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…

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…

Numerous MICA students have taken part in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship, which aims to explore visual representations…

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

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s…

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

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

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

“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.)…

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

MICA’s faculty do more than teach — they are working professionals immersed in the art and design communities. They are also highly respected…

Twenty-one years ago, MICA alum Susan Malone ’97 (Photography BFA) began working as manager of programs at Wide Angle Youth Media — a Baltimore…

McCormick will continue as president, following her interim presidency since January 2024, and will spearhead exciting new initiatives for the…

MICA proudly announces new faculty who are joining the College in Fall 2025 across a range of programs and contemporary approaches to art, design…

Celebrating everything from espresso to the changing of the seasons, MICA alum reaches a worldwide audience.

Area Head & Full-Time Faculty / Photography; Assistant Chair / Animation & Media Arts

Full-Time Faculty/ Film and Video, Animation and Media Arts, BFA; Co-Area Head / Creative Media Production, BFA; Full-Time Faculty / Studio…

Part-Time Faculty / First Year Experience

Area Head / Animation; Faculty / Animation and Media Arts

Chair / Animation and Media Arts

Program Coordinator

Full-Time Faculty / History of Art, Design, & Visual Culture

Nate Larson, Full-Time Faculty, Photography

Launching in Fall 2026, the new programs expand MICA’s media arts ecosystem, connecting filmmaking, game development, and interactive storytelling…

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

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…

When Jenny Ferretti ’07 (Painting BFA) became the digital initiatives librarian for MICA’s Decker Library in 2015, print documentation of graduate…

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

Like most MICA students, Kelly Leigh Miller has always liked to draw. Whether it was in the sketchbooks her mom bought her, on the kid’s menu…

Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.

This is the fifth year in a row a MICA alum was chosen as the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize winner.

Students in MICA's biofabrication courses turn their artistic vision to biotech.

Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.

With a committed interest in social justice and art education, and understanding how they both intersect with youth, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt joins…

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

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…

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…

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.),…

“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…

Dear MICA Community Members,Our nation was shaken to the core this past week by a series of senseless crimes linked by hate. We shared in communal…

As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…