Visitors new to Baltimore often remark on how green they find the city, and the amount of trees covering our streets is no accident. For years…

Building a Website for Artists and Designers

The capacity and willingness to act upon opportunities, to embrace the uncertain, to take a calculated risk, to dream big, to persevere and to…

The most oft-discussed piece in “Ruminations and a Reckoning,” a solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), is “Birth of a Nation” — a…

These MICA students and alumni have an internal drive to do big things and a deep passion for helping others.

Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…

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, which helps change makers and nonprofits tell imaginative, inspiring and ethical stories about social impact movements…

Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…

MICA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheri Parks as the College's next Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. Beginning on June…

With balloons stating “You actually showed up, so have fun,” and paper cups encouraging others to “Ask me what I like about the party,” the party…

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

As artists, Yi-An P‘an ’18 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Haoran Chang ’18 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) say they are…

Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…

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

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

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.

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…

On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…

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

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

Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

The following are statements that were made to the MICA community regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 announcement to plan to…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…

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

Art educator and practicing artist, Kelsey Schmitt ’12 is proof that graduates of MICA’s Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program are…

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

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

“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…

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.

The Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence Program

High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.

Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.

A recent alumnus reflects on his love for Baltimore.

Filipino artists Ashley Dequilla ’12 and Toym Imao ’12 collaborate on series of murals in their home country.

In 2005, Baltimore was one of eight cities in the country included in the Ford Foundation’s Arts Integration and Education Reform Initiative…

International students reflect on their experiences as graduate students at MICA.

It seems like such a clear solution to reducing recidivism rates prevalent in the criminal justice system: create an easy-to-use SMS text tool…

Promoting the political power of creatives.

MICA’s MFA in Curatorial Practice director and long-time curator-in-residence prepares to retire