With wood and metal shops, 3-D printing, an electronics lab and textile studios, Open Works is a makerspace where Baltimore City residents can…

Built on the premise that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn, the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange is a community-based…

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

In 2014, Samuel Hoi was appointed MICA's president following the long tenure of Fred Lazarus. Along with more than two decades of higher education…

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

We asked the MICA community to tell us what their favorite places to eat near campus. Here’s what they said.

When Andre Keiper and Kei Ito discovered their shared connection to the atomic bomb through their grandfathers, they promised to one day explore…

As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…

Kyle Hackett graduated in 2013 and has been continuously exhibiting his artwork since then. Currently based in Washington, D.C., his work was…

Ada Pinkston ’13 (Community Arts M.F.A.) and Hoesy Corona ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) graduated from MICA four years apart. Pinkston focused on community…

Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Harrison Tyler ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture) is the digital operations manager at Open Works, a…

MICA students students accept challenge to design toy for Asian elephants at the National Zoo.

MICA asked three MICA students about their favorite places in Baltimore and around campus. Here's what they had to say.

Rachel Frank leveraged the power of the MICA network to go from intern at NIKE to full-time color designer at the sportswear titan.

Abbi Jacobson is co-creator of the hit Comedy Central show Broad City. An active illustrator, she is also an author, most recently of the New…

Jescia Hoffman Hopper teaches at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Middle School in Minnesota, where she works to build a rigorous, holistic art curriculum…

A few years after turning an internship into a full-time job at a game studio, Willem Rosenthal founded Proto Games, which successfully launched…

Since his graduation from MICA, Javier Ameijeiras has contributed to TV shows, films and productions that have won Emmys and Tonys and been nominated…

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 leveraged his fine arts skills to launch a creative business and won $25,000 in investment funding during MICA's annual Up-Start Venture…

In only four years, Allina Liu has established her own womenswear label, Allina Liu. Her designs have been featured in an array of fashion and…

Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…

Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…

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.

If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…

In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…

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

“I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F…

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

“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…

Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

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…

Two years after the launch of the M.F.A. in Filmmaking, students in the program are reaping the benefits of unique partnerships with Johns Hopkins…

A native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Zlata Baum has had a multifaceted career as an arts administrator, educator and exhibiting artist…

For Jann Rosen-Queralt, director of MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture, environmental and industrial elements are an intricate part of her process…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…