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…
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…
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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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Javier Ameijeiras’ Work Featured in Museum of Broadway, Opening This Fall The work of Javier Ameijeiras ’05 (Illustration BFA) an award-winning concept illustrator and scenic designer specializing in film, TV, and theatre…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wonderstruck Amy Sherald Among Canon-Expanding Artists Showing at Brooklyn Museum, United Kingdom’s National Portrait Gallery
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…
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…
Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…
Beyond Our Gates: A Q&A With David Bogen Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs David Bogen discusses MICA's work with community stakeholders in Baltimore, specifically in and…
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…
Developing the Curriculum of a Social Movement What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.
Stephen Hendee: Teaching Artist Best known for fabricating ambitious, large-scale installations, MICA faculty member Stephen Hendee is creating a new objective for his studio…
Giving Baltimore's Youth the Tools to Tell Their Stories “Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so,” Moira Fratantuono ’10 (Community Arts M.F.A.)…
Alumna Creates a Space to Celebrate Baltimore's Immigrant Community For her senior thesis, Valeria Fuentes ’17 ’18 (Architectural Design B.F.A., Social Design M.F.A.) created a clothing line called Segunda Piel…
#DrawingWhileBlack In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…
Art + Health Care: Winston Frazer CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…
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…
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,…
Time Lapse: The Charmed Life of Jim Burger Jim Burger ’82 (Photography B.F.A.) — noted Baltimore-area photographer and longtime photojournalist for the Baltimore City Paper and The Baltimore…
When Art & Science Collide Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.
The HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/ Internship Numerous MICA students have taken part in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship, which aims to explore visual representations…
Alumna’s Debut Children’s Book, I Am A Wolf, Out This May Like most MICA students, Kelly Leigh Miller has always liked to draw. Whether it was in the sketchbooks her mom bought her, on the kid’s menu…
Site Specific: Alumni in Their Creative Spaces Five alumni—based in Chicago—who have carved out impressive creative spaces: Alex Fuller ’03 (Graphic Design BFA), Aram Han Sifuentes ’11…
Maryland Institute Black Archives To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an nontraditional student is an understatement. Older…
Entrepreneurial Teaching To Ray Parris ’94, ‘96 (Graphic Design BFA, MAT) lemonade stands aren’t just a way for children to make a few extra dollars—they’re a vehicle…
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…
MICA Alumna Wins Sondheim Prize In the spring of Akea Brionne Brown’s first year at MICA, that the Baltimore Uprising occurred. It was finals week. And it was an event that…
The Art of Hanbok This past summer, faculty and students from MICA collaborated with international faculty, students, and guests from the Hanbok Advancement Center…
Art + Space Exploration Aleks Bogunovic turned her love for sewing and fabrication into Aerothreads, a business that makes Multi-Layer Insulation blankets for the aerospace…