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MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale
Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.
Finalists Selected for MICA’s 2018 Up/Start Venture Competition
On Friday, Feb. 2, eight finalists for the third annual UP/Start Venture Competition were selected from over 20 applicants representing 15 undergraduate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Leslie Speer Named Chair of New Product Design Program
As the College prepares to launch its new B.F.A. in Product Design this fall, it is pleased to announce renowned educator and designer Leslie…
Shawn Cook
Shawn Cook's work as an intern for Bully!Entertainment as a sophomore at MICA was so impressive that he was offered a fulltime position while…
Jordan Bradley
Jordan Bradley, who created his first app as a freshman, is the creator of Pi, a day planning app for creative people and winner of the People's…
Emmy Award-Winning MICA Alumnus Promotes the Nickelodeon Brand
Christopher Papa ’02 (general fine arts) loves to tell stories, and animation gives him a unique outlet for his creative expression. There are…
DeRay Mckesson, Joyce J. Scott ’70, Carrie Mae Weems Among Honorees at MICA’s 169th Commencement
College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…
Boba Studios — Winner of $20k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…
The Longform — Winner of $25k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…
Winners Announced for MICA Up/Start Venture Competition
MICA is pleased to announce the winners of the Up/Start Venture Competition, the college's first pitch and start-up contest for students, graduates…
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Baltimore Artist Team Jessie and Katey Design Mural for MICA’s Dolphin Design Center
MICA commissioned Baltimore-based artist team and MICA alumna Jessie Unterhalter (‘05, MA ‘09) and Katey Truhn (’05) to install a multi-media…
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.
Career Notes
A look at a few young MICA alumni and their current career success.
Sarah Belisle
Sarah Delisle is a pyrotechnic designer for Image Engineering – a Baltimore-based entertainment company.
MICA's Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship Awards Over 100k at 2023 UP/Start Finale
As announced on April 10, $105,000 was awarded to eight finalists at the 2023 UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA.
UP/Start is an initiative…
Career Notes: Art + STEM
A look at a few MICA alumni and their interdisciplinary collaboration with science, technology, engineering, and math.
Boss Lady
MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby
Strength in Numbers
Two years after the launch of the M.F.A. in Filmmaking, students in the program are reaping the benefits of unique partnerships with Johns Hopkins…
MICA Open Works / Byron Banghart
In September 2016, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO) launched OpenWorks, a converted 34,000-square-foot former warehouse turned makerspace…
Fashion Forward
If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
Puppet Masters
Despite puppetry being an ancient art form — it is thought to have originated about 3,000 years ago — MICA didn’t offer classes in the…
A Conversation With Zlata Baum
A native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Zlata Baum has had a multifaceted career as an arts administrator, educator and exhibiting artist…
On Public Display
Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art
Good Fellows
Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
Knowledge and Community
At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…
Jann Rosen-Queralt
For Jann Rosen-Queralt, director of MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture, environmental and industrial elements are an intricate part of her process…
Morel Doucet - Full Circle
Despite having several family members as educators, Haitian-born ceramics artist Morel Doucet ’13 (Ceramics B.F.A.) never saw himself as a…
Site Specific, The San Francisco Bay Area
Five alumni — based in the San Francisco Bay Area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.
Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA
Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore
Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.
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…
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…
Knowledge is Power
MICA collaborates with Baltimore City partners to offer free classes, workshops and activities through the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
Jessica Bastidas
Jessica Bastidas, whose goal is to share her personal storybook world with children, is a student in MICA's MAT program as well as an art instructor…
MICA Names First 5 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works Makerspace
MICA is pleased to announce its five new Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Open Works through its recent partnership with the Baltimore Arts Realty…
Interdisciplinary Sculpture: Reece Cox
Reece Cox ’17, who came to Baltimore from Charlotte, N.C., was adamant that he wanted to be a figurative painter. “I’ve taken a few leaps since…
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