Working the Problem MICA Faculty Part of Nonprofit Whose Collaboration with City High School is a Leading Example of Urban Sustainability
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Good Fellows Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
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…
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…
Venture Advocate Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…
Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
MICA Open Works / Byron Banghart In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…
Knowledge and Community At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…
Morel Doucet - Full Circle Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as 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…
Making Meaning of the Atomic Bomb Their MICA story begins like that of so many students who enroll in one of the College’s 21 graduate programs: with a housing search.
Fashion Forward If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
Elle Perez ’11 Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
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…
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…
#DrawingWhileBlack In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…
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…
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’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…
The Art of Hanbok This past summer, faculty and students from MICA collaborated with international faculty, students, and guests from the Hanbok Advancement Center…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
+ Enlarge 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… Close
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…
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…
When Art & Science Collide Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.
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…
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,…
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…
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.