Kohler Company, Kohl’s, Land’s End, Laughlin Constable, MasterLock, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Tool, Nestle, Nike, Northwestern Mutual, Pacific Cycle, Pokémon, Pivot Cycles, Pacific Cycles, Quad, Rinka+, Rivian, SC Johnson, SkB Architects, Target Corporation, Trek, Wisconsin Public and Private Colleges, Wizards of the Coast
Impact of the Arts. The Arts and Culture sector added $1.1 trillion to the U.S. economy and $11.9 billion to the WI economy, behind only retail, construction and transportation. More than 2.6 million artists and designers actively work in the United States. The job outlook for art directors, designers and animators is projected to grow faster than average through 2032.
Independent artists, writers, performers add $47.3 billion to the U.S. economy.
FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE
Nurture Your Growth
The First-Year Experience (FYE) nurtures your growth and individuality as an artist and designer. It challenges you to ask deeper questions about the nature of visual culture, art, design, technology, media, materials, influences and process.
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In FYE studio courses you’ll be immersed in making in two, three and four dimensions, blending contemporary and traditional technologies. Whether you’re exploring textiles, cutting vinyl, creating zines, screen printing, animating or uncovering the history of art and design, you’ll be constantly questioning, making and thinking.
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James Calhoun Home, Sweet Home.
You’ll dig into creative problem solving in MIAD’s immersive labs. You’ll engage in conversations and critique. You’ll make meaning through experimenting. You’ll be at the center of your learning.
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Mikayla Moran Summer Evenings
Kate Pendowski Shock
COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Create Meaning and Value
As a future designer, art director or creative director in a versatile global community, Communication Design will prepare you to create compelling digital and print work that informs and educates in innovative ways.
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Ella Wiater
Rockabilly Chili Poster
Thinking conceptually and developing visual literacy through two-, three- and screen-based design will engage you in work that clearly communicates ideas while creating visually intriguing solutions to solve problems. You will build your presentation and collaboration skills. You’ll also have opportunities to build your portfolio through specialized electives and to work in design internships in Milwaukee and beyond.
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— Above Kiara Macarena Raiz
Top Design School 2024
Students named 2024 Students to Watch
Graphic Design USA
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Abigail Tessmer Spark Plug Above Egle Liukaityte Milwaukee United Identity
Our top-ranked Communication Design program allows you to focus on the things that interest you most while preparing you for an ever-changing marketplace. Join our highly successful Communication Design graduates, who lead their own creative businesses and fill key positions at advertising agencies, design firms and major corporations.
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FASHION AND APPAREL DESIGN
Find Your Authentic Voice
Fashion and Apparel Design is an exploration of fashion across gender, accessibility, size, trends and the future of the industry itself. In Fashion and Apparel Design, you’ll find your authentic voice through making garments, understanding fabrics, creating patterns and exploring sustainable design. In the spirit of inclusion, you’ll make clothing for everyone, solving garment challenges for a range of demographic needs.
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Scrap Dress
Fashion and Apparel Design will prepare you to develop an identity as a designer with focus on design, craft, sustainability, diversity and collaboration. Mechanical and digital technologies will support your exploration. Understanding the social, environmental and economic impacts of apparel will empower you to become an agent of change in the fashion industry.
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Bailey Staerkel Coffee Bean Corset
With a focus on creating sustainable fashion and apparel for all body types and identities, Fashion and Apparel Design educates you in textile usage, surface treatments and garment recycling with an emphasis on cultural influence in usage and design.
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Chad Alexander Matha Flower Power Jacket
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Emma May Travitz
Tulle Skirt
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Zachary Scharrer
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FINE ART + NEW STUDIO PRACTICE
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 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. In the studios, a supportive community of peers who will embrace you and your practice. Internships, visiting artists, guest critics, curators, writers and more will connect you to the community and opportunities.
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Seth TerHaar Sacral
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Allison Billingsley Beyond Cyan: Exploring the Tricolor Cyanotype Process
In Fine Art + New Studio Practice, 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.
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Korian Chronowski Artist’s Passion
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Squire Robinson Echoes of Serenity
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Peb Yog Hmoob
ILLUSTRATION
Unleash Your Visual Voice
MIAD’s Illustration program will satisfy your craving to tell stories through captivating images while equipping you with the skills to become a professional communicator. We’ll immerse you in the language of visual communication, fostering your ability to solve problems creatively and develop a unique artistic style.
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As you explore a vast media landscape, you’ll hone your craft with traditional and digital tools, including motion graphics. Our curriculum emphasizes both technical proficiency and conceptual exploration, allowing you to refine your visual vocabulary.
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Anni Smith Hua Patchblock Collection — Left
Lordessa Phelps Bearded Dragon
Greta Solien Playing in the Parks!
— Top Right Becca Anderson Bat Outta’ Hell!
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Ranked #1 Program in Wisconsin
You’ll gain real-world experience by collaborating with external clients, building your professional network through internships and curating a strong portfolio that showcases your ability to integrate image and text in various design contexts. This comprehensive and award-winning program prepares you to thrive as an illustrator, art director or designer across diverse industries.
Animation Career Review
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ANIMATION TRACK IN ILLUSTRATION
Bring Your Illustrations to Life
MIAD’s Animation Track within the Illustration major empowers you to fulfill your dream of adding movement to Illustration. We focus on visual storytelling, transforming static illustrations into captivating animations using digital tools.
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Penelope Bowles x Unfinished Legacy
This is not a standalone Animation program. Instead, you’ll gain a strong foundation in Illustration while building expertise in 2D, 3D and interactive animation, virtual reality and video games. Our structured curriculum provides hands-on experience with diverse animation approaches, complemented by the freedom to choose electives that ignite your creative spark.
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Penelope Bowles
Penelope Bowles x Unfinished Legacy
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Alesssa Truong
Oh My, Crows!
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Leonora Hill Red Dog
Ranked #1 Program in Wisconsin; in Top 10 Midwest
Animation Career Review
You’ll refine your unique voice as a storyteller with Animation-focused professional practice courses and electives that help you hone your skills and interests. This powerful and award-winning combination of Illustration and Animation prepares you for a versatile career in such varied industries as game design, TV/film production and special effects, web and UI/UX design, multimedia advertising and marketing, data visualization and more.
Phoebe Nelson
Google Doodle: Emily Bronte
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Create Dynamic Environments
Interior Architecture and Design invites your sense of wonder and curiosity about space and the built environment. You’ll transform your understanding of the relationship between human interaction and space, creating dynamic interior environments grounded by client-driven requirements and user needs.
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Amity at the Park
Through focused, active engagements in residential, office, retail, exhibition and healthcare design, you’ll expand your view of materiality and its effects on space and people. You’ll use compositions of colors, textures, lighting and furnishings to set the mood for spaces to inhabit, both commercial and residential.
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Rose Schindler Hearthside
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You’ll learn and use the latest in design and visualization techniques and software for professional outcomes, with industry colleagues providing project feedback and validation. MIAD’s Interior Architecture and Design major positions you in the heart of the Historic Third Ward, a thriving design and creative district. There are over 20 architecture and interior design firms located within a half-mile of the campus employing both MIAD student interns and full-time alumni.
Ali Suski
Pisé Point
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Becca Wellin
Fox Point Residence
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The Outbackyard
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Alexa Ignoffo Pilcrow Coffee
PRODUCT DESIGN
Inspire Yourself and Others
As a Product Design major, you are naturally curious, inquisitive and see the world differently, questioning not just how things are, but how they could be. You are a dreamer and a maker of things, exploring how emerging technology enables interfaces in objects from smartphones to sophisticated medical care products. —
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Zachary Scharrer
A smart garment that regulates fluctuating body temperature for skiing in a new way.
Roomi is a modular children’s dollhouse designed for more imaginative play.
You’ll utilize an array of materials, tools and skills to visualize and create soft goods, consumer products, toys and cultural objects that inspire and assist people in their everyday lives. Human-centered engagement in design research – grounded in empathy – will help you understand the needs and desires of the people who use the objects you are designing. Your designs will be functional, beautiful and “feel” right. Design-thinking experiences are embedded in the design process and provide the structure for innovation.
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Above Ewelina Laczak Roomi
— Left Lance Knight 1932 VL CVO
Harley-Davidson custom vehicle operation ‘CVO’ model and colors.
— Above Benjamin Cole Wind Up
The Under Armour Wind Up is the first baseball cleat built from the ground up for pitchers. and colors.
A laundry solution for astronauts in microgravity
With a reputation recognized by global businesses in Milwaukee and beyond, you’ll participate in professional, hands-on opportunities with numerous companysponsored projects leading to a successful career in Product Design.
Carl Sabroff Orbit
MINORS
MIAD offers minors to enrich your knowledge and customize your academic journey. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your professional preparation or satisfy your curiosity between areas of study, MIAD minors bring a wholeness to your educational experience. A minor can position you to work across the college and the community, providing you exposure to outstanding facilities while sharing your passion with students from other majors.
Communication Design
Fine Art + New Studio Practice
Illustration
Interior Architecture and Design
Product Design
Arts Management
Book Art
Digital Media Production
Furniture Design
SoftGoods
CRITICAL STUDIES
Critical Studies engages you in important conversations and provides essential context for your creative practice. In writing and humanities, service learning, natural sciences, and art, design and media history courses, you’ll make connections to the world around you, helping you to understand your community and, in turn, become a part of it. Critical Studies asks you to investigate the past and present, act as creative agents and ignite your curiosity to imagine and innovate a more just world.
Art History courses are woven through your education at MIAD. Studying the history of making offers you a context for your own pursuits. Art History at MIAD looks beyond the aesthetic and function of art and design to develop an understanding of the why behind the work. These discoveries are complemented by active learning and professional experiences such as field trips and internships. MIAD’s educational partnerships with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago provide opportunities to access extensive, world-class collections of art and design in the Midwest. Art History
Humanities
Natural Sciences
Humanities is the study of what it means to be human. Courses at MIAD vary from “Queer Theory” to “Strategies for Storytelling” to “Disability Studies.” Through them you’ll enrich your awareness of the diverse forms of the human experience, which is key to a dynamic creative practice. As a creative, your influence on communities and culture can be transformative. The Humanities will enable your engagement with communities within and outside of MIAD, expand your understanding of the world and challenge you to make a difference.
Writing
Lakes, rivers, forests and prairies surround Milwaukee — they’ll be your playgrounds in the study of Natural Sciences. Here, you don’t just study, you do science: you touch, look and smell as you fully and deeply experience nature, whether that calls for drilling through the ice, wading in a river or figuring out what you see under a microscope. Natural Sciences will challenge you to go outside of your comfort zone, discover information, make sense of it, form your own thinking about it and share that information with your peers and community. The scientific method will provide a basis for your exploration and thinking in the natural sciences as you become a critical lifelong learner.
Writing at MIAD is about expression, ideation, innovation and representation of yourself and the world around you. As you learn to make meaningful decisions through language and form, you’ll take inventory of what you know, develop ideas and experience writing as a rich mode of inquiry. The Writing curriculum supports passion-led exploration of personal, creative and professional writing that speaks to the self, but also speaks to an audience and connects to the public. In your time at MIAD, you’ll become a better, more confident writer and discover the power of writing as making.
Learn more at miad.edu/criticalstudies
RESOURCES
How to Apply:
Admissions Checklist
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→ Submit your portfolio at apply.miad.edu
Application
Submit your completed online application at apply.miad.edu which includes an essay and portfolio submission. Use the essay to tell us about yourself, or to upload an artist or designer statement.
Official transcripts
Ask your high school and all post-secondary institutions attended to submit an official copy of your transcripts. If you received a high school equivalency, request your GED scores be sent from your State Board of Education. If you have earned a Bachelor's Degree, submit only a final transcript from the college where you earned your degree.
Portfolio
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Get in Touch
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Accreditation
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) is a private, nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Wisconsin for the purpose of providing a professional education to students of the visual arts and related design fields. The college offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Communication Design, Fashion and Apparel Design, Illustration, Interior Architecture and Design, New Studio Practice: Fine Arts and Product Design. MIAD is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) (info@hlcommission.org, 800.621.7440). The Wisconsin Educational Approval Board under Title 38, U.S. Code, approves the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree of MIAD for the training of veterans.
Disclaimer
The information in this catalog is subject to change at any time. It is intended to serve as a general source of information about the college and is in no way intended to state contractual terms. Accordingly, MIAD reserves the right to withdraw or change courses, academic programs and instructors, revise tuition and fees, and amend college policies.
Institutional Values Policy
All MIAD handbooks outline the standards of behavior necessary from all members of the MIAD community to ensure the college maintains and promotes its educational mission. As an academic community and institution of higher learning, MIAD has a vested interest in the safety and wellbeing of members of this community and the perpetuation of a positive educational environment. MIAD is committed to the educational and social development of its members as responsible and principled human beings. MIAD has a priority interest in promoting personal and academic integrity, respect for the rights of others, diversity, free expression of ideas, civility and the law. This community of learning is governed by standards of conduct that define acceptable behavior in both the academic and non-academic dimensions of campus life.
Land + Peoples Acknowledgment
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) occupies land on the banks of the Milwaukee River in what is presently known as Wisconsin. This land is the home of Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples, and it is the historic and present-day home of peoples who were forced by colonizers to leave their ancestral lands and migrate to and through this state. MIAD’s Acknowledgment affirms our actionable commitment to uplifting and centering Indigenous peoples and knowledge in our teaching and administration. Read our land + peoples acknowledgment at miad.edu/landacknowledgment.
Notice of Nondiscrimination in Education and Employment
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design affirms its commitment to the principles of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, handicap or disability, or veteran status. MIAD also affirms its commitment to the principle of affirmative action.
“A college like MIAD teaches students how to formulate an idea and take a blank page, for a very simple metaphor, and come out the other side with a fully completed composition. Those values are infinitely transcending … you can plug creativity into any industry.”
↳ Scott Schwebel
MIAD Trustee Emeritus
Chief Experience Officer, Milwaukee Art Museum
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In addition to technical skills, a MIAD education develops the ‘ 11 Essential Soft Skills Employers Value In 2024’
Forbes Advisor
↘ Communication, Leadership, Teamwork, Creativity, Time Management, Adaptability, Problem-Solving, Work Ethic, Critical Thinking, Conflict Management, Emotional Intelligence
