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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.

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…

Video still of an animated mars.

Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Video still of an animated mars.

Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Artist

Luca Buvoli

Date

2011-2017

Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award

In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…

Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless

When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…

Q&A With Jason Corace

JASON CORACE is an award winning game designer, media artist and educator who founded MICA’s successful studio concentration in game design…

Allana Clarke

“I was a really terrible student,” exclaimed Allana Clarke ’14 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) in a conversation before her April lecture…

Art Meets Science

In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…

Good Fellows

Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…

In Real Time

For me, music has always been a path for survival, in the strictest terms. Inspired by the music of Nirvana and the underground music scenes…

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…

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…

Making Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

Their MICA story begins like that of so many students who enroll in one of the College’s 21 graduate programs: with a housing search.

Outlines of mountains and streams etched into canvas with a sand-like texture. A road fades off into the distance.

Headlights on the Highway

Outlines of mountains and streams etched into canvas with a sand-like texture. A road fades off into the distance.

Headlights on the Highway

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting

Artist

Stephen Clark

Date

2015

Medium

Fabric paint and enamel on canvas

Dimensions

20 x 16 inches

Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA

Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…

Painting with soft neon smudges and hand-like sketches. A think black curve runs from the top left corner to the bottom of the canvas.

Untitled

Painting with soft neon smudges and hand-like sketches. A think black curve runs from the top left corner to the bottom of the canvas.

Untitled

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts

Artist

Kenny Yee

Date

2010

Medium

Oil, latex on canvas

Dimensions

50 x 46 inches

The artist sits in the middle of a darkened room. A projection of his work is behind him and four paintings line the walls on either side of him.

Project Eclipse (installation shot)

The artist sits in the middle of a darkened room. A projection of his work is behind him and four paintings line the walls on either side of him.

Project Eclipse (installation shot)

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Kwaku Osei

Date

2017

Print by Terron Sorrells

Handouts

Terron Sorrells

Print by Terron Sorrells

Handouts

Artist

Terron Sorrells

Date

2016

Medium

Etching

Transmission

Transmission

Artist

Seth Izen

Date

2017

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…

Two shelves containing miniature shelves with tiny objects.

Shelf of Shelves #1

Eunjung Park ’15

Two shelves containing miniature shelves with tiny objects.

Shelf of Shelves #1

Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.

Artist

Eunjung Park ’15

Date

2014

Medium

Wood, metal, glass, acrylic paint, plastic film, pill, gum, cigarettes, lighter, paintbrush

WYPR Commentary: Destination Baltimore

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about Baltimore's growing prominence as a visitor destination. This segment…

Sok Hui Low

Sok Hui Low, an art educator who encourages experimentation and play with art materials and processes, teaches adolescents in Singapore, in an…

A Cheerleader for Art Education

As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website. When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…

Chess pieces shaped like animals on a chessboard covered in wine.

Slay

Chess pieces shaped like animals on a chessboard covered in wine.

Slay

Artist

David Deluty

Serif type design

Southern Gothic

Emily Tartanella

Serif type design

Southern Gothic

Graphic Design M.A.

Artist

Emily Tartanella

Date

2017

Medium

Digital

WYPR Commentary: Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change…

President Hoi on Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi discusses how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change on Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR…

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Untitled

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA)

A person stands in front of a lit sculpture that glows purple. The sculpture is concave. A viewer stands nearby listening to headphones.

Buttholes

Danni Tsuboi ’16

A person stands in front of a lit sculpture that glows purple. The sculpture is concave. A viewer stands nearby listening to headphones.

Buttholes

Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.

Artist

Danni Tsuboi ’16

Date

2015

An enormous amount of fluffy gray lint is piled in the middle of a gallery space.

Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot)

Howard el-Yasin

An enormous amount of fluffy gray lint is piled in the middle of a gallery space.

Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot)

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Howard el-Yasin

Date

2016

Medium

Dryer lint and mixed media

Painting of a truck with wolf eye decals on the back window.

Wolves

Painting of a truck with wolf eye decals on the back window.

Wolves

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Michael Evans

Installation of light and shadows. A lamp on a tripod throws shadows of string against the walls.

Sacred Space

Installation of light and shadows. A lamp on a tripod throws shadows of string against the walls.

Sacred Space

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Ume Hussain

Zoe Linn Jarvis

A 2015 graduate, Zoe Linn Jarvis has a thriving career as an exhibiting artist with a large-scale solo show opening in Washington, DC in 2017…

Abstract painting, light pink and white brushed across a blue and yellow background.

Drain

Lauren Jefferson

Abstract painting, light pink and white brushed across a blue and yellow background.

Drain

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Lauren Jefferson

Abstract painting, a black square over yellow and beige swirls.

From the series With Grandmother

Abstract painting, a black square over yellow and beige swirls.

From the series With Grandmother

Teaching M.A.

Artist

Ji Won Song

Abstract painting, a white rectangle on top of various green and white rectangles.

Pulling

Abstract painting, a white rectangle on top of various green and white rectangles.

Pulling

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Jinie Park

WYPR Commentary: Confronting the Sites of Confederate Monuments

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate…

Confronting the Sites of Federal Monuments

In September 2017, MICA's President, Samuel Hoi, offered a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate monuments.

President Hoi Receives Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship

President Samuel Hoi was named a 2017-2018 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation.

Making Space

The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…

Freedom to Fail

Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 (Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate, Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) measures success by what happens in the studio —…

Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur

For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…

Q&A With Leslie Speer

LESLIE SPEER, recently selected to lead MICA’s new B.F.A. in Product Design, is a designer and educator who has worked for companies and clients…

Louder Than a Bomb

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

Full Bleed: A Journal of Art & Design

Published annually by MICA, the work in Full Bleed stands for the civilizing influences of aesthetic experience and progressive design.

Elle Perez ’11

Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…

Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore

Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.

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