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…
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…
Nikki Hendricks Nikki Hendricks was a senior at MICA when she received an invitation to participate in the 2017 New York, Paris and Milan fashion weeks – three…
Sam Acuff Sam Acuff leveraged his fine arts skills to launch a creative business and won $25,000 in investment funding during MICA's annual Up-Start Venture…
Payton Cossell Turner and Brian Kaspr Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr are co-owners of Flat Vernacular, a highly successful design studio specializing in original wallpapers…
Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…
Rising Action Studio — Winner $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition Rising Action Studio, which helps change makers and nonprofits tell imaginative, inspiring and ethical stories about social impact movements…
Boba Studios — Winner of $20k in 2018 UP/Start Competition Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…
2018 Steinmetz Residency Awarded to Design Technologist Zachary Lieberman Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…
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…
Fashion Forward If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
MICA Open Works / Byron Banghart In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…
Knowledge and Community At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…
The Upstarts MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald ’04 “I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F…
Finalists Selected for MICA’s 2018 Up/Start Venture Competition On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…
Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Award Incoming and returning students share their perspectives on diversity and creative discourse.
Baltimore Design School and MICA Collaborate Through Teaching A collaborative effort between then MICA president Fred Lazarus IV H’14 and Maryland State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, Baltimore Design School…
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Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale
MICA Awards More Than $100K in Annual UP/Start Venture Competition GPG Technologies and Greenmount Tile were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) fourth annual UP/Start Venture…
Start It Up From its earliest days, MICA has had a connection to doers and makers, to people who believe that artistic creativity is a catalyst for positive…
Pamela Harris Lawton Florence Gaskins Harper Endowed Chair in Art Education / Full-Time Faculty / Master of Arts in Teaching; Full-Time Faculty / Community Arts…
Nadia Hironaka Full-Time Faculty/ Film and Video, Animation and Media Arts, BFA; Co-Area Head / Creative Media Production, BFA; Full-Time Faculty / Studio…