Artist Up: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle is an exhibiting artist featured in Ebony's "Women Up Issue."
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Ada Pinkston & Hoesy Corona: MICA Duo Examines the Past and the Now Ada Pinkston ’13 (Community Arts M.F.A.) and Hoesy Corona ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) graduated from MICA four years apart. Pinkston focused on community…
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…
+ Enlarge Moonhunters Thomas Dahlberg Moonhunters LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting Artist Thomas Dahlberg Date 2015 Medium Oil on canvas, diptych Dimensions 48 x 95 inches Close
+ Enlarge Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Amy Sherald ’04 Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Artist Amy Sherald ’04 Date 2018 Medium Oil paint Dimensions 72 x 60 inches Close
In Their Own Words: Places to See, Things to Do MICA asked three MICA students about their favorite places in Baltimore and around campus. Here's what they had to say.
+ Enlarge Meditating on the Sofa Sarah Stoll Meditating on the Sofa Painting B.F.A. Artist Sarah Stoll Date 2017 Close
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…
Katherine Mahon As a 3D artist at Amazon, Katherine Mahon applies all that she had learnt at MICA to modeling and material creation at the internet giant. She…
Meen Choi Meen Choi maintains an active career as a Brooklyn-based illustrator. In addition to a position as a designer for Bogopa, he pursues freelance…
Winston Frazer CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer ’16 hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability…
+ Enlarge Chrominiscence Szemui Ho, Kailyn Cavaluzzo, Micah Albin Sattin, and Ella Ritts Chrominiscence Painting B.F.A. Artist Szemui Ho, Kailyn Cavaluzzo, Micah Albin Sattin, and Ella Ritts Date 2018 Close
Payton Cossell Turner and Brian Kaspr Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr are co-owners of Flat Vernacular, a highly successful design studio specializing in original wallpapers…
DeRay Mckesson, Joyce J. Scott ’70, Carrie Mae Weems Among Honorees at MICA’s 169th Commencement College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…
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…
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…
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 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.
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…
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)…
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…
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 —…
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…
Art Meets Science In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…
A Conversation With Kelsey Schmitt ’12 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…
Elle Perez ’11 Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
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…
Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…
The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…
MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2017 UP/Start Finale DANAE Inc., Dandelion Wine Collective and Zee Bait Co. were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) second annual…
DANAE — Winner of $25k in 2017 Up/Start Competition including People’s Choice Award When Winston Frazer ’16 (Painting B.F.A.) was a junior at MICA, his experience during a Summer Travel Intensive to the island nation of São Tom…
Guitars by Evil Evil — Awarded $20k in UP/Start Competition Benjamin Torres ’15, ’16 (General Fine Arts BFA, Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design) always loved music. He played bass in his teens and, since…
Maura Dwyer: Art that Builds Trust and Relationships Maura Dwyer ‘12 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) avoids biographies, as she finds that words do not adequately represent her as an artist…
Isaac Ewart: The Art of Storytelling At 25, Isaac Ewart is among the younger artists in Light City 2017. But, he spares no effort to dive in and understand the community he works…
Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax: You’ll Know If You Belong For Daniel Wickerham ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) and Malcolm Lomax ’09 (Painting B.F.A.), their latest installation project serves as a conduit from…
Global Perspectives International students reflect on their experiences as graduate students at MICA.