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DeRay Mckesson, Joyce J. Scott ’70, Carrie Mae Weems Among Honorees at MICA’s 169th Commencement

College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…

MICA Welcomes Sheri Parks as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

MICA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheri Parks as the College's next Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. Beginning on June…

The Cool List

Baltimore is fast becoming a cultural mecca — and national publications are taking notice.

MICA Open Works / Byron Banghart

In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…

Puppet Masters

Despite puppetry being an ancient art form — it is thought to have originated about 3,000 years ago — MICA didn’t offer classes in the…

The Upstarts

MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative

Strength in Numbers

Two years after the launch of the M.F.A. in Filmmaking, students in the program are reaping the benefits of unique partnerships with Johns Hopkins…

Jann Rosen-Queralt

For Jann Rosen-Queralt, director of MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture, environmental and industrial elements are an intricate part of her process…

Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA

Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…

MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale

Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.

Finalists Selected for MICA’s 2018 Up/Start Venture Competition

On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…

A Cheerleader for Art Education

As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website. When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…

Q&A With Jason Corace

JASON CORACE is an award winning game designer, media artist and educator who founded MICA’s successful studio concentration in game design…

Louder Than a Bomb

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

Rising Action Studio — Winner $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Rising Action Studio, which helps change makers and nonprofits tell imaginative, inspiring and ethical stories about social impact movements…

Social Butterfly — 2018 UP/Start People’s Choice Award Winner with 5k in Funding

With balloons stating “You actually showed up, so have fun,” and paper cups encouraging others to “Ask me what I like about the party,” the party…

A Conversation With Zlata Baum

A native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Zlata Baum has had a multifaceted career as an arts administrator, educator and exhibiting artist…

On Public Display

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

Morel Doucet - Full Circle

Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as a…

Fashion Forward

If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…

President Hoi Receives Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship

President Samuel Hoi was named a 2017-2018 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation.

Art + Space Exploration

Aleks Bogunovic turned her love for sewing and fabrication into Aerothreads, a business that makes Multi-Layer Insulation blankets for the aerospace…

MICA Community Helps Illuminate Baltimore During Light City 2018

Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…

From Coast to Coast: Noah Boyle

Since leaving MICA, Noah Boyle's career has thrived, first as a visual design intern for Huge, Inc. in Los Angeles and currently as a designer…

Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…

Venture Advocate

Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…

2018 Steinmetz Residency Awarded to Design Technologist Zachary Lieberman

Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…

Good Fellows

Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…

Making Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

Their MICA story begins like that of so many students who enroll in one of the College’s 21 graduate programs: with a housing search.

Zoe Linn Jarvis

A 2015 graduate, Zoe Linn Jarvis has a thriving career as an exhibiting artist with a large-scale solo show opening in Washington, DC in 2017…

Natasha Nayo

Since her graduation from MICA in 2015, Natasha Nayo has worked as an animator based in Baltimore. She's currently with Storyfarm, where she…

Caitlin Turner

Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…

Nikki Hendricks

Nikki Hendricks was a senior at MICA when she received an invitation to participate in the 2017 New York, Paris and Milan fashion weeks – three…

Sam Acuff

Sam Acuff leveraged his fine arts skills to launch a creative business and won $25,000 in investment funding during MICA's annual Up-Start Venture…

Essential Secrets of Baltimore Moms book

Essential Secrets of Baltimore Moms

Essential Secrets of Baltimore Moms book

Essential Secrets of Baltimore Moms

In collaboration with Baltimore City Health Department's Bureau of HIV and STIs, the Center for Social Design developed and designed "Essential Secrets of Baltimore Moms" as part of our work to support moms living with HIV in Baltimore. Essential Secrets was designed by Rachel Serra (MASD'17) with illustrations by Emily Joynton.

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2018

Payton Cossell Turner and Brian Kaspr

Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr are co-owners of Flat Vernacular, a highly successful design studio specializing in original wallpapers…

Fashion Forward: Allina Liu

In only four years, Allina Liu has established her own womenswear label, Allina Liu. Her designs have been featured in an array of fashion and…

Henry Becker

As an M.F.A. student, Henry Becker earned a Student Typeface Design Merit from Print magazine for his typeface design, Chromogenic. Today, he…

Boba Studios — Winner of $20k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…

The Longform — Winner of $25k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…

Carlos Florez

Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…

Ben Iluzada

In addition to being a conservation technician at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Ben Iluzada is founder of BSMTPress, an apparel startup…

Boss Lady

MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby

Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)

Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course

In Real Time

For me, music has always been a path for survival, in the strictest terms. Inspired by the music of Nirvana and the underground music scenes…

Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area

Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

Knowledge and Community

At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…

Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur

For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…

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