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Lisa Hochtritt, Ed.D., Director of MICA's M.A.T. Program

With a committed interest in social justice and art education, and understanding how they both intersect with youth, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt joins…

Foraday—2021 UP/Start Finalist

Sean Duffy ’20 (User Experience Design MPS), Stephanie Petagno ’02 (General Sculpture Studies BFA), and Amber LaRosa, co-founders of Foraday…

Career Notes

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

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…

Designing a Career in Government

Design Leadership MA/MBA alum Michelle Polyak was recently selected the U.S. Digital Corps two-year fellowship sponsored by the Biden Administration…

Brockett Horne, Chair of Graphic Design, Talks Career Prep

Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…

Sarah Belisle

Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.

Kat Ward

How My MBA and Master’s in Design Leadership Shaped My Identity

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

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Five Career Development Resources You Should Explore

The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development

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…

A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern

The summer before my senior year, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt…

Virtuoso Faculty: Tony Shore

From smoke-filled bars in France, to Baltimore’s back streets and alleys, to the rolling fields north of the city where members of the Elkridge…

Art + Biology

Students in MICA's biofabrication courses turn their artistic vision to biotech.

Louder Than a Bomb

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

Hank Willis Thomas Visits MICA as Part of Civic Engagement Programming

MICA is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and For Freedoms to deliver a robust line-up of civic engagement programming on campus…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.),…

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.…

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…

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…

Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize

This is the fifth year in a row a MICA alum was chosen as the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize winner.

Mount Royal 2019 Fall Show

See work from Mount Royal School of Art's 2019 fall show

Good Flag, Black Flag

Artist

Sarah Black Sadler ’21 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)

Date

2019

Medium

Mixed Media

2nd Connect

Artist

Tianyue Su ’20 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)

Date

2019

Medium

SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast), Acrylic, Glassware, Sensor, Vibration Motor, Wire, Wood, Paint, Bulb

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Artist

Yixyab Zhang (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)

Date

2019

Medium

Mixed Media on Glass

(L to R) Try to Catch It, It's Kinda Hard; Shark Suits Try To Pursuade Us; Space The Remix); It's Cool, We've Been Around

Artist

Walter Cruz ’21 (Mount Royal School of Art)

Date

2019

Medium

Inkjet on Matte Paper

Chenab

Artist

Meghana Gavireddygari ’20 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA)

Date

2019

Medium

Mild Steel, Banarasi brocade, gold leaf

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Compressent Co.—Winner of $30K During the 2022 UP/Start Venture Competition

Compressent Co., the venture of Herschel Ruben ’21 (Product Design BFA), was one of seven finalists in this year's competition.

Building Better Bait

Meet product designer and entrepreneur Hunter Grogan ’14, ’16 (Environmental Design BFA, Business of Art and Design MPS)

Garden Party Press—Winner of $15k, Plus $5k People's Choice Award During 2021 UP/Start Competition

Chelsea Conrad ’20 (Illustration MA) is founder of Garden Party Press, a 2021 UP/Start finalist.

Anchovy Press—Winner of $14,100 During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Rebecca Marimutu ’20 (Photographic & Electronic Media MFA) and Priyanka Kumar ’20 (Illustration Practice MFA) are co-founders of Anchovy…

Le Boi— 2021 UP/Start Finalist

Yuze Le ’21 (Design Leadership MBA/MA) is founder of Le Boi, a finalist in the 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Confetti Collection Co.—Winner of $2k During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Charlene Etienne ’21 (Data Analytics & Visualization MPS) is founder of Confetti Collection Co., a finalist in the 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Dexter Design Co.—Winner of $8,900 During 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

Christian Dexter ’20 (Graphic Design & Printmaking BFA) is founder of Dexter Design Co., a finalist in the 2021 UP/Start Venture Competition

MICA Awarded Top Honors in National Democracy Challenge

In 2018, MICA’s voting rate of registered students increased nearly 40 percentage points, and the number of eligible students registered to…

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…

Olivia Huynh, Google Doodler, Reaches a Worldwide Audience

The work of Google Doodler Olivia Huynh has been seen by Google users around the world during as the MICA alumna's interactive animations marked…

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…

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…

More Than Numbers

Information and Visualization students take data detailing the devastating change of population in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust…

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…

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…

POW!

Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.

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.

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…

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