Art and Aerospace: Alumna Engineers Thermal Solutions for Spacecraft
As a little girl, Aleks Bogunovic ’12 ’13 (Fiber B.F.A., Business of Art and Design M.P.S.) knitted, crocheted and sewed clothes, taking after…
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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…
P.J. Richardson
Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…
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…
Firsts
Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore
Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald ’04
“I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
Masterwork
In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Art Meets Science
In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…
Making Space
The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make.
The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Allana Clarke
“I was a really terrible student,” exclaimed Allana Clarke ’14 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) in a conversation before her April lecture…
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.
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…
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 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…
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…
Carlos Florez
Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…
WYPR Commentary: Building the City We Imagine
President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about the success of BCAN, the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network…
Boss Lady
MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby
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…
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.
The Upstarts
MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
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…
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…
On Public Display
Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hillery Sproatt ’07
Even before she entered MICA, Hillery Sproatt as an entrepreneur, launching Rebe, a line of woman's clothing and handbags with her mother, textile…
Colin Dunn
Colin Dunn began blending technology with design as an undergraduate at MICA and took that passion with him to Facebook after graduation. While…
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…
Knowledge is Power
MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
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…
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…