MIAD Happenings

“STARVED AND CURIOUS” on Mondays

An informal opportunity to recharge and get inspired. Bring a bag lunch and meet in the Todd Wehr Theater from 11:15-12:15 for the following presenters:
September 19th: Professors David Martin & Judith Harway (Lib. Studies)

October 24: Professor Jill Sebastian (Fine Arts)

November 14: Professor James Barany (Foundations)

January 23: Josie Osborne (Director of Community Outreach)

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2005/2006

Frederick Layton Gallery Exhibitions

Out of the Suitcase
The Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Fund Exhibit
August 23 - September 24

This exhibition is a selection of some of the diverse artists who have received travel awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Export Fund over the first two years of the program. In the first Suitcase cycle, fourteen artists received funds to travel to exhibitions or festivals in New York City, Los Angeles, Beijing, China, Sioux City, Iowa, Indianapolis, Indiana, Utica, New York, Park City, Utah, Schrattenberg, Austria, Beacon, New York, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Not only did the awards enable Milwaukee artists to travel to exhibition venues across the United States and abroad, they also introduced diverse audiences around the globe to the excellent work being produced by artists here in Greater Milwaukee. Curated by Mark Lawson, Director of Galleries/MIAD and Bruce Knackert, Interim Director of INOVA/UWM. A companion exhibition of work by the 2004 recipients of the Nohl Fellowships will take place at the Institute of Visual Arts, October 14-December 11, 2005.

Artists included in the exhibition: Travis Graves, Steve Hough, Ariana Hugget, Xavier LePlae, Mat Rappaport, Roy Staab, Fred Stonehouse and Rina Yoon.


New Work from the Seventh Floor Studio
October 4 - October 29

Introducing the art work from the Bayview studio where several of MIAD's most talented alums work along with several other talented young artists. The Seventh Floor Studio is an moniker for twelve emerging Milwaukee artists working in a variety of styles and media from drawing and painting to printmaking and mixed media assemblage. They're brought together by their youth, professionalism, commitment to their work, and their support for each other. This is the first group exhibition featuring the work of this dynamic group of artists.

Artists included in the exhibition: Mary Beth DiBiasio, Steven Hambsch, Susan Kriofsky, John Lech, Dorota Biczel Nelson, Keith Christopher Nelson, Michael Roberts, Paul Stoelting, Oliver Sweet, Amanda Tollefson, and Lindsey A. Wolkowicz



roll-run-hit-run roll-tick
November 11 - December 17

The renowned installation artist Jin Soo Kim brings one of her ambitious pieces to Milwaukee along with additional other work selected by the artist. Jin Soo Kim will also be producing a major public art piece in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward neighborhood. The exhibition presents a unique opportunity to view what when on behind the scenes in the creation of the public work, as well gaining a better understanding of the artist by viewing other works from her repertoire.

Diaspora and the Search for Resolution
January 17 - March 25 (dates for three part series)

These three exhibits and related programming are the inaugural segment of an ongoing annual exhibition program entitled "Culture in Transition". This annual series will focus on the diverse aspects of the rapid changes occurring in global culture. Such topics as traditional ideas reinterpreted in contemporary forms, digital media's impact on visual arts and design, sub-cultures and their relationship to the dominant culture, are but a few of the future topics under consideration. As a primary educational resource for new generations of visually creative individuals in the state, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is committed to the exposition of critical issues in contemporary art and design. This series will provide an excellent vehicle for critical discourse on a diverse array of relevant cultural issues.

1. Liberation, Tradition and Meaning/Women on the Edge of Culture
January 17 - February 11

One of the greatest current challenges to humanity in the 21st century is the conflict of values and perceptions between western, Eurocentric and primarily Christian countries, and the middle-eastern, Islamic-oriented world. It is a complex collision of cultures that seem to exist in different eras, that have differing relationships to their religious underpinnings, and differing definitions of individualism and freedom. Through an exhibition titled Liberation, Tradition and Meaning/ Women on the Edge of Culture, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design will provide a visual forum about this collision of culture as experienced through a group of women artists of middle-eastern descent. The exhibition, artist visits and public presentations will serve as a catalyst for communication between cultures, encouraging dialogue and providing an opportunity for greater understanding, appreciation and respect. Among the artists in the exhibit is MIAD faculty member Fahimeh Vahdat, along with Zineb Sidera (London), Lida Abdul (Los Angeles) and Taraneh Hemami (San Francisco).


2. "The Beast is waiting…"
February 28 - March 25

Waldek Dynerman was educated as a painter at the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy but has since expanded his work to disciplines such as drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and very recently photography and video. His shifts between the disciplines is driven by the content resulting in work done in different media which compliments and informs each other with surprising cohesiveness. Amidst the several layers of content is a sense of sadness and sometimes despair possibly arising from his families history of war and survival during World War II in Poland. His immigration to America deepened the sense of loss and displacement. Even though dark in its core, Dynerman's work always contains an element of playful irony, and a hope for some level of positve resolution.

3. TBA (work in progress/negotiating the showing of a selection form a little known local collection of German Expressionist works/to be show concurrently with "the Beast is waiting".)

Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 21 - May 14

Innovative and insightful, MIAD’s Senior Thesis Exhibitions offer a glimpse of the next generation of artists and designers. Works in a wide variety of media and approaches to art and design will be presented by seniors from all of MIAD's nine majors. This annual event has become one of the most exciting exhibitions of the spring season.