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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…
Site Specific: Alumni in Their Creative Spaces
Five alumni—based in Chicago—who have carved out impressive creative spaces: Alex Fuller ’03 (Graphic Design BFA), Aram Han Sifuentes ’11…
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…
Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale
The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale
Career Notes
A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.
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…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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.),…
Jacob Lockard
Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.
Christina Neston
Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.
Smile Indias
Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…
E-Textiles: Yuchen Zhang
Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…
Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA
The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…
Hilary Ament
Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.
Stephen Edmond
Upon graduation from MICA, Stephen Edmond was recruited by well-known boxing brand Everlast Worldwide, Inc. Within months, he found himself designing…
POW!
Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.
When Art & Science Collide
Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.
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…
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…
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…
2018 Baker Awards
Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…
Rising Star: ND Stevenson
Signing their first book deal while still a student at MICA, ND Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…
Edon Muhaxheri
Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.
Hermonie Williams
Hermonie Williams is a Baltimore-based exhibiting artist.
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Masterwork
In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Site Specific, The Baltimore Area
Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
Designing for America
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…
Setting the Design Standard
The Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence Program
Hello, Allo!
High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.
Designing the Digital Classroom
M/O/O/C
Power to the Young People
M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.
EPIC Fun
This winter, the holiday season arrived a little early for Maharani, Swarna and Kamala — three of the six Asian elephants living at the…
Paul Mirel: MICA’s Starman
Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.
Celebrating Dr. Karen Carroll, Dean of the Center For Art Education
As Dr. Karen Carroll — MICA’s “Art Mama” in residence — prepares to retire, her students and colleagues laud her singular brand…
A Conversation with Ellen Lupton
The director of the MFA in Graphic Design talks about the current state of the field and MICA’s graduate program.
First-Year Juried Exhibition
New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.
Center for Social Design
Learn How Design helps people get the things they need to make their lives better.
Sustainable Design: Alayna Citrin
Currently, a graphic designer at Sir Kensington's in New York City, Alayna Citrin loves working in process-driven, collaborative environments…
Matt Hodin
Shortly after his graduation from MICA in 2015, Matt Hodin was hired as a production designer by Under Armour at their global headquarters in…
Rachel Frank
Rachel Frank leveraged the power of the MICA network to go from intern at NIKE to full-time color designer at the sportswear titan.
Carlos Florez
Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…
Caitlin Turner
Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…
Emily Ragle
Emily Ragle has made apps for the Food Network, National Geographic, Fast Company, the Royal Irish Academy, and more. She is currently principal…
From Coast to Coast: Noah Boyle
Since leaving MICA, Noah Boyle's career has thrived, first as a visual design intern for Huge, Inc. in Los Angeles and currently as a designer…