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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…

MICA Community Helps Illuminate Baltimore During Light City 2018

Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…

From Coast to Coast: Noah Boyle

Since leaving MICA, Noah Boyle's career has thrived, first as a visual design intern for Huge, Inc. in Los Angeles and currently as a designer…

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…

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…

Carlos Florez

Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…

Knowledge and Community

At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…

Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area

Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)

Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course

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.

On Public Display

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

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…

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.

Masterwork

In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…

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.

First-Year Juried Exhibition

New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.

Center for Social Design

Learn How Design helps people get the things they need to make their lives better.

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:…

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'…

Graphic Design Faculty Q&A: Kristian Bjørnard ’09 (Graphic Design MFA)

Kristian Bjørnard is a designer, educator, and sustainabilitist. An alumni of MICA's Graphic Design MFA program, he is director of The Office…

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Graphic Design MFA Projects Stand Out at STA 100

Every year, the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 100 show recognizes 100 greatest examples of typographic design excellence by professionals…

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…

Winston Frazer

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer ’16 hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability…

Payton Cossell Turner and Brian Kaspr

Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr are co-owners of Flat Vernacular, a highly successful design studio specializing in original wallpapers…

Art + Space Exploration

Aleks Bogunovic turned her love for sewing and fabrication into Aerothreads, a business that makes Multi-Layer Insulation blankets for the aerospace…

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…

Projection of a VR simulation. A screen that shows what the viewer is seeing sits in the middle of the projection. A burnt chair stands in the middle of the gallery with a VR headset placed on it.

Hymn to the Fallen

Haoran Chang ’18

Projection of a VR simulation. A screen that shows what the viewer is seeing sits in the middle of the projection. A burnt chair stands in the middle of the gallery with a VR headset placed on it.

Hymn to the Fallen

Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.

Artist

Haoran Chang ’18

Date

2018

Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…

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…

Venture Advocate

Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…

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…

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…

The Longform — Winner of $25k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…

Ben Iluzada

In addition to being a conservation technician at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Ben Iluzada is founder of BSMTPress, an apparel startup…

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…

Boss Lady

MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby

The Upstarts

MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative

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…

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…

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…

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