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Since the opening of MICA's first residential housing facility in 1993, the College has continuously focused on strengthening the student life experience.Over the past twenty-five years, MICA has recognized the importance of a robust student life program that complements the rigor and intensity of the student academic experience. We have broadened our housing program to over 1,000 beds and now offer a holistic residential experience.

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The 2D Prototyping Studio is closed until future notice.

The 2D Prototyping Studio serves students who want to take a tactile approach to basic binding, Riso printing, paper cutting, and other work in prototyping or multiples.

Use tools like a 2 drum Risograph MF9450, WireMac 21 wire binder, paper guillotine, light boxes, screw punch, circle cutters, button makers, and more -- to make a wide variety of paper-oriented projects.

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Academic advising is a two-way conversation, and student participation in the advising relationship is central to its success.

Students with strong advising connections make the most of their learning opportunities at MICA and are active in shaping their educational experiences. We encourage you to meet frequently with your academic advisor, share information about yourself and stay invested in your academic planning.

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The interest in animation is greater than ever. Groundbreaking animation is in demand, requiring animators to take creative risks.
MICA's Animation Department teaches the art of animation but also teaches creative thinking and flexibility - helping you respond to the ways that technology and science transform the potential of the medium. You are encouraged to develop a personal voice, take creative risks, thrive through collaboration and become innovators in the field.

Department Chair: Nadia Hironaka

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_animation

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BioDesign is a transdisciplinary practice that is technologically, ecologically, and existentially engaged with our more-than-human world.
The BioDesign Co-Major teaches students how to collaborate with living organisms from across the more-than-human world to create novel materials, objects, and approaches to living and working together on this beautiful but challenged planet.

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The Black Graduate Student Union (BGSU) at Maryland Institute College of Art dedicates itself to foster community, advocacy, and excellence among Black graduate and professional students. We are committed to creating spaces that affirm and uplift the diverse identities, voices, and experiences within the Black diaspora. We advocate for equity and inclusion within the university and broader community while building networks of support that extend beyond graduation and the classroom.

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The Black Student Union at MICA is a vibrant community fostering connection, dialogue, and empowerment among Black students. Our mission is to provide a supportive and empowering environment for Black students, advocating for equity, celebrating Black culture, and addressing systemic issues through education and activism. Through events, discussions, and advocacy, we address issues impacting the Black community while celebrating our rich cultural heritage, striving to cultivate a campus community that embraces diversity and ensures every student has the opportunity to succeed.

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Book Nook Collective is a hobby based club for book lovers to gather, socialize, and talk about books. We will explore a variety of book genres in club meetings (either in person or online). All are welcome to attend!

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The Mission of the Brown Asian Student Union (BASU) is to share the diversity of cultures across South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, The West Indies, and other such Asian ethnic groups that exist within the MICA Community. Working in tandem with the Office of Mission & Community Learning, we want to provide spaces for discussions on the intersection of these rich cultural histories and traditions. The organization is open to anyone interested in learning broadly about our cultures and their role in America.

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Gain the business skills necessary to start and grow a business or be a dynamic manager or creative director. Combine your creative talents with the fundamental tools of commerce needed to manage finances, negotiate contracts, market your work, and achieve business success.

The combination of artistic talent and business skills is a powerful asset for those who aspire to building and sustaining a successful creative career. The Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Business for Creatives from MICA bridges the gap between creativity and business, equipping artists, designers and innovators with the essential skills needed to launch, manage and grow their creative careers.

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Focusing on fostering an environment that respects the potential of Ceramic’s rich traditions while also integrating and exploring its new potentials, we are a community of learners exploring innovation.

MICA's Ceramics major provides a highly individualized course of study and fosters the development of a student’s personal voice. The curriculum supports technical skills within a framework of innovation and interdisciplinary thinking, and involves students in traditions and contemporary trends in the medium, with an active engagement in critical inquiry.

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The Chess and Board Games Club is a friendly space for everyone who enjoys playing chess and other board games. Everyone from the MICA community is welcome to join and hang out here, whether you'd like to learn how to play, improve your skills, or just want to have a cup of tea. We aim to promote not only Chess, but also other cool yet lesser-known games like Shogi and Xiangqi to wider audiences and give these more traditional board games the attention they deserve, and figure out how to make them thrive in this new age of the digital. We will host events such as learning how to play a new game and (hopefully) tournaments, so stay around and check them out!

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The mission of the MICA Chinese Students and Scholars Association is to build an inclusive, supportive, and creative community for Chinese students and scholars at MICA. We are dedicated to helping students adapt to campus life, encouraging artistic collaboration, and fostering meaningful connections through social events, professional networking, and community engagement.

At the same time, CSSA is committed to promoting Chinese traditional culture, arts, and festivals to the broader campus community. Through cultural celebrations, exhibitions, workshops, and public events such as Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival activities, we aim to create opportunities for cross-cultural exchange and deepen understanding and appreciation of Chinese heritage within MICA’s diverse environment.

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Club J serves to create a community around the TC2 loom, providing workshops and demos, materials for the loom, covering warp costs for members, and hosting events such as artist talks or field trips related to the Jacquard loom. The club ensures that the art of Jacquard weaving is preserved, shared, and uplifted at MICA.

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Maryland Institute College of Art is thrilled to celebrate each year’s graduates at our annual Commencement each May.
The ceremonies, one for the undergraduate BFA programs and one for the graduate MA, MFA, and MPS programs, are held off campus at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

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The M.F.A. in Community Arts program prepares artists to use their artmaking as a means of civic, youth, and community development, activism, education and more.

The program provides you with a thorough grounding in theory and practice, beginning with coursework that highlights the relationship between the artist, art, and community. Real-world experience that integrates independent artmaking with community-based projects provides you with the opportunity to investigate how artists help communities articulate their own unique creative identity, and how these communities, in turn, inspire the students' own creative expression.

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Cosplay club seeks to connect and engage with Mica community members interested in cosplay, nerd culture, and expression via DIY, social events, and a range of beginner friendly projects.

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Open to all majors, MICA’s Creative Entrepreneurship (C/ENTR) Minor prepares students to lead sustainable, impactful creative lives. This program blends studio practice with real-world entrepreneurial strategies, helping artists and designers turn their ideas into viable ventures. Through interactive, hands-on courses, students gain skills in marketing, budgeting, grant writing, social entrepreneurship, project management, contracts, and more—all essential for thriving in the creative economy.

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As a Creative Media Production major at MICA, you’ll build both technical fluency and creative range. You’ll develop core skills in recording, editing, animating, and coding, personalizing your degree by selecting courses in the areas that appeal to you most, from film and animation to game design, sound art, and interactive media.

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The first M.F.A. of its kind in the country, MICA's M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice prepares students to expand the role of curators--engaging audiences more effectively by proposing alternative models of exhibition-making, institution-building, and social justice through art.

MICA's M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice offers a hands-on curriculum that balances collaboration and socially engaged practices with academic research in history and theory. By creating real-world collaborative and individual exhibitions, our students raise awareness, bridge societal gaps, and catalyze exchanges across various disciplines, both inside and outside the art world.

Graduate Director: Jose Ruiz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micacuratorial

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Mine the data. Find the narrative. Tell the story.

Learn how to translate data and information into graphics, images, and interactive designs that communicate more effectively to more people. Develop design expertise and analytical abilities for a combination of skills in increasing demand.

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The mission of Decker Library is to empower MICA community members to make informed choices in their work and lives. We aspire to be a hub for socially engaged artists, designers, and educators in Baltimore, contributing to a more equitable world.

Core Values
Innovative: We foster creativity and new ideas.
Inclusive: We provide a welcoming space for learning, inspiration, and discovery.
Inquisitive: We encourage curiosity and exploration.

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As a Design and Innovation major at MICA, you’ll build essential design skills, learning to think across disciplines through a focused yet flexible curriculum with tailored tracks in Graphic Design, Product Design, and Architectural Design. Along the way, you’ll explore big ideas like sustainability, entrepreneurship, and design for social good while working on hands-on projects with community and industry partners.

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Co-majors provide additional depth in a specialized area without the full credit load of a double major. You can pursue a co-major in:

- Architectural Design
- Graphic Design
- Product Design

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Graphic Design ● Product Design

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To succeed in business, you must embrace the opportunity to look at things differently. The Design Leadership MA/MBA is rooted in the philosophy that the best business minds are open ones.

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Drawing can inform an artist in a way that is not easily matched ___________________________________________________________________
Learning to draw means learning to discern the qualities of visual forms and the spaces they occupy. We believe that these skills and the creative possibilities explored through drawing are as important for those pursuing a career in the applied arts as they are for the fine artist. To that end, MICA is committed to achieving the highest level of drawing proficiency among its students.

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The Ecosystems, Sustainability, & Justice (ESJ) major will empower students to actively utilize their creative practice to make a more just and sustainable world.
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Chair: Carissa Aoki

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The Electronic Music Club is a space for everyone of any experience level who are interested in any form of music and music production. The club aims to build a collaborative community of musicians, performers and music enthusiasts at MICA. We learn music production methods, inquire about local venues and shows, perform music together, and engage in any form of learning that is meaningful and important to club members.

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Our mission is to help each incoming student have a smooth transition into MICA and Baltimore.

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Textile structure is expressive and physical. The connections between surface, form, material and meaning create a rich terrain to explore. The Fiber major at MICA moves seamlessly between these in fine art and design, from the hand to the digital.

Although there is a strong sculptural emphasis in the major, you'll explore both 2D and 3D approaches, and many fiber students create work that involves installations, performance, video, and other cross-disciplinary approaches.

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Fibers Club is a place for anyone who enjoys working with fibers. Anything from crochet, knitting, needle felting, sewing, and more is encouraged! We want to create a space for fiber hobbyists to meet, chat, and work on projects together, and potentially create community events for swapping supplies, exploring Baltimore places, and communal craft hours. Anyone interested in delving into fibers is welcome to come around!

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To encourage a regular practice of drawing the human form from life and to build a supportive community of artists.

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MICA's Film & Video major gives visual artists the skills to produce, examine, and critique moving images of all kinds.

You will study the history of fine artists working in the medium and gain sound technical skills in creating time-based art through projects in the field and in the studio. The ability to delve into a variety of electives and film genres - from experimental to installation to documentary - lets you explore and experiment as you realize film and video's full potential for personal expression. If you are interested in narrative and documentary film, you can pursue the department's Filmmaking concentration.

Interim Department Chair: Erin Johnson

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The Film Club is dedicated to the love of film of all eras and genres. We host screenings at least once a week every week in hopes of keeping the MICA film community alive and well, and imparting film literacy on our members.

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The MFA in Filmmaking prepares the next generation filmmaker to enter a field that is expanding beyond Los Angeles and New York and to sustain a practice through participation in the international film community.

Cinema is a global artform. It is high art. It is populist. It livens the heart and can dysregulate the intellect. It enrages. It excites. We cry, laugh, scream and might even decide to make a change. Cinema is the perfect entry into a conversation with a stranger - ‘what is your favorite film?’ It is how we create shared myths that bind us throughout the world. We are in a period where corporate media can dominate the world while at the same time – filmmakers with mobile phones and a computer can create a film that has a sweeping impact.

The MFA in Filmmaking trains students in this context. Our students are mentored in the fundamentals of storytelling with an emphasis on impact. How will the film reach an audience? Does it have something new to say? Is it ambitious in vision and technique? Each student spends two years producing a dynamic thesis film where they are mentored all along the way by working professionals. We seek to train the next generation of narrative and documentary filmmakers in a worldwide context who will go on to move the needle in the universe towards good.

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Through a hands-on curriculum and unique collaborations with The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Film and Media Studies program and the Maryland Film Festival, the M.F.A. in Filmmaking prepares students for sustainable careers in film and media as the industry continues to realign.

M.F.A. in Filmmaking students engage in a curriculum that integrates a broad understanding of cinematic history with diverse technical experience-from generating ideas and writing to production, post-production and delivering a film to its intended audience. First-year students work on short film projects and crew for second-year student thesis films. These collaborative, hands-on experiences, combined with workshops, electives, and a robust schedule of visiting filmmaker talks, allow students to learn the cinematic process as they become knowledgeable about a variety of models to finance and produce films and reach audiences. Shared facilities with JHU's Film and Media Studies program gives Filmmaking students access to faculty and resources from two world-class institutions, while the Maryland Film Festival offers programming that connects students with renowned filmmakers as they screen films, hold master classes or review thesis projects. Graduates of the program will be prepared to work in traditional film and media hubs and to create sustained filmmaking practices in non-traditional markets.

For More Information Please Visit:
https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/filmmaking-mfa/

Graduate Director: Kirsten Hollander
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_mfafilmmaking/

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Printmaking ● General Fine Arts ● Painting ● Drawing

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MICA's First Year Experience has been crafted to provide a rigorous, integrated curriculum that reflects the diversity of our people and our learning pathways.

Students are challenged by courses that share a philosophy of learning through making-thinking-exploring-reflecting and honor the needs of individuals to define their relationship to the world as artists and designers. The program assists students as they consider their major options, providing a breadth of experiences while promoting in-depth thinking and skill development.

2019 First Year Experience Overview:
The entering class of Fall 2019 will benefit from a significant redesign of MICA's First Year Experience. As in the former Foundation Program, this new program will be a commonly shared experience for all entering students and will precede the choice of a major, which will take place in the spring semester.

The new First Year Experience design is in response to the rapid changes in art, design and technology, and the intersections between them that are occurring today. It has been crafted to provide a rigorous, integrated curriculum that reflects the diversity of our people and our learning pathways.

Changes for Fall 2019 include moving to a more flexible curriculum of inter-related courses addressing contemporary art and design practice. First-year students will continue to be engaged in traditional skill building through a more trans-disciplinary approach. This is built into to the new curriculum and is offered through the six credit core Forum as well as electives based in 2D, 3D, and 4D media. Students will also have more opportunity to work collaboratively on project-based enterprises and activities.

Additionally, the new first-year curriculum will be more tailored to the individual, increasing the number of choices, and allowing students more agency to design their own personal and professional pathway.

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Also known as the "FLIV" Wood Shop, this studio is for use by all enrolled students and is staffed with a technician during all open hours to ensure safety and help with projects.

The FLIV Wood Shop is equipped with two bandsaws, a table saw, miter saw, panel saw, jointer, planer, belt/disc sander and oscillating spindle sander, along with a variety of power tools and hand tools.

For more information about the tools in the shop, check out our safety video below!

https://www.mica.edu/maker-spaces-studios/fred-lazarus-iv-center-wood-shop/
Wood Shop Safety Videos https://www.mica.edu/maker-spaces-studios/wood-shop/safety-videos/

Contact: Ann Walsh, Studio Manager (awalsh01@mica.edu)

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During the open shop hours, the shop is staffed by a technician who is there to ensure safety and assist students with problem solving. https://www.mica.edu/maker-spaces-studios/wood-shop/

Contact: Linda Di Bernardo (ldibernardo@mica.edu)

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No longer just popular entertainment, games are their own art form.

At MICA, we explore games from a unique perspective that can only be found at an art and design college. Our program explores the role of play in our culture and questions how games are used to entertain, educate and create meaning.

Department Director: Sam Sheffield
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/micagamelab
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/2019-20-game-design-curriculum/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/game-design-course-list/

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Versatility and exploration - this is what you can expect from MICA's General Fine Arts major. _______________________ In keeping with MICA's emphasis on interdisciplinary exploration balanced by solid training in traditional skills, the GFA major lets you shape a unique major from the full range of courses offered by the College's fine arts departments. Students who choose to major in GFA tend to be independent, enjoy incorporating various mediums into their work and are highly motivated to become versatile, resourceful artists. As a GFA major, you select courses to create a program of study that is interdisciplinary, theme-centered, or of some other cross-media or multimedia construction. _______________________ Department Chair: Rex Stevens _______________________ Instagram: @mica.generalfinearts _______________________ For more info, visit: shorturl.at/achHO

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With its staff of talented peer techs, MICA’s Graduate Research Lab provides both community and top shelf production facilities.

Graduate school is about exploration. MICA’s Grad Lab creates a space for students to learn from their peers and discover new ways to innovate and evolve their art practice. Students can conduct their own research in technology through one-on-one help, an online database of articles and tutorials on various technologies and regular workshops.

The Lab provides an array of useful resources, including an electronic projects room, print lab, sound studio, video editing suites and plenty of A/V items for checkout.

Limited to students with an active MICA Graduate ID only, the Grad Lab is a perfect place to meet – and learn from – your fellow M.F.A. travelers.

Printing & Checkout Hours (Graduate Only)
Phone: (410) 225.4107

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Phone: (410) 225.4106

https://graduate.mica.edu/lab/Hours

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The Office of Graduate Studies provides administrative and academic support for graduate programs.

Our office coordinates 14 of MICA's MFA and MA programs, advocating for students with the goal of ensuring excellence in the delivery of educational programs, services, and opportunities.

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Graphic design is one of the most powerful forms of communication.

Design is commercial, social, public, and political. It shapes the meaning and impact of books, magazines, apps, websites, posters, advertisements, games, logos, film titles, and countless other media. Everywhere you look, designers are using words and images to penetrate people's hearts and minds. Our program shapes designers to think conceptually and apply technical skills in all forms of design practice.

We see graphic design as a comprehensive activity of visual problem solving for professional leaders working in branding, UI/UX, packaging, spatial design, publication design, and typeface design, among others. Our graduates bring the ability to think and make critically and to thrive as professional designers.

Interim Department Chair: Kristian Bjornard
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_gd
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/2019-20-graphic-design-curriculum/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/graphic-design-course-list/

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An immersive globally accessible graduate design education, delivered with the flexibility today’s creative professionals need.

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M.F.A. graphic students at MICA are encouraged to view themselves as cultural producers, "practical visionaries," and "utopian entrepreneurs" who actively initiate projects.

Graphic design is an interdisciplinary, cross-media field that is rooted in the fine arts. The program provides students and qualified designers with skills and knowledge to successfully compete nationally and internationally and to contribute to the public discourse of design.

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MICA's M.F.A. in Graphic Design serves as an advanced lab for interdisciplinary research and exploration within the context of one of the nation's top art colleges. The 60-hour curriculum engages students in a mix of critical seminars, guided studio courses, and independent work. Students can take advantage of electives in many MICA departments, including video, printmaking, and digital media.

As graphic design extends its reach into new media and new environments, designers are confronted with exciting intellectual and technological challenges. MICA's two-year M.F.A. program provides a setting in which to develop critical ideas about the history, future, and social uses of visual communication.

Who Should Apply
This program is appropriate for students who wish to contribute to the public discourse of design and visual communication by engaging in cultural, social, technological, and aesthetic issues that are transforming today's media and information industries. Selected from an international pool of applicants, students include experienced designers seeking to reinvigorate their careers, and professionals and advanced students from such related disciplines as digital media, photography, journalism, and the fine arts.

Graduate Director: Jennifer Cole Phillips
Founding Director: Ellen Lupton

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_gdmfa

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We provide assistance related to accounts, computers, network connectivity, or any other technological requests.
Any technical requests should be made by creating a service ticket at: http://helpdesk.mica.edu.

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Students in MICA's art history program become both artmakers and scholars of art.

While pursuing intensive study in the history of art, students also train as artists and designers, taking the majority of their coursework in studio areas-a defining advantage that allows them to analyze the process of art production as a component of their research.
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Department Chair: Victoria Pass
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micaarthistory

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MICA's M.A. in Illustration is a one-year program for those interested in a career in illustration or in refining their existing illustration practice.

The program is an immersion into the field with focus on studio work and professional practices, preparing you to build a compelling portfolio, for freelance opportunities, or for application to competitive M.F.A. programs, including those at MICA.

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The Master of Arts in Illustration is a 30-credit program. Its curriculum is paced to help you develop the vocabulary, and conceptual, observational, and handcrafting skill sets, tool sets, and mindsets needed to begin professional initiatives or pursue more specialized study. In the M.A. in Illustration program, you will work independently and collaborate with others, gain a global purview through historical study and exposure to diverse contemporary practitioners, and expand the scope of your professional practice through making skills and professional development. The degree culminates in independent work in the form of a capstone portfolio project, exhibition, and review panel.

A final review with guest critics, practitioners and faculty includes a public talk/presentation of a portfolio (to secure commissioned work and employment); a written working philosophy; a web presence; and an exhibition of work. In addition to the portfolio, you will create a digital archive for future professional presentation, project proposals or other educational pursuits.

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Students in the M.A. in Illustration program work in an open-plan, state-of-the-art dedicated studio environment and can take advantage of opportunities to collaborate with students from other graduate programs, as well as MICA research centers such as the Center for Design Thinking.

Who Should Apply
The program seeks applicants of all experience levels, including those entering the field of illustration for the first time as well as experienced illustrators who seek to expand their skills and experience. We encourage a diverse group of applicants with experience or education in complementary fields who seek tools, abilities and context in order to pivot and launch successfully into industry positions in a shorter amount of time than an M.F.A. program. Some applicants may seek to gain experience, further develop their portfolio, and undergo appropriate preparation for an application to M.F.A programs further in the future.

Graduate Director: Rebecca Bradley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_ma_illustration

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The M.F.A. in Illustration Practice has at its core a philosophy of necessary reexamination and reinvention, both in your work and thinking and in the paradigm of what it means to be an illustrator.

Our intent is to provide an environment for you to delve into your relationship to your work, to intelligently break existing perceptions and rules, and, taking advantage of technologies, and considering social needs and artistic perspectives, to be a pioneer in the future of illustration. This intense program of study helps students revisit their creative process and use of materials while awakening their abilities to chart their own course as entrepreneurs.

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Illustration Practice is a field unbound by specific media yet rooted in storytelling and ideas that intellectually and emotionally engage the public. In this program, students are challenged to find new directions for the practice, making visual and intellectual connections that examine cultural meaning. The goal of the program is to create a laboratory that resists the pressure to follow trends.

In this two-year, 60-credit, full-time program you will:

Investigate new materials and manufacturing models during the first year, 9-credit studio course, where students engage in workshops designed to spur creative and analytical thinking; Study a curriculum that includes two critical seminars, one humanities elective and two studio electives;
Conduct research and writing that address concerns on the historical, social, and cultural contexts of illustration practice;
Develop an independent, second-year thesis project using a medium appropriate to your personal direction and emerging illustration markets, including an exhibition and accompanying case study book;
Produce work at a professional level with real-world applications to your career goals;
Collaborate with fellow students, and professionals, and research centers including Dolphin Press & Print at MICA, the Center for Design Thinking at MICA, the Modern Graphics History Library at Washington University, and the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies;
Engage with full- and part-time faculty and visiting critics and artists-in-residence.

Who Should Apply
Admission to the program is highly competitive, and successful applicants will include experienced illustrators, advanced students from related disciplines, including writing, design, animation, film, digital media,etc., and students with a cultuvated passion for illustration in all it's forms. The program seeks students who value illustration in historical and contemporary terms, who strive to contribute new ideas and directions to the practice, who wish to expand or reinvent their work and wish to augment the research and writing available on illustration.

Graduate Director: Whitney Sherman

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As an Interactive Arts student at MICA, you will improvise, innovate, experiment, and play as you create unique, interactive experiences across an array of traditional and emerging media.

Interactive Arts majors learn how to integrate art with technology, build robots, make games, work with VR/AR, and create performances and unique experiences, all in a variety of media and materials. Through a process of creative inquiry based on learning by doing, you will become comfortable with new and emerging technologies and prepare for careers in the fields of experience/interactive design or as fine artists who work with interactive media.

Career Opportunities
You can gain professional experience through internships, and some of our majors have recently landed at Discovery Communications; Digital Harbor Foundation; The Smithsonian; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and CODE2040, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities find professional and entrepreneurial success in technology. IA majors have an excellent track record of starting their own businesses (Friends of the Web, Brinkbit), as well as working at a wide range of firms and agencies where they tend to focus on emerging media and experience design.

Interim Department Chair: Jason Sloan
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/2019-20-interactive-arts-curriculum/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/interactive-arts-course-list/

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Sculpture is contemporary art's meta-medium, where artists cross boundaries, invent hybrid processes, and explore innovative content in the areas of object-making, installation, performance, contextual practice, socially-engaged work, time-based art, and digital forms.

In pursuit of a B.F.A., students of Interdisciplinary Sculpture develop the conceptual content of their work concurrently with practical, hands-on knowledge of materials and fabrication techniques, enabling them to produce work relevant to their personal vision. Classes offered within the department combine theory and practice and encourage students to develop transdisciplinary, multimedia approaches to their work and invent collaborations with new audiences and communities. Through this innovative curriculum, students are exposed to a broad range of creative possibilities within the material, spatial, and non-static arts and develop a range of conceptual skills and strategies that allow them to realize content in inventive ways. Students explore both experimental and established approaches to art making.

Courses within the department allow students to build a solid base of constructive and technical skills by working in such areas as wood, metal fabrication, mold-making, casting, assembling, laser cutting, 3D printing, rapid-prototyping, welding, carving, and fabrication. Students are encouraged to further explore content in video installation, performance, time-based art, photo-sculpture hybrids, 3D computing, and other newer genres, and are challenged to use these skills to make work that is relevant in our complex, diverse, and ever-changing global culture. Our accomplished faculty provides the theoretical and historical framework to assist majors in developing a sophisticated critical/self-analytical awareness of their practice, and its place within the larger culture.

Interdisciplinary Sculpture students are encouraged to develop technical mastery, conceptual sophistication, and an understanding of newer and emerging genres; to explore contemporary issues, ideas, and technologies; and to create a practice that recognizes the past while envisioning the future.

Department Chair: Sarah Doherty

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micasculpture
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/interdisciplinary-sculpture/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/interdisciplinary-sculpture-course-list/

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Building upon MICA's strong foundation in art and design, you will learn thoughtful, human-centered design for a future interior design career. This program is aligned with nationally recognized certification.

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K/SA is a club for all Korean students at MICA, both international and domestic, to share our Korean culture with the wider world. Our goal is to provide connections within the school as well as share information and ideas to help each other gain a broader perspective of the world.

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LSU aims to bring together folks who identify as Hispanic and Latine, as well as friends and anyone interested in celebrating and learning about the diverse cultures across Latin America. All are welcome to join for various activities and to hang out. The goal is to build community!

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LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting is one of the nation's most selective graduate programs.

The LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting is one of the only graduate programs in the country to focus solely on painting, giving a select group of highly motivated painters the opportunity to find their individual voices within a supportive community. Through frequent critiques and seminars in dialogue with the director, critic-in-residence, visiting artists and peers, students develop the ability to think critically and sustain a rigorous practice. Trips to major art centers are integral to the discourse as students position their painting in the contemporary art world. Primarily a graduate school of painting, students find their way toward their unique form of expression.

Click here to read Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger's tribute to her late husband, LeRoy E. Hoffberger on the occasion of his birthday.

Program Overview
Students need a high level of competence and commitment to succeed at the L.E. Hoffberger School of Painting. The emphasis of the program is on independent work in response to critique. Each student is given a private studio. Context, support and continuity during the two year intensive experience comes through the student's community of peers and director. Students take responsibility for many aspects of running the weekly program, which remains flexible in response to changing needs.

Weekly presentations from the resident critics and visiting artists, as well as their engagement with students and the director at critiques of student work generate group discussion and exchange. Students benefit, as well, from working with the director in seminars and individual studio visits. Informal visits to exhibitions in small groups are integrated into the program each semester. Additional activities are added in response to the students' needs.



A total of 60 credits is required for the MFA; of these, 48 must be in studio coursework and 12 in liberal arts seminars. A selection of liberal arts seminars especially designed for graduate students are offered each semester, additionally, graduate students may take undergraduate liberal arts class with the permission of the instructor.

Who Should Apply
Enrollment is limited to 20 students who intend to pursue a career in the arts and who have already developed considerable proficiency in their medium. Along with a thorough knowledge of the discipline of painting, the program places emphasis on the development of the student's own vision, clear critical thinking, and disciplined studio practice that will continue into the student's professional career.

Applications are seriously considered for working artists who plan to pursue a career in the arts, who consider painting their primary focus and who have already developed a body of work on their own after completion of an undergraduate degree. Along with a thorough knowledge of painting and its place in contemporary art, the program focuses on the development of the student's own vision, clear critical thinking, and disciplined studio practice that will continue into the student's professional career.

Graduate Director: Joan Waltemath
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leroyehoffberger/

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Liberal Arts is the division for majors and minors in Art History, Theory and Criticism and Studio & Humanistic Studies. All undergraduate students take courses in the Liberal Arts throughout their time at MICA.

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Liberal Arts: History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture ● Humanistic Studies ● ELL ● ESJ (Studio)

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Interdisciplinary Sculpture ● Fiber ● Ceramics ● Architectural Design
Chair: Interdisciplinary Sculpture (IS, BioFab): Ben Luzzatto

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The Materials Library is a multidisciplinary resource for material research, exploration, and experimentation consisting of an ever changing and expanding collection of material samples.

The Materials Library is open to all MICA students, faculty, and staff during the regular scheduled hours, and it is also available by appointment.

For current schedule and more info. visit:
https://www.mica.edu/libraries/materials-library/

Contact:
Jenelle Legge, Studio Manager

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_materialslibrary/

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We at the MICA Sequential Arts Club aim to provide a space where students can share and create stories. Our club mission is to give students valuable feedback as well as opportunities to share their work through events such as art markets, our fall & spring zines, and Zinefest. We believe it’s important for students to gain unique experiences and be able to get genuine feedback from other community members who are just as passionate about making stories.

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MICA Burlesque seeks to create a safe space for students to explore their sexuality through performance art. Biannual performances that promote gender expression and sexual presentation aid in creating a welcoming, inclusive community that lessens the stigma around provocative entertainment.

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Events and things to do at the MICA Clubhouse at 81 Mosher

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This club is for all mica students who are interested in playing DND, being a Dungeon Master, or making new friends. This club will host many future events and meetings such as Dungeon Monthly and other small events to come together and have a fun time. Everyone is welcomed.

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A place where everyone, regardless of major, can connect with the illustration department and community. We typically meet every other Friday, 4-5 PM in Fox 415. 

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MICA InterVarsity hopes to create a community for members of MICA who are Christian or interested in exploring faith. We believe it is important to have a space where students, Christian or not, can help and take care of each other. We hope to achieve this by having weekly meetings for Bible study and/or prayer, and more informal gatherings where we just hang out. Following in Jesus' footsteps of love, we care for those at MICA and beyond.

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Create new worlds. Make a film. In MICA’s sound stage / green screen room, digital dreams come true.

The MICA Sound Stage (also known as the green screen room) is a powerful resource for multimedia-minded students. With its state-of-the-art sound stage and full studio lighting grid, the soundproof room provides world-class filmmaking facilities and all the tools you need to give your projects a professional look and feel.

Students will require training before utilizing the room; information can be found at the JHU-MICA Film Centre's website below.

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MICA Start aspires to be the home of anything game-related in the MICA community! We believe that both casuals and hardcore gaming fans alike deserve a place to unite and engage with their favorite gaming media. We achieve this by hosting themed collaborative events (such as gaming tournaments, watch parties, TCG nights, and board game nights), holding community and constantly communicating in our club Discord server, and, newly, informing club members with current up-to-date gaming news via short-form video content. We’re open to anyone and everyone in the MICA community, so come join us! Play games! Have fun!

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The Furry Club will create a safe space for furries and friends by creating a fun, welcoming environment open to all. Meetings would range from casual hang outs, creative craft projects and/or trips to related events.

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Mount Royal School of Art is a multi-disciplinary MFA program that allows students to work in ways most appropriate to their individual research--focusing their exploration within a specific medium or crossing into a wide array of disciplines and media as they engage in intensive studio practice.

Graduate Director: Luca Buvoli
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mountroyalschoolofart/

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Alongside museum-quality, curated exhibitions, much of the calendar is devoted to student conceived and executed exhibitions. By working directly with the community, the Office of Exhibitions sees its role as educators, working with students and faculty to enable a studio-connected, hands-on exhibition experience.

Over the course of an academic year, MICA students and faculty present over 80 exhibitions in 11 campus galleries, as well as others in partnering spaces.

Fox 120 Office/Staff Hours:
Monday - Friday 9AM - 5PM
(Closed for Lunch 12PM - 1PM)

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MICA's Painting department is ranked as one of the best in the country, an accomplishment that provides painting majors with many opportunities and greater visibility for their achievements. ____________________
Our Painting department is distinguished by both tradition and rebellion. The program celebrates the development of strong painting and drawing skills, an exploration of old and new forms (representational and abstract, 2D, and 3D), and an appreciation of independent, personal expression and risk-taking. ____________________ Top Graduate Schools ____________________ Our Painting majors are consistently accepted into the country's top ten fine arts graduate programs, including those at MICA, Yale, Columbia, ISD, and the Cranbrook Academy. Many have received prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships, such as the Fulbright Fellowship, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and the Freeman-ASIA Award. ____________________ Interim Department Chair: Bob Salazar ____________________ Instagram: @micapaints ____________________
For more info, please visit: shorturl.at/aegpT

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One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago.

Building on this legacy, the program today thoroughly examines both film and digital photography while encouraging a diversity of approaches. Students master technical skills as they work in state-of-the-art digital facilities, learn traditional and alternative darkroom processes, and develop a deep understanding of the medium's history and contemporary directions.

Our Facilities
The facilities in the photography department provide a professional workspace, including state of the art digital labs, a professional lighting studio and portable lighting systems, fully equipped traditional black and white darkrooms, and facilities for antiquarian and alternative processes. The department's courses and facilities also serve students in other majors who have met course prerequisites.

Department Chair: Jay Gould
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micaphotophotos/
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/2019-20-photography-curriculum/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/photography-course-list/

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Photography + Media & Society @ MICA is a vibrant Master of Fine Arts program where mature, self-motivated candidates for the degree explore photography and media as an interdisciplinary medium informed by the liberal and visual arts and the record of the human story.

The program offers an active think tank for socially engaged thought-leaders to produce knowledge and meaning in the public sphere through visual, material, and media culture using lens and data-based photographic, imaging, and media tools.

The curriculum content, program culture, the human and material resources of the College, and the City of Baltimore offer a rich community of experience and knowledge to build the foundation for launching a borderless, sustainable for-profit post-graduate practice within and beyond fine art at the crossroads of culture and commerce.

The curriculum combines liberal arts coursework, regular critiques with faculty and visiting artists, and individual studio exploration. Graduate students at MICA have the resources for collaborative, cross-disciplinary exploration, and facilities include dedicated spaces for video production, sound (including a full sound studio) and a state-of-the-art computer lab, high-end output equipment, and traditional black-and-white and color darkrooms with 3-inch color processors. Students have full access to a broad range of DSLR, video (up to 4K), sound, and lighting equipment. Graduates are prepared to add to the discourse surrounding contemporary art as exhibiting artists, faculty, and critics.

Who Should Apply
Ideal candidates are highly-motivated and independent-minded individuals engaged in probing ideas, expanding definitions, and perfecting both technical and critical skills. The program seeks to enroll students who will seriously contribute to the radical shifts in the formation, dissemination, and unique historical challenges for image-making and media practices.

Graduate Director: Bill Gaskins
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_pem/

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The Print Club seeks to create a student-led printmaking community at MICA that will foster community connections, learning, and new printmaking-based skills. Through a combination of community meetings, workshops, and exhibitions, the Print Club will establish a long-term presence in the MICA student body that will bring together students for years to come. The Print Club seeks to encourage a supportive community for MICA artists interested in print as a medium and is open to all students who wish to join.

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MICA’s Printmaking major offers a comprehensive print media education delivered in an incredible new 20,000 sq ft facility dedicated to the art of Print, Book and Paper.

The department’s approach is contemporary, supports a breadth of fine art and design interests, values experimentation, and is empowered by research.

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At MICA, product design is both local and global, integrative and individual, craft and business. To prepare to design products for a rapidly changing world, students here work with expert faculty - and a host of decision makers, industry leaders, activists, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.

The fusion of 3D design, technology, and making is expanding the definition of "product" and influencing how humans respond aesthetically and practically with every imaginable object today - from furniture and apparel to appliances and medical devices. And anyone with a Fitbit or smartphone recognizes that new connections between things and systems are changing the way we live.

Interim Department Chair: Karl Williamson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_productdesign/

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Launch your future as a creative product leader. Build the expertise to guide teams from idea to market-ready product—whether physical, digital, or experiential.

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Puzzle Club is a community of puzzle enthusiasts. We work together to solve and design jigsaw puzzles over the academic year. Our goal is to create an inviting space to collaborate and recharge.

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Radio WICV aims to create a club where students can come together and share community as well as a love of music and media.

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Due to Covid19, the Residential Studios will be closed for Spring 2021.

Build. Install. Refine. If you need room to stretch, the Residential Studio Spaces offer a short-term place to create and show work.
Big ideas require plenty of room. Located in the MICA residence halls, our Residential Studios are happy to provide a short-term area to house your larger-scale work.

Whether you want to mount an installation or simply need a place to let your art grow, the Residential Studios can help.

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The oldest program of its kind in the country, Rinehart trains 21st-century artists to follow their passions—whether that be through traditional working methodologies or art of the moment.

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In Rinehart, you are encouraged to follow your passions in a range of media and materials from video and digital media to steel, concrete, and fiber. Central to the program are critical readings and writing workshops, which balance intensive studio practice with a rigorous focus on history and theory. Students participate in weekly seminars that include guests who reinforce the varied practices of students in the program and who support networking and career development. In this program, you are prepared to contribute to the discourse surrounding contemporary art as exhibiting artists, faculty, and critics.

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Individually assigned studios open onto a common work area for easy access to a complete wood and metal shop and to peer interaction so that ideas are exchanged and peer interaction and discourse occur naturally.

Who Should Apply
Rinehart seeks to create a stimulating environment by enrolling artists with multiple perspectives and diverse cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds who share an interest in exploring the possibilities for creating art in a multidimensional environment. These students create a vibrant, stimulating community that is both challenging and supportive of individual exploration.

Interim Graduate Director: Delores Zinny
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rinehart.sculpture.mica/

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The School of Creative and Professional Studies is helping to define the Maryland Institute College of Art as a 21st-century leader in the education of artists and designers. We fuel creative journeys through convenient and innovative learning models that provide broad access to the college’s rigorous art and design education.

For non-degree seeking students, each semester (Summer, Fall, Spring), we provide a wide range of community education in fine arts and professional practice design courses, and youth and teen programs.

If you would like to view our current offerings for adults, youth and teens, visit openstudies.mica.edu

For degree-seeking students, choose from an advanced degree in Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in UX Design, Data Analytics and Visualization, and Business of Art and Design or a Master of Art (two tracks: Entrepreneurship or Product Management) and Master of Business Administration (MA/MBA) in Design Leadership, the dual-degree program in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

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We at the MICA Sequential Arts Club aim to provide a space where students can share and create stories. Our club mission is to give students valuable feedback as well as opportunities to share their work through events such as art markets, our fall & spring zines, and Zinefest. We believe it’s important for students to gain unique  experiences and be able to get genuine feedback from other community members who are just as passionate about making stories.

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Elevating the social and design literacy of creatives and building new pathways for professional practice.

The first degree-bearing program of its kind, MICA’s MA in Social Design is an intensive, practice-based graduate program that prepares creative changemakers with the tools and methods to advance equity and social justice and become pioneers and leaders in the practice.

Throughout the 1-year program, students will:
Increase Social Literacy—Develop a deeper understanding of the issues of equity, power, race and privilege that exist at the heart of the social problems we aim to address.
Deepen Design Literacy—Establish an ethical framework to guide personal practice and learn human-centered design methods to build empathy with and engage people in making and doing.
Create Professional Pathways—MA in Social Design alumni are pioneering and innovative leaders in the public, private, non-profit, entrepreneurial and academic sectors.

Program Overview

MICA’s M.A. in Social Design is a 1-year, interdisciplinary graduate program that explores the designer’s role and responsibility in society. The 30-credit program is comprised of seminar, studio, and elective courses as well as a variety of other immersive and practice-based experiences that take students outside of the institution to learn. Examples include:

Visiting Faculty—In addition to core faculty and staff, MA in Social Design students learn from visiting faculty across a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
Practice-based Studio—MA in Social Design students are eligible to enroll in semester-long courses that bring students from a variety of disciplines together with outside partners from government, nonprofit and business sectors to learn and apply the human-centered design process.
Human-centered Design Intensive—MA in Social Design students learn and experience the human-centered design process in a multi-day, immersive project with a local partner facilitated by a leading practitioner in the field.
Graduate Fellowships—MA in Social Design students put their skills into practice in professional contexts through paid, part-time fellowships with a variety of institutions during the academic year.
Capstone—MA in Social Design students undertake an immersive, design-driven project that focuses on a specific social problem and applies the methods, tools, and frameworks learned in the curriculum.
Post-graduate Associates—MA in Social Design graduates are eligible for associate positions within the Center for Social Design to build a professional practice and deepen their work in Baltimore after they graduate.

For More Information Please Visit:
https://www.mica.edu/graduate-programs/social-design-ma/

Interim Graduate Director: Thomas Gardner
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_socialdesign/

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MICA's studio minor in Sound Art provides an in-depth grounding in sound as an expressive medium. Through the study of the sonic arts at MICA, you will develop an understanding of the countless ways musical composers, sound artists, and visual artists can conceive of an develop sound as a unique and powerful work of art.

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The MICA Sound Stage (also known as the green screen room) is a powerful resource for multimedia-minded students. With its state-of-the-art sound stage and full studio lighting grid, the soundproof room provides world-class filmmaking facilities and all the tools you need to give your projects a professional look and feel.

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Student Academic Success (SAS) and the Writing Studio give students the tools and resources to excel at MICA and beyond. You can do it and we're here to help.

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The Student Counseling Center (SCC) offers:
*Individual therapy to students
*Help in finding services if student needs are outside the scope of SCC.
*Group support
*Email: counseling@mica.edu
*Don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions about our services and whether they could be of help to you.

Regular SUMMER HOURS:
Visit our website https://mica.edu/scc for detailed hours including breaks, holidays and special hours.
Monday–Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Drop-ins are suspended until the start of the fall 2026 semester
Closed for Lunch: 12 p.m.–1 p.m.; closed weekends

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mica_studentcounseling (not to be used for requests or emergencies to the center)

We invite you to utilize the following resources:
• MyCareWell@MICA: (866-443-0538): 24/7 Support Line available during winter break and anytime or anywhere during the school year.

•Telus Health MICA Student Support App: http://telusproduction.com/app/5108.html

• Get Help & Self-Care Resources: Visit - https://www.mica.edu/student-resources/counseling-services/wellness-corner/

The Student Counseling Center can be reached by phone or email. If you would like to schedule with a counselor you may: call 410-225-2367 and leave a message or
email us at: counseling@mica.edu including your name, phone number and MICA ID. This voicemail and email are checked regularly between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. A Student Counseling Center staff member will respond to your call or email as quickly as possible during business hours or next business day.

If you live in MD and are experiencing a psychological emergency please call 911 or get to your nearest hospital/emergency room, or call Campus Safety at 443.423.3333, or call the 24/7 counseling support line (MyCareWell@MICA) - 866.443.0538.

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From your head to your toes and everything in between, we are here to care for you. MICA Student Health Services is open to all students, whether you live on-campus or off.
In the event of a medical emergency, please contact 911 or your local emergency services.

The MICA Student Health Center is an outpatient primary health care facility that provides comprehensive medical care for both acute and stable chronic illness, preventative medical care and health education services.

Student Health Center Summer 2026 Hours of Operation

• May 18th: CLOSED
• May 25th: CLOSED
• May 27th – 29th: CLOSED
• June 16th- 19th: CLOSED
• June 23rd: CLOSED
• June 25th: CLOSED
• June 29th: CLOSED
• July 2nd - 3rd: CLOSED

May 19th to August 14th: Summer Operations
• Medical Clinic Appointment Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm (Weekends Closed)
• By Appointment Only : Medical Evaluations and treatment
• There are no walk-in hours during the summer recess

• Appointments can be made online through your Medicat Health Portal.
Access to the Medicat Portal is located on the Student Health website:
https://www.mica.edu//about-mica/offices-divisions/student-health-center/

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Students living in campus housing may park in parking lots next to and behind Founders Green. Residents are issued a parking permit and a card that operates the automatic gate. Security cameras monitor the parking lots. The cost for a residential parking permit is $200.00 for the academic year. Parking permits and cards may be obtained from the Campus Safety Office during regular business hours, 410-225-2355.

Parking regulations are strictly enforced in the area and violations carry initial fines from $12 to $60. For information about parking permits, contact Baltimore City’s Office of Parking Permits at 443-573-2800 or go to parking.baltimorecity.gov.

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Our Studio and Humanistic Studies major has been carefully crafted to help you create a conceptual and critical framework for inquiry into art and design.

This integrated major fully combines in-depth coursework in academics and studio to prepare practicing artists who will contribute to our culture as creators and thinkers.
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Department Chair: Elizabeth Wagenheim
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micahumanists

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MICA's M.F.A. in Studio Art Summer Low-Residency (MFAST) program is designed for experienced artists who want to pursue graduate study without disrupting their ongoing careers.

The emphasis of the MFAST is in integrating practice with theory, where students are encouraged to be independent thinkers and researchers who may focus on one specific medium or work across various media.

Program Overview
MFAST students complete their graduate studies over three years plus one summer. Each year, students come to MICA for an intensive six-week summer residency combined with independent work during the academic year and a return to campus for a short winter session. During the time that students are not on campus, they keep in touch with their dedicated faculty mentor through distance learning tools. Intensity and length of the program help to create a strong community of peers and a network of visiting artists, critics, and alumni that truly influence the students thinking and practice.

Areas of concentration include the full range of contemporary art practices; students may focus on one specific medium or work across various media. Although the program promotes interdisciplinary approaches to art production students are encouraged to work in ways most appropriate to their individual research.

Individual studios and a broad array of academic resources and facilities are provided for all the students while they are in residence during the summer session. Candidates must develop their own studio facilities for use during the academic year. Exhibition space is provided for group shows and individual thesis shows during the summer.

Each candidate is assigned a faculty mentor based on the work submitted for admission. These faculty mentors the student for the duration of the program. More feedback comes from a visiting critic who also meets with the students weekly during the summer. Finally, there is a different visiting artist or critic each week during the summer session as well as during the winter critique.

Who Should Apply
This low-residency program is intended for a broad range of experienced artists, teachers, and other art professionals who wish to expand their understanding of contemporary art through an engagement with extensive studio practice while developing a conceptual framework for their work.

Graduate Directors: Zlata Baum and Fabienne Laserre
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micamfast/

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MICA's M.A.T. program is nationally recognized for its success in preparing art education professionals who integrate personal artistry with the skill and understanding to direct the art making of others.

Our program offers hands-on experience in teaching along with coursework in practice, current theory, and research—all within a supportive community of students and faculty who are internationally recognized leaders in the field.

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Nationally recognized for its successful approach to preparing art education professionals, MICA's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program focuses on the notion that teaching is an art in itself and that the best art teacher is a practicing, accomplished artist.

The four-semester residency consists of 53-64 credits of graduate education and liberal arts courses, internships and student teaching, and independent studio work; a state-mandated six credits in the teaching of reading are integrated into the curriculum. The program is a Maryland State Approved Program for art teacher certification in grades preK-12. All students take national teacher exams (Praxis exams) and passing scores, as set by the state of Maryland, are required for completion of the program and degree. Maryland maintains reciprocity with 39 other states, which allows for easy transfer of certification.

Graduate Director: Lisa Hochtritt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mat_grad_mica/
Curriculum: https://www.mica.edu/academic-catalog/undergraduate-curriculum/2019-20-art-education-5-year-curriculum/
Course List: https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/course-lists/course-list/

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Our mission is to create a fun, safe, and active community of ping pong players; we believe our club creates a vibrant, fast paced, competitive and engaging atmosphere for all MICA students to enjoy. Ping pong is an incredible sport for brain function and the ability to think creatively; so we hope you join us for a game or two and fly like The Ping Pong Pigeons!

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Transfer students make up an important part of the MICA population, bringing their unique educational paths and valuable perspectives to our community. Just this past year, we had around 100 new incoming transfer students join our community.
However, they have a unique set of needs and challenges. Many transfer students end up dealing with social or mental health challenges after transitioning to a new environment, have a more difficult time relating to their peers who are on a traditional four-year path, are commuters, are less aware of the resources available to them, and more. TSC aims to better support and enrich the experiences of transfers here at MICA.

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The Office of Undergraduate Studies provides administrative and academic support for undergraduate programs. Our office coordinates MICA’s BFA programs, advocating for students with the goal of ensuring excellence in the delivery of educational programs, services, and opportunities.

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The BDes in User Experience (UX) Design is a flexible, career-focused undergraduate degree that prepares you to design apps, websites, and digital products that are useful, inclusive, and beautifully made. You’ll learn how to understand real user needs, turn insights into solutions, and create high-fidelity prototypes you can test, refine, and present—just like UX teams do in the field.

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Explore both the design and computer science sides of the user-experience equation. Master analytical problem solving and design thinking of UX principles that figure significantly in today's tech-focused marketplace.

Students in the Masters of Professional Studies in UX Design (M.P.S. UXD) master fundamental principles of interface design, project management, prototyping, and usability as applied to industries from gaming to healthcare and education to defense.

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The mission of the Writing Studio is to cultivate a vibrant community of writers equipped to communicate effectively, think creatively, and engage critically.

In alignment with MICA's mission, we strive to EMPOWER students by enhancing their writing skills and fostering their ability to express ideas clearly and creatively. We believe in the transformative power of writing to help students THRIVE in their academic, professional, and personal lives, particularly in Baltimore's diverse and dynamic context. We aim to provide a supportive and inclusive space where students can develop their voices and MAKE the world they imagine through the written word.

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