Adobe Design Achievement Awards: Hitesh Singhal ’16 and Monica Amneus ’16 Every year, MICA students become proud recipients of national awards. We chose just two of these talented young artists to feature in these pages:…
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
Celebrating Dr. Karen Carroll, Dean of the Center For Art Education As Dr. Karen Carroll — MICA’s “Art Mama” in residence — prepares to retire, her students and colleagues laud her singular brand…
Jaimie Bennati Jamie Bennati is currently teaching photo and video classes in Goiânia, Brazil and has plans to help a local group of women create crafts out…
Students Recognized by Gates Foundation for Reimagining Children’s Health Records MICA students gain real life experience, showcasing their skill set outside of the classroom in national competitions and large-scale collaborative…
Paul Mirel: MICA’s Starman Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.
A Conversation with Ellen Lupton The director of the MFA in Graphic Design talks about the current state of the field and MICA’s graduate program.
Designing for America It seems like such a clear solution to reducing recidivism rates prevalent in the criminal justice system: create an easy-to-use SMS text tool…
EPIC Fun This winter, the holiday season arrived a little early for Maharani, Swarna and Kamala — three of the six Asian elephants living at the…
Power to the Young People M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.
Center for Social Design Learn How Design helps people get the things they need to make their lives better.
First-Year Juried Exhibition New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.
Hello, Allo! High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.
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…
MICA Alumna Helps Repair Brain Injuries With the swipe of a finger, iPhone and iPad gamers are underwater, battling swarms of fish and dangerous sharks. This sets the scene for Shark…
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…
LAB Award See how this year’s recipients will strengthen Baltimore’s neighborhoods and bolster the city’s identity.
Those That Can, Teach Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.
Grad Ex Learn how the graduate student-run exhibition committee’s growth has mirrored that of the neighborhood it calls home.
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kirby Matherne A Graphic Design M.F.A. alumn, Kirby Matherne is the creative director of Vibe Kayaks.
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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…
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…
Ben Peterson As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…
Smile Indias Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…
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…
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…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
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…
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.),…
Christina Neston Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.
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…
Hilary Ament Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.
MICA announces 2021 UP/Start Finalists MICA is thrilled to announce this year’s eight UP/Start Venture Competition finalists, who were selected from a total of a record 58 applicants…
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…
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…