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Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Become Again: Identity as Process
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…
MICA to launch Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship
The center, infusing creative entrepreneurship training into art and design education, further advances the College’s forward-looking mission…
Honor Roll
Awards, Fellowships Among Accolades Received by MICA Faculty
When Art & Science Collide
Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.
Art + Biology
Students in MICA's biofabrication courses turn their artistic vision to biotech.
MICA awarded competitive grants from the National Endowment of the Arts
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…
Social Design Celebrates 10 Years at MICA
Since 2008, MICA has been at the forefront of the social design movement, a rapidly emerging field and creative practice in the U.S. and around…
Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art an exhibition curated by Dr. Deborah Willis
The exhibition, curated by Willis, the MICA inaugural Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography, explores debates on the topic of migration…
Kehinde Bademosi ’15: Storytelling to Save Lives
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Kehinde Bademosi ’15 (Social Design M.A.) didn’t have a television. His family simply couldn’t afford one.
So…
Smile Indias ’17 Pursues Social Justice Through Work With Government
Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art.
A native of the Philippines, Indias…
Rising Star: ND Stevenson
Signing their first book deal while still a student at MICA, ND Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…
Edon Muhaxheri
Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.
Cosmo Whyte
Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.
Hitting Their Marks
Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.
Making Art that Matters
Adarsh Alphons ’06 says that art saved his life. Today, the founder and executive director of ProjectArt now leads his team with a goal to…
President Hoi Discusses Artists as Changemakers on the Free to Bmore Podcast
MICA President Sammuel Hoi recently joined the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Free to Bmore podcast to discuss how art and artists can be changemakers…
Save it For Later
When Jenny Ferretti ’07 (Painting BFA) became the digital initiatives librarian for MICA’s Decker Library in 2015, print documentation of graduate…
MICA Pan-College Convening on Strategic Planning: March 9
Information around the virtual Pan-College Convening on Strategic Planning on Wednesday, March 9 from 10 a.m. to noon EST
Graphic Design MFA Projects Stand Out at STA 100
Every year, the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 100 show recognizes 100 greatest examples of typographic design excellence by professionals…
Baltimore Nonprofit, Led by MICA Alum, Receives $2 Million Grant
Twenty-one years ago, MICA alum Susan Malone ’97 (Photography BFA) began working as manager of programs at Wide Angle Youth Media — a Baltimore…
Wonderstruck
Amy Sherald Among Canon-Expanding Artists Showing at Brooklyn Museum, United Kingdom’s National Portrait Gallery
Inspiration Point
MICA alum Phaan Howng exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Heart of the Matter
MICA Brings Renowned Artists and Designers to Campus This Spring
Stream of Consciousness
With an image of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini as the centerpiece of a new artwork — a large-scale, neon billboard that will sit at the heart…
MICA Faculty Kiel Mutschelknaus Helps Spotify Wrap 2021
Kiel Mutschelknaus, a MICA faculty member in the Graphic Design department, had a hand in inspiring and creating the graphics used in the international…
Photography Faculty Presents Richard Avedon at the Smithsonian
Shannon Perich, history of photography faculty at MICA and curator of the Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American…
A Conversation With President Samuel Hoi
In 2014, Samuel Hoi was appointed MICA's president following the long tenure of Fred Lazarus. Along with more than two decades of higher education…
MICA Students Selected as Finalists for AXA Art Prize
Three MICA students have been selected as finalists for this year’s AXA Art Prize competition, one of the leading student art competitions in…
MICA Faculty and Artist in Residence New BMA Exhibition — All Due Respect
New works by four artists with connections to MICA — Lauren Frances Adams, faculty, Painting; Mequitta Ahuja, former Stewart-McMillan Artist…
MICA Faculty Explores Illustration’s Impact on Historic Perceptions of Race
Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, MICA faculty and interim director of the MFA in Illustration Practice, is co-curator of Imprinted: Illustrating Race…
All the World's a Stage
It’s not a cliche to say that the trajectory of Elle Pérez ’11 (Photography BFA) has been meteoric. In a handful of years, they’ve had solo shows…
MICA Grad and Faculty Debut New Films on Netflix
MICA grad TT the Artist ’06 (General Fine Arts BFA) and MICA MFA Film faculty Angel Kristi bring their talents to the award-winning streaming…
Fashion Forward: MICA Alumni Startups Seek to Change the Net-Zero Fashion Game
Rachel Faller ’08 (Fiber BFA) went to Cambodia on a Fulbright grant shortly after her graduation from MICA to learn about fair trade — and left…
Chelsea Conrad’s Garden Party Press Featured in PRINT
Chelsea Conrad ’20 (Illustration MA) turned an idea for Christmas gifts for her family into a thriving business. Her venture, Garden Party Press…
Olivia Huynh, Google Doodler, Reaches a Worldwide Audience
The work of Google Doodler Olivia Huynh has been seen by Google users around the world as the MICA alumna's interactive animations marked holidays…
A Community of Creatives
MICA faculty James Williams II ’09 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)—one of a dozen MICA-connected Sondheim winners since the prize's inception—talks…
2018 Baker Awards
Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…
Claire Lynch
Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.
Art of the Impossible
As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…
Ryan Lytle
Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.
Chuxi Guo
Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.
Leading by Example: Maren Hassinger
For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example.
She explained, “I think…
Designing New Leadership, Starting Now
“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…
A Conversation With Darrée
A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…
Emily Ianacone ’15 Brings Design Strategy to Mayor's Office of Innovation
In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…
Kristen Spilman ’05: Design as a Way of Life
Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…