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…
Envision. Create. Transform. In 2005, Baltimore was one of eight cities in the country included in the Ford Foundation’s Arts Integration and Education Reform Initiative…
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.
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…
Paul Mirel: MICA’s Starman Paul Mirel takes time after his day job at NASA to bring art and science together.
Masterwork In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Edgar Reyes: Art of the Times Edgar Reyes ’14 (Community Arts M.F.A.) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States with his mother as a child. Since…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
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…
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…
MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.
MICA launches new President’s Global Advisory Council to activate broad network of advocates for the College MICA is pleased to announce the creation of the President’s Global Advisory Council, set to launch in May 2021, in an effort to continue to…
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…
Culture of Change Hannah Brancato ’07, ’11 and Rebecca Nagle ’08, co-founders of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, are seeking to not only support survivors…
The Genius of Joyce J. Scott Joyce J. Scott ’70 (Art Education B.F.A.) has been named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowships…
Hello, Allo! High-profile freelance jobs for new Google app puts alumni work in the hands of people around the world.
George Ciscle MICA’s MFA in Curatorial Practice director and long-time curator-in-residence prepares to retire
Community Arts as a Way of Life Epiphanies often happen during the most mundane of tasks. For Ashley Minner, that moment-when she was able to put a name to her life’s work-came…
Changes in Baltimore I arrived in Baltimore in 2000 with a strong desire to become an artist, but I was clueless about how to do this. I come from a middle class…
Global Perspectives International students reflect on their experiences as graduate students at MICA.
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…
Building a Better 3d Printer “These are game-changing technologies…with the potential to change medicine, agriculture, and other critical industries. One goal, for example…
Turning Lemonade Into a LibGuide How a MICA librarian turned a pop culture phenomenon into a learning resource.
Jaimie Bennati Jamie Bennati is currently teaching photo and video classes in Goiânia, Brazil and has plans to help a local group of women create crafts out…
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
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…
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…
Connections Forged in Baltimore Continue Around the World Filipino artists Ashley Dequilla ’12 and Toym Imao ’12 collaborate on series of murals in their home country.
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…
Maura Dwyer: Art that Builds Trust and Relationships Maura Dwyer ‘12 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) avoids biographies, as she finds that words do not adequately represent her as an artist…
Knowledge is Power MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
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…
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…
Elle Perez ’11 Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
HR Resources for the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Stress is our body’s response to unmanageable pressures that we experience. As a community, we are all going through varying levels of stress…
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 …
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…
Isaac Ewart: The Art of Storytelling At 25, Isaac Ewart is among the younger artists in Light City 2017. But, he spares no effort to dive in and understand the community he works…
Those That Can, Teach Meet a few of the visiting artists and critics who are an essential part of graduate education at MICA.
Making Space The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
Iman Djouini & Jonathan Taube: Getting the Elephant Out of the Room Through Art After Iman Djouini ’09 and Jonathan Taube ’10 graduated from MICA, the couple then left for New Orleans to obtain their master’s degrees in printmaking…
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…
A Conversation with José Ruiz The new director of MICA’s M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice discusses his goals for the program and the role curators can play in society.
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Supporting Arts Funding As the chief executives of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and The Walters Art Museum — three anchor visual…