MICA Announces Winners of 10th Annual UP/Start Venture Competition and $105,000 in Prizes Student entrepreneurs awarded funding to launch creative ventures
Ouroboros Exhibition Opens February 5 February 5–March 8, 2026 Meyerhoff Gallery, Fox Building 1303 W Mount Royal Ave Admission: FREE and open to the public Gallery Hours: Monday…
George Ciscle MICA’s MFA in Curatorial Practice director and long-time curator-in-residence prepares to retire
LAB Award See how this year’s recipients will strengthen Baltimore’s neighborhoods and bolster the city’s identity.
Alumni Launch Entities and Initiatives to Integrate Art into Communities Many members of the MICA comm unity showcase their creative and artistic talents through their own small businesses and product lines. Below…
Bragging Rights: Incoming Students A glimpse into the portfolios of MICA's incoming undergraduate and graduate students.
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…
Jann Rosen-Queralt: The Artist as Change Agent Growing up in Michigan, Jann Rosen-Queralt spent a lot of time around the Great Lakes, which holds 90 percent of North America’s fresh surface…
Film and Video Chair Nadia Hironaka Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship Film and Video Chair Nadia Hironaka was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The foundation…
Deana Haggag Immediately upon graduating from the M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice program, Deana Haggag was named director of The Contemporary, a nomadic museum…
Curatorial Thinking Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…
Developing the Curriculum of a Social Movement What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.
MICA Partners with BMA and For Freedoms to Deliver Civic Engagement Programming MICA is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and For Freedoms to deliver a robust line-up of civic engagement programming on campus…
Hank Willis Thomas Visits MICA as Part of Civic Engagement Programming MICA is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and For Freedoms to deliver a robust line-up of civic engagement programming on campus…
Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize This is the fifth year in a row a MICA alum was chosen as the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize winner.
A Conversation with José Ruiz The new director of MICA’s M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice discusses his goals for the program and the role curators can play in society.
Become Again: Identity as Process What do exhibitions look like when they take queerness for granted? This was the question I tried to answer for most of the year and a half I…
Maryland Institute Black Archives To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an nontraditional student is an understatement. Older…
MICA Alumna Wins Sondheim Prize In the spring of Akea Brionne Brown’s first year at MICA, that the Baltimore Uprising occurred. It was finals week. And it was an event that…
MICA names four William O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in-Residence, bringing together three generations of cultural activists Over two lectures, Cheryl D. Miller ’74 (Graphic Design and Illustration BFA), Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, Maurice Cherry and Deyane Moses ’19…
+ Enlarge Exploring the Framework A conversation with Jared Christensen ’19 (Curatorial Practice MFA). Close
Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute College of Art Announce Elizabeth Talford Scott Exhibition and Community Celebration MICA Exhibition Development Seminar students to work with cultural organizations and colleges across Baltimore to celebrate Talford Scott from…
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…
Full Circle The Exhibition Development Seminar at MICA Marks its 25th Anniversary by Partnering with Baltimore Museum of Art, Goya Contemporary to Build…
Exposition MICA alums build communities by sharing stories, their work, and the creative process itself.
MICA Announces Honorary Degree Recipients for the 2025 Commencement Ceremony Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the 2025 honorary degree recipients, who will speak during the Undergraduate…
+ Enlarge Cactus Man Ashley (Qing) He ’20 (Curatorial Practice MFA) Cactus Man Artist Ashley (Qing) He ’20 (Curatorial Practice MFA) Medium Mixed media Dimensions 6’ Close
Exhibiting MICA’s Spirit Andrea Dixon ’88 (Visual Communication BFA); Director, Office of Exhibitions
+ Enlarge Preview: BMA Celebrates MICA 200 BMA Celebrates MICA’s Bicentennial with Special Presentation of Affiliated Artists in its Collection Bale Variant No 0027 (Charm City Girl Stele) Artist Shinique Smith ’92, ’03 (General Fine Arts BFA, Mount Royal School Of Art MFA) Date 2022 Attic Plant Artist Charles H. Walther ’1906 Date 1925 Mongrel Artist Jo Smail Date 2004 Resortscape Artist Amalie Rothschild ’34 Date 1954-1955 pull Artist Elle Pérez '11 (Photography BFA) Date 2020, printed 2021 Mama's Little Rock and Roll Baby Artist Tom Miller ’63, ’87 (BFA, MFA) Date 1991 Viewfinder Quilt #1 Artist MICA Pandemic Quilters; Susie Brandt Date 2020 The Old Mill Artist Hugh Bolton Jones Date 1880-1900 Daily Mask Artist Maren Hassinger Date 1997-2004 Ingres' Bath Artist Grace Hartigan Date 1993 Necksculpture Artist Betty Cooke ’46 (Art Education BFA) Date 1976 Close Prev Next 1 of 11
+ Enlarge Preview: 32nd Annual Benefit Fashion Show The 32nd Annual Benefit Fashion Show takes place on April 17-18, 2026, at 7 p.m., during MICA’s Bicentennial year. ANANTAA Artist Mugdha Nath Date 2026 Cryptids & Creatures Anew Artist Zoë Brielle Payne ’27 Date 2026 MONOPOLY, Antigone: A Tragedy Artist Simone Isip ‘26 & Loulie Rossmassler ‘27 Date 2026 For Mrs. Lowe Artist Maia J. Hollien ’27 Date 2026 Rally Round Artist Sofie Jarrett Date 2026 Reign, Ruin, Recur Artist Annie Knotts Date 2026 Self Artist Jayden Li Chi Henry Date 2026 THEY’RE WATCHING EVEN WHEN THEY’RE NOT WATCHING Artist Brechelle Lipscomb Date 2026 Close Prev Next 1 of 8
Showing Up: Why Graduate Study at MICA Is More Than a Degree Where can you grow, not only as an artist, but as someone whose work matters in the world? For nearly two centuries, artists and educators have…