From its earliest days, MICA has had a connection to doers and makers, to people who believe that artistic creativity is a catalyst for positive…

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…

Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.

Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.

Jim Burger ’82 (Photography B.F.A.) — noted Baltimore-area photographer and longtime photojournalist for the Baltimore City Paper and The Baltimore…

The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale

A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.

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…

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…

Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…

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

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…

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.),…

“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…

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

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.

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

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…

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

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

Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.

The director of the MFA in Graphic Design talks about the current state of the field and MICA’s graduate program.

New associate dean Marcus Civin reflects on a strong show by the MFA class of 2017.

Learn How Design helps people get the things they need to make their lives better.

Every year, MICA students become proud recipients of national awards. We chose just two of these talented young artists to feature in these pages:…

MICA is pleased to announce this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition finalists, who were chosen after the Round 1 Virtual 'Pop Up and Pitch'…

Every year, the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 100 show recognizes 100 greatest examples of typographic design excellence by professionals…

Graphic Design MFA Projects Stand Out at STA 100

Recent Grads Receive International Recognition for Thesis Work

Uplifting Disability Justice Within Creative Culture

Dhrishti Khokhar is an award-winning graphic designer from India, now working with the global creative agency Ogilvy.

Sean Dong is a 3D artist and motion designer based in Baltimore.

Daniel Frumhoff is an art director, motion designer, and design educator based in NYC.

In 2018, MICA’s voting rate of registered students increased nearly 40 percentage points, and the number of eligible students registered to…

What do exhibitions look like when they take queerness for granted? This was the question I tried to answer for most of the year and a half I…

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the founding of the William O. Steinmetz ’50 and Betty Cooke ’46 Chair in Design…

The center, infusing creative entrepreneurship training into art and design education, further advances the College’s forward-looking mission…

In the spring of Akea Brionne Brown’s first year at MICA, that the Baltimore Uprising occurred. It was finals week. And it was an event that…

To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an nontraditional student is an understatement. Older…

Information and Visualization students take data detailing the devastating change of population in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust…