Monica Miller (she/they) | Director of Galleries and Community Engagement

As an artist/cultural producer, Monica brings extensive experience in gallery and public art curation and management; professional development, including the MARNsalons program (2013-2019); creative entrepreneurship; marketing and sales; and events. Monica has national and international experience with production and conceptual support for creatives and non-profits, including digital cultural production. Monica also is an adjunct faculty member at MIAD in New Studio Practice: Fine Arts teaching Sophomore and Junior Seminar.

Monica says their passion “is to bring creatives together,” and their “practice is driven by the accessibility and creation of equitable, collaborative environments for artists.”

In addition to managing MIAD Gallery at The Ave, Monica also will oversee exhibitions in the River Level Under the Stairs and 1st Floor Community Hub (Room 160) spaces. They will work collaboratively with an Advisory Committee composed of faculty, staff, alumni and other community members.

Contact: galleryattheave@miad.edu | (414) 847-3208

Leah Good (she/her) | Collaboration & Community Specialist :: Galleries Generalist

Leah Good is a graduate of MIAD’s Communication Design program including an influential semester of international study at Leiden University in Leiden, the Netherlands. Leah’s 21 years of professional design and production practice centers on brand and identity development, advertising campaigns, catalogue design, environmental design, package design, and typography. She began teaching at MIAD in 2016, earning Associate Professor teaching full time in the Communication Design and First Year Experience programs. As a Community Collaboration Specialist+Galleries Generalist, she also works closely with MIAD’s Youth+Community Outreach programs Future Creatives and Design Internship programs working with high school art programs in the Milwaukee area, and Make! Design a program working with national high school art teachers, as well as working with MIAD’s Innovation Center and co-founder of MIAD’s Typography Union.

Leah’s passion is to enable student potential and growth as an artist/designer, as creative engineers; for students to fully explore art & design hands on, develop ideation and research processes and practices and translate that into thoroughly communicated, unique visual design. She enjoys working with faculty and students, interdisciplinary educating and believes strongly in collaborative teaching methods and constant communication.

Contact: leahgood@miad.edu 

Delaney Regan (she/her) | Gallery Assistant

Delaney Regan is a current senior at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in the Communication Design department. Her design work has included projects with the Harley Davidson Museum and SC Johnson, with a range of medium and forms. She loves doing whatever is best for the project, especially when it requires learning an entirely new process or getting her hands dirty! She also has a great passion for the Milwaukee creative community as she’s from the area and above all else is a lover of art.

View Delaney Regan’s work: https://delaneyregandesigns.cargo.site/

Lauren Martin (she/her) | Gallery Assistant

Lauren Martin is a current Fine Arts and New Studio Practice junior at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is a Milwaukee-based artist whose work aims to close gaps between the digital world and physical spaces, focusing on childhood nostalgia and celebration of internet culture. She has a passion for art installation and curation, with the belief that art should be public and accessible to everyone.

Kennedy Gerber (she/her) | Gallery Assistant

Kennedy Gerber is a current student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design studying Fine Arts + New Studio Practice, planning to graduate in 2026. Hailing from the Northern Suburbs of Chicago, she utilizes her personal experience of growing up in a multi-faith household, to retell old stories into new adventures. Using her illustrative style and imagination to tell comical compelling stories through comics, drawings, and wood carvings.