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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…
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Introducing the 2024 MICA UP/Start Venture Competition Winners
The Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship (RCCE) at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the winners of the…
Hitting Their Marks
Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.
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…
Cosmo Whyte
Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.
Smile Indias
Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…
Open Works: Tools and Tech for the People
With wood and metal shops, 3-D printing, an electronics lab and textile studios, Open Works is a makerspace where Baltimore City residents can…
North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
Built on the premise that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn, the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange is a community-based…
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…
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…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally
How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
12 places to grab a bite near MICA’s campus
We asked the MICA community to tell us what their favorite places to eat near campus. Here’s what they said.
Andrew Keiper and Kei Ito
When Andre Keiper and Kei Ito discovered their shared connection to the atomic bomb through their grandfathers, they promised to one day explore…
Ben Peterson
As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…
Kyle Hackett
Kyle Hackett graduated in 2013 and has been continuously exhibiting his artwork since then. Currently based in Washington, D.C., his work was…
Ada Pinkston & Hoesy Corona: MICA Duo Examines the Past and the Now
Ada Pinkston ’13 (Community Arts M.F.A.) and Hoesy Corona ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) graduated from MICA four years apart. Pinkston focused on community…
Harrison Tyler
Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Harrison Tyler ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture) is the digital operations manager at Open Works, a…
Trophy Life
Students, Alums Land Prestigious Scholarships, Awards
Toy Design... for Elephants
MICA students students accept challenge to design toy for Asian elephants at the National Zoo.
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…
Louder Than a Bomb
Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Heart of the Matter
MICA Brings Renowned Artists and Designers to Campus This Spring
Working the Problem
MICA Faculty Part of Nonprofit Whose Collaboration with City High School is a Leading Example of Urban Sustainability
Faculty Announced as 2023 Sondheim Finalists
Abigail Lucien and Kyrae Dawaun are among a trio of finalists for the Sondheim Art Prize
Antonius Bui
Antonius Bui is a poly-disciplinary artist who has exhibited across the United States.
Career Notes: Art Education
A look at a few MICA alumni and their success in art education.
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…
MICA names four William O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in-Residence, bringing together three generations of cultural activists
Over two lectures, Cheryl D. Miller ’74 (Graphic Design and Illustration BFA), Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, Maurice Cherry and Deyane Moses ’19…
As COVID-19 halts the world, 'makers unite'
During an unprecedented world health pandemic that has shuttered any sense of normalcy, artists and designers are doing what they do best — making…
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…
MICA Awarded $510K from ArtPlace America, Will Build Field of Creative Placemaking
The funding will help to expand community and organizational partnerships, as well as create a sequence of both undergraduate and graduate courses…
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 Announces the William O. Steinmetz ’50 and Betty Cooke ’46 Chair in Design
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the founding of the William O. Steinmetz ’50 and Betty Cooke ’46 Chair in Design…
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…
Start It Up
From its earliest days, MICA has had a connection to doers and makers, to people who believe that artistic creativity is a catalyst for positive…
Sarah Belisle
Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.
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.
Claire Lynch
Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.
Curatorial Thinking
Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…
Chuxi Guo
Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.
Unconventional Illustration
Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…
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…
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.),…
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…
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…
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.…