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Accounting for Taste

When Meaghan Carpenter ’08 arrived at MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art, a career in the culinary world wasn’t exactly on her radar. Instead,…

Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale

The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale

Vithkuqi Alphabet

Vithkuqi Alphabet

Artist

Edon Muhaxheri

Date

2017

Medium

Vinyl lettering

Career Notes

A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.

Mentor Extraordinaire: Illustration Faculty Member José Villarrubia

Orpheus Collar ’09 was obsessed with comics as a teenager – so obsessed, in fact, that when he was in high school, his mother tracked down legendary…

Louder Than a Bomb

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

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.),…

Ryan Lytle

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

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.

Leonard Peng

Leonard Peng, based in San Fransicso, is a brand illustrator for Uber.

Yutaka Houlette

Yutaka Houlette is a web developer and award-winning book illustrator.

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Whitney Sherman ’71

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Art Director: Ethel Kessler ’71

Artist

Whitney Sherman ’71

Date

1998

#DrawingWhileBlack

In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…

Hitting Their Marks

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

Unconventional Illustration

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

Emma You Zhang

Emma You Zhang ’16 (Graphic Design M.F.A.) is an experience designer and graphic designer at Adobe. She is a design thinker focused on branding…

Jun Cen

Born in Guangzhou, China, Jun Cen was named Overall New Talent winner of the 2013 Association of Illustrators Award. His work has been recognized…

Annie Wu

A senior at MICA when she was named a 2011 Creator to Watch by newsarama.com in its "11 for ’11: Things To Watch in the New Year," Annie Wu…

Derek Blanks

Derek Blanks has photographed some of the biggest names on the planet, including Oscar Award-winning actors Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson and…

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Educational Innovation

The capacity and willingness to act upon opportunities, to embrace the uncertain, to take a calculated risk, to dream big, to persevere and to…

Paige Vickers

Paige Vickers is a Brooklyn-based freelance illustrator with an impressive client list.

illustration by Michelle Bozenda

Marine Key

Michelle Bozenda

illustration by Michelle Bozenda

Marine Key

Illustration B.F.A.

Artist

Michelle Bozenda

Date

2017

Illustrated map with the title "The City of San Angelo, TX According to Emily Joynton." The map includes illustrated landmarks on a bright orange background.

Build Up to Break Down

Illustrated map with the title "The City of San Angelo, TX According to Emily Joynton." The map includes illustrated landmarks on a bright orange background.

Build Up to Break Down

Illustration Practice M.F.A.

Artist

Emily Joynton

Date

2017

Matt Rockefeller

An illustrator and comic artist based in New York City, Matt Rockefeller recently worked on 5 Worlds, a graphic novel series from Random House…

Cat Illustration by JaHyun Ashley Lim

Kafka on the Shore

JaHyun Ashley Lim

Cat Illustration by JaHyun Ashley Lim

Kafka on the Shore

Illustration B.F.A.

Artist

JaHyun Ashley Lim

Date

2016

Abbi Jacobson

Abbi Jacobson is co-creator of the hit Comedy Central show Broad City. An active illustrator, she is also an author, most recently of the New…

Editorial Illustration of Women in home

Sleep Deprivation

Editorial Illustration of Women in home

Sleep Deprivation

Illustration M.A.

Artist

Ard Su

Date

2020

Medium

Digital

illustration by Dongyan Xu

Corpse of Dragon

illustration by Dongyan Xu

Corpse of Dragon

Illustration B.F.A.

Artist

Dongyan Xu

Date

2015

Illustration of a forest with two boots visible from behind a bush. The phrase "Anywhere But Here" is in the top left corner in curly script.

Anywhere But Here

Illustration of a forest with two boots visible from behind a bush. The phrase "Anywhere But Here" is in the top left corner in curly script.

Anywhere But Here

Illustration M.A.

Artist

Monica Amnues

Willem Rosenthal

A few years after turning an internship into a full-time job at a game studio, Willem Rosenthal founded Proto Games, which successfully launched…

Tyler Naugle

Tyler Naugle's successful internship at MTV opened the door to a fulltime job there after graduating from MICA. After working at MTV for over…

William Niu

Since graduating from MICA in 2012, William Niu has worked on a slew of animated TV shows, including Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra and DreamWorks'…

Meen Choi

Meen Choi maintains an active career as a Brooklyn-based illustrator. In addition to a position as a designer for Bogopa, he pursues freelance…

Natasha Nayo

Since her graduation from MICA in 2015, Natasha Nayo has worked as an animator based in Baltimore. She's currently with Storyfarm, where she…

Caitlin Turner

Caitlin Turner is a designer at Mission Media in Baltimore, where she creates package design, publications, branding, identity systems and more…

Editorial Illustration

The Favourite

Editorial Illustration

The Favourite

Illustration M.A.

Artist

Lia Liao

Date

2020

Medium

Digital

Illustration of diners turning into the food they consume around an eerily lit table.

Fruit

Illustration of diners turning into the food they consume around an eerily lit table.

Fruit

Illustration M.A.

Artist

Alex Reynolds

DeRay Mckesson, Joyce J. Scott ’70, Carrie Mae Weems Among Honorees at MICA’s 169th Commencement

College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…

Illustration by Kaitlin Brasfield

Out of the Stump Rot

Kaitlin Brasfield

Illustration by Kaitlin Brasfield

Out of the Stump Rot

Illustration B.F.A.

Artist

Kaitlin Brasfield

Date

2017

Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition

Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…

Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area

Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

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.

Finalists Selected for MICA’s 2018 Up/Start Venture Competition

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

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)…

Masterwork

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

Louder Than a Bomb

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

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