A Cheerleader for Art Education As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website. When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…
WYPR Commentary: Confronting the Sites of Confederate Monuments President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate…
WYPR Commentary: Building the Creative Economy President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change…
Confronting the Sites of Federal Monuments In September 2017, MICA's President, Samuel Hoi, offered a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate monuments.
WYPR Commentary: Destination Baltimore President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about Baltimore's growing prominence as a visitor destination. This segment…
President Hoi Receives Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship President Samuel Hoi was named a 2017-2018 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation.
MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.
President Samuel Hoi Responds to DACA Rescission Decision The following are statements that were made to the MICA community regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 announcement to plan to…
President Hoi on Building the Creative Economy President Samuel Hoi discusses how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change on Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR…
President Samuel Hoi Warfield Video Interview Though he says it was a matter of happenstance that he stumbled upon arts college management while studying illustration at Parsons School of…
Louder Than a Bomb Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.
Masterwork In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…
Elle Perez ’11 Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…
Adapt & Adopt for a Better Future Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…
Art Meets Science In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…
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…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
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.
Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…
Errol Webber Music by Prudence, a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA's video and film arts department, won an Oscar…
Hillery Sproatt ’07 Even before she entered MICA, Hillery Sproatt as an entrepreneur, launching Rebe, a line of woman's clothing and handbags with her mother, textile…
Colin Dunn Colin Dunn began blending technology with design as an undergraduate at MICA and took that passion with him to Facebook after graduation. While…
The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…
Knowledge is Power MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
P.J. Richardson Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…
Art and Aerospace: Alumna Engineers Thermal Solutions for Spacecraft As a little girl, Aleks Bogunovic ’12 ’13 (Fiber B.F.A., Business of Art and Design M.P.S.) knitted, crocheted and sewed clothes, taking after…
Jessica Bastidas Jessica Bastidas, whose goal is to share her personal storybook world with children, is a student in MICA's MAT program as well as an art instructor…
Q&A With Leslie Speer LESLIE SPEER, recently selected to lead MICA’s new B.F.A. in Product Design, is a designer and educator who has worked for companies and clients…
Making Space The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…
Allana Clarke “I was a really terrible student,” exclaimed Allana Clarke ’14 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) in a conversation before her April lecture…
Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…
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…
Jann Rosen-Queralt For Jann Rosen-Queralt, director of MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture, environmental and industrial elements are an intricate part of her process…
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…
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…
In Real Time For me, music has always been a path for survival, in the strictest terms. Inspired by the music of Nirvana and the underground music scenes…
A Conversation With Zlata Baum A native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Zlata Baum has had a multifaceted career as an arts administrator, educator and exhibiting artist…
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald ’04 “I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F…
Freedom to Fail Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 (Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate, Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) measures success by what happens in the studio —…
Finalists Selected for MICA’s 2018 Up/Start Venture Competition On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…
A Conversation With Kelsey Schmitt ’12 Art educator and practicing artist, Kelsey Schmitt ’12 is proof that graduates of MICA’s Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program are…
Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…
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…
Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
Collaborative By Design Home to B.F.A. programs in Game Design and Product Design as well as the B.F.A. in Architectural Design, the new Dolphin Design Center was created…
Leslie Speer Named Chair of New Product Design Program As the College prepares to launch its new B.F.A. in Product Design this fall, it is pleased to announce renowned educator and designer Leslie…