I attended the pre-college program many years ago. The environment is one of a kind and the instructors are as well. I wish I had stayed and finished my degree but I transferred to a different school. My one year there as a freshman was memorable. The pre college program gave me a good idea of what to expect as a full time student. I would suggest anyone that wants to make a career using there gifts/talents to try the school out.
Daughter transferred in as a sophomore and is very happy with the move and transition to MIAD.
Went to the senior exhibition at MIAD, loved it. Such talented students!!
This school is perfect for any artist. Remember they're not teaching how to draw and crap, you are an artist who applies with your portfolio, so if you get in you should already be a pretty well off artist. They gave me so much advice and I now know who I am as an artist. I did drop after the first year, not because it was bad but because of depression/anxiety and college was just no. I would probably wait a year after you graduate high school to rack some bucks and then go. It's great. Damn wish I could've stayed but yeah.
This is an incredibly strong school of Industrial, Communication, and Interior & Architectural Design. You will leave these programs of study ready to get an awesome job and represent yourself well.
Do not go here for anything with "studio practice" in the title. The arts program was recently assimilated into an all-in-one interdisciplinary curriculum and it is awful, specialties and focuses have been removed, and some of the staff are absolutely unprofessional jokes. Go to MIAD for design, for art, go anywhere else.
I took my daughter here for their open house this past summer. We were both highly disappointed.
We were both bored the entire time. The people who were there acted like it was the last place they wanted to be. No enthusiasm. No excitement. Watching weeds grow from a crack in the sidewalk seemed more interesting. They couldn't even give a really great reason to go to MIAD, except it had 9 beaches nearby! Most of the 6-8 noted people that had graduated from the school had merely stayed in Milwaukee to work! Wow. So, once you are in Milwaukee, you will NEVER LEAVE! I don't even think any of the faculty is over 30 years of age - at least none that I noticed.
The school looks (and is) just an old warehouse that desperatedly needs work. It has no atmosphere. Just throwing a little paint on cement does not make a great school. I've gone to an art school and this place was just dull. The building needs work. The emotions of people running the orientation were equally as so.
Also love the "Men's" toilets. For "transgendewed'. Not the women's toilets. If I felt like a woman, I couldn't use that one! Geez.
It is claimed to be a safe place. While waiting for my daughter to return from her (overlong - nearly missed lunch altogether) tour, I was approached by a panhandler at the entrance! Safety?!?
Not for my child. Not for the type of money that they want.
Try another art school.
Kristi Wood you must not have become a successful designer or artist because all of art and design is making work that is biased based off your clients opinion.
That's what they are teaching you. How to read your client.
They also do teach a lot of skills as well.
You must be the 50% that fail or drop out freshman year and never see the real value of MIAD.
Best of luck
My daughter is a freshman starting this year,2018-2019. The freshman move in and parent /member meetings and picnic was the smoothest operation I have ever seen in my life!!!
My daughter is so excited about attending this school! Her mom and I are just excited as she is! We are so glad that we chose MIAD for our daughter to go here. Amazing is all I need to to describe this school. My daughter will succeed and make something of herself at, Milwaukee Institute of ART &Design!!!!Yaaaaay!!!!! Wow!!!!
