Funding Unavailable in 2019
The LAB Award is granted to support graduate students completing their MA or MFA degrees at MICA to engage in projects and initiatives in Baltimore. The aim of these awards is to provide a launching platform for graduating students to enter and meaningfully contribute to the cultural life of Baltimore.
MICA has been especially fortunate that many of its graduate alums have committed to living in Baltimore well beyond graduation. LAB Awards ($10,000) are funded in acknowledgment of the continuing relevance of these immense contributions and as a means to engender many more of our graduate alumni to remain in and continue their practice in the city.
Eligibility
Graduating MFA and MA students
Application Requirements
Applications will not be accepted for the 2019 year due to unavailable funds.
10-15 images, CV, Application Questions and Budget*
*Please use an Excel Spreadsheet or another calculating table to create your LAB budget totaling $10,000. Please note LAB funds may be used to support living expenses (not to exceed 20% of the total) during the award year.
2017 Recipients
| Maria Isabel Garcia Diaz | Social Design, MA Juntos Adelante: Design for Latinx Access and Achievement in Higher Education |
| Hamida Khatri | Community Arts, MFA [i am] Project KALI - Celebration of Womanhood |
| Noa Heyne | Rinehart School of Sculpture, MFA Moving Walls: A month-long interactive sculpture-installation and series of dance performances in collaboration with Sidney Pink, artist and co-founder of Akimbo Dance Festival |
| Suzy Kopf | Studio Arts, MFA (Summer Low Residency) Mapping a New Route for the Baltimore Streetcar Museum |
| Molly Reddy | Social Design, MA Co-Designing Career Pathways in partnership with MOED/YouthWorks summer jobs program |
Sample Proposals
Mapping a New Route for the Baltimore Streetcar
Suzy Kopf, MFA Studio Art
Moving Walls
Noa Heyne, Rinehart School of Sculpture
Past Funded Projects
Print Collect
Application Questions to Consider
Provide a brief summary of your project (no more than 100 words approx.)
Focus your statement on what you plan to do rather than past accomplishments.
What impact will this project have?
Describe how this project will contribute to the cultural life of Baltimore.
How will this project advance your creative practice?
At the end of a year, what would happen next? Is this project sustainable?
Are there partners in this project?
Provide letter(s) of support in a single .pdf document.