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Nikki Hendricks

Nikki Hendricks was a senior at MICA when she received an invitation to participate in the 2017 New York, Paris and Milan fashion weeks – three…

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…

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…

Art + Space Exploration

Aleks Bogunovic turned her love for sewing and fabrication into Aerothreads, a business that makes Multi-Layer Insulation blankets for the aerospace…

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…

Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…

Rising Action Studio — Winner $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Rising Action Studio, which helps change makers and nonprofits tell imaginative, inspiring and ethical stories about social impact movements…

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…

Social Butterfly — 2018 UP/Start People’s Choice Award Winner with 5k in Funding

With balloons stating “You actually showed up, so have fun,” and paper cups encouraging others to “Ask me what I like about the party,” the party…

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 Longform — Winner of $25k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…

Carlos Florez

Carlos Florez is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director whose clients include NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NASA, Target…

In Real Time

For me, music has always been a path for survival, in the strictest terms. Inspired by the music of Nirvana and the underground music scenes…

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…

The Upstarts

MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative

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…

Fashion Forward

If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…

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.

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…

Natasha Nayo

Since her graduation from MICA in 2015, Natasha Nayo has worked as an animator based in Baltimore. She's currently with Storyfarm, where she…

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…

Fashion Forward: Allina Liu

In only four years, Allina Liu has established her own womenswear label, Allina Liu. Her designs have been featured in an array of fashion and…

WYPR Commentary: Art as a Uniter

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about art's ability to engage and unite, as witnessed during Art Walk, Light…

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…

From Coast to Coast: Noah Boyle

Since leaving MICA, Noah Boyle's career has thrived, first as a visual design intern for Huge, Inc. in Los Angeles and currently as a designer…

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…

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…

Boba Studios — Winner of $20k in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…

WYPR Commentary: Building the City We Imagine

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about the success of BCAN, the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network…

Ben Iluzada

In addition to being a conservation technician at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Ben Iluzada is founder of BSMTPress, an apparel startup…

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…

Boss Lady

MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby

Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area

Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

Jann Rosen-Queralt

For Jann Rosen-Queralt, director of MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture, environmental and industrial elements are an intricate part of her process…

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…

On Public Display

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

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…

Knowledge and Community

At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…

A Conversation With Zlata Baum

A native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Zlata Baum has had a multifaceted career as an arts administrator, educator and exhibiting artist…

Making Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

Their MICA story begins like that of so many students who enroll in one of the College’s 21 graduate programs: with a housing search.

Morel Doucet - Full Circle

Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as a…

Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA

Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…

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…

WYPR Commentary: Destination Baltimore

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about Baltimore's growing prominence as a visitor destination. This segment…

Caitlin Turner

Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…

Site specific installation with bright pink ribbon zigzagging across the high ceiling of an exhibition space.

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Site specific installation with bright pink ribbon zigzagging across the high ceiling of an exhibition space.

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Art Education M.A.

Artist

Karla Stauffer

Date

2016

Medium

Flagging tape, string, nails

Dried acrylic paint in many colors is peeled from a flat surface is folded over a copper tube installed on a gallery wall.

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Dried acrylic paint in many colors is peeled from a flat surface is folded over a copper tube installed on a gallery wall.

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Art Education M.A.

Artist

Elena Johnston

Date

2016

Medium

Acrylic paint

Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)

Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course

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