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The Cool List

Baltimore is fast becoming a cultural mecca — and national publications are taking notice.

Career Notes

A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.

A Day in the Life of a NASA Artist Intern

The summer before my senior year, I worked as a NASA animation intern on-site at Goddard Space Flight Center – commuting from Baltimore to Greenbelt…

Louder Than a Bomb

Baltimore has the secret sauce for producing electrifying poetry — woke, young people; and a space for them to be heard.

Social Design Celebrates 10 Years at MICA

Since 2008, MICA has been at the forefront of the social design movement, a rapidly emerging field and creative practice in the U.S. and around…

Kehinde Bademosi ’15: Storytelling to Save Lives

As a child growing up in Nigeria, Kehinde Bademosi ’15 (Social Design M.A.) didn’t have a television. His family simply couldn’t afford one. So…

Emily Ianacone ’15 Brings Design Strategy to Mayor's Office of Innovation

In recent years, recruiting officers hasn’t been easy for the Baltimore City Police Department. While the number of officers leaving each year…

Smile Indias ’17 Pursues Social Justice Through Work With Government

Through her social design work on the ground in Baltimore, Smile Indias ’17 makes truth-seeking an art. A native of the Philippines, Indias…

Kristen Spilman ’05: Design as a Way of Life

Design as a practice and discipline is relatively new for the technology industry, according to Kristen Spilman ’05 (Graphic Design M.F.A.),…

Smile Indias

Smile Indias, a former T. Rowe Price Foundation Fellow and Social Design Advisor to the Baltimore Police Department, is currently pursuing a…

Beyond Our Gates: A Q&A With David Bogen

Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs David Bogen discusses MICA's work with community stakeholders in Baltimore, specifically in and…

Developing the Curriculum of a Social Movement

What does a social movement look like? Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture in Station North is helping answer that question.

Model of Collaboration: Baltimore Design School + MICA

The brainchild of then Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh, former MICA President Fred Lazarus and Baltimore architect Steve Ziger, the Baltimore…

Giving Baltimore's Youth the Tools to Tell Their Stories

“Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so,” Moira Fratantuono ’10 (Community Arts M.F.A.)…

#DrawingWhileBlack

In September 2017 Annabelle Hayford ’20 composed a simple tweet that read, Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate Black artists…

Lisa Hochtritt, Ed.D., Director of MICA's M.A.T. Program

With a committed interest in social justice and art education, and understanding how they both intersect with youth, Dr. Lisa Hochtritt joins…

Ryan Lytle

Rinehart School of Sculpture M.F.A.

Virtuoso Faculty: Mina Cheon

This past September, Korean President Moon Jae-in and the First Lady Kim Jung-sook came to “Eat Choco-Pie Together,” an installation presented…

Alumna Creates a Space to Celebrate Baltimore's Immigrant Community

For her senior thesis, Valeria Fuentes ’17 ’18 (Architectural Design B.F.A., Social Design M.F.A.) created a clothing line called Segunda Piel…

The Cool List

Baltimore is fast becoming a cultural mecca — take a look at what people around the nation are saying about Charm City.

Design Leadership Students Make Finals in First Appearance at Design Challenge Competition

For three intrepid teams of MBA/MA in Design Leadership students, the challenge was too good to pass up. As the first-ever Johns Hopkins…

Eight Finalists Chosen during 'Pop Up Pitch' Will Move On to UP/Start Finale

The finalists will compete for funding totaling $100,000 during the April 17 finale

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Five Career Development Resources You Should Explore

The Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development

Mentor Extraordinaire: Illustration Faculty Member José Villarrubia

Orpheus Collar ’09 was obsessed with comics as a teenager – so obsessed, in fact, that when he was in high school, his mother tracked down legendary…

Virtuoso Faculty: Tony Shore

From smoke-filled bars in France, to Baltimore’s back streets and alleys, to the rolling fields north of the city where members of the Elkridge…

A Conversation With Darrée

A native of Los Angeles, Darrée Hyun ’18 (Filmmaking M.F.A.) is a storyteller who investigates the relationship between self and society.…

Designing New Leadership, Starting Now

“You have two minutes, start now.” These six simple words kicked off a flurry of sticky notes, Sharpie pens and far-flung ideas that began our…

Leading by Example: Maren Hassinger

For the past 20 years, Rinehart School of Sculpture Director Maren Hassinger has led young artists through example. She explained, “I think…

A Letter From the President: In Solidarity Against Hate and For Humanity

Dear MICA Community Members,Our nation was shaken to the core this past week by a series of senseless crimes linked by hate. We shared in communal…

2018 Baker Awards

Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…

Maker Space / Dolphin Design Center

Building your vision takes the right tools and plenty of space to grow. We provide what you need to get there.

Edon Muhaxheri

Edon Muhaxheri is an illustrator who discovered a lost Albanian alphabet while a student in MICA's M.F.A. in Illustration Practice program.

Cosmo Whyte

Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cosmo Whyte is a transdisciplinary artist and visual art lecturer at Morehouse College.

Christina Neston

Christina Neston is a Bay Area native who combines her passions for food and art through design.

The Legacy of Chair Emeritus in Art Education Dr. Al Hurwitz ’41 (1920-2012) Is Felt Worldwide

MICA Chair Emeritus in Art Education and alumnus Dr. Al Hurwitz '41, who passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012 leaves a lasting legacy on the…

North Avenue Knowledge Exchange

Built on the premise that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn, the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange is a community-based…

Hitting Their Marks

Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.

Stephen Hendee: Teaching Artist

Best known for fabricating ambitious, large-scale installations, MICA faculty member Stephen Hendee is creating a new objective for his studio…

Xiaofu Wang

A native of Wuhan, China, Xiaofu Wang is an active exhibiting artist currently based in Baltimore. In 2017, she was a Janet & Walter Sondheim…

First Year Experience Exhibition 2018

A look at work created by students in the 2017-2018 First Year Experience.

Building Better Bait

Meet product designer and entrepreneur Hunter Grogan ’14, ’16 (Environmental Design BFA, Business of Art and Design MPS)

Kat Ward

How My MBA and Master’s in Design Leadership Shaped My Identity

Brockett Horne, Chair of Graphic Design, Talks Career Prep

Faculty are mindful of how each step of a student’s education can contribute to their long-term success and work to integrate professional…

Art + Health Care: Winston Frazer

CEO and co-founder of Danae Prosthetics, Winston Frazer hopes to help amputees around the world embrace their lives through the ability to tell…

Jacob Lockard

Atlanta-based graphic designer Jacob Lockard is senior art director at AKQA.

E-Textiles: Yuchen Zhang

Yuchen Zhang has worked with some of the world's leading companies, including Google and Pentagram. But, nothing beat starting her own business…

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Whitney Sherman ’71

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Breast Cancer Research Stamp

Art Director: Ethel Kessler ’71

Artist

Whitney Sherman ’71

Date

1998

Hilary Ament

Graphic designer Hilary Ament works in film and tv for productions that include First Man and Doctor Sleep.

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