Interior Design News

Students Take On NARI 2012 Show
February 2012 -- The Interior Design Students take their skills to the NARI Home Improvement Show once again participating in the Interior Design Showcase with a student designed and fabricated booth. The show runs February 9-12 at the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds Expo Center. See more images from the Interior Design Department.

Interior Design Student Work Featured on Fox 6 Real Milwaukee
March 2011 -- The renovation work done at Lissy's Place by Mount Mary College Interior Design students was featured on Real Milwaukee, Monday, March 21. See Real Milwaukee on WITI-TV, Fox 6.
See photos on Flickr.

Past news -

Interior Design students compete at NARI Home Improvement Show
February 2011 -- About 20 Interior Design students designed, painted and laid flooring in a sample room on display during the Milwaukee NARI (National Association of Remodeling Industry) Home Improvement Show held February 10-13 at the the State Fair Park. Students from four area colleges entered designs in this year's competition. Read the article from JSOnline.

Faculty Member Named to List of Forty under 40
January 2011 -- Leona Knobloch-Nelson, Interior Design department chairperson, was named to the the Forty under 40 list by the Business Journal. The list highlights Milwaukee's future leaders.

• See the Forty under 40 website.
• Read the release.

Students in the news

• Mount Mary student, Angela Lynch, talks about her decision to pursue a degree in Interior Design in an interview with Plinth & Chintz.
• Jessica Bertrand, a Mount Mary College Interior Design student, is highlighted in the October edition of Milwaukee Spec News, the official newsletter of the Construction Specifications Institute.

ASIA/IIDA members participated in the ASID Wisconsin Chapter Sustainable Challenge redesign of a dorm room at the Salvation Army Lodge. The Mount Mary Student Chapter received the Sustainable Challenge Award and completed the project under budget.
See photos from the project on Flickr.