“DRAWING RUNS THROUGH ALL MAJORS!”
With a growing interest in drawing as a major, and a continued emphasis on the importance of drawing for students in all majors, we’re expanding our course offerings and studio space. Our seniors benefit from the facilities at MICA’s Studio Center, a historic industrial building just a short walk from the central campus. Located in Baltimore’s Station North Arts & Entertainment District, it includes independent studio space for upper-division students in Drawing, Painting, and GFA. The facility will allow you to rub elbows with MICA’s graduate students and be a part of a strong community of graduate and undergraduate fine artists.
Drawing is fundamental to many disciplines and can be used in a wide range of applications, from painting to printmaking, illustration to animation, and game arts to book arts. And as a drawing major, you can choose from courses that expand the scope of what drawing can be. For example, “Drawing for Thinking and Making” focuses on the uses of drawing in 3D and allows you to explore traditional and computer-aided Rhino app drawing processes for work that often finds its final form in another medium.
You will receive a range of viewpoints that help inform the art you create through the artists and critics that visit MICA’s campus. Representing a variety of disciplines, they have included the internationally acclaimed artist ; filmmaker Amy Halpern, who discussed her experience as a female artist in the experimental film scene; MacArthur Award winner Elizabeth King, Zoe Charlton and Robert Nava, Kenyatte Hinkle, Tschabalala Self.
We also have two McMillian /Stewart Fellows, Shoshanna Weinberber and Hadie Shafie to add to our Diversity Initiative.
As a drawing major, you can also take advantage of off-campus opportunities that will expand your worldview and impact your studio practice. Drawing majors have studied and worked in locations in Europe, Asia, and in New York City through the AICAD New York Studio Program and MICA’s Summer Intensive program in Italy. Professional experience can be gained through internships, and our majors have interned at the Herman Maril Foundation in Baltimore; as an assistant for Chad Tyler, an exhibit designer for the National Aquarium; and for Flat Vernacular, a Brooklyn-based wallpaper company.
As you can see, MICA’s emphasis on drawing prepares you for careers in a variety of fields, and our alumni are thriving. Check out these recent graduates' Instagram sites; haley_manchon, erinfostel, mica.drawing, linktr.ee/mica. MICA graduates have shown in solo and group shows around the country – in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, and New York; while others are game designers and medical illustrators, product designers and filmmakers..
Welcome, I’m very happy you’ll be joining the MICA community, and I look forward to meeting with you during our Open House.
Sincerely,
Rex R. Stevens
Chair, Drawing & General Fine Arts departments