Pre-College Programs

From Scholarship Portfolio Classes to college-level weekend and summer instruction, MIAD’s Pre-College program is devoted to developing high school students’ artistic skills and preparing them for an art and design college.

Scholarship Portfolio Classes
Weekend Pre-College
Summer Pre-College

View work by previous Pre-College students

A group of students sits in a cafe sketching
A student photographs another student leaning against a railing next to the mouth of the Milwaukee river
A student paints on an easel
A bulletin board of small artworks
Illustration of a figure with an afro shouting into a megaphone. Blue hands appear in the image.
A student hangs paintings on the wall
A student bends to photograph a log in a forest

Thank you to our sponsors! 

Presented by Associated Bank

Donald & Donna Baumgartner

Joan and Fred Brengel Family Foundation, Inc.

Francie Luke Silverman Foundation

The Gardner Foundation

Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation, Inc.

Heil Family Foundation

Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation

Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation

Stephens Family Foundation, Inc.

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction