2022 MIAD Prints Participating Artists

Adriana Barrios is a queer, biracial, Latina artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from The...

Bob Erickson's work has been shown nationally and internationally at North, Gail Art Museum, Gapyeoung, South Korea; Rita Wobbe & Bob Erickson, Rock and Water. Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland; Art in Isolation: Printmaking in the Rural...

Jonathan Higgins was born in Oakland, CA in 1962. He earned a BA in Art from Humboldt State University in 1987, and an MA in Art from New York University in 1992. Higgins’ work has focused primarily in printmaking, and more recently in metalpoint drawing. Higgins’...

Mutópe Johnson's educational background includes a MFA degree from the UW-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts, and a BFA degree from the UW-Whitewater – Art & Design Department. Mutópe is a Milwaukee based visual artist, who’s body of work is best known for...

Deborah Jojola explores the unique position held by Native women artist as essential keepers of tradition and cultural identity. Deborah introduces innovations in subject, form and techniques, while connecting and utilizing centuries-old art forms. Her focus in...

Ina Kaur engages with materials and communities to make artwork and connections. She is trained as a printmaker and over time her practice continues to explore mark-making to expand the material boundaries. The pluralistic approach of making impressions and objects,...

For over fifty years I have been a working/exhibiting artist using my hands as my primary tools.  You might call the work a kind of slow improvisation.  Rather than seeing a totally finished piece in my mind, it unfolds under my hands during the process of making. I...

Francisco Xavier Mora was born in Mexico City in 1952. Mora works as an artist, author and illustrator. Son of Luis Mora, an Artist and an art teacher at the National Academy, and Luz Paz, a wonderful storyteller. Studied art at La Esmeralda and the Escuela Popular de...

An award-winning artist, teacher and strategist, Jeffrey Morin brings 35 years of higher education experience as the president of MIAD. His breadth of expertise includes strategic planning, equity and access, marketing, fundraising, curriculum development, and...

Nirmal Raja is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Milwaukee, She had lived in India, South Korea, and Hong Kong before immigrating to the United States thirty years ago. She holds a BA in English Literature from St. Francis College in Hyderabad, India;...

Sarah Smelser has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center; Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and Tamarind Institute. Shas had...

Fahimeh Vahdat is an Iranian American installation and performance artist living in the greater Baltimore/DC region. Vahdat’s work focuses on women/human rights violations and prison system in the Middle East and the USA. Vahdat’s mixed media installations use wooden...