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Community Arts (MA)

MA in Community Arts (MACA) students develop their own artistic voice as they investigate the relationship of the citizen artists, art, and community-building. Real-world experiences are supported by classroom study and independent studio work; students also develop proposals for and implement their own community art project.

  1. Launching Community Arts Perspectives, Volume II

    Volume II of this publication is composed of 32 texts reviewed and selected by editor Amalia Mesa-Bains and the national editorial board of the project. These texts formed the basis for the topics examined at the project's second convening, which took place at Cal State Monterey Bay in April 2009.

  2. MICA Receives Presidential Community Service Award

    Work by children at The Club at Collington Square. (Community Art Corps artist Emily Vaughn)

    MICA Receives Presidential Community Service Award

    On Feb. 25, MICA was named in the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.

MICA News

  1. Best Graduate Schools Ranking

    U.S. News & World Report Ranks MICA's Master of Fine Arts Programs Among Top Four in Nation

    Maryland Institute College of Art's (MICA) Master of Fine Arts programs were ranked among the top four in the nation, with those of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Yale University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, by U.S. News & World Report, in its “Best Graduate Schools” edition released on March 26, 2008. This ranking was based “solely on the results of a peer assessment survey of art school deans [asked to] rate the academic quality of programs,” at 220 colleges and universities, according to the magazine.