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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…
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…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Art of the Impossible
As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…
The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program Photos
Please enjoy these images from The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists
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.
Cosmo Whyte
Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.
Erin Fender
Erin Fender is a photographer and program manager at the nonprofit Atlanta Photography Group.
Kris Grey
Kris Grey is a New York City-based exhibiting artist who teaches and exhibits work internationally.
The Legacy of Chair Emeritus in Art Education Dr. Al Hurwitz ’41 (1920-2012) Is Felt Worldwide
MICA Chair Emeritus in Art Education and alumnus Dr. Al Hurwitz '41, who passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012 leaves a lasting legacy on the…
Giving Baltimore's Youth the Tools to Tell Their Stories
“Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so,” Moira Fratantuono ’10 (Community Arts M.F.A.)…
Hitting Their Marks
Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.
Xiaofu Wang
A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…
Alumni Biennial Exhibition
Taha Heydari
A native of Iran, Taha Heydari has exhibited around the world, including London, Berlin and Antwerp. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions…
A Conversation With President Samuel Hoi
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…
Curatorial Thinking
Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally
How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
Unconventional Illustration
Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…
Five Free Art Activities In Baltimore
Discover Masterpieces at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum or the AVAM.
(MICA alumna and faculty member Phaan Howng with her…
Danah Abdulla ’12: Challenging the Status Quo
Danah Abdulla is founder of Kalimat, an open outlet that puts creative Arabs on the international stage
Alumni Spotlight: Morel Doucet '13
MICA Named Top Producer of Fulbright Fellows
Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
Toppling the Hierarchy
Building a Website for Artists and Designers
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Educational Innovation
The capacity and willingness to act upon opportunities, to embrace the uncertain, to take a calculated risk, to dream big, to persevere and to…
#MICApreneurship
#MICApreneurship is a hub of creative applied entrepreneurial support, resources and programming specially designed to help MICA students and…
Stephen Towns: Patience Paid Off
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…
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.
Nour Tabet
Nour Tabet, who worked as a graphic designer in Beirut before coming to MICA to pursue graduate study, is currently senior visual designer at…
Elise Roy
Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and motivational speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement…
Creative Entrepreneurs Are Changing Baltimore, the World
These MICA students and alumni have an internal drive to do big things and a deep passion for helping others.
Creative Careers: Morel Doucet
Recently featured at Art Basel Miami, Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) is an exhibiting ceramics artist and curriculum and tour coordinator…
Daniel Shea
Daniel Shea is a highly successful photographer whose work has been widely published in Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Business…
Sam Acuff
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…
MICA Community Helps Illuminate Baltimore During Light City 2018
Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…
Henry Becker
As an M.F.A. student, Henry Becker earned a Student Typeface Design Merit from Print magazine for his typeface design, Chromogenic. Today, he…
Venture Advocate
Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…
MICA Welcomes Sheri Parks as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
MICA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheri Parks as the College's next Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Beginning on June…
Chameleon Gallery — Winner of $15k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
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…
2018 Steinmetz Residency Awarded to Design Technologist Zachary Lieberman
Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…
The Upstarts
MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
Puppet Masters
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…
Strength in Numbers
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…
Good Fellows
Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area
Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
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…