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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…
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 —…
The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng
Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…
Jessica Bastidas
Jessica Bastidas, whose goal is to share her personal storybook world with children, is a student in MICA's MAT program as well as an art instructor…
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 …
Club Sweetness — 2017 UP/Start Finalist
Brittney Dori Wilson ’16 was just finishing a master’s degree in paralegal studies at George Washington University and working for the federal…
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Supporting Arts Funding
As the chief executives of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and The Walters Art Museum — three anchor visual…
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…
Envision. Create. Transform.
In 2005, Baltimore was one of eight cities in the country included in the Ford Foundation’s Arts Integration and Education Reform Initiative…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore
Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
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…
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…
Errol Webber
Music by Prudence, a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA's video and film arts department, won an Oscar…
President Samuel Hoi Warfield Video Interview
Though he says it was a matter of happenstance that he stumbled upon arts college management while studying illustration at Parsons School of…
Knowledge is Power
MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
Art and Aerospace: Alumna Engineers Thermal Solutions for Spacecraft
As a little girl, Aleks Bogunovic ’12 ’13 (Fiber B.F.A., Business of Art and Design M.P.S.) knitted, crocheted and sewed clothes, taking after…
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…
Interdisciplinary Sculpture: Reece Cox
Reece Cox ’17, who came to Baltimore from Charlotte, N.C., was adamant that he wanted to be a figurative painter. “I’ve taken a few leaps since…
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…
DANAE — Winner of $25k in 2017 Up/Start Competition including People’s Choice Award
When Winston Frazer ’16 (Painting B.F.A.) was a junior at MICA, his experience during a Summer Travel Intensive to the island nation of São Tom…
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…
Guitars by Evil Evil — Awarded $20k in UP/Start Competition
Benjamin Torres ’15, ’16 (General Fine Arts BFA, Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design) always loved music. He played bass in his teens and, since…
Eric Dyer: Making Sculptures that Come to Life
Eric Dyer ‘04 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) brings animation into the present, physical world in an immersive and interactive way, and his…
Jann Rosen-Queralt: The Artist as Change Agent
Growing up in Michigan, Jann Rosen-Queralt spent a lot of time around the Great Lakes, which holds 90 percent of North America’s fresh surface…
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…
Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax: You’ll Know If You Belong
For Daniel Wickerham ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) and Malcolm Lomax ’09 (Painting B.F.A.), their latest installation project serves as a conduit from…
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…
My Favorite Things
A recent alumnus reflects on his love for Baltimore.
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area
Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
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.
In Good Company
When the 46 Unites States Artists (USA) fellows were announced at the end of 2016, winners included luminaries across creative disciplines …
Designing the Digital Classroom
M/O/O/C
Those That Can, Teach
Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.
Power to the Young People
M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.
Connections Forged in Baltimore Continue Around the World
Filipino artists Ashley Dequilla ’12 and Toym Imao ’12 collaborate on series of murals in their home country.
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…
Faculty Member Piper Shepard and Alumnus Jacolby Satterwhite Named USA Fellows for Innovation in The Arts
Fiber faculty member Piper Shepard and Jacolby Satterwhite '08 (Painting) were just awarded fellowships by United States Artists (USA) for innovation…
Community Arts as a Way of Life
Epiphanies often happen during the most mundane of tasks. For Ashley Minner, that moment-when she was able to put a name to her life’s work-came…
Paul Mirel: MICA’s Starman
Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.
Culture of Change
Hannah Brancato ’07, ’11 and Rebecca Nagle ’08, co-founders of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, are seeking to not only support survivors…
Changes in Baltimore
I arrived in Baltimore in 2000 with a strong desire to become an artist, but I was clueless about how to do this. I come from a middle class…
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.
Tim Scofield: Art & Technology in Motion
Tim Scofield is humble about his team being the only local act returning to Light City Baltimore this year. The large-scale kinetic sculpture …
Building a Better 3d Printer
“These are game-changing technologies…with the potential to change medicine, agriculture, and other critical industries. One goal, for example…