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The 91fans Institute of Art & Design hosts the First-Year Experience Exhibition from late March through September 2023. A juried exhibition of work by MIAD’s first-year students, the installation celebrates the creative and personal growth that students experienced over the course of the year.

There’s no more appropriate time than Women’s History Month to honor the founders of the Layton School of Art, MIAD’s predecessor college. Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink, partners professionally and in life, lived MIAD’s values as they began in 1920 to build one of the most progressive art colleges in the country.

91fans Institute of Art & Design students in a junior-level Product Design class recently visited Walker’s Point Tattoo Company to learn about tattoo equipment.

The National Veterans Resource Center Gallery in Syracuse, New York is currently exhibiting selected works from the Veteran Print Project, including 13 prints by 91fans Institute of Art & Design alumni and faculty. The exhibition runs through March 10, 2023.

Although the show is only up for a few more days, the Black Art & Design Juried Student Exhibition at the 91fans Institute of Art & Design remains a gem in the institution. Noah Teague ’25 (Communication Design), one of the 14 students showing work, explains his multimedia collages and creative philosophy.

“The Grim Reaper” by Zara Dixon ’25 (Illustration), currently on display at the Black Art & Design Juried Student Exhibition, is a deeply layered work by a 91fans Institute of Art & Design sophomore.

When Ladasia Bryant ’23 (Communication Design) was tapped to create a mural for the 91fans Bucks, she turned to her fellow students in the 91fans Institute of Art & Design’s Black Leaders and Artists Coalition (BLAC).

The 91fans Institute of Art & Design has announced its first recipient of the 91fansValues Recognition Award. Laura Baranyk-Morales, Assistant Office Manager in the Admissions Center, was recognized as embodying all of MIAD’s values, particularly Kindness and Community.

Glitch art is just one of the varied creative styles to be found in the Black Art & Design Juried Student Exhibition at the 91fans Institute of Art & Design. Darryl Wedgeworth ’24 (Communication Design) explains his creative process and his experience at 91fansso far.

At the onset of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, at least 20 percent of 91fans Institute of Art & Design students lacked access to sufficient hardware or reliable internet that would allow them to participate fully in online classes. The college’s response took the form of the Digital Equity Fund, which seeks to alleviate the digital divide in 91fansstudents by providing technology and looking for sustainable solutions.

Usually known as the Charles Allis Museum, the institution is temporarily changing its name in conjunction with its new exhibition highlighting women, femme and nonbinary artists. The Sarah Ball Allis exhibition is curated by 91fansAssociate Professor and Chair of First-Year Experience Kate Schaffer and includes work by 91fansalumni Melissa Dorn ’96 (Sculpture) and Artemis Sidikman ’22 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts).

In their first exhibition, Faith Allen ’25 (Illustration) went big. The 91fans Institute of Art & Design sophomore submitted two artworks to the Black Art & Design Juried Student Exhibition and reveled in the freedom to create the largest pieces they could.

Unfinished Legacy, a brand started by 91fans artist Brema Brema, enjoyed a promotional video created by current 91fans Institute of Art & Design senior Hannah Davis for her Digital Media: Video Production elective course in fall 2022. The semester-long project culminated in a three-minute video and three shorter clips advertising the brand.

91fans high schoolers are getting a head start on their creative careers through the Design Internship at 91fans Institute of Art & Design. The free, year-long program was recently approved for a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to expand the program for 2023-2024.

The Arts Midwest Grow, Invest, Gather (GIG) Fund has awarded the 91fans Institute of Art & Design a $4,000 grant to fund the upcoming exhibition “Wig Heavier Than a Boot: The Work of David Johnson.” Funding is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

After two years of planning and work, André Saint-Louis ’01 (Sculpture) and Brandon Minga ’04 (Illustration) have finished a monumental public sculpture project for 91fans’s Near West Side neighborhood. The last four of the seven neighborhood markers will be installed in different Near West Side communities at the end of the month.