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…
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…
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…
Knowledge is Power MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
Leslie Speer Named Chair of New Product Design Program As the College prepares to launch its new B.F.A. in Product Design this fall, it is pleased to announce renowned educator and designer Leslie…
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…
Social Design: Smile Indias Smile Indias ’17 (Social Design M.A.), this year’s graduate student speaker at MICA’s 168th Commencement on Monday, May 15th, believes that the…
Power to the Young People M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.
HR Resources for the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Stress is our body’s response to unmanageable pressures that we experience. As a community, we are all going through varying levels of stress…
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 …
Maura Dwyer: Art that Builds Trust and Relationships Maura Dwyer ‘12 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) avoids biographies, as she finds that words do not adequately represent her as an artist…
Masterwork In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Edgar Reyes: Art of the Times Edgar Reyes ’14 (Community Arts M.F.A.) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States with his mother as a child. Since…
Iman Djouini & Jonathan Taube: Getting the Elephant Out of the Room Through Art After Iman Djouini ’09 and Jonathan Taube ’10 graduated from MICA, the couple then left for New Orleans to obtain their master’s degrees in printmaking…
A Conversation with José Ruiz The new director of MICA’s M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice discusses his goals for the program and the role curators can play in society.
Juan Carlos Castro Before attaining his position as assistant director of art education at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, Juan Carlos Castro…
The Artists Talk Collaborative duo and 2015 Sondheim Prize winners, Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax sit down for a Q&A about their artistic practice.
Global Perspectives International students reflect on their experiences as graduate students at MICA.
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…
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…
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
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…
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…
Those That Can, Teach Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fashion Forward If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
The Upstarts MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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.
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
Black by Design By Diamond James MA in Social Design candidate Diamond James advocates for deeper, co-creative engagement between universities and communities.
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…
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…