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Commotion

MICA Publications

Commotion

MICA’s semiannual magazine about the ideas, news, and art that emerge from the college’s 20 graduate programs.

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Social Design Celebrates 10 Years at MICA

Since 2008, MICA has been at the forefront of the social design movement, a rapidly emerging field and creative practice in the U.S. and around…

Kehinde Bademosi ’15: Storytelling to Save Lives

As a child growing up in Nigeria, Kehinde Bademosi ’15 (Social Design M.A.) didn’t have a television. His family simply couldn’t afford one. So…

Emily Ianacone ’15 Brings Design Strategy to Mayor's Office of Innovation

In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…

Smile Indias ’17 Pursues Social Justice Through Work With Government

Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…

Kristen Spilman ’05: Design as a Way of Life

Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…

A Conversation With Darrée

A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…

Designing New Leadership, Starting Now

“You have two minutes, start now.” These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our…

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…

Chuxi Guo

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Claire Lynch

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Ryan Lytle

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Art of the Impossible

As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…

2018 Baker Awards

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

Curatorial Thinking

Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…

Unconventional Illustration

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Masterwork

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

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