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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…

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…

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…

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…

The Upstarts

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

Fashion Forward

If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…

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…

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…

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…

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.

National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald ’04

“I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F…

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…

Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Award

Incoming and returning students share their perspectives on diversity and creative discourse.

Baltimore Design School and MICA Collaborate Through Teaching

A collaborative effort between then MICA president Fred Lazarus IV H’14 and Maryland State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, Baltimore Design School…

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…

Installation consisting of large panes of plaster mounted in an exhibition space.

Grad Show 2018: Studio Art

Installation consisting of large panes of plaster mounted in an exhibition space.

Installation

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Naomi Natale

Date

2018

Painting of two people doing yoga.

Hot Yoga 2

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Caitlin Albritton

Date

2018

Medium

Oil on canvas

Installation on various sketches and art making objects.

Installation

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Rebecca Rivas-Rogers

Date

2018

Blue painting that gives the impression of being sanded down to show various layers. The back of the painting is bright red and reflects against the white of the gallery wall.

Stage Fright

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Anna Skarbeck

Date

2018

Medium

Oil on panel

Installation consisting of video documentation, photography, and materials from a site-specific installation in a field. The site-specific installation included painted circles in a field.

Leaving My Mark

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Sasha Backhaus

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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

MICA Awards More Than $100K in Annual UP/Start Venture Competition

GPG Technologies and Greenmount Tile were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) fourth annual UP/Start Venture…

Start It Up

From its earliest days, MICA has had a connection to doers and makers, to people who believe that artistic creativity is a catalyst for positive…

Heart of the Matter

MICA Brings Renowned Artists and Designers to Campus This Spring

WYPR Commentary: Art as a Uniter

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about art's ability to engage and unite, as witnessed during Art Walk, Light…

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…

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…

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…

Chameleon Gallery — Winner of $15k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

As artists, Yi-An P‘an ’18 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Haoran Chang ’18 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) say they are…

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…

Carlos Florez

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

WYPR Commentary: Building the City We Imagine

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about the success of BCAN, the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network…

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

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…

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.

Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area

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

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…

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…

On Public Display

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

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…

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…

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…

WYPR Commentary: Destination Baltimore

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about Baltimore's growing prominence as a visitor destination. This segment…

Video still of an animated mars.

Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Video still of an animated mars.

Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Artist

Luca Buvoli

Date

2011-2017

Sok Hui Low

Sok Hui Low, an art educator who encourages experimentation and play with art materials and processes, teaches adolescents in Singapore, in an…

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)…

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