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Olivia Huynh, Google Doodler, Reaches a Worldwide Audience

The work of Google Doodler Olivia Huynh has been seen by Google users around the world as the MICA alumna's interactive animations marked holidays…

Portrait of Michelle Obama against a light blue background. She is sitting with her chin propped on the back of her hand and is wearing a black and white dress with geometric patters. Her skin and hair are all painted in shades of black and grey.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

Amy Sherald ’04

Portrait of Michelle Obama against a light blue background. She is sitting with her chin propped on the back of her hand and is wearing a black and white dress with geometric patters. Her skin and hair are all painted in shades of black and grey.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

Artist

Amy Sherald ’04

Date

2018

Medium

Oil paint

Dimensions

72 x 60 inches

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…

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…

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…

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.)…

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…

#DrawingWhileBlack

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

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…

Art + Space Exploration

Aleks Bogunovic turned her love for sewing and fabrication into Aerothreads, a business that makes Multi-Layer Insulation blankets for the aerospace…

Venture Advocate

Through funding of the UP/Start Venture Competition at MICA, Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation opens new doors for young students…

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…

Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)

Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course

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…

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.

Making Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

Their MICA story begins like that of so many students who enroll in one of the College’s 21 graduate programs: with a housing search.

Elle Perez ’11

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

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…

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…

Firsts

Smithsonian Commissions Amy Sherald ’04 for Michelle Obama Portrait

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…

Making Space

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

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…

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…

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 —…

EPIC Fun

This winter, the holiday season arrived a little early for Maharani, Swarna and Kamala — three of the six Asian elephants living at the…

In Good Company

When the 46 Unites States Artists (USA) fellows were announced at the end of 2016, winners included luminaries across creative disciplines …

Designing the Digital Classroom

The Artists Talk

Collaborative duo and 2015 Sondheim Prize winners, Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax sit down for a Q&A about their artistic practice.

The Genius of Joyce J. Scott

Joyce J. Scott ’70 (Art Education B.F.A.) has been named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowships…

Star on the Rise

The work of painter Amy Sherald ’04 (Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) was always autobiographical in nature, but the artist says her move…

Power to the Young People

M.F.A. in Graphic Design students team with Ph.D. candidate to empower Baltimore’s Growing Girls.

Site Specific, The Baltimore Area

Five young alumni — based in the Baltimore area — who have carved out impressive creative spaces.

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