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Build Your MICA Bicentennial Weekend
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There’s a lot happening during MICA Bicentennial Weekend, October 9-11. You probably aren’t going to do all of it. So pick your lane.
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🎨Want to hear from artists? See Jen Stark ’05 and Jeff Koons ’76.
💼Thinking about life after MICA? Hear from alumni at Creative Entrepreneurship.
🚇Want something weird? Secret. Subway. Exhibition. Check out Going Underground: The Underbelly Project.
👀Want to explore? Visit open houses, exhibitions, Art Market and showcases across campus.
🎉Want to be part of the Bicentennial? Join generations of MICA alumni and students for the Parade of Classes.
🥂21+ and want to keep Saturday night going? Students aged 21+ can purchase a $10 ticket to Taste of MICA (normally $25) at the door with a government issued ID.
Pick one thing. Pick five. Build the weekend you actually want to attend.
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Volunteer for MICA Bicentennial Weekend!
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Help us welcome alumni, families, students and friends back to campus for MICA Bicentennial Weekend! We're looking for faculty and staff volunteers to help throughout the day on Saturday, October 10, with three-hour shifts available from 9am - 9 p.m.
As a thank-you, volunteers will receive complimentary access to MICA Bicentennial Weekend events when they're not volunteering, plus free lunch on Saturday, regardless of shift time.
Give us three hours and spend the rest of the Weekend celebrating 200 years of MICA with us!
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Lazarus Building Hours
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Please note that Lazarus building normal operating hours are changing on October 1st. Building hours will be 8 AM to 12 AM seven days a week during regular campus operations. That means the building will now be closed from 12 AM to 8 AM during the regular semester. Faculty and staff will have swipe access to the building beginning at 7 AM each morning. If faculty or staff require access earlier than 7 AM, they must contact Campus Safety dispatch. Students will have access beginning at 8 AM each day when the Campus Safety team will be at the security desk. Any extended hours for final exams or installations will be announced in advance. These will be determined in consultation with the Deans and the Provost’s office and announced via the MICA minute.
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Lecture by Leyla Faye, McMillan Stewart Endowed Chair of Painting
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Monday September 21, 12-1pm in Falvey Hall
Please join us for a lecture by Leyla Faye, one of this year's McMillan Stewart Endowed Chairs of Painting, on Monday, September 21 from 12-1pm in Falvey Hall. Leyla Faye stages painting as a place of deliberate undoing. Animating her own body as a site of reversal, she turns the self-portrait against itself. Leyla Faye received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in New Haven. In September 2026, she will present Theft of Fire, her second solo exhibition with Company Gallery, New York.
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Enoch Pratt Free Library Pop-Up
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Tuesday, September 22nd | 3-5 pm | Decker Library
Celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month with Enoch Pratt Free Library! Connect with librarians from Enoch Pratt and explore the FREE services, programs, and resources available through your local public library.
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Rooted in Fiber: North American Hand Papermakers' Annual Conference
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Registration is open through Monday, Sept. 21
North American Hand Papermakers invites you to Rooted in Fiber, our annual conference featuring demos, workshops, lectures, and discussions led by Papermaking artists, scholars and practitioners. Rooted in Fiber focuses on relationships with the fibers that connect us. At this conference we will examine the literal and figurative connective strands that make us Papermakers, as well as the vitality that stems from interconnection. We dig into the radical roots of hand papermaking beyond a medium for making – in celebrating 40 Years of Hand Papermaking Magazine we come together planting seeds for paper, people, and beyond. Join us this September 24-26, in Baltimore, Maryland, for a conference highlighting the tactility, community, and strength of Hand Papermaking in 2026.
MICA Students, Staff, & Faculty can attend individual sessions in Falvey Hall with their MICA ID, as well as the Friday & Saturday vendor fair. Access to scheduled demonstrations, food/meals, and other conference activities requires paid conference registration.
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MICA MFA Filmmaking presents A Life in Art: Through the Eye of Dr. Leslie King-Hammond
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Tuesday September 22 @ 7pm
Parkway Theater
Please join the MICA MFA Filmmaking program for a documentary screening of A Life in Art: Through the Eye of Dr. Leslie King-Hammond. The life and work of Dr Leslie King Hammond, a renowned art historian, teacher, curator, and artist, exposes a side of the art world rarely seen. Her insistence on excellence and vision to rise above and transform the struggles she faces becomes contagious. And she was a MICA Dean for over 30 years!!!
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Victoria Rowell: A Woman Becomes…
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On View: September 25 - October 11, Main O Gallery
Reception: Friday, September 25, 5 - 7pm
A Woman Becomes… is a solo exhibition by accomplished actress, artist, writer, and director Victoria Rowell. On view in Main 0 Gallery from 9/25 through 10/11 with an opening reception on Friday, September 25, 5–7 PM.
Featuring 26 black-and-white photographs and ephemera, A Woman Becomes... is an intimate photographic essay that universally honors girls who perish and those who survive to become brave women. Rowell dedicates the show to the legacy of pianist Agatha Wooten Armstead, her primary foster parent who introduced her to the fine arts, photography, and nature as a child on Armstead’s farm in Maine.
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Secrets of the Stacks
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Friday September 25th, 2026 5-7pm at the Decker Library.
Come and explore the depths of the library, and yourself! A series of tasks and objectives will lead you on a meandering journey through the many ideas hidden away within the collection. The more tasks you complete, the more secrets you may uncover. Come be dazzled! Be inquisitive! Imagine what could be! Inspiration awaits around every corner and page!
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Jennifer Schmidt, Undergraduate Speaker Series, Fine Arts
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Monday September 28, 2026, 12-1pm in Falvey Hall
Please join us for a lecture by Jennifer Schmidt, hosted by Fine Arts and sponsored by the Undergraduate Speaker Series. Jennifer Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who works with print media, graphic design, textiles, writing, and sound to create site-responsive installations, multiples, video, and performances that question the role of visual iconography and repetitive actions within a given environment. Her current research explores the role of industrial, digital, and photographic technology in thinking about print and multiplicity within a circular economy of images, materials, and ideas.
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2027 UP/Start Venture Competition Info Session
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Monday, September 28 6pm-7pm
Join us for a virtual information session about the 2027 UP/Start Venture Competition! Learn more about the application process, eligibility requirements, accelerator program, and how you can compete for a share of $105,000 in seed funding to launch your creative business. Come see how the UP/Start Venture Competition can help get your creative business dreams in motion. Open to MICA classes of 2026 and 2027.
Register at the link below.
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DEVOTED: 20 Years of The McMillan-Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting Exhibition
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On view: August 28 - October 11
Decker Gallery, Fox Building
As a part of our year-long Bicentennial Celebration, MICA will bring together–for the first time–the work of 29 women artists who have made lasting connections with the school and its community. DEVOTED celebrates the open, unstinting exchanges fostered by the chairship.
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Making America Again:
So Strong, So Brave, So True
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On view: August 28 - September 29
Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery
Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True, includes artwork by a representative cohort of Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellow for Artists of Color (1985-1999), whose careers have had a decided impact in the global art world. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita and Founder of Center for Race and Culture, and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator Emerita, Museum of Arts and Design.
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Double Life: Mikita Brottman in Conversation with Jane Lewty
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October 1 at 7 pm
Enoch Pratt Central Library, Poe Reading Room
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore
Author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman explores the corrosive and sometimes deadly nature of obsessive love and deep hatred in a Double Life: The Anatomy of a Premeditated Murder. The book, to be released on September 29, examines the 2015 murder of Florida physician Teresa Sievers, whose seemingly successful family life concealed marital tensions and complicated relationships.
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CESI Conference
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October 2–3, 2026
Join MICA’s Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship for the 2nd Annual Creative Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation Conference, October 2–3! Under the theme “Envisioning the Creative Economy: Define It, Create It, Impact It,” this two-day experience brings together creative entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, and changemakers.
Enjoy inspiring keynote workshops, nine hands-on workshops, an opening networking reception, fashion show, documentary premiere, awards luncheon, CESI Art Market, Gallery Alley Tour, and more. Come connect, learn, create, and explore the possibilities of the creative economy!
Get your tickets at the link below!
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Game Night
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Friday, October 2nd, 6 to 9 p.m.
Presented by Decker Library and Student Counseling Center at the Decker Library Unplug, play, and connect with fellow MICA students at Game Night, where board games, card games, D&D, pizza, and great company make it easy to relax and build new friendships. Decker Library and Student Counseling Center make this an event not to be missed!
Register through the MICA App link below
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Make an Impact: MICA Day of Service Returns
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Tuesday, October 13, from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm during Fall Break!
Join MICA students, staff, and faculty for Fall Day of Service. Check-in and project transportation will begin at BBOX. Across Baltimore, volunteers will work alongside community partners on hands-on projects including mural painting, neighborhood greening, park beautification, art room preparation, and creating vibrant painted boards for vacant homes. An additional installation day with the West North Avenue Development Authority will take place Saturday, October 17, from 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Spots are limited, so register through the Day of Service registration form and sign up early! Bring your creativity, energy, and commitment to being a good neighbor.
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Art Market x Holiday Edition Info Sessions
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Wednesday, September 23:
Student Info Session: 12–1 PM
Alumni, Faculty & Staff Info Session: 6–7 PM
Join us for a virtual information session about the Art Market x Holiday Edition, taking place December 5–6, 2026 at Brown Center. Two sessions will be offered. Learn about eligibility, the application process, market logistics, important dates, and what to expect as a participant. Both sessions will be recorded and shared afterward.
Registration is required.
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Apply for the Arts in Leadership Fellowship
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Due Date for Applications is October 22, 2026
The MICA Arts in Leadership Fellowship is a competitive, paid four-year opportunity preparing students to become socially engaged artists, creative leaders, and nonprofit professionals. Fellows receive a stipend each year while working alongside Baltimore community organizations and developing leadership, project management, and grant writing skills.
Through hands-on experiences, Fellows build professional experience, meaningful relationships with community partners, and the skills needed to create sustainable impact. By graduation, Fellows have a strong network, a portfolio of real-world projects, and practical experience that can distinguish them in graduate school and the creative workforce.
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HADVC Student Voice Association Meeting
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Please join us in Bunting 410 at Noon on September 23rd for the History of Art, Design, & Visual Culture's Student Voice Association meeting. All HADVC majors, minors, and prospective majors and minors, are welcome! Faculty will be present to answer questions about the department and the class schedule for next semester! Lunch from Cafe Fili will be served.
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Apply for the MICA x ACC School-to-Market Program!
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Interested in taking your work into the professional marketplace? MICA students can apply to participate in the American Craft Council’s School-to-Market Program, facilitated by the RCCE.
Selected students will represent MICA at American Craft Made Baltimore, February 19–21, 2027, at the Baltimore Convention Center, gaining hands-on experience with booth design, merchandising, selling, and working directly with customers at a professional craft fair.
Applications are due Sunday, September 27 at 11:59 PM. A stipend will be provided to selected participants. *International students of F-1 or J-1 visas are not eligible to participate in this opportunity.
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Between the Pages: A Create Your Own Note/Sketchbook Event
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Wednesday, September 30, 2-3:30 p.m.
81 Mosher, 2nd floor
Presented by the Student Counseling Center and the Writing Studio! Design a personalized notebook filled with scheduling tools, time management strategies, guided writing prompts, and self-care resources to support your academic and personal well-being.
Register on the MICA app.
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Call For Entry: Fall 2026 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition
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Open to all Full-time Undergraduate Day Students. Only one submission per student. To enter, artworks and their completed forms must be dropped off to the Meyerhoff Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 1, left of security desk) ON Wednesday, September 23 between 9:00 am - 4:30 pm for jurying. Submissions will not be accepted outside of this time frame. See submission form for additional details/instructions. Find submission forms in boxes at the front area of campus buildings + extra forms will be available on submission day.
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Creative Futures Residency- Info Session
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Ready for your next professional chapter? Join the Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship for a virtual info session about the Creative Futures Residency. Learn how the residency can provide structured tools, resources, and support to help you turn your creative experience into meaningful professional opportunities. Thursday, September 24 | 6–7 PM Virtual via Zoom Whether you're exploring your next career move, building a creative practice, or looking for support to reach your professional goals, this session is a great place to start.
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Office Hours with Paula Landry & Takia Ross
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Join RCCE’s Office Hours for personalized, 1-on-1 coaching with Paula Landry and Takia Ross. Whether you’re developing an idea from the ground up or preparing to pitch your venture, get expert guidance to strengthen your concept, clarify your vision, identify opportunities, and communicate your idea with confidence. These office hours are designed to help you move from ideation to action—and from a rough pitch to a compelling one. Reserve your 1-on-1 between now and October 26th to get the focused support you need to take your next step!
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Here are a few quick notes around submissions:
You may make your submissions as far in advance as you would like. But please make sure to select an issue date within a few weeks of the event.
ONLY the information in the "Submission Title" and "Submission Copy" fields plus your link and image will be included in the newsletter. The other fields in the form are for organizational purposes only.
If you are submitting an event, please make sure to include the date, time and location of the event in the copy. If all 3 are not present, your submission will not be included. We may not have the opportunity to contact you for clarification.
Please keep your submission titles to about 30 characters and your copy to under 100 words. This is meant to be a quick read. It's is, after all, called the MICA Minute!
As a reminder, the MICA Minute is for things happening over the next few weeks or for quick announcements. There are other avenues for bigger stories that require more space; the MICA Stories portal for instance. Think of it this way, the MICA Minute is for the WHO, WHAT and WHEN. MICA Stories go beyond that and include the HOW and WHY.
Here are the links to those 2 forms
Don't forget to submit your events to the Event's Calendar here in order to be listed on the website and the MICAapp. The newsletter and the events calendar are not connected and require different information.
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