Art & Articles

MICA names four William O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in-Residence, bringing together three generations of cultural activists

Over two lectures, Cheryl D. Miller ’74 (Graphic Design and Illustration BFA), Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, Maurice Cherry and Deyane Moses ’19…

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2022 MICA Strategic Planning Relaunch & Survey Invitation

Details and a survey link regarding the Strategic Planning Relaunch.

2022 MICA UP/Start Venture Competition Finalists Announced

MICA is pleased to announce this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition finalists, who were chosen after the Round 1 Virtual 'Pop Up and Pitch'…

Garden Party Press—Winner of $15k, Plus $5k People's Choice Award During 2021 UP/Start Competition

Chelsea Conrad ’20 (Illustration MA) is founder of Garden Party Press, a 2021 UP/Start finalist.

Anchovy Press—Winner of $14,100 During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Rebecca Marimutu ’20 (Photographic & Electronic Media MFA) and Priyanka Kumar ’20 (Illustration Practice MFA) are co-founders of Anchovy…

Alumni Founded Green Burial Startup Winner of $25k During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Carrie Carter ’20 (Product Design BFA) is founder of Resdie Burials, is a finalist in the 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

MICA Issues Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter and Against Discrimination

June 1, 2020 Dear MICA Community Members, In Baltimore, it is impossible to feel the pain of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis and Breonna…

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…

MICA Faculty Win Prestigious Art Educator Awards

Three MICA faculty members have been recognized by national and state organizations for their outstanding work as art educators. They include…

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Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art an exhibition curated by Dr. Deborah Willis

The exhibition, curated by Willis, the MICA inaugural Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography, explores debates on the topic of migration…

President Hoi Discusses Artists as Changemakers on the Free to Bmore Podcast

MICA President Sammuel Hoi recently joined the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Free to Bmore podcast to discuss how art and artists can be changemakers…

MICA Awarded $510K from ArtPlace America, Will Build Field of Creative Placemaking

The funding will help to expand community and organizational partnerships, as well as create a sequence of both undergraduate and graduate courses…

The Art of Hanbok

This past summer, faculty and students from MICA collaborated with international faculty, students, and guests from the Hanbok Advancement Center…

Maryland Institute Black Archives

To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an nontraditional student is an understatement. Older…

More Than Numbers

Information and Visualization students take data detailing the devastating change of population in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust…

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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…

Alumna’s Debut Children’s Book, I Am A Wolf, Out This May

Like most MICA students, Kelly Leigh Miller has always liked to draw. Whether it was in the sketchbooks her mom bought her, on the kid’s menu…

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Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.

The HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/ Internship

Numerous MICA students have taken part in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship, which aims to explore visual representations…

When Art & Science Collide

Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.

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 awarded competitive grants from the National Endowment of the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s…

Sarah Belisle

Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.

Blackives: A Celebration of Black History at MICA

The Blackives remembers the stories of promising young black artists who attempted to study at MICA, from 1891 to 1958, but could not because…

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Deyane Moses '19

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Deyane Moses '19

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Deyane Moses '19

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Deyane Moses '19

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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

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…

Louder Than a Bomb

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

Foraday—2021 UP/Start Finalist

Sean Duffy ’20 (User Experience Design MPS), Stephanie Petagno ’02 (General Sculpture Studies BFA), and Amber LaRosa, co-founders of Foraday…

GFA Special Projects class provides real-world experience while giving back to the community

Artwork depicting birds and Baltimore landmarks— like race horses at Pimlico, boats in the Inner Harbor and the Patterson Park Pagoda — now…

MICA Awarded Top Honors in National Democracy Challenge

In 2018, MICA’s voting rate of registered students increased nearly 40 percentage points, and the number of eligible students registered to…

MICA Alumna Wins Sondheim Prize

In the spring of Akea Brionne Brown’s first year at MICA, that the Baltimore Uprising occurred. It was finals week. And it was an event that…

Save it For Later

When Jenny Ferretti ’07 (Painting BFA) became the digital initiatives librarian for MICA’s Decker Library in 2015, print documentation of graduate…

If I am Myself, Then Will I Be A Target

Damon Arhos

If I am Myself, Then Will I Be A Target

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Damon Arhos

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2017

Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize

This is the fifth year in a row a MICA alum was chosen as the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize winner.

Design Leadership Students Make Finals in First Appearance at Design Challenge Competition

For three intrepid teams of MBA/MA in Design Leadership students, the challenge was too good to pass up. As the first-ever Johns Hopkins…

Lisa Hochtritt, Ed.D., Director of MICA's M.A.T. Program

With a committed interest in social justice and art education, and understanding how they both intersect with youth, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt joins…

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Five Career Development Resources You Should Explore

The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development

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…

Virtuoso Faculty: Tony Shore

From smoke-filled bars in France, to Baltimore’s back streets and alleys, to the rolling fields north of the city where members of the Elkridge…

2018 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition

The God of Door

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Ritter Zhang

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2018

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papier-mâché

Kaali

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Arnab Gan Choudry

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2018

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wood, cardboard yard and acrylic sculpture

Lost

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Saloni Shah

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2018

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linocut

Boutique Store

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Yanxin (Zoey) Jiang

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2018

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watercolor, colored pencil

dissemination sisters

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Tula Honkala

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2018

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ceramics

absolute bond

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Lyanne Ryu

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2018

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lithograph

Demanding

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Jeremy Gipson

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2018

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oil on canvas

Parallels

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Ava Kvapil

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2018

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graphite on drafting vellum

Mandate of Heaven

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Bernard Bagalso

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2017

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graphite watercolor on cut paper

LeSan De Jezi

Artist

Mark Fleuridor

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2018

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embroidered, quilted, dyed, and printed fabric

Delia, sin miedo

Artist

Maria Fragoso

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2018

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oil on linen

Chincoteaque Island Ponies

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Sierrah Rhianan Lanahan

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2018

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pen and ink

Portait of Father

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Dasha Burobina

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2018

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collage on board

Travel

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Alex Choi

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2018

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mixed media

Trinity

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Iris Hughey

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2018

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colored pencil, acrylic paint

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Hank Willis Thomas Visits MICA as Part of Civic Engagement Programming

MICA is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and For Freedoms to deliver a robust line-up of civic engagement programming on campus…

MICA names four William O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in-Residence, bringing together three generations of cultural activists

MICA to launch Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship

Start It Up

Art + Biology

Accounting for Taste

Career Notes

Mentor Extraordinaire: Illustration Faculty Member José Villarrubia

Blvck Door—Winner of $40K During the 2022 UP/Start Venture Competition

2022 MICA Strategic Planning Relaunch & Survey Invitation

2022 MICA UP/Start Venture Competition Finalists Announced

Garden Party Press—Winner of $15k, Plus $5k People's Choice Award During 2021 UP/Start Competition

Anchovy Press—Winner of $14,100 During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Alumni Founded Green Burial Startup Winner of $25k During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

MICA Issues Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter and Against Discrimination

MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2020 UP/Start Finale

MICA Faculty Win Prestigious Art Educator Awards

Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art an exhibition curated by Dr. Deborah Willis

President Hoi Discusses Artists as Changemakers on the Free to Bmore Podcast

MICA Awarded $510K from ArtPlace America, Will Build Field of Creative Placemaking

The Art of Hanbok

Maryland Institute Black Archives

More Than Numbers

Site Specific: Alumni in Their Creative Spaces

Alumna’s Debut Children’s Book, I Am A Wolf, Out This May

POW!

The HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/ Internship

When Art & Science Collide

Time Lapse: The Charmed Life of Jim Burger

MICA awarded competitive grants from the National Endowment of the Arts

Sarah Belisle

Blackives: A Celebration of Black History at MICA

Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale

Brockett Horne, Chair of Graphic Design, Talks Career Prep

Louder Than a Bomb

Foraday—2021 UP/Start Finalist

GFA Special Projects class provides real-world experience while giving back to the community

MICA Awarded Top Honors in National Democracy Challenge

MICA Alumna Wins Sondheim Prize

Save it For Later

If I am Myself, Then Will I Be A Target

If I am Myself, Then Will I Be A Target

Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize

Design Leadership Students Make Finals in First Appearance at Design Challenge Competition

Lisa Hochtritt, Ed.D., Director of MICA's M.A.T. Program

Five Career Development Resources You Should Explore

A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern

Virtuoso Faculty: Tony Shore

2018 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition

The God of Door

Kaali

Lost

Boutique Store

dissemination sisters

absolute bond

Demanding

Parallels

Mandate of Heaven

LeSan De Jezi

Delia, sin miedo

Chincoteaque Island Ponies

Portait of Father

Travel

Trinity

Hank Willis Thomas Visits MICA as Part of Civic Engagement Programming

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