The work of Eduardo Corral, a.k.a. TLaloC, ’18 (Illustration Practice MFA), current faculty in MICA’s Illustration BFA program, was selected for Pictoline’s Third Biennial of Illustration, held in Mexico City. The exhibition is an unprecedented effort in Latin America to recognize, promote, and consolidate illustration as an artistic expression.

This edition of the event included participants from 20 different countries. TLaloC’s work, Los extranjeros, illustrates an abandoned place inhabited by “everyday aliens,” humanoid-looking characters who seem intimidating at first but who on closer examination tell a story of life, recovery, change, rebuilding, and resilience. The project stems from the illustrator’s official VISA status “Alien with Extraordinary Ability.”

Baltimore art gallery Galerie Myrtis is showcasing work of MICA alumni at this year’s Venice Biennale. Founded by Myrtis Bedolla — who received curatorial training through MICA’s Open Studies and Exhibition Development Seminar — Galerie Myrtis is the first Black woman-owned gallery invited to participate in the Venice Biennale-affiliated exhibition, Personal Structures: Time, Space, and Existence.

The gallery’s exhibition, The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined, includes work by ceramics artist and arts educator Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics BFA); figure painter Monica Ikegwu ’20 (Painting BFA); and Arvie Smith ’92 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting), who is also a former director of the Hoffberger program.