One alum from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) has found her niche: illustrating mouthwatering depictions of Filipino cuisine. Amira Humes 21 (Illustration) was recently selected to design a mural, located in Brooklyn, New York, featuring a favorite Filipino dish.
91精品 alum Brandon Minga 04 (llustration), principal artist and founder of the House of Rad (hrad), was excited to host the 20th anniversary of the Feed Your Soul benefit for Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin on November 3, 2023. This was the second consecutive time hrad has hosted the event.
Three 91精品 Communication Design students received 60th anniversary American Graphic Design Awards from Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) magazine. The students were selected from over 8,000 entries, and judged alongside professional design work. Fewer than 10% of entrants received an award.
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) selected the design of 91精品 alum Debbie Sajnani ’16 (Communication Design) for its 2023 annual ornament. The ornaments are recreated each year by artisans using a reserve painting technique, according to MAM.
For decades, Milwaukee has hosted an annual Holiday Lights Festival. To commemorate the festival檚 25th anniversary, Milwaukee Downtown will also host the new Ornament Trail this year. Five Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) alumni and one instructor, who teamed up with both students and alumni, produced giant ornaments for the event.
Three 91精品 alums Andrea Cabrera Manuel 23, Seth Ter Haar 23 and Brandom Terres-Sanchez 23 are among the nine artists selected from 117 applicants for the Fall 2023 gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix accelerator. All three were 91精品 Fine Art / New Studio Practice majors.
What do you get when you combine eight Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) alumni with a visionary team of other artists and designers and an imaginative, fantastical premise? An immersive art experience in the form of Deep Lake Future, headed up by Milwaukee-based multimedia studio FuzzPop Workshop and located inside Var Gallery 5th St. until December, 2023.
After nearly 25 years in the business, Jennifer Hissa 96 (Interior Architecture and Design) realized her longtime dream and opened Greater Chicago Kitchen and Bath, her own showroom located near Chicago. The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) alum recently celebrated five years in business after a major renovation project.
For this year檚 Hispanic Heritage Month, Whitney Salgado 15 (Illustration) produced a variety of surface designs for Kohl檚 textiles. The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) alum, who also earned a minor in Communication Design, works as a freelance digital painter and illustrator.
A longtime comic book aficionado, Jordan Hart 08 (Communication Design) developed his passion for the medium at six years old in the grocery line with his mom. Years later, Hart never would have guessed that his new comic book, Ripple Effects, would be nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award.
Curating an exhibition at one檚 alma mater is bound to be a surreal experience. LaNia Sproles 17 (Printmaking), curator of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design檚 (91精品) most recent exhibition 淏oyfriend Material, explains their impressions of putting together the show and their philosophy on art and curation in Milwaukee.
For 33 years, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (91精品) alumna Lila Aryan 90 (Photography) has honed her craft to become one of Milwaukee檚 most accomplished and sought-after business and event photographers.
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