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Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Video still of an animated mars.

Video still from I.S.S. Log -- Day 142: An Hypothesis on Calder, Art in America, and a Mars Landing

Artist

Luca Buvoli

Date

2011-2017

Sok Hui Low

Sok Hui Low, an art educator who encourages experimentation and play with art materials and processes, teaches adolescents in Singapore, in an…

A Cheerleader for Art Education

As featured on Diverse Issues in Higher Education website. When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)…

Chess pieces shaped like animals on a chessboard covered in wine.

Slay

Chess pieces shaped like animals on a chessboard covered in wine.

Slay

Artist

David Deluty

Serif type design

Southern Gothic

Emily Tartanella

Serif type design

Southern Gothic

Graphic Design M.A.

Artist

Emily Tartanella

Date

2017

Medium

Digital

WYPR Commentary: Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change…

President Hoi on Building the Creative Economy

President Samuel Hoi discusses how Baltimore's creative economy can be a catalyst for positive change on Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR…

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Untitled

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA)

A person stands in front of a lit sculpture that glows purple. The sculpture is concave. A viewer stands nearby listening to headphones.

Buttholes

Danni Tsuboi ’16

A person stands in front of a lit sculpture that glows purple. The sculpture is concave. A viewer stands nearby listening to headphones.

Buttholes

Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.

Artist

Danni Tsuboi ’16

Date

2015

An enormous amount of fluffy gray lint is piled in the middle of a gallery space.

Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot)

Howard el-Yasin

An enormous amount of fluffy gray lint is piled in the middle of a gallery space.

Dryer Lint Collection (installation shot)

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Howard el-Yasin

Date

2016

Medium

Dryer lint and mixed media

Painting of a truck with wolf eye decals on the back window.

Wolves

Painting of a truck with wolf eye decals on the back window.

Wolves

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Michael Evans

Installation of light and shadows. A lamp on a tripod throws shadows of string against the walls.

Sacred Space

Installation of light and shadows. A lamp on a tripod throws shadows of string against the walls.

Sacred Space

Studio Art M.F.A.

Artist

Ume Hussain

Zoe Linn Jarvis

A 2015 graduate, Zoe Linn Jarvis has a thriving career as an exhibiting artist with a large-scale solo show opening in Washington, DC in 2017…

Bibliography: Baltimore's Confederate Monuments

Reflective of MICA's commitment to engaging in issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice, and the college's historic and ongoing…

Abstract painting, light pink and white brushed across a blue and yellow background.

Drain

Lauren Jefferson

Abstract painting, light pink and white brushed across a blue and yellow background.

Drain

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Lauren Jefferson

Abstract painting, a black square over yellow and beige swirls.

From the series With Grandmother

Abstract painting, a black square over yellow and beige swirls.

From the series With Grandmother

Teaching M.A.

Artist

Ji Won Song

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Smithsonian Commissions MICA Faculty Amy Sherald '04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

Last week, Amy Sherald '04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.), who recently joined MICA's Painting faculty as the McMillan/Stewart…

Abstract painting, a white rectangle on top of various green and white rectangles.

Pulling

Abstract painting, a white rectangle on top of various green and white rectangles.

Pulling

LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.

Artist

Jinie Park

WYPR Commentary: Confronting the Sites of Confederate Monuments

President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR, about a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate…

Confronting the Sites of Federal Monuments

In September 2017, MICA's President, Samuel Hoi, offered a follow-up plan for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate monuments.

President Hoi Receives Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship

President Samuel Hoi was named a 2017-2018 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation.

Masterwork

In the early 1980s, when MICA first started using computers in classrooms, far off was today’s technological context and the complementary…

Adapt & Adopt for a Better Future

Keeping pace in a rapidly changing professional environment requires the acquisition of new market-driven competencies. MICA’s Master of Professional…

Allana Clarke

“I was a really terrible student,” exclaimed Allana Clarke ’14 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) in a conversation before her April lecture…

Collaborative By Design

Home to B.F.A. programs in Game Design and Product Design as well as the B.F.A. in Architectural Design, the new Dolphin Design Center was created…

Firsts

Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

Making Space

The Fabrication Studios are amazing community spaces where students learn and make. The shops on campus afford students, faculty and staff with…

Freedom to Fail

Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 (Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate, Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) measures success by what happens in the studio —…

Sara Dittrich Receives Baker Artist Award

In an announcement made live on Maryland Public Television in late May, Sara Dittrich ’14 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture B.F.A.) was named a winner…

Full Bleed: A Journal of Art & Design

Published annually by MICA, the work in Full Bleed stands for the civilizing influences of aesthetic experience and progressive design.

Making It Personal: War Refugee Tarek Turkey ’15 Gives Voice to the Speechless

When Tarek Turkey ’15 arrived in Baltimore as a war refugee in 2009, he did not speak much English. That didn’t stop him from gaining a B.F.A…

Elle Perez ’11

Photography alum Elle Pérez’s monochrome photographs explore queer and Latinx spaces — from underground wrestling to LGBTQ nightclubs (among…

Q&A With Leslie Speer

LESLIE SPEER, recently selected to lead MICA’s new B.F.A. in Product Design, is a designer and educator who has worked for companies and clients…

Skin in the Game: Jackie Sabur

For Jackie Sabur ’03 ’06, tattooing is the ultimate expression of herself as an artist. The craft allows her to integrate learned techniques…

Q&A With Jason Corace

JASON CORACE is an award winning game designer, media artist and educator who founded MICA’s successful studio concentration in game design…

A Conversation With Kelsey Schmitt ’12

Art educator and practicing artist, Kelsey Schmitt ’12 is proof that graduates of MICA’s Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program are…

Louder Than a Bomb

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

Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore

Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.

Art Meets Science

In 2009, I began a three-phase art project that explores the relationship between art and science, addressing the changing roles of the astronaut…

Errol Webber

Music by Prudence, a documentary short subject film co-produced by Patrick Wright, chair of MICA's video and film arts department, won an Oscar…

Hillery Sproatt ’07

Even before she entered MICA, Hillery Sproatt as an entrepreneur, launching Rebe, a line of woman's clothing and handbags with her mother, textile…

Colin Dunn

Colin Dunn began blending technology with design as an undergraduate at MICA and took that passion with him to Facebook after graduation. While…

President Samuel Hoi Responds to DACA Rescission Decision

The following are statements that were made to the MICA community regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 announcement to plan to…

The Edge of Understanding: A Q&A with 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng

Cindy Cheng ’08 ’11 lived all over the world — from Hong Kong to Vancouver to Hawaii to Massachusetts — before making her way to study…

President Samuel Hoi Warfield Video Interview

Though he says it was a matter of happenstance that he stumbled upon arts college management while studying illustration at Parsons School of…

Knowledge is Power

MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange

P.J. Richardson

Five years after graduating, PJ Richardson co-founded Laundry, a creative firm in Los Angeles which today employs 20 employees who take on everything…

Art and Aerospace: Alumna Engineers Thermal Solutions for Spacecraft

As a little girl, Aleks Bogunovic ’12 ’13 (Fiber B.F.A., Business of Art and Design M.P.S.) knitted, crocheted and sewed clothes, taking after…

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