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Whitney Sherman Designs Two Landmark USPS Stamps
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Since 1998, the United States Postal Service has issued seven semipostal stamps to raise funds for important health and social causes. Whitney Sherman '71, (Photography BFA) founding director of MICA’s MFA in Illustration Practice program, illustrated both the first, the popular Breast Cancer Research stamp, and the seventh and most recent, Know the Facts About Fentanyl, issued this month.
More than 1.2 billion Breast Cancer Research stamps have been sold, raising nearly $100 million for research. The new fentanyl awareness stamp will contribute 18 cents from each sale to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Both projects have strong MICA connections. Sherman collaborated with art directors Ethel Kessler ’71 (Graphic Design) on the first stamp and Antonio Alcalá, former MICA faculty member, on the latest.
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Globe Posters for the People Opening Reception
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Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5th, 5-7pm
Globe Posters for the People celebrates the legacy of a Baltimore’s Globe Poster Printing Corp. Featuring fluorescent inks and bold typography, Globe created accessible marketing for artists, performers, and ideas that challenged the early twentieth-century media landscape. From local and touring headliners, including James Brown, Salt-N-Pepa, and John Waters; to political campaigns, rodeos, and circuses, Globe's posters brought the forces reshaping post-war popular culture to the people. Featuring more than 100 posters this near-centennial retrospective traces the evolution of Globe Press from its humble beginnings to its current incarnation as a teaching tool, a working press, and archival resource—Globe at MICA.
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See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story
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Screening: Wednesday, November 11, 7pm
Celebrate the world premiere of See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story. Filmmakers John Lewis and Rei Perri have captured the legacy of Globe Poster through interviews with famous music artists who commissioned these iconic posters, the printers who brought them to life, and those carrying its legacy forward at MICA. Bobby Rush, John Waters, Solomon Burke, Chuck Brown, Wayne Coyne, Rosa Pryor, Ellen Lupton, and more talk about Globe’s impact on popular culture and the American visual landscape. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.
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MICA Dining Services Review
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Friday, Oct. 30, 3:30pm, Main Building, M110
As we announced a few weeks ago, MICA has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for our campus dining services, an important part of our ongoing due diligence to ensure MICA provides students with the best possible combination of value, variety, and overall dining experience.
As part of this exploratory process, we are engaging the MICA community through listening sessions and campus-wide surveys to better understand your current experiences and identify priorities and opportunities to improve. This feedback will help inform our evaluation, but does not guarantee any specific changes or outcomes. Details are below.
Listening Sessions Sign Up Here.
Community Survey Link Here.
We look forward to hearing from you. We anticipate this process will take several months and look forward to sharing updates through the winter and spring.
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Decker Library Survey
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Open until Sunday, Nov. 1
Decker Library is looking for feedback and insight from faculty and students as part of an external review of the library. We welcome all students and faculty to share their perspective by responding to this short survey. The survey will stay open until November 1. Thank you for your input and participation in this process.
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Artist Talk: Howie Lee Weiss
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Monday Oct. 26, 11am-12pm, Falvey Hall
Join us for an artist talk with MICA faculty emeritus, Howie Lee Weiss. This lecture is hosted by Fine Arts with support from the Academic Bicentennial Grant and coincides with MICA's Sketchbook Annual event. Known for stylized, precise, graphic imagery, Howie Lee Weiss’s artworks have been reviewed in such publications as Art in America, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Baltimore Sun. Weiss’s iconic drawings have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
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Artist Talk: Taína Cruz
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Monday, Oct. 26, 2-3pm, Falvey Hall
FYE's Contemporary Visual Language Lecture Series presents an artist talk by Taína Cruz, IS '20 alum.
Taína lives and works in New Haven, CT. Across painting, sculpture, installation, and video, she builds immersive worlds where figures, objects, and animals inhabit charged architectural spaces, staging acts of becoming. Drawing on African American and Caribbean traditions and shaped by coming of age within networked image culture, Taína approaches identity as fluid and iterative. Her work stages moments of transformation where folklore and contemporary visual systems overlap and evolve.
Earlier this year, Taína was the youngest artist to be included in the Whitney Biennial.
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MICA Sketchbook Annual (Bicentennial Edition)
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Monday, Oct. 26, 12-1pm, outside of Falvey Hall
Bring your sketchbook, get a free T-shirt. Add your sketchbook to a viewing table (as early as 10:30am, before faculty emeritus Howie Lee Weiss's artist talk at 11am) and peruse other sketchbooks. Retrieve your sketchbook at 1pm. This event is open to students in any department regardless of year of study. Too shy to share your sketchbook? Browse at your leisure. All are welcome. MICA's Sketchbook Annual is hosted by Fine Arts with support from the Academic Bicentennial Grant.
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Manuela Moscoso Lecture
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Tuesday, Oct. 27, 4-6pm
Lazarus Auditorium
Rinehart School of Sculpture is pleased to welcome Manuela Moscoso, Director of CARA NYC, for a visiting lecture.
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Art@Lunch – Scott Malbaurn
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Oct. 28, 12:30pm, Lazarus 115
Please join us for Art@Lunch with Scott Malbaurn.
A museum's importance is not determined by its size, location, or collection alone. Its importance comes from the quality of the encounters it creates and from the networks of people, ideas, artists, students, and communities that pass through it.
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Who's on the Menu?
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Friday, Oct. 30, 5-7pm, Riggs and Leidy Galleries, Lazarus Center
Join us for the opening reception for Who’s on the Menu? This is the fall group exhibition presented by the Mt. Royal School of Art, MICA's multidisciplinary MFA program. Come to see the work, stay for the company.
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MICA-AHHH!
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Friday, Oct. 30, 3-4pm
Something spooky (and sweet!) is happening at MICA. Grab your costume (or just your sweet tooth) and get ready for MICA-AHHH!, a campus-wide scavenger hunt-style trick-or-treat adventure. Follow a trail of treats as you explore campus, visit different departments, meet some friendly faces, and collect candy along the way. Start your spooky journey at the Student Counseling Center, or jump in wherever you like. Treats will be waiting at participating locations, including Decker Library, the Office of Student Engagement, the Global Education Office, and more. No tricks, just treats, exploration, and a chance to discover some of the people and places that make MICA special. Come for the candy. Stay for the adventure. Happy haunting!
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Black Curators Matter:
UGS Lecture Series talk by Dr. Kellie Jones
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Monday, Nov. 2, 12pm, Brown 320
The relationship between Black Americans and U.S. art museums has historically been fraught and hard-won. This talk considers the advocacy and scholarship that Black curators from the 1970s onward have brought to the wider art community and its histories. Our research and oral history project led to the current book Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change (Getty 2026).
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GSISS: Alex Da Corte, Artist Talk
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Tuesday, Nov. 3, 4:30pm, Falvey Hall
Join guest speaker Alex Da Corte for an artist talk followed by a reception. Presented as part of MICA's Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Bicentennial Celebration. Registration is free but required due to limited seating. Register on the Eventbrite page link below.
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Against Legibility: Collage and the Opaque
Re-membering of Archives of Violence
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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2:30pm, Leake Hall 106
Dr. Leniqueca Welcome's lecture, which asks "How does one document violence without re-inscribing the violence of archival practice and representation?" and answers "Collage is a poet(h)ical visual practice that breaks open both the normative form and narrative logic of the realist image and allows for the building of an abstract world from fragments rich with multiple meanings and feelings."
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Creative Alchemy: Art Exhibition
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VIP Reception: Monday, Nov. 2 (invitation only)
Public Reception: Thursday, Nov. 5, 6:00-7:30pm
81 Mosher Street
Join the Center for Mission and Community Education at MICA and Jessup Correctional Institution for Creative Alchemy: Reaching Through the Wire, an exhibition featuring artwork by currently and formerly incarcerated artists. Through art and storytelling, the exhibition explores transformation, connection, and creativity beyond institutional boundaries. All are welcome to attend the public reception and experience the powerful artistic voices featured in this exhibition.
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Harjant Gill: Film Screening and New Book Talk
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Monday, Nov. 9, 1pm, Leake Hall 106
Join us for a special screening of "Mardistan (Macholand)" with the director, Harjant Gill, himself. Gill's visit to MICA also coincides with the release of his latest book, Coming of Age in Macholand. Learn more about Gill's work on his website: here
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Art@Lunch with Adrian Anagnost
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Wednesday, Nov. 11, 12pm, B480
Join us for Art@Lunch with Adrian Anagnost. What does it mean to understand documenta 15 (2022) through the history of art in Indonesia rather than centering the controversies that surrounded the exhibition? Drawing on her new book, "De-Globalizing the Art World: Contemporary Art and the Case of documenta 15," this talk traces multiple collective models of world-making.
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Residual Heat, a group exhibition of work by MICA Ceramics BFA class of 2027
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Exhibition Date: 10/23-11/10, Middendorf Gallery
Reception Date: 11/6, 5:30-7pm, Middendorf Gallery (Station Building)
Ceramics group exhibition includes works from Meiyan Dong, Cedar Clark, Ally Anderson Mayo, Gracia He, Abby Head, and Vanessa Dobbins.
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Beneath the Grid by Tse-Wen Tsao '26 (Photography + Media & Society MFA)
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Beneath the Grid is a long-form conceptual documentary project exploring the environmental and social impacts of renewable energy development on the Tibetan Plateau, where solar and wind infrastructure increasingly occupies traditional grazing lands. Drawing on years of engagement with Tibetan pastoral communities, Tsao documents how these transformations reshape landscapes, livelihoods, and relationships to the land. Through striking black-and-white photography, aerial imagery, moving image, and sound, the project contrasts monumental energy infrastructure with the everyday lives of local herders. Rather than portraying renewable energy as inherently beneficial or harmful, the work questions how sustainability can be achieved without deepening social and ecological inequalities.
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Artist Talk with Siena Smith
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Thursday, Nov. 19, 6pm, Station Building, Rm. 104
Club Jacquard will be hosting an artist talk with textile artist Siena Smith via Zoom. Siena Smith navigates the entangled histories of labor, resistance, and memory by engaging directly with the industrial Jacquard loom, a machine rooted in colonialism, capitalism, and enslavement. She aims to disrupt its legacy as a colonial algorithm and instead use it as a site of Black expression, resistance, and presence. You can find out more about Siena Smith and view her work on her website.
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Nate Larson, Professor of Photography, is a Finalist for the 2026 Arnold Newman Prize Winner
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The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is a $20,000 prize awarded annually to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. All artists recognized in the Top Ten will be included in the online exhibitions hosted by Maine Media. In addition to cash awards for the Prize recipient and Finalists, all photographers selected for the Top Ten will be featured in a professionally produced publication celebrating the work of the Prize recipient, three Finalists, and six additional photographers recognized in the Top Ten. This softcover, perfect-bound publication will serve as a lasting record of the year’s most compelling approaches to photographic portraiture. It will feature the Prize recipient, selected works by the Finalists and Top Ten photographers, and contextual essays on Arnold Newman’s legacy, the history of the Prize, and Maine Media’s role as its steward.
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MICA Celebrates New Cambridge Handbook
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MICA students joined scholars from around the world for a virtual celebration marking the publication of The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death, edited by MICA faculty member Ruth E. Toulson with Sarah Richardson and Sarah Wagner. Bringing together leading voices in anthropology and death studies, the new volume explores how societies understand, ritualize, and live with death — from everyday loss to catastrophe, and from mourning and memory to death’s material and more-than-human dimensions. Students and scholars raised a virtual toast to the new volume, celebrating both its timely contributions and the vibrancy of the liberal arts at MICA.
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SSG Spring 27 Exhibition Application Ends Soon
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Deadline: Sunday, Nov. 1, 11:59pm
The SSG program provides both undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to exhibit their work in one of our five gallery spaces on campus. There are 15 slots available for Students to apply for a solo show or group exhibition. Those selected will gain hands-on experience in exhibition planning, curation, installation/deinstallation as well as hosting a gallery opening reception. The SSG team will provide promotional materials and social media promotion, as well as the catering for each exhibition's opening reception.
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Creative Futures Residency Applications Now Open
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Application Deadline: Monday, Nov. 23,11:59pm
Program Dates: January-June 2027
Applications are now open for the next cohort of the Creative Futures Residency, a six-month program designed to help recent MICA alumni grow their creative practices and ventures. Residents receive access to mentorship, professional development workshops, entrepreneurial resources, the option to live on campus, and a supportive community of fellow creatives as they work toward building sustainable creative careers.
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Copyright, Trademark, and Patents with MDVLA
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Date: Monday, Nov. 2, 6–7pm, Brown Center, Room 320
Join Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (MDVLA) for a workshop on the basics of intellectual property law and how it applies to your creative practice. Learn about copyright, trademarks, and patents, including ownership rights, how to protect your work, and what steps you can take if your work is infringed upon. Bring your questions about protecting your creative work, from sharing copyright with a co-author to registering a trademark for your logo.
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