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.

Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course

Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…

DANAE Inc., Dandelion Wine Collective and Zee Bait Co. were the top prize winners of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) second annual…

It’s no coincidence that the word “collective” is in the title of the new venture from Paloma Hernando ’17 (Illustration B.F.A.) and Bekky Sunmi…

Benjamin Torres ’15, ’16 (General Fine Arts BFA, Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design) always loved music. He played bass in his teens and, since…

Growing up in Michigan, Jann Rosen-Queralt spent a lot of time around the Great Lakes, which holds 90 percent of North America’s fresh surface…

This winter, the holiday season arrived a little early for Maharani, Swarna and Kamala­ — three of the six Asian elephants living at the…

The work of painter Amy Sherald ’04 (Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) was always autobiographical in nature, but the artist says her move…

The Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence Program

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.

Full-Time Faculty / Graphic Design MFA; Inaugural Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair

Part-Time Faculty / Graphic Design MFA

Director / Graphic Design MFA

Designer-in-Residence / Graphic Design MFA

Part-Time Faculty / Graphic Design

Full-Time Faculty / Graphic Design

Part-Time Faculty / Graphic Design MFA

Part-Time Faculty / Graphic Design MFA

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…

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

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

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

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

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…