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…
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2018 Baker Awards
Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…
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…
Unconventional Illustration
Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…
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…
Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally
How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.
Curatorial Thinking
Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…
Cindy Cheng
Working from her spacious studio in the city's Greektown neighborhood, Cindy Cheng has found success as an exhibiting artist. She not only exhibits…
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…
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.
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.
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…
Maker Space / Dolphin Design Center
Building your vision takes the right tools and plenty of space to grow. We provide what you need to get there.
Rising Star: Noelle Stevenson
Signing her first book deal while still a student at MICA, Noelle Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…
Jacob Lockard
Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.
Cosmo Whyte
Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.
Hitting Their Marks
Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.
Kris Grey
Kris Grey is a New York City-based exhibiting artist who teaches and exhibits work internationally.
Yutaka Houlette
Yutaka Houlette is a web developer and award-winning book illustrator.
E-Textiles: Yuchen Zhang
Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…
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.
Xiaofu Wang
A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…
Marilyn Narota
Born in Colombia and based in New York City, Marilyn Narota is an exhibiting artist who creates performance based videos, participatory installations…
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…
MICA Partners with BMA and For Freedoms to Deliver 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…
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…
Art of the Impossible
As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…
Sarah Belisle
Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.
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…
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…
Maryland Institute Black Archives
To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an untraditional student is an understatement. Older…
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.
Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins 2019 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.
Art + Biology
Students in MICA's biofabrication courses turn their artistic vision to biotech.
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…
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…
Career Notes
A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.
A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern
In summer 2018, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt, which was…
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…
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.),…
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…
Margaret Rorison
Baltimore-based curator and filmmaker Margaret Rorison founded the experimental film series, Sight Unseen, in 2012. Still running today, the…