The Upstarts MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
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…
MICA Named Top Producing Institution for 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Program MICA was included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Students, among special-focus…
+ Enlarge Headlights on the Highway Stephen Clark 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 Close
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…
+ Enlarge Untitled Kenny Yee Untitled Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts Artist Kenny Yee Date 2010 Medium Oil, latex on canvas Dimensions 50 x 46 inches Close
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.
+ Enlarge Project Eclipse (installation shot) Kwaku Osei Project Eclipse (installation shot) Studio Art M.F.A. Artist Kwaku Osei Date 2017 Close
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…
+ Enlarge Shelf of Shelves #1 Eunjung Park ’15 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 Close
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…
+ Enlarge Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing Luca Buvoli 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 Close
Morel Doucet - Full Circle Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as a…
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)…
+ Enlarge Southern Gothic Emily Tartanella Southern Gothic Graphic Design M.A. Artist Emily Tartanella Date 2017 Medium Digital Close
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…
+ Enlarge Buttholes Danni Tsuboi ’16 Buttholes Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A. Artist Danni Tsuboi ’16 Date 2015 Close
+ Enlarge Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot) Howard el-Yasin Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot) Studio Art M.F.A. Artist Howard el-Yasin Date 2016 Medium Dryer lint and mixed media Close
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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…
Bibliography: Baltimore's Confederate Monuments Reflective of MICA's commitment to engaging in issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice, and the college's historic and ongoing…
+ Enlarge Drain Lauren Jefferson Drain LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A. Artist Lauren Jefferson Close
+ Enlarge From the series With Grandmother Ji Won Song From the series With Grandmother Teaching M.A. Artist Ji Won Song Close
+ Enlarge Smithsonian Commissions MICA Faculty Amy Sherald '04 for Michelle Obama Portrait Last week, Amy Sherald '04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.), who recently joined MICA's Painting faculty as the McMillan/Stewart… Close
+ Enlarge Pulling Jinie Park Pulling LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A. Artist Jinie Park Close
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.
Adapt & Adopt for a Better Future Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…
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 —…
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…
Collaborative By Design Home to B.F.A. programs in Game Design and Product Design as well as the B.F.A. in Architectural Design, the new Dolphin Design Center was created…
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…
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…
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.
Making Space The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
Elle Perez ’11 Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
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…