Join us on Monday, February 19th at 2:00 PM (ET) in Falvey Hall for an afternoon of TED Talk-inspired lectures, presented by a panel of esteemed alumni. Selected by current students, these incredible artists and designers return to the MICA community to share their journey with us. Don't miss this annual tradition! In partnership with FYE, Career Development, and Center for Student Engagement!
Featured Artists:
Ashley Lian ‘17 Humanistic Studies & Fiber
Morel Doucet ‘13 Ceramics
KT Marrinan ‘23 Illustration
Co-hosted by First Year Experience and brought to you by the partnership of Career Development, and the Center for Student Engagement.
MICA community members can watch it here!
MICA affiliates can watch the 2021 recording by signing in with their MICA credentials.
Ashley Lian is an artist and designer from New Milford, Connecticut. She received her BFA in Humanistic Studies and Fiber with a concentration in Experimental Fashion from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. She works primarily in apparel design, textile design, and illustration and is currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
Morel Doucet (b. 1990) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator who hails from Haiti. His work utilizes ceramics, illustrations, and prints to discuss the impact of climate gentrification, migration, and displacement affecting Black communities in the African diaspora. Through a contemporary reconfiguration of the Black experience, his work catalogs a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequality, pollution, and policy-making. Doucet's Emmy-nominated work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including Vogue Mexico, The New York Times, Oxford University Press, Hyperallergic, PBS, WhiteHot Magazine, Miami Living Magazine, and Hypebeast. He graduated from the New World School of the Arts with the Distinguished Dean’s Award for Ceramics. From there, he continued his education at the Maryland Institute College of Art, receiving his BFA in Ceramics with a minor in creative writing and a concentration in illustration. Doucet's work is held in collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Plymouth Box Museum, Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Microsoft, Facebook, and Royal Caribbean. Doucet has exhibited extensively in national and international institutions, including the Design Museum of Chicago (2023), the Venice Biennale (2022), the Havana Biennial (2019), the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL (2019); the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2021), the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (2023), São Tomé et Príncipe, Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami, FL (2019), and Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL (2020). As an Arts Educator, he is interested in immersing young audiences in personalized courses that instigate curiosity, sensory perception, and visual literacy.
KT Marrinan is an illustrator and cartoonist from the New York woods. She received her BFA in illustration & animation from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023, where her senior thesis SKELEMANCY was acquired for graphic novel development. She is currently looking for internships in comics/publishing design, animation creative development, and art direction.