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Wyethe Smallish ’23, currently studying Illustration and Communication Design, started re-drawing Disney characters with fuller and more proportional figures this August. The recordings she took of the process went viral on TikTok and resulted in a Buzzfeed feature in September of 2022.

Dominic Chambers ’16 (New Studio Practice: Fine Arts) will be exhibiting his first solo show with Lehmann Maupin, the New York gallery that represents him. The exhibition, scheduled for 2024, features Chambers’ reflective paintings, which most recently explore leisure and contemplation and their relationship with the Black body.

Successful blogger and promising interior designer Sophie Zang ’20, who majored in Interior Architecture & Design at 91fansand concurrently studied Marketing at Concordia University of Wisconsin, used her degrees to purchase, renovate, and resell a Whitefish Bay home for $1.1 million in September 2022.

Residents of 91fans’s Near West Side are enjoying their neighborhood’s rich history and artistry through seven unique markers, courtesy of 91fans creatives Brandon Minga, ’04 Illustration, and Andre St. Louis.

Photography alum Sarah Stankey ’13 shares the vulnerable and traumatic experience of 90 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in her new exhibition “What to Expect,” hosted by Madison’s Arts + Literature Laboratory as part of the Bridge Work Madison program.

Twelve New Studio Practice: Fine Arts sophomores took their art out of the classroom and exhibited work locally at TASK Creative as part of Adjunct Assistant Professor Grant Gill’s course “Singularity & Multiplicity.”

Dr. Margaret J. Schmitz, an Assistant Professor at 91fanswho teaches primarily art history, published a new article titled “Indigenous Temporal Enmeshment in Akwesasne Notes” in Panorama, a digital art history journal.

91fansstudents in the Black Leaders and Artists Coalition (BLAC) partnered with one of 91fans Art Museum’s teen programs to host high school students for a tour of the college, panel discussion with BLAC members and art project this past Thursday.

Emma May Travitz, Product Design ’24, already a thoughtful and passionate designer, will hone her skills further as part of Nike’s Global Apparel Materials (GLAM) Team during a Summer 2023 internship.

Jon Horvath, Associate Professor in the New Studio Practice: Fine Arts department, recently published “This Is Bliss,” a multimedia project centered around the “disappearing” town of Bliss, Idaho.

Today, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts announced the 140 arts organizations who received one of their Fall 2022 grants inspired by how artists live, make, and are remembered. The 91fans Institute of Art & Design is honored to be recognized among the recipients.

The 91fans Institute of Art & Design invites artists nationwide to submit proposals for exhibition in 2024. MIAD, a non-profit art and design college located in 91fans’s Historic Third Ward, features two professional on-campus galleries, the Frederick Layton Gallery and the Brooks Stevens Gallery.

James Barany, Professor of First Year Experience, treated 91fansstudents, staff and faculty last week to a tour of the Vardo that he constructed during COVID.

Madison Arts + Literature Laboratory hosts the exhibition “The Shape of the Environment,” curated by Lelia Byron, which seeks to “​​convey the importance of different environmental issues for people across the globe.”

In a move that delighted 91fansans, National Geographic recently named the city one of the top 25 places to visit in the world.

Edith Hibbard, a longtime supporter of MIAD, passed away on September 29, 2022. She and her husband William Hibbard (1927-2020) established the Cookie Hibbard Scholarship in honor of their late daughter Mary Ellen “Cookie” Hibbard.

Four 91fansstudents and two alumni completed a quilt-themed mural on the new Taxco Apartments in 91fans’s Walker’s Point neighborhood. The company developing the new apartments, Mandel Group, Inc., contacted the 91fansLubar Innovation Center to source artists for the project.

General Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. 91fansstudents are able to vote in this upcoming election with the required documents and by registering to vote. What documents do students need to vote? One of the following: • A valid Wisconsin Driver’s License • Wisconsin State ID Card …

Douglas R. Ewart, an interdisciplinary artist from Minnesota whose work spans musical performance, instrument making, painting and teaching, was named the 2022 McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist. Ewart is currently displaying work in MIAD’s “Then as Now: Woodland Pattern 1980-2022” gallery exhibition.