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…

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

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

Sara Bannon ‘19 (Graphic Design BFA) was part of the creative team behind the introduction video for Megan Thee Stallion’s Record of the Year…

Shaobo Li ‘19 (Graphic Design BFA) just finished his work as a Junior Visual Designer for Cosmopolitan China. Check out some of his contributions…

Emma is a US-based abstract painter whose work has been featured in American and British Vogue, and Dwell Magazine.

Austen joined LAIKA Animation Studios as a puppet fabricator after a successful internship.

Molly Margaret Sydnor ‘15 (Fiber BFA) is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary fine artist with an eye for fiber. Her work has been shown in solo…

Three MICA faculty members have been recognized by national and state organizations for their outstanding work as art educators. They include…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

To say that Deyane Moses ’19, ’21 (Photography BFA, Curatorial Practice MFA) entered MICA as an nontraditional student is an understatement. Older…

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

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…

Illustration alumni are building impressive careers in the comic industry.

Numerous MICA students have taken part in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship, which aims to explore visual representations…

Faculty from MICA team with scientists from Johns Hopkins University to translate results from extreme events in new visual ways.

Jim Burger ’82 (Photography B.F.A.) — noted Baltimore-area photographer and longtime photojournalist for the Baltimore City Paper and The Baltimore…

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

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

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,…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…

Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…

Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…

A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…

“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…

For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

As a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University’s African Studies Department with a background in international relations, I studied language, literature…