His businesses, which he started in 2008, have been in downtown Menomonie since 2010 and in the current space since 2016. Maraia also owns Dotz, a company that invents and develops cord and cable management products. Studio MLM is a full-service, multidisciplinary design and development company. Micah Maraia, who owns Studio MLM in the former Masonic Lodge building he owns, is a 2003 industrial design graduate. “I came to this business as an artist connected to the program. “I wanted to show students I care about them,” Mike said. The stipends are awarded based on need and merit. Students fill out a simple application, including a biography, images of their work and the names of two faculty mentors. Since 2015 the store has offered four $150 stipends each year to students as a way to give back. The store is here because UW-Stout has the biggest undergraduate art and design program in the state.” By the cash register is a Stout Proud pennant. “I don’t think we could survive without that customer. “UW-Stout is essentially the business,” Mike Tarr said. He returned to manage Penco in 2009 and bought the business in 2011. Then he earned his Master of Fine Art in painting and drawing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Mike worked there from 1996, when it was Penco, until 2007, becoming manager. Mike’s, on Main Street, is the only art and design supply business in Menomonie. Kari graduated in 2002 in graphic design and is an adjunct instructor, teaching foundation art classes. Mike graduated in studio art with an emphasis in ceramics in 1995. It was a different environment.”Īlumni Mike and Kari Tarr co-own Mike’s Art & Design Supply. “As soon as I went down the hill to campus, I was in a different place. “As soon as I went up the hill from Froggatt Hall, I was home,” she recalled. While at UW-Stout, Frank lived in the dormitories for two years and then got an apartment with friends. Those relationships expand to couples who meet at UW-Stout buying wedding bands, said Frank, a 1990 business administration graduate who has worked four decades in the family jewelry shop started by her grandfather, Nels, in 1915.įrank took over the business five years ago from her father, John, and her mother, Audrey, a 1949 UW-Stout textiles graduate. On a daily basis Anshus Jewelers, on Main Street, has university students stop in for jewelry repair or a watch battery. “Menomonie would not be Menomonie without UW-Stout,” said Lisa Anshus Frank, who owns Anshus Jewelers, which her family has operated downtown for 104 years. Many other downtown businesses are managed by or employ alumni and students. 5, will march by many of the businesses owned by alumni.Īnshus Jewelers, Studio MLM, Iris Boutique, Mike’s Art & Design Supply, Mood Boutique, the Abbey and more are businesses owned by alumni. UW-Stout’ s homecoming parade from 11 a.m. Walking in downtown Menomonie is almost like attending a UW-Stout alumni event.
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