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As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…
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Kyle Hackett
Kyle Hackett graduated in 2013 and has been continuously exhibiting his artwork since then. Currently based in Washington, D.C., his work was…
Ada Pinkston & Hoesy Corona: MICA Duo Examines the Past and the Now
Ada Pinkston ’13 (Community Arts M.F.A.) and Hoesy Corona ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) graduated from MICA four years apart. Pinkston focused on community…
Harrison Tyler
Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Harrison Tyler ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture) is the digital operations manager at Open Works, a…
Toy Design... for Elephants
MICA students students accept challenge to design toy for Asian elephants at the National Zoo.
In Their Own Words: Places to See, Things to Do
MICA asked three MICA students about their favorite places in Baltimore and around campus. Here's what they had to say.
Rachel Frank
Rachel Frank leveraged the power of the MICA network to go from intern at NIKE to full-time color designer at the sportswear titan.
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…
Jescia Hoffman Hopper
Jescia Hoffman Hopper teaches at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Middle School in Minnesota, where she works to build a rigorous, holistic art curriculum…
Willem Rosenthal
A few years after turning an internship into a full-time job at a game studio, Willem Rosenthal founded Proto Games, which successfully launched…
Javier Ameijeiras
Since his graduation from MICA, Javier Ameijeiras has contributed to TV shows, films and productions that have won Emmys and Tonys and been nominated…
Jordan Bradley
Jordan Bradley, who created his first app as a freshman, is the creator of Pi, a day planning app for creative people and winner of the People's…
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…
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…
Fashion Forward: Allina Liu
In only four years, Allina Liu has established her own womenswear label, Allina Liu. Her designs have been featured in an array of fashion and…
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…
2018 Steinmetz Residency Awarded to Design Technologist Zachary Lieberman
Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Firsts
Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait
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 Samuel Hoi Responds to DACA Rescission Decision
The following are statements that were made to the MICA community regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 announcement to plan to…
Knowledge is Power
MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Elle Perez ’11
Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
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…
Full Bleed: A Journal of Art & Design
Published annually by MICA, the work in Full Bleed stands for the civilizing influences of aesthetic experience and progressive design.
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…
Collaborative By Design
Home to B.F.A. programs in Game Design and Product Design as well as the B.F.A. in Architectural Design, the new Dolphin Design Center was created…
Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur
For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…
Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award
In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…
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…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore
Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
Making Space
The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make.
The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
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…
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…
Masterwork
In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
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 —…