Michael Weiss has been a member of MICA’s full-time faculty teaching in the Drawing, Foundation (now FYE), General Fine Arts, and Painting departments since 2003. He previously served as the Associate Dean of Fine Arts for eleven years and held various concurrent administrative appointments, including six years as Associate Dean of Foundation/FYE and a year as Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Weiss is an artist who uses traditional painting and stained glass materials and methods to create contemporary images containing oblique, but not opaque content. He has exhibited widely throughout the region and his work is a part of numerous private and corporate collections. He has received grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund and the Maryland State Arts Council.