MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2017 UP/Start Finale DANAE Inc., Dandelion Wine Collective and Zee Bait Co. were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) second annual…
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…
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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…
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.
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…
Masterwork In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Guitars by Evil Evil — Awarded $20k in UP/Start Competition Benjamin Torres ’15, ’16 (General Fine Arts BFA, Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design) always loved music. He played bass in his teens and, since…
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…
Jann Rosen-Queralt: The Artist as Change Agent Growing up in Michigan, Jann Rosen-Queralt spent a lot of time around the Great Lakes, which holds 90 percent of North America’s fresh surface…
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.
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.
Dandelion Wine Collective — Winner of $25k during UP/Start Competition It’s no coincidence that the word “collective” is in the title of the new venture from Paloma Hernando ’17 (Illustration B.F.A.) and Bekky Sunmi…
Time Lapse: The Charmed Life of Jim Burger Jim Burger ’82 (Photography B.F.A.) — noted Baltimore-area photographer and longtime photojournalist for the Baltimore City Paper and The Baltimore…
MICA Awards More Than $100K in Annual UP/Start Venture Competition GPG Technologies and Greenmount Tile were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) fourth annual UP/Start Venture…
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…
Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale
Social Design Celebrates 10 Years at MICA Since 2008, MICA has been at the forefront of the social design movement, a rapidly emerging field and creative practice in the U.S. and around…
A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern The summer before my senior year, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt…
Brockett Horne, Chair of Graphic Design, Talks Career Prep Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…
Art Making Change: Creative Makers Purusing Social Justice in the News As artists and designers optimize the power of their work to bring awareness of a number of causes, the idea of socially engaged art is gathering…
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Michael Ciancio ’06 Talks Chobani Brand Reboot A Q&A with Michael Ciancio, creative director of content at Chobani.
Kristen Spilman ’05: Design as a Way of Life Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…
Smile Indias ’17 Pursues Social Justice Through Work With Government Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…
Ben Peterson As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…
Kirby Matherne A Graphic Design M.F.A. alumn, Kirby Matherne is the creative director of Vibe Kayaks.
Hilary Ament Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.
Smile Indias Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…
Emma You Zhang Emma You Zhang ’16 (Graphic Design M.F.A.) is an experience designer and graphic designer at Adobe. She is a design thinker focused on branding…
Christina Neston Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.
Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…
Scratching the Surface: Ellen Lupton Jarrett Fuller talks to the co-director of MICA’s M.F.A. graphic design program, Ellen Lupton. In addition to her work at MICA, Ellen is the…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
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…
Virtuoso Faculty: Jenna Frye There is no clear line between Jenna Frye’s art practice and her work as an educator. Both come down to the same driving force: her desire…
U.S. News & World Report Rankings Recognize MICA's Graduate Programs as Top in Nation Baltimore--MICA's graduate programs have once again been ranked in the top 10 of Master of Fine Arts programs in the nation by U.S. News & World…
Becky Slogeris A leader while at MICA - she was a member of MICA’s Student Leadership Task Force Committee and the recipient of France-Merrick Fellowship…
Nour Tabet Nour Tabet, who worked as a graphic designer in Beirut before coming to MICA to pursue graduate study, is currently senior visual designer at…
Elise Roy Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and motivational speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement…
MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2020 UP/Start Finale BALTIMORE — The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is proud to announce this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition winners — Makers for Humankind…
Start It Up From its earliest days, MICA has had a connection to doers and makers, to people who believe that artistic creativity is a catalyst for positive…
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