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A Cheerleader for Art Education

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

Adapt & Adopt for a Better Future

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

Q&A With Leslie Speer

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…

Hillery Sproatt ’07

Even before she entered MICA, Hillery Sproatt as an entrepreneur, launching Rebe, a line of woman's clothing and handbags with her mother, textile…

President Samuel Hoi Responds to DACA Rescission Decision

The following are statements that were made to the MICA community regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 announcement to plan to…

Art and Aerospace: Alumna Engineers Thermal Solutions for Spacecraft

As a little girl, Aleks Bogunovic ’12 ’13 (Fiber B.F.A., Business of Art and Design M.P.S.) knitted, crocheted and sewed clothes, taking after…

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MICA Names First 5 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works Makerspace

MICA is pleased to announce its five new Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works through its recent partnership with the Baltimore Arts Realty…

MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2017 UP/Start Finale

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…

Club Sweetness — 2017 UP/Start Finalist

Brittney Dori Wilson ’16 was just finishing a master’s degree in paralegal studies at George Washington University and working for the federal…

Dandelion Wine Collective — Winner of $25k during UP/Start Competition

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…

Guitars by Evil Evil — Awarded $20k in UP/Start Competition

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

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Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

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Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

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Luca Buvoli

Date

2011-2017

Sok Hui Low

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

WYPR Commentary: Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change…

President Hoi on Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi discusses how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change on Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR…

Zoe Linn Jarvis

A 2015 graduate, Zoe Linn Jarvis has a thriving career as an exhibiting artist with a large-scale solo show opening in Washington, DC in 2017…

WYPR Commentary: Confronting the Sites of Confederate Monuments

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate…

President Hoi Receives Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship

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

Firsts

Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

A Conversation With Kelsey Schmitt ’12

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…

Making Space

The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…

Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur

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

Collaborative By Design

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…

Allana Clarke

“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…

Freedom to Fail

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

Q&A With Jason Corace

JASON CORACE is an award winning game designer, media artist and educator who founded MICA’s successful studio concentration in game design…

Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award

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

Elle Perez ’11

Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…

Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore

Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.

Louder Than a Bomb

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

Full Bleed: A Journal of Art & Design

Published annually by MICA, the work in Full Bleed stands for the civilizing influences of aesthetic experience and progressive design.

Art Meets Science

In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…

Masterwork

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

Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless

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…

Errol Webber

Music by Prudence, a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA's video and film arts department, won an Oscar…

Colin Dunn

Colin Dunn began blending technology with design as an undergraduate at MICA and took that passion with him to Facebook after graduation. While…

The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng

Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…

President Samuel Hoi Warfield Video Interview

Though he says it was a matter of happenstance that he stumbled upon arts college management while studying illustration at Parsons School of…

Knowledge is Power

MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange

P.J. Richardson

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

Jessica Bastidas

Jessica Bastidas, whose goal is to share her personal storybook world with children, is a student in MICA's MAT program as well as an art instructor…

Leslie Speer Named Chair of New Product Design Program

As the College prepares to launch its new B.F.A. in Product Design this fall, it is pleased to announce renowned educator and designer Leslie…

Social Design: Smile Indias

Smile Indias ’17 (Social Design M.A.), this year’s graduate student speaker at MICA’s 168th Commencement on Monday, May 15th, believes that the…

Interdisciplinary Sculpture: Reece Cox

Reece Cox ’17, who came to Baltimore from Charlotte, N.C., was adamant that he wanted to be a figurative painter. “I’ve taken a few leaps since…

Illustration: Briana Arrington

The undergraduate student speaker at MICA’s 168th Commencement on Monday, May 15th, Briana Arrington ’17 (Illustration B.F.A.) brings energy…

Quarters — 2017 UP/Start Finalist

The spark for Quarters — a company whose objective is to easily connect alumni hosts with students seeking study abroad and intern housing …

DANAE — Winner of $25k in 2017 Up/Start Competition including People’s Choice Award

When Winston Frazer ’16 (Painting B.F.A.) was a junior at MICA, his experience during a Summer Travel Intensive to the island nation of São Tom…

Illustration Practice: Emily Joynton

When Emily Joynton ’17 (Illustration Practice M.F.A.) first came to MICA, she had a hard time visualizing how to turn her illustration skills…

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