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…

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

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…

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…

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…

In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…

Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…

Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…

A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…

“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…

For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

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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 is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.

Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.

Erin Fender is a photographer and program manager at the nonprofit Atlanta Photography Group.

Kris Grey is a New York City-based exhibiting artist who teaches and exhibits work internationally.

Leonard Peng, based in San Fransicso, is a brand illustrator for Uber.

Heather Day is an exhibiting artist based in San Francisco.

Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.

Hermonie Williams is a Baltimore-based exhibiting artist.

Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…

Yutaka Houlette is a web developer and award-winning book illustrator.

Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…

What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.

The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…

“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.)…

For her senior thesis, Valeria Fuentes ’17 ’18 (Architectural Design B.F.A., Social Design M.F.A.) created a clothing line called Segunda Piel…

In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…

Best known for fabricating ambitious, large-scale installations, MICA faculty member Stephen Hendee is creating a new objective for his studio…

A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…

A look at work created by students in the 2017-2018 First Year Experience.

Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.

Upon graduation from MICA, Stephen Edmond was recruited by well-known boxing brand Everlast Worldwide, Inc. Within months, he found himself designing…

Adarsh Alphons ’06 says that art saved his life. Today, the founder and executive director of ProjectArt now leads his team with a goal to…

A native of Iran, Taha Heydari has exhibited around the world, including London, Berlin and Antwerp. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions…

Born in Colombia and based in New York City, Marilyn Narota is an exhibiting artist who creates performance based videos, participatory installations…

Working from her spacious studio in the city's Greektown neighborhood, Cindy Cheng has found success as an exhibiting artist. She not only exhibits…

Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

Emma You Zhang ’16 (Graphic Design M.F.A.) is an experience designer and graphic designer at Adobe. She is a design thinker focused on branding…

Baltimore-based curator and filmmaker Margaret Rorison founded the experimental film series, Sight Unseen, in 2012. Still running today, the…