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Introducing the 2024 MICA UP/Start Venture Competition Winners

The Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship (RCCE) at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the winners of the…

Ora Capsule Collection

Elana Wallach ’23 (Fiber BFA)

Ora Capsule Collection

Artist

Elana Wallach ’23 (Fiber BFA)

Date

2023

Hadassah Dowuona

Hadassah Dowuona is a textile and graphic designer and is passionate about her work. Growing up, she gravitated towards seeing what color and…

Pathways at MICA and Beyond: Antonius Bui ’16 (General Fine Arts BFA)

“Transferring to MICA as a pre-med student from a public university, I honestly had a lot of insecurities concerning my artistic ability and…

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Career Notes: Art Education

A look at a few MICA alumni and their success in art education.

Career Notes: Art + STEM

A look at a few MICA alumni and their interdisciplinary collaboration with science, technology, engineering, and math.

A Community of Creatives

MICA faculty James Williams II ’09 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)—one of a dozen MICA-connected Sondheim winners since the prize's inception—talks…

Graphic Design alumna Hilary Ament talks her recent work on “Oppenheimer,” “Nope”

Hilary Ament ’15 (Graphic Design BFA) continues to make a splash in the world of film graphic design, less than a decade after graduating from…

Fashion Forward: MICA Alumni Startups Seek to Change the Net-Zero Fashion Game

Rachel Faller ’08 (Fiber BFA) went to Cambodia on a Fulbright grant shortly after her graduation from MICA to learn about fair trade — and left…

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MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2020 UP/Start Finale

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is proud to announce this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition winners — Makers for Humankind…

MICA Faculty Win Prestigious Art Educator Awards

Three MICA faculty members have been recognized by national and state organizations for their outstanding work as art educators. They include…

The Art of Hanbok

This past summer, faculty and students from MICA collaborated with international faculty, students, and guests from the Hanbok Advancement Center…

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Site Specific: Alumni in Their Creative Spaces

Five alumni—based in Chicago—who have carved out impressive creative spaces: Alex Fuller ’03 (Graphic Design BFA), Aram Han Sifuentes ’11…

Art + Biology

Students in MICA's biofabrication courses turn their artistic vision to biotech.

July 3, 1981

Elizabeth Phillips

July 3, 1981

Artist

Elizabeth Phillips

Date

2018

Medium

Handwoven Cotton

Career Notes

A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.

Leading by Example: Maren Hassinger

For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…

Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA

The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…

Hitting Their Marks

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

Fiber Installation by Suldano Abdiruhman

Suldano Abdiruhman

Fiber Installation by Suldano Abdiruhman

Artist

Suldano Abdiruhman

Date

2018

Moremo

Clarissa Iskandar

Moremo

Artist

Clarissa Iskandar

Date

2018

Maetiay

Margaret Garrison

Maetiay

Artist

Margaret Garrison

Date

2018

Flora

Flora

Artist

Cindy Perdomo

Date

2017

Vellus machina

Vellus machina

Artist

Erin Kirchner

Date

2016

Unravel the Code

From childhood memories of sewing circles in the Netherlands, Annet Couwenberg has built her career on connecting tradition and digital craft…

Creating A Fashion Alternative

Alumna goes against the grain, creating a fashion line that aligns with her moral compass.

In Their Own Words: Places to See, Things to Do

MICA asked three MICA students about their favorite places in Baltimore and around campus. Here's what they had to say.

Outfit by Regan Dunleavy

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Outfit by Regan Dunleavy

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Artist

Regan Dunleavy

Date

2018

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…

Fiber installation by Lynn Chung

Installation

Fiber installation by Lynn Chung

Installation

Fiber B.F.A.

Artist

Lynn Chung

Date

2018

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…

Outfit by Amir Khadar

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Outfit by Amir Khadar

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Artist

Amir Khadar

Date

2018

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…

Basin

Basin

Artist

Courtney Bahn

Date

2018

Boss Lady

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

Fashion Forward

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

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…

Making Space

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

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…

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…

In Good Company

When the 46 Unites States Artists (USA) fellows were announced at the end of 2016, winners included luminaries across creative disciplines …

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…

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…

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…

Joyce J. Scott '70 Wins MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant

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…

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