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 leveraged his fine arts skills to launch a creative business and won $25,000 in investment funding during MICA's annual Up-Start Venture…

College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

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

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…

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

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

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer ’16 hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability…

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

Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…

On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…

Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…

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…

LESLIE SPEER, recently selected to lead MICA’s new B.F.A. in Product Design, is a designer and educator who has worked for companies and clients…

Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 (Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate, Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) measures success by what happens in the studio  —…

In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…

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

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…

Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…

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

MICA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheri Parks as the College's next Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. Beginning on June…

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

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

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

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…

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

In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…

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…

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…

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

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

Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.

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

Sok Hui Low, an art educator who encourages experimentation and play with art materials and processes, teaches adolescents in Singapore, in an…

As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website. When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…

President Samuel Hoi was named a 2017-2018 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation.

In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…

When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…

Home to B.F.A. programs in Game Design and Product Design as well as the B.F.A. in Architectural Design, the new Dolphin Design Center was created…

For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…

“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…

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