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Chelsea Atwell<\/a> \u201911, Junior Art Director at Laughlin Constable, shared her work with her main client \u2013 Associated Bank and the current Aaron Rodgers<\/a> campaign \u2013 and said sophomore year was one of the best of her life. Having started as an Illustration major, she said switching to Communication Design was one of the best decisions of her life, and allowed her to incorporate illustration work with design work.<\/p>\n Brooklyn Henke <\/a>\u201909 is a second-year graduate student in drawing and painting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and taking courses at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences. She advised students to invest heavily in their Liberal Studies classes and said she \u201cwould have loved some of the science classes you have now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEmbrace the stuff you may think is weird,\u201d she said, and pursue internships in the fine arts, such as hers at the Milwaukee Public Museum, where she painted the mural for the museum\u2019s 125th<\/sup> Anniversary. Henke applied for graduate study after a successful year off doing commission work in murals and commercial art.<\/p>\n Max Estes<\/a> \u201999 of Oslo, Norway, writes and illustrates children\u2019s books primarily in Norway, but also for clients in the United States and France. \u201cMIAD wasn\u2019t just learning about art and design,\u201d he said. \u201cHalf the load was learning about who I was, and that has a whole lot to do with being successful as an artist and designer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBeing in a weak economy shouldn\u2019t be terrifying,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause you will make ingenious decisions, starting right where you are now. Making smart observations, and being curious, helped me build on who I wanted to be, and is one of the reasons publishers want to work with me now.\u201d<\/p>\n Following the alumni conversations, Foundations Chair Jason S. Yi encouraged sophomores to think of themselves as learners, not students, who are empowered to relish challenges and \u201cbreak things down,\u201d just as faculty do.<\/p>\n The students then participated in discussions regarding the concept of \u201cshelter\u201d as a prelude to MIAD\u2019s Shelter Event September 16 in Catalano Square.<\/p>\n The afternoon concluded with a welcome into their majors by MIAD faculty and discussion of what to look forward in the year ahead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As sophomores gathered for their Orientation September 9 at Discovery World, they were greeted to a new year of focus in their majors by faculty and three alumni who advised: Do what you enjoy as you learn more and more about yourself! Relish the year as an opportunity to make friends for life! Embrace subjects … Continue reading Sophomores Look Ahead at Orientation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sophomores](\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2011\/09\/SophsISAsmall-150x150.jpg\")
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