CREATIVE ARTS PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION
The intersection of art and technology.
Discover emerging designers from MATC presenting thoughtful, bold, and human-centered work across disciplines.
About the event
A hub for emerging creative talent
Create the Spark brings together MATC’s creative programs, showcasing student work across design, media, and technology. Discover the ideas, tools, and talent shaping Milwaukee’s creative future.
PROGRAMS
Explore 12+ creative career pathways
Discover the disciplines shaping the future of creative work at MATC.
Web and Digital Media Design
MATC’s coursework in interface design, responsive web design, user experience, and website development through coding with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, etc., offer a comprehensive background in web design and front-end web development.
Skills in web design, front-end web development and user experience are in demand and are projected to grow in the next decade.
Graphic Design
You will be introduced to the range of opportunities in this field: design of print-generated and computer-generated graphics for books, newspapers, magazines, web applications and marketing materials; and additional design applications for point-of-purchase, packaging and outdoor advertising.
Today’s digital world reduces the geographic limits for finding clients. Employers include advertising agencies, corporations and nonprofit groups.
Photography
Use professional equipment and methods to master the skills necessary for this highly visual, creative and exacting profession. MATC’s laboratory/studio areas have state-of-the-art traditional and digital cameras, lighting, processing and finishing equipment. Program requirements include an internship for real-world experience.
Photographers work in advertising, photojournalism, and industrial and portrait photography. Employment opportunities also include equipment sales.
Television and Video Production
Prepare for a career in the production, operation and programming areas of broadcast television, cable, or corporate and commercial video. You will gain hands-on experience in the high-definition studios of Milwaukee PBS, a leader in HDTV production.
Graduates have an excellent entry-level employment history in a competitive field. Potential employers are TV stations, cable systems, advertising agencies, private industry, educational institutions and video production houses.
Interior Design
Interior designers use creativity, technical knowledge, and aesthetics to create solutions that improve the function and quality of interior environments. Coursework includes manual and computer-aided design (CAD) drawing, and commercial and residential planning.
Demand for interior designers is strongest in kitchen and bath design and remodeling, and in corporate and industrial facilities design.
Digital Content Creation
To begin a career in producing on-demand visual media content, this degree prepares you to distribute high-quality video content for the internet, smartphones and other interactive technologies. You will learn how to acquire, edit and recode media for multiple delivery platforms, and gain hands-on experience at Milwaukee PBS studios.
Electronic production of on-demand content is growing as businesses strive to reach consumers via new technologies.
Computer Simulation and Gaming
Prepare for a career in animation and gaming, plus attain skills transferable to other industries such as computer programming, multimedia development and film production. Students have opportunities to focus on game design or programming.
Testers, designers and producers are in demand as the use of this technology increases rapidly. New games are continually in production, and computer simulations are used as educational and training tools in schools and businesses.
Animation
MATC’s unique facilities and the program’s innovative curriculum offer a comprehensive background in animation. Students have opportunities to learn about 2D animation and 3D animation. Portfolio reviews in several courses are designed to assist you in compiling work samples to show employers.
From visualization of architectural spaces to video games to effects in movies, animation is expanding
Audio Production
Combining creative and practical aspects of sound and music, this program prepares you to enter the audio engineering field. Coursework covers working with live and recorded sound to provide more employment options.
The explosion of social media and web use for independent artists, plus the increase in affordable digital audio workstations, present opportunities for audio engineers.
Baking and Pastry Arts
Learn techniques of producing artisan breads, pastries, celebration cakes, confections and showpieces. You will have the opportunity to learn firsthand how to run a successful bakery/café operation from the front and back of the house.
Employment in the food preparation sector is expected to increase throughout the United States, including a growing demand for specialty products.
Culinary Arts
This program fuses the art and science of cooking with an introduction to business management. You will learn how to run a food-service operation by participating in the on-campus Cuisine restaurant, International Foods lunch service, and business and industry kitchens.
Graduates typically are employed as cooks and management trainees.
TALENT SHOWCASE
Meet the graduating talent of 2026
Explore portfolio websites from graduating students across MATC’s creative programs. Discover new voices, fresh ideas, and work shaped by art, technology, and industry.
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