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Seniors at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design showcase final projects

MILWAUKEE — It’s almost time for graduation at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Which means their final projects are now on display.

Dozens of students at the are showcasing their final thesis projects, putting a year’s worth of work on display. For the past year, senior Kristin Quintanilla has been working on an app prototype for her senior thesis project to highlight all things sustainable.

“Essentially, the app is going to track your carbon footprint in lots of cities across the U.S,” Quintanilla said.

She spent this year putting together a way to use the things you buy to see your carbon footprint in your city. You can track and manage how much you are doing.

“Essentially, you would be tracking your buying habits. So you would be able to scan receipts, cash purchases, your weekly waste and they would be put into these specific categories, essentially things that make up your carbon footprint,” Quintanilla said.

She’s just one of dozens of students who are showcasing their work these next few weeks before graduation. Griffin McDermott will also graduate soon. He made an app prototype to solve a problem he found himself having as a freelancer.

“This is an organization app designed for freelancers where you can track your projects and track anything you need to track as a freelancer that you don’t get at a traditional job,” McDermott said.

It’s been a lot of work, but something McDermott is proud of. In the next few weeks, he will be the first in his family to graduate college and it’s something he is extremely excited about.

“I’m very proud,” McDermott said. “Just overall grateful and relieved and proud.”

Proud is something that Quintanilla said she is feeling too, after putting in countless hours to showcase her work.

“I’m proud of myself, honestly and relieved," Quintanilla said. said. "It was such a long process, and it’s nice to see it come to fruition."

The two are excited to wrap up their college careers by showing off bits and pieces of their education for all to see.

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MIAD Senior Thesis 2023

Melvin Hood

Contributors

Drew Maxwell

Ben Dembroski

Justice Hunter

This page is better viewed on desktop! Hi, this is Melvin! It has been my pleasure to spend four years at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and be able to learn and improve my skills. The following designs you are about to see are the culmination of years of hard work and education that I am certainly proud of! Hope you like it!

Design in the name of better storytelling.

I built a website that can be built into future extension of my studio with a little code. .

Learned to design and rig characters for animation.

Created a business model that sustains itself and is profitable. 

Used gpt-3 in several of my own films to prove the concept of scriptflow.

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What you need to know about the 2021 MIAD Senior Exhibition

Every year, the MIAD Senior Exhibition showcases the culminating work of MIAD graduating seniors. Using their creative problem-solving skills, technology expertise and innovation, students in all academic majors create work that addresses different challenges. 

Each academic major approaches the Senior Exhibition/Senior Thesis differently. Students in Communication Design, Product Design, New Studio Practice: Fine Arts and Interior Architecture and Design have already begun working on their senior thesis projects. For example, Communication Design students have already picked their topics and are moving into the research phase of their projects. Illustration students start on their projects in the spring semester. 

Seniors work with a select group of professionals throughout the entire process, in addition to their senior thesis faculty. They meet periodically to provide in-depth, graduate-level critique, feedback and support. 

The cost of each project varies depending on the major and project. Students have the choice of determining what materials they need for their project.

Estimated thesis project costs for each major: 

• Communication Design: Average $350 (Ranges from $250-$850) 
• Illustration: Average $500 (Ranges from $250-$1,000) 
• Interior Architecture and Design: Average $200 (Ranges $250-$350)
• New Studio Practice: Fine Arts: Average $500 (Ranges $100-$1,000)
• Product Design: Average $1,500 (Ranges from $1,000-$2,000)

The decision of whether the MIAD 2021 Senior Exhibition will be in-person or virtual will be determined at a later date.

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Celebrating 50 years of art & design education.

The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) proudly celebrates 50 years of art and design education in 2024, and boldly looks to a shared creative future of innovation and service with our students, our Greater Milwaukee community, and beyond.

Senior Exhibition

April 19 – May 11, 2024 | MIAD Preview Night: April 17, 2024 

Creative Fusion

May 4, 2024 | MIAD Tickets on sale March 1, 2024

1974 – Present

Our history, miad founded.

MIAD is founded, born from the nationally acclaimed Layton School of Art (est. 1920) and the forward-thinking legacy of its founders , life partners Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink .

MIAD moves to current building

MIAD moves to its current Third Ward location at 273 E. Erie St. Admissions gave hardhat tours during construction of the new building. 

MIAD logo created

MIAD’s current logo is created by designers Chermayeff & Geismar.

Enrollment increases

Enrollment increases 50%, reaching 920 students.

Equity & Inclusion

Equity & Inclusion Center opens.

Present day

The college completes its $10 million Our Creative Future campaign, Fashion and Apparel Design major launches, MIAD Gallery at The Ave opens, enrollment holds strong at 877; first year-retention is 86%

MIAD Senior Thesis 2023

Melvin Hood

Contributors

Drew Maxwell

Ben Dembroski

Justice Hunter

This page is better viewed on desktop! Hi, this is Melvin, owner of Fluid Script Studio. Here at FSS we care deeply about good design. It has been my pleasure to spend four years at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and be able to learn and improve my skills. The following designs you are about to see are the culmination of years of hard work and education that I am certainly proud of! Hope you like it!

Design in the name of better storytelling.

I built a website that can be built into future extension of my studio with a little code. .

Learned to design and rig characters for animation.

Created a business model that sustains itself and is profitable. 

Used gpt-3 in several of my own films to prove the concept of scriptflow.

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Senior Thesis 2023

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Senior Students on Display @ MIAD

MIAD 2011 Senior Thesis Exhibition

by Shepherd Express Staff

Apr. 26, 2011

May brings graduation day for multiple students, especially for the over 120 students at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) in the “MIAD 2011 Senior Thesis Exhibition,” which opened spring Gallery Night in April. The exhibition fills every gallery space in MIAD’s building on 273 East Erie Street and always requires more than one visit to properly view the seniors’ work. If there’s only a short time to attend the exhibition, the lobby and river level galleries give ample choices. MIAD students display work in various majors, or disciplines, ranging from pure fine art including drawing, painting, and sculpture to the Industrial and Interior Architecture Design projects. Often double areas of expertise interest a student , enhance another major and expand the career choices after graduation. In the first floor lobby, Kaycie Dunlap majors in Time Based Media and Animation. Her 2011 thesis presented a lively version to the very scientific Periodic Table of Elements, or what she titled “Elements in Character Design.” For her project Dunlap rendered each element in an appropriate color with a human figure depicting an element’s attribute. For element #1, Hydrogen, a tiny blue swirl encapsulated a child like person with the tag line, “Hydrogen is the smallest, lightest, and most abundant element in the universe.” Carbon’s illustration depicted a angular female figure that transitioned into three textures, with the face and one outstretched arm resembling a crystal because, as Dunlap wrote, “Carbon can take the form of charcoal, graphite and diamonds.” Another more obscure element, Tantalum (#73), claims to “be named after a Greek God taunted by food he could not reach.” A wizened man waits under a fruit branch in this picture, and through these emotive figures and table square format a visual learner could connect these fascinating personas to scientific facts. Dunlap demonstrates a very practical application to her major. Two other seniors exhibiting in the river level lobby offer an interesting take on photography. Mandie Lousier offers an exhibition “from me to you” with tiny images,two by three inches in a wallet size, of black and white photos lined along a shelf on the wall. Variations to the matte gradations in gray, from fog white to charred black, portray Lousier’s observations on the common, mundane occurrences in life from distorted perspectives or viewpoints. The miniature scale focuses the viewer’s attention to study the forgotten and overlooked through day or night, including a cup of cocoa from a bird’s eye view or a misty evening snow scene. How finite and small human life can be while remaining grand in artistic value. Lousier’s art journals and small books reflect poetic comments to these prints for perusing on shelves underneath the photos. Aimee Kiel's thesis may be out of sight, missed, with her image tucked in a darkened room on the river level, a curtain drawn in front of the door. The abstract photo appears to recall a field of long grass or grain wavering in the wind while light dances across the black and white image appearing to make it actually move, all surrounded by an ornate golden frame. Her imaginative installation leaves no clues to how the effect might be created (video over print, light shining on print) although the effect hypnotizes those person entering with a peaceful countenance. These three artists exemplify only a few selections from the expansive exhibition, which also occupies a large fourth floor MIAD gallery and three galleries on the river level. Takes some time before May 14 to discover MIAD's wonders, in its quality facilities and the seniors that worked so hard the past years to complete their thesis for their entry into the real work-a-day world.

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