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MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Cheerleader for Art Education
As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website.
When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore
Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
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…
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…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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…
Morel Doucet - Full Circle
Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as a…
Fashion Forward
If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
On Public Display
Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art
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…
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.
Masterwork
In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Colin Dunn
Colin Dunn began blending technology with design as an undergraduate at MICA and took that passion with him to Facebook after graduation. While…
Knowledge is Power
MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
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…
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.
Good Fellows
Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
Zoe Linn Jarvis
A 2015 graduate, Zoe Linn Jarvis has a thriving career as an exhibiting artist with a large-scale solo show opening in Washington, DC in 2017…
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…
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 —…
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…
Making Space
The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make.
The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
Firsts
Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait
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…
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…
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…
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…
Carlos Florez
Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…
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…
Boss Lady
MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby
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
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Hillery Sproatt ’07
Even before she entered MICA, Hillery Sproatt as an entrepreneur, launching Rebe, a line of woman's clothing and handbags with her mother, textile…
P.J. Richardson
Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…