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GDUSA selects 91��ɫ Students to Watch 2026

Mar 9, 2026

GDUSA selects 91��ɫ Students to Watch 2026
Communication Design senior Olivia Nava �26 and junior Nola Hennen �27 were named 2026 Students to Watch by Graphic Design USA magazine (GDUSA).

91��ɫ student awarded 1st Place at NARI Student Design Competition

Mar 8, 2026

91��ɫ Values Recognition Award: Leslie Fedorchuk

Feb 27, 2026

Leslie Fedorchuk, Professor of Writing & Humanities and Director of Service Learning, received the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ) 91��ɫ Values Recognition Award for February 2026. Leslie received nominations that highlighted her embodiment of 91��ɫ’s Core Values, especially Integrity, Kindness and Community.

91��ɫ Innovation Center and MAM provide career experience

Feb 26, 2026

Through a partnership with the 91��ɫ Lubar Innovation Center, stunning campaign artwork by a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ) once again is helping to launch Art in Bloom � the Milwaukee Art Museum�s annual celebration of art and spring. Illustrations by senior Emily Porven �26 are both vibrant and subtle, colorful and evocative, capturing the essence of the event.

Nohl Alumni Award propels lasting impact for 91��ɫ professor

Feb 24, 2026

Receiving a Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award has both immediate and longer-term impacts for Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Professor Jon Horvath; for himself as an artist, for the arts community and for 91��ɫ students. Horvath, who teaches in 91��ɫ�s Fine Art + New Studio Practice major, was one of three artists and one collective recently given the award, which provides $25,000 in unrestricted funds to each.

Arts education lays groundwork for 91��ɫ alum curatorial role

Feb 17, 2026

Nikki Ranney �22 (Illustration), the new curator of the Cedarburg Art Museum, says she �is so grateful that I went through my Bachelor of Fine Arts and got to experience a traditional art education at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design because it laid the groundwork for the more academic side of the curatorial field.�

Museum Studies class: Hands-on exhibition and career experience

Feb 10, 2026

Last fall�s Museum Studies class at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ) has solidified a career choice for at least one of the 16 students who took it. The class was on the go all semester, visiting museums throughout Milwaukee, meeting with professionals and thinking critically about the role of museums in our society.

Jodi Eastberg: 91��ɫ Vice President for Academic Affairs

Feb 10, 2026

Meet Jodi Eastberg, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ)! Dr. Eastberg discusses her vision for 91��ɫ, her experience at the college so far, and some welcome surprises about working in Milwaukee�s Historic Third Ward neighborhood.

Haggerty Museum of Art features work by 91��ɫ Fine Art professor

Feb 6, 2026

A towering column of life-size red-crowned cranes molded out of mulberry pulp has visitors to the Haggerty Museum of Art craning their necks to take in the sculpture. Work by Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ) Professor Jason S. Yi is featured as part of the Haggerty Museum�s exhibition �This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg�s “Stoned Moon” in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi.�

91��ɫ Future Creatives supports high school students and educators

Jan 26, 2026

Digital design students at Franklin High School say their class project through the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design�s Future Creatives program provided new skills in teamwork while increasing their awareness of career pathways in design.

91��ɫ professor, alum named 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fellows

Jan 21, 2026

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91��ɫ) Communication Design professor Laura Farahzad Mayer and alum Nomka Enkhee �25 (Fine Art + New Studio Practice) each received one of five Mary L. Nohl Fellowships for 2026. The recipients of emerging artist awards, Farahzad Mayer and Enkhee were selected from among 168 applicants.

91��ɫ Independent Inquiry Program: Building knowledge, confidence

Jan 13, 2026

From a Fine Art major to Illustration, Communication Design and Product Design � first-year student to senior � participants in the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design�s Independent Inquiry Program say they are building both knowledge and self-confidence.