Madison College Alum Wins Prestigious Award

Madison College Alum Wins Prestigious Award
WKOWTV.COM
Posted Nov. 16, 2009

MADISON (WKOW) -- A Madison Area Technical College graduate has won a prestigious award for his work on a special animated video of Frank Lloyd’s Wright’s Taliesin home in Spring Green.

The following is a release from Madison College (formerly known as MATC).

Mark Schmitz has been awarded the 2009 Wisconsin Technical College Boards Association Distinguished Alumni Award.

Schmitz, the principal and creative director of ZD Studios in Madison, graduated from Madison Area Technical College in 1986 with an Associate Degree in Commercial Art.

The Distinguished Alumni award is based on a number of criteria:

• the role a technical college education played in the recipient’s career and personal life

• the nominee’s accomplishments in his/her professional field

• the nominee’s community involvement

• support for the technical college system

• nominee’s commitment to continuing education and lifelong learning

Schmitz worked with Madison College students to create a special animated video of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Taliesin home in Spring Green. The video was included in the recent 50th anniversary celebration of Wright’s famed Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The project represented the largest in-kind donation in the Madison College Foundation’s history.

Schmitz’s design company has also played a key role in the renovations of UW-Madison’s historic Camp Randall Stadium and Green Bay’s legendary Lambeau Field.

Schmitz is the second Madison College alumnus to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. The first was Roberts Construction Associates owner Robin Roberts, who received the award in 2004.