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

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…

Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.

What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.

The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…

Adarsh Alphons ’06 says that art saved his life. Today, the founder and executive director of ProjectArt now leads his team with a goal to…

Two Curatorial Practice alumnae — Melani Douglass ’15 and Deana Hagag ’13 are taking lessons learned at MICA and going national, recently…

Illustrators are natural storytellers; but across media, their work has traditionally been used to play a supporting role — to add depth…

Rising Action Studio, winner of $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition, helps change makers and nonprofits tell inspiring and ethical stories about…

From day one, Brendon Massei's masters in the Business of Art and Design has helped him grow as a professional musician in the band Viking Moses…

Danah Abdulla is founder of Kalimat, an open outlet that puts creative Arabs on the international stage

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.),…

“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…

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.

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

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…

Building your vision takes the right tools and plenty of space to grow. We provide what you need to get there.

Signing their first book deal while still a student at MICA, ND Stevenson is a rising star. Author and illustrator of the young adult graphic…

Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.

Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.

Erin Fender is a photographer and program manager at the nonprofit Atlanta Photography Group.

Kris Grey is a New York City-based exhibiting artist who teaches and exhibits work internationally.

Leonard Peng, based in San Fransicso, is a brand illustrator for Uber.

Heather Day is an exhibiting artist based in San Francisco.

Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.

Hermonie Williams is a Baltimore-based exhibiting artist.

Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…

Yutaka Houlette is a web developer and award-winning book illustrator.

Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…

A look at work created by students in the 2017-2018 First Year Experience.

Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.

Born in Colombia and based in New York City, Marilyn Narota is an exhibiting artist who creates performance based videos, participatory installations…

Working from her spacious studio in the city's Greektown neighborhood, Cindy Cheng has found success as an exhibiting artist. She not only exhibits…

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

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…

Baltimore-based curator and filmmaker Margaret Rorison founded the experimental film series, Sight Unseen, in 2012. Still running today, the…

“I like thinking about how to use materials differently,” said Trisha Chenney ’17 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.), a finalist in the…

We asked the MICA community to tell us what their favorite places to eat near campus. Here’s what they said.

When Andre Keiper and Kei Ito discovered their shared connection to the atomic bomb through their grandfathers, they promised to one day explore…

As a Code for American fellow, Ben Peterson pursued user-centered, design-thinking techniques to create a simple technology solution to help…