Guitars by Evil Evil — Awarded $20k in 2017 UP/Start Competition Benjamin Torres ’15, ’16 (General Fine Arts B.F.A., Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design) always loved music. He played bass in his teens and…
MICA Names First 5 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works Makerspace MICA is pleased to announce its five new Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works through its recent partnership with the Baltimore Arts Realty…
Those That Can, Teach Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.
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…
Alumni Launch Entities and Initiatives to Integrate Art into Communities Many members of the MICA comm unity showcase their creative and artistic talents through their own small businesses and product lines. Below…
Alumna Chronicles Life in the Big City with Hit Show Who knew Broad City, a Comedy Central television series, would be such a hit? The fans did, and they were right. The show, nominated for the…
Emmy Award-Winning MICA Alumnus Promotes the Nickelodeon Brand Christopher Papa ’02 (general fine arts) loves to tell stories, and animation gives him a unique outlet for his creative expression. There are…
The Upstarts MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
Pablo Cano When Pablo Cano was seven, his 10-year-old sister told him he had a talent for art. He took that to heart and the 1982 general fine arts graduate…
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Errol Webber: Harnessing the Power of Video and Film MICA is known for the creative license it inspires. Nowhere is that more evident than in the projects of some of the independent artists and…
Fashion Forward If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
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…
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…
Abbi Jacobson Abbi Jacobson is co-creator of the hit Comedy Central show Broad City. An active illustrator, she is also an author, most recently of the New…
A Conversation with Shinique Smith MICA Alumna talks about the people, places, and ideas that have influenced and inspired throughout her remarkable career.
Community Arts as a Way of Life Epiphanies often happen during the most mundane of tasks. For Ashley Minner, that moment-when she was able to put a name to her life’s work-came…
Risks and Rewards: MICA Alumni Succeed as Entrepreneurs Creative businesses founded by MICA alumni stretch disciplines and showcase the endless possibilities of a MICA degree. THUSS + FARRELL Established…
Faculty Set the Example in Building Sustainable Professional Careers To launch a succccessful ca reer, it’s vital that students develop both a high degree of competency in their chosen discipline and make professional…
TT: A Jack of All Art TT the Artist ’06 (General Fine Arts) could never be put in a box. With filmmaker, creative director, performer, community artist, and designer…
MICA Awarded Top Honors in National Democracy Challenge In 2018, MICA’s voting rate of registered students increased nearly 40 percentage points, and the number of eligible students registered to…
Social Media Abuzz For ‘ARTPOP’ Album Cover Release Pop singer and songwriter Lady Gaga tapped internationally acclaimed artist Jeff Koons ’76 (general fine arts) to design the ARTPOP album cover…
Site Specific: Alumni in Their Creative Spaces Five alumni—based in Chicago—who have carved out impressive creative spaces: Alex Fuller ’03 (Graphic Design BFA), Aram Han Sifuentes ’11…
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…
Winners Announced for MICA Up/Start Venture Competition MICA is pleased to announce the winners of the Up/Start Venture Competition, the college's first pitch and start-up contest for students, graduates…
Baltimore Design School and MICA Collaborate Through Teaching A collaborative effort between then MICA president Fred Lazarus IV H’14 and Maryland State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, Baltimore Design School…
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Supporting Arts Funding As the chief executives of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and The Walters Art Museum — three anchor visual…
Q&A With Leslie Speer LESLIE SPEER, recently selected to lead MICA’s new B.F.A. in Product Design, is a designer and educator who has worked for companies and clients…
Masterwork In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Adapt & Adopt for a Better Future Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…
Freedom to Fail Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 (Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate, Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) measures success by what happens in the studio — not…
A Conversation With Kelsey Schmitt ’12 Art educator and practicing artist, Kelsey Schmitt ’12 is proof that graduates of MICA’s Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program are…
Errol Webber Music by Prudence, a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA's video and film arts department, won an Oscar…
DANAE — Winner of $25k in 2017 Up/Start Competition including People’s Choice Award When Winston Frazer ’16 (Painting B.F.A.) was a junior at MICA, his experience during a Summer Travel Intensive to the island nation of São Tom…
The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…
Connections Forged in Baltimore Continue Around the World Filipino artists Ashley Dequilla ’12 and Toym Imao ’12 collaborate on series of murals in their home country.
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
The Genius of Joyce J. Scott Joyce J. Scott ’70 (Art Education B.F.A.) has been named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowships…
Envision. Create. Transform. In 2005, Baltimore was one of eight cities in the country included in the Ford Foundation’s Arts Integration and Education Reform Initiative…
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.
Star on the Rise The work of painter Amy Sherald ’04 (Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) was always autobiographical in nature, but the artist says her move…
Quarters — 2017 UP/Start Finalist The spark for Quarters — a company whose objective is to easily connect alumni hosts with students seeking study abroad and intern housing …
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…
Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…