Illustration Faculty Q&A: Lisa Perrin ’13 (Illustration Practice MFA) A proud graduate of MICA's MFA Illustration Practice program, Lisa Perrin spent five years as an in-house illustrator at American Greetings card…
Pathways at MICA & Beyond: Zoë Soriano ’18 “I went to MICA thinking I’d just learn how to animate Disney-esque characters, and left MICA with an incredible new group of friends and colleagues…
Pathways at MICA and Beyond: Avani Dwivedi ’19 (Illustration BFA) Website | Instagram | Represented by Painted Words During my time at MICA, I was highly motivated to explore different mediums and illustration…
Pathways at MICA and Beyond: Taylor McManus ’19 (Illustration BFA) Website | Instagram | represented by snyder “When I started my journey at MICA in the Illustration Department, I had a vision of what I hoped…
Meta-Phoric MICA Alum creates and immersive, visual narrative around climate change for Meta Open Arts
All the World's a Stage It’s not a cliche to say that the trajectory of Elle Pérez ’11 (Photography BFA) has been meteoric. In a handful of years, they’ve had solo shows…
Olivia Huynh, Google Doodler, Reaches a Worldwide Audience The work of Google Doodler Olivia Huynh has been seen by Google users around the world as the MICA alumna's interactive animations marked holidays…
A Conversation with Juan Bastos (General Fine Arts BFA) ’84 Since graduating in 1984, MICA alumnus, Juan F. Bastos, has enjoyed a successful career as a professional portraitist. Hundreds of his oil paintings…
Compressent Co.—Winner of $30K During the 2022 UP/Start Venture Competition Compressent Co., the venture of Herschel Ruben ’21 (Product Design BFA), was one of seven finalists in this year's competition.
Building Better Bait Meet product designer and entrepreneur Hunter Grogan ’14, ’16 (Environmental Design BFA, Business of Art and Design MPS)
Shaobo Li for Cosmopolitan China Shaobo Li ‘19 (Graphic Design BFA) just finished his work as a Junior Visual Designer for Cosmopolitan China. Check out some of his contributions…
Emma Childs Emma is a US-based abstract painter whose work has been featured in American and British Vogue, and Dwell Magazine.
Austen Weitzel Austen joined LAIKA Animation Studios as a puppet fabricator after a successful internship.
Molly Sydnor Molly Margaret Sydnor ‘15 (Fiber BFA) is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary fine artist with an eye for fiber. Her work has been shown in solo…
Entrepreneurial Teaching To Ray Parris ’94, ‘96 (Graphic Design BFA, MAT) lemonade stands aren’t just a way for children to make a few extra dollars—they’re a vehicle…
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…
Alumna’s Debut Children’s Book, I Am A Wolf, Out This May Like most MICA students, Kelly Leigh Miller has always liked to draw. Whether it was in the sketchbooks her mom bought her, on the kid’s menu…
The HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/ Internship Numerous MICA students have taken part in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship, which aims to explore visual representations…
When Art & Science Collide Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.
Time Lapse: The Charmed Life of Jim Burger Jim Burger ’82 (Photography B.F.A.) — noted Baltimore-area photographer and longtime photojournalist for the Baltimore City Paper and The Baltimore…
Accounting for Taste When Meaghan Carpenter ’08 arrived at MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art, a career in the culinary world wasn’t exactly on her radar. Instead,…
Sarah Belisle Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.
MICA Eats: R House Here's an inside look at R House, an industrial-chic food hall that has something for everyone.
MICA Eats: On the Hill Student recommended top places to eat include On the Hill, a coffee shop and café in the middle of MICA's campus.
Maker Space / Digital Fabrication Studio Building your vision takes the right tools and plenty of space to grow. We provide what you need to get there.
Lisa Hochtritt, Ed.D., Director of MICA's M.A.T. Program With a committed interest in social justice and art education, and understanding how they both intersect with youth, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt joins…
Mentor Extraordinaire: Illustration Faculty Member José Villarrubia Orpheus Collar ’09 was obsessed with comics as a teenager – so obsessed, in fact, that when he was in high school, his mother tracked down legendary…
A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern The summer before my senior year, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt…
Brockett Horne, Chair of Graphic Design, Talks Career Prep Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…
Virtuoso Faculty: Tony Shore From smoke-filled bars in France, to Baltimore’s back streets and alleys, to the rolling fields north of the city where members of the Elkridge…
Art Making Change: Creative Makers Purusing Social Justice in the News As artists and designers optimize the power of their work to bring awareness of a number of causes, the idea of socially engaged art is gathering…
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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…
Social Design Celebrates 10 Years at MICA Since 2008, MICA has been at the forefront of the social design movement, a rapidly emerging field and creative practice in the U.S. and around…
Kehinde Bademosi ’15: Storytelling to Save Lives As a child growing up in Nigeria, Kehinde Bademosi ’15 (Social Design M.A.) didn’t have a television. His family simply couldn’t afford one. So…
Emily Ianacone ’15 Brings Design Strategy to Mayor's Office of Innovation In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…
Smile Indias ’17 Pursues Social Justice Through Work With Government Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…
Kristen Spilman ’05: Design as a Way of Life Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…
A Conversation With Darrée A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…
Designing New Leadership, Starting Now “You have two minutes, start now.” These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our…
Leading by Example: Maren Hassinger For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…
Art + Health Care: Winston Frazer CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…