03.07.10
Film still from "Music by Prudence," courtesy of iThemba Productions, Inc.
MICA Faculty's Documentary Wins an Oscar
"Music by Prudence," a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA’s video and film arts department, has won an Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced March 7. Errol Webber Jr. ’08 is the youngest cinematographer ever to shoot an Oscar-winning film. Several of Wright’s students interned on the project.
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Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Reward for Victory (after Drum, 1976; from the Projection Series), oil on linen, toner on silk, 2009.
MICA and the Contemporary Museum Organize the First Large-Scale Survey of Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, May 6-July 31
01.06.10
Exhibition premieres 'Projection Series' at the Contemporary Museum in conjunction with other site-specific projects throughout Baltimore.
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Steven M. Cummings, Art Man (detail), 2010.
Steven M. Cummings '10 Visually Captures D.C. 's Art Man in Washington Post Feature
02.23.10
The centerpiece Style story in the Feb. 23 Washington Post follows Bryan K. Adams, aka Art Man, and his friend, collaborator and personal documentarian/photographer Steven M. Cummings '10. Art Man, who strives to brighten D.C. streets with found-objects, met Cummings last year and they have inspired each other ever since. The Post article features nine photos Cummings has taken of Art Man and his artwork throughout the city.
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Panoptic logo created by Bri Antonaccio ’11
MICA’S Experimental Fashion Students Present Panoptic, April 3
03.08.10
Artists and designers from MICA partner with North Avenue Market in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District to stage 'Panoptic: An Experimental Fashion Event' on Saturday, April 3 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
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Irene Hofmann lectures at MICA on Wednesday, March 24
Artists, Designers and Historians Lecture at MICA This Spring
03.08.10
This spring, MICA brings regional, national and international artists and historians to the College to discuss their work, life and career experiences. Free and open to the public, these lectures offer a rare opportunity to learn about the creative process from prominent contemporary figures in the art world.
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University of Maryland graduate program starts art program with Studio In-Sight.
University of Maryland's Social Work Program Has Chosen 'Studio In-Sight' for Its Inaugural Art Show
03.02.10
A public reception will take place on Monday, March 8 from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., which will include guest speakers, light refreshments and many of the talented artists in the show.
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Christopher Myers, St. Petersburg Passage (detail), archival pigment print, 2001. Part of Wasteland at C. Grimaldis Gallery.
MICA Alumni, Faculty, Staff Showcased in Several Exhibitions in March
03.01.10
Members of the MICA community have their work featured in shows off-campus in March.
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Natalie Andrews, Whisk, electrical wire and plywood, 2008.
MICA Mounts M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions, March 26-May 2
02.26.10
MICA this spring features three engaging and provocative exhibitions of thesis work by more than 40 master of fine arts candidates from MICA's internationally renowned M.F.A. in Graphic Design, Hoffberger School of Painting, Mount Royal School of Art, M.F.A. in Photographic & Electronic Media and Rinehart School of Sculpture programs.
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'Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects' cover, design by Julia Kostreva '10
MICA’s Center for Design Thinking Publishes Its Fourth Book, 'Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects'
02.22.10
MICA and Princeton Architectural Press celebrate their new book, 'Exploring Materials,' with a book signing and reception on Thursday, March 11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Brown Center's Leidy Atrium. The book, authored by MICA's M.F.A. in Graphic Design program Director Ellen Lupton and environmental design faculty member Inna Alesina, features dozens of MICA students' work in the environmental design program. 'Exploring Materials' is scheduled to be officially released on Thursday, April 1.
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09.11.09
MICA Welcomes Largest Freshmen Class in Art and Design College's History
MICA, bucking a nationwide recession-driven admissions trend for private colleges, begins the 2009-10 academic year with the largest freshmen class in its history: 464. In addition, the College welcomes 61 transfer students and 123 graduate students to the MICA community. Among those enrolled students are four Presidential Scholars in the Arts, a 2009 Gold Medalist for the NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), and the national winner of the Latino Art Beat Hispanic Heritage Scholarship. A Fulbright Scholar from the Philippines joins the MA in Community Arts program.
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