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

Firsts

Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

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…

Making Space

The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…

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…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

Social Design: Smile Indias

Smile Indias ’17 (Social Design M.A.), this year’s graduate student speaker at MICA’s 168th Commencement on Monday, May 15th, believes that the…

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…

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 …

Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Award

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

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…

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…

Members of MICA community honored for prestigious education, illustration awards

Multiple members of the MICA community—from faculty to alumni to endowed chairs—were selected for prestigious awards by the Maryland Art Education…

Heart of the Matter

MICA Brings Renowned Artists and Designers to Campus This Spring

WYPR Commentary: Confronting the Sites of Confederate Monuments

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate…

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.

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…

Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless

When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…

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…

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…

Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award

In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…

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…

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.

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…

Elle Perez ’11

Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Illustration: Briana Arrington

The undergraduate student speaker at MICA’s 168th Commencement on Monday, May 15th, Briana Arrington ’17 (Illustration B.F.A.) brings energy…

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 …

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