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A Letter From the President: In Solidarity Against Hate and For Humanity

Dear MICA Community Members,Our nation was shaken to the core this past week by a series of senseless crimes linked by hate. We shared in communal…

A Conversation With President Samuel Hoi

In 2014, Samuel Hoi was appointed MICA's president following the long tenure of Fred Lazarus. Along with more than two decades of higher education…

Alumna Creates a Space to Celebrate Baltimore's Immigrant Community

For her senior thesis, Valeria Fuentes ’17 ’18 (Architectural Design B.F.A., Social Design M.F.A.) created a clothing line called Segunda Piel…

Curatorial Thinking

Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…

Emily Ianacone ’15 Brings Design Strategy to Mayor's Office of Innovation

In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…

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…

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.),…

A Conversation With Darrée

A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…

Designing New Leadership, Starting Now

“You have two minutes, start now.” These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our…

Leading by Example: Maren Hassinger

For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…

Art + Health Care: Winston Frazer

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…

Chuxi Guo

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Claire Lynch

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Ryan Lytle

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Art of the Impossible

As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…

2018 Baker Awards

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

MICA Partners with BMA and For Freedoms to Deliver 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…

Virtuoso Faculty: Mina Cheon

This past September, Korean President Moon Jae-in and the First Lady Kim Jung-sook came to “Eat Choco-Pie Together,” an installation presented…

Rising Star: ND Stevenson

Signing their first book deal while still a student at MICA, ND Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…

Edon Muhaxheri

Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.

Cosmo Whyte

Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.

Jacob Lockard

Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.

Erin Fender

Erin Fender is a photographer and program manager at the nonprofit Atlanta Photography Group.

Kris Grey

Kris Grey is a New York City-based exhibiting artist who teaches and exhibits work internationally.

Christina Neston

Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.

The Legacy of Chair Emeritus in Art Education Dr. Al Hurwitz ’41 (1920-2012) Is Felt Worldwide

MICA Chair Emeritus in Art Education and alumnus Dr. Al Hurwitz '41, who passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012 leaves a lasting legacy on the…

Smile Indias

Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…

E-Textiles: Yuchen Zhang

Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Whitney Sherman ’71

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Art Director: Ethel Kessler ’71

Artist

Whitney Sherman ’71

Date

1998

Beyond Our Gates: A Q&A With David Bogen

Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs David Bogen discusses MICA's work with community stakeholders in Baltimore, specifically in and…

North Avenue Knowledge Exchange

Built on the premise that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn, the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange is a community-based…

Developing the Curriculum of a Social Movement

What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.

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…

Giving Baltimore's Youth the Tools to Tell Their Stories

“Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so,” Moira Fratantuono ’10 (Community Arts M.F.A.)…

#DrawingWhileBlack

In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…

Hitting Their Marks

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

Stephen Hendee: Teaching Artist

Best known for fabricating ambitious, large-scale installations, MICA faculty member Stephen Hendee is creating a new objective for his studio…

Xiaofu Wang

A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…

First Year Experience Exhibition 2018

A look at work created by students in the 2017-2018 First Year Experience.

Stephen Edmond

Upon graduation from MICA, Stephen Edmond was recruited by well-known boxing brand Everlast Worldwide, Inc. Within months, he found himself designing…

Making Art that Matters

Adarsh Alphons ’06 says that art saved his life. Today, the founder and executive director of ProjectArt now leads his team with a goal to…

MICA Eats

When we asked MICA students to recommend top places to eat that don't break the bank, these were their most recommended restaurants. On the…

Taha Heydari

A native of Iran, Taha Heydari has exhibited around the world, including London, Berlin and Antwerp. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions…

Parade

Parade

Graphic Design M.F.A.

Artist

Hayelin Choi

Date

2017

Cindy Cheng

Working from her spacious studio in the city's Greektown neighborhood, Cindy Cheng has found success as an exhibiting artist. She not only exhibits…

Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

Unconventional Illustration

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

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…

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