Congratulations on winning the Illustration Scholarship/ Spring 2026 and best wishes ongoing to: Rachel McNeilly, a Junior Illustration and Business major attending the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Marquette University. “While studying illustration, I have become increasingly interested in book illustration, product design, and visual development. Teaching art at a college level has […]

Congratulations on receiving an Illustration Honorable Mention/ Spring 2026 and best wishes ongoing to: Lauren Abraham, a Sophomore Illustration major with Animation Track at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. “Once I graduate from MIAD, I aspire to work my way into the film industry. Ever since I decided to pursue a career in […]

Congratulations on receiving an Illustration Honorable Mention/ Spring 2026 and best wishes ongoing to: Kaitlyn Powers, a Senior Illustration major  at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. “When I was first exposed to watercolor, I realized it was the tool I was missing to play with the language of transparency, fluidity, and motion…. In the […]

Congratulations on winning the Fine Art Scholarship/ Fall 2025 and best wishes ongoing to: SHINEY YOU, a Sophomore majoring in Studio Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago “I was first introduced to watercolor from Mrs. Anderson’s art class in elementary school. Something about the way pigment dissolved into water and flowed across the […]

Congratulations on receiving a Fine Art Honorable Mention/ Fall 2025 and best wishes ongoing to: KAITLYN STANTON, a Senior majoring in Illustration and minoring in art history at the Rhode Island School of Design “Everywhere I go, I carry a sketchbook and draw from life in order to record and understand my surroundings. Some of my current […]

Congratulations on receiving a Fine Art Honorable Mention/ Fall 2025 and best wishes ongoing to: TAYLOR ZIESMER, a Freshman Visual Arts major at Covenant College Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist is to describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create a new paradigm for the future. –Anne Bogart ”Re-describing […]