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Entrepreneurship

More than ever, MICA alumni from across disciplines are striking out on their own to found companies in a variety of fields.

Alumni from Painting to Printmaking, Fiber to Illustration are proving that creative thinkers are often natural entrepreneurs.

Learn about MICA alumni who are founding technology-based startups, indy game companies, niche design studios, creative firms with A-List clients, and so much more.

Sam Acuff

Sam is founder of Baltimore’s Two Bolts Studios, which handcrafts reclaimed objects into furniture with minimalist appeal - and an abundance of good design.

Read About Sam and Two Bolts Studios

Yuchen Zhang

Yuchen is co-founder of Wearable Media, a Brooklyn-based startup providing e-textile technologies to companies that develop high-tech fashion products.

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Flat Vernacular

Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr are co-owners of Flat Vernacular, a design studio specializing in original wallpapers and fabrics that have been featured in The New York Times and Elle Decor.

Read About Payton, Brian, and Flat Vernacular

Winston Frazer

Winston is co-founder and CEO of Danae, Inc., a digital manufacturing service provider that offers 3D printing, computer-aided design, and optimization for additive manufacturing. The company’s 3D printed prosthetic covers for amputees were featured in the Smithsonian Institution show Futures.

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Julie Buisson

Julie co-founded the agricultural development business Modernature, and designed the curriculum for the Growing Futures CTE Hydroponic Farm at the Phillips Programs for Children and Families campus in Laurel, Maryland.

Read About Julie and Modernature

Willem Rosenthal

A few years after turning an internship into a full-time job at a game studio, Willem founded Proto Games, which successfully launched the mobile game Pakka Pets in 2016.

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Meet our Entrepreneurs at Work

Building Better Bait

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

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…

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…

Prosthetic Covers for Amputees Globally

How three alumni are using cloud-based technology to bring personalized prosthetic covers to amputees around the globe.

Inclusive Storytelling For Social Impact

Rising Action Studio, winner of $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition, helps change makers and nonprofits tell inspiring and ethical stories about…

Creating A Fashion Alternative

Alumna goes against the grain, creating a fashion line that aligns with her moral compass.

Design + Civic Engagement: Katherine Namacher

MICA's multidisciplinary helped Katherine Nammacher to use her passion for technology as a means for civic engagement. She is co-founder and…

Elise Roy

Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and motivational speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement…

Creative Entrepreneurs Are Changing Baltimore, the World

These MICA students and alumni have an internal drive to do big things and a deep passion for helping others.

Willem Rosenthal

A few years after turning an internship into a full-time job at a game studio, Willem Rosenthal founded Proto Games, which successfully launched…

Modernature: Julie Buisson

Julie Buisson is the co-founder of the agricultural development business Modernature, which garnered a $10,000 MICA LAB Award as well as $25…

Sam Acuff

Sam Acuff leveraged his fine arts skills to launch a creative business and won $25,000 in investment funding during MICA's annual Up-Start Venture…

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…

Fashion Forward: Allina Liu

In only four years, Allina Liu has established her own womenswear label, Allina Liu. Her designs have been featured in an array of fashion and…

Ben Iluzada

In addition to being a conservation technician at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Ben Iluzada is founder of BSMTPress, an apparel startup…

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…

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…

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…

Building a Better 3d Printer

“These are game-changing technologies…with the potential to change medicine, agriculture, and other critical industries. One goal, for example…

Risks and Rewards: MICA Alumni Succeed as Entrepreneurs

Creative businesses founded by MICA alumni stretch disciplines and showcase the endless possibilities of a MICA degree. THUSS + FARRELL Established…

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