Majors & Minors (Undergraduate)

General Fine Arts (Major)

General Fine Arts at MICA allows you to follow your passion and create a unique artistic path.

As a General Fine Arts student at MICA, you can customize your experience by drawing from MICA's full range of fine arts courses. While doing so, you will explore a wide range of media, becoming a resourceful and versatile artist with the technical skills to pursue an array of options in the contemporary creative marketplace with confidence.

 

WHY GENERAL FINE ARTS AT MICA?

GFA students are able to shape their  major from the full range of  courses offered by MICA's fine arts departments.

Students in this program tend to be independent, enjoy incorporating an array of mediums into their work, and are highly motivated to become versatile artists. As a GFA major, you select courses to create a program of study that is interdisciplinary, theme centered, or of some other cross-media or multimedia construction.

GFA majors benefit from the facilities at MICA’s Fred Lazarus IV Studio Center, a historic industrial building just a short walk from the central campus.

Located in Baltimore’s Station North Arts & Entertainment District, it includes independent studio space for upper-division students in drawing, painting, and GFA. The facility also allows you to rub elbows with MICA’s graduate students and be a part of a strong community of graduate and undergraduate fine artists.

GFA alumni not only create across a variety of media, they work in diverse fields.

Alumni include:

  • Owners of art galleries, fabrication shops, and design studios
  • Founders of nonprofit organizations
  • Entrepreneurs launching creative businesses
  • Exhibiting artists showing their work nationally and internationally 
  • Educators at museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alumni Stories

“Every staff, faculty, and community member embraced me with open arms, oftentimes seeing my potential before I even could.”

“They challenged me to define success, beauty, and art on my own terms, reminding me that art isn’t a destination or competition.” Antonius Bui ’16

The Greatest Zoom, by Zoë Sariano ’16

Alumni Stories

“I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now without the experiences I had at MICA.”

“I'm fortunate to have gotten to be in a space that pushed how I thought about design and visual language. I know my education has allowed me to navigate creative spaces I otherwise may have never had access to, and I credit a lot of that to the influence of the facility and staff.” Sam Acuff ’15

Multi-colored yarn cascades down a stretched canvas.
A woman in a red dress stands near a table wrapped in red yarn. The table is partially lifted off the ground by a single red balloon.
Multi-colored yarn cascades down a stretched canvas.

Unity

General Fine Arts B.F.A.

Artist
Patricia McNickle
Medium
Acrylic yarn and stretched canvas
Credit

Image courtesy of the artist.

A woman in a red dress stands near a table wrapped in red yarn. The table is partially lifted off the ground by a single red balloon.

Self Portrait No. 2

General Fine Arts B.F.A.

Artist
Yawen Jiang
Medium
Yarn, table and balloon
Credit

Image courtesy of the artist. 

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