The Center for Creative Impact is located at 1200 W. Mount Royal Avenue and serves as a gateway to MICA’s design innovation hub. It anchors both the Dolphin Design Center and Station Building, which are homes to our product, architectural, social, and bio-design programs.
Interdisciplinary: We bring together faculty and students from art and design to collaborate with external partners in the public, private, and social sectors.
Creative: We promote innovative problem-solving by applying art- and design-driven processes to critical social and environmental challenges.
Impact-driven: We prioritize social benefit as a core value in our work, focusing on the needs of individuals and society throughout our creative process.
Funded: We receive financial support from public, private, and philanthropic partners at local, state, and federal levels.
The Center provides faculty access to the institutional resources, incentives, and support necessary to integrate hands-on, experiential learning experiences into their curricula, and creates opportunities for faculty and students to participate in interdisciplinary, impact-driven, and funded research and professional practice.
Preparing the next generation of creative change-makers
Acquire skills to collaborate across various disciplines;
Gain practical experience learning in the field;
Establish professional connections in real-world settings;
Explore multiple career pathways across diverse fields.
Placing MICA at the epicenter of art and design education
Attract students and increase enrollment.
Recruit, incentivize, and retain top faculty members.
Create new revenue streams beyond tuition.
Develop new and impactful roles for art and design.
Creating a positive impact in Baltimore and beyond
Envision new possibilities for the future;
Test transformative ideas in real-world contexts;
Integrate creative innovators into our city and state;
Foster long-term impact within our communities.
Built on the strong foundation, long history, and pioneering work of MICA’s Center for Social Design—who in the last decade has secured more than $7 million in external funding and engaged 500+ students from disciplines across the college to collaborate with external partners on 100+ social impact projects—the new Center represents a bold evolution and expansion of this work, and is committed to: preparing the next generation of creative change-makers; placing MICA at the epicenter of art and design education, and creating positive impact in Baltimore and beyond.