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Thanks for joining us at MICA Weekend! In case you missed it, the MICA Bicentennial Alumni Exhibition is on view for one...
10/12/2026

Thanks for joining us at MICA Weekend! In case you missed it, the MICA Bicentennial Alumni Exhibition is on view for one more week! This exhibit brings together the work of 22 MICA alumni artists as part of MICA’s 200-year celebration.

Spanning painting, sculpture, video, mixed media, and more, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, experimentation, and lasting impact of the MICA alumni community.

Curated by alumnus Michael Benevento, the exhibition is on view through Sunday, October 18 across two campus galleries.

📍 Pinkard Gallery (Bunting Center, 1st Floor)�📍 Fox 3 Gallery (Fox Building, 3rd Floor)�🗓 On view through October 18�🕙 Fox 3: Daily, 10 AM–5 PM�🕙 Pinkard: Monday–Friday, 10 AM–5 PM, Sunday 12 PM–6 PM

Featured artists: �- Sophia Belkin bofiaselkin�- John Bohl john.bohl�- James Bouché jamesbouche�- Hermonie Byrdb �- Cindy Cheng cindyhkcheng�- Martha Colburn marthacolburn�- Hoesy Corona hoesycorona�- Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown nicoletta.darita�- Elliot Doughtie elliotdoughtie�- Cassidy English cass_english�- Erin Fostel erinfostel�- Gaia gaiastreetart�- Miranda Javid mirandajavid�- Gary Kachadourian�- Heejo Kim heee__h�- Andrew Liang andrewbilly�- Mike McKee mckee3813�- Chris Peters ihaveanoseynose�- Kevin Sherry kevinsherry_�- Jen Stark jenstark�- Troy Taylor troy.0unce�- Nicholas Wisnewski nicholaswiz



📸: Photos by sara_dittrich

This MICA Weekend check out the Fall 2026 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition on view in the Meyerhoff Gallery (Fox building...
10/07/2026

This MICA Weekend check out the Fall 2026 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition on view in the Meyerhoff Gallery (Fox building, floor 1).

Selected for their artistic merit, creativity, and vision, these works offer a glimpse into the breadth of practices and perspectives emerging from MICA’s undergraduate community.

This year’s exhibition was juried by MICA alumni Lillian Jacobson ’16 and Kevin Michael Runyon ’14.

In conjunction with MICA Weekend, the reception will take place Friday October 9, 2026, 5:00-6:30pm in the Main Court (Main Building)

📍 Meyerhoff Gallery, Fox Building, 1st Floor
🗓 On view through October 25
🕙 Daily, 10 AM–5 PM
🎟 Campus galleries are free and open to the public.

On view at MICA: 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐜𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.Featuring work by 29 women artists ...
09/22/2026

On view at MICA: 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐜𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Featuring work by 29 women artists who have served as McMillan-Stewart Endowed Chairs, DEVOTED brings together two decades of artistic exchange, mentorship, and experimentation. The exhibition offers a chance to experience the breadth of practices that have shaped this unique program and its lasting impact on the MICA community.

Swipe through for a look inside the gallery, then come see the exhibition in person.

📍 Decker Gallery, MICA Fox Building�🗓️ On view through October 11, 2026�⏰ Gallery hours: Monday–Sunday, 10 AM–5 PM�🎟️ Free and open to the public

Featuring artists including Mequitta Ahuja, Zoë Charlton, Jane Dickson, Kira Nam Greene, Hedieh Ilchi, Baseera Khan, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Hadieh Shafie, Amy Sherald, Saya Woolfalk and more.

Join us for the opening reception of 𝘼 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨…, a solo exhibition by accomplished actress, artist, writer, and di...
09/14/2026

Join us for the opening reception of 𝘼 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨…, a solo exhibition by accomplished actress, artist, writer, and director Victoria Rowell, on Friday, September 25, 5–7 PM at MICA’s Main 0 Gallery.

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.

Come experience the exhibition and celebrate the opening with us.

📍Main 0 Gallery�MICA�1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD
Friday, September 25 | 5–7 PM

Free and open to the public. The exhibition is on view 9/25/26 through 10/11/26.

To celebrate Constitution Day during MICA’s Bicentennial year please join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Noliw...
09/08/2026

To celebrate Constitution Day during MICA’s Bicentennial year please join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor, and Chair of Africana Studies at Brown University. 

MICA Constitution Day Lecture
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕...: 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔
7pm, Thursday, September 17, 2026
Falvey Hall, MICA Brown Center
Free and open to the public

Dr. Rooks is a multi-methods scholar whos award-winning work explores how education, beauty, race, and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history, and political life in the United States. Her lecture will discuss how we can use history as a guide to navigate the challenges facing higher education today.  The author of six books and numerous articles, essays, and op-ed’s, Dr. Rook’s most recent book, Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, is about how the implementation of integration/desegregation strategies impacted Black children and communities, and explores four generations of her family history with education in the United States. 

𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏: 𝑺𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑺𝒐 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝑺𝒐 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒆 remains on view through Tuesday, September 29th. Don’t miss your chan...
09/08/2026

𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏: 𝑺𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑺𝒐 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝑺𝒐 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒆 remains on view through Tuesday, September 29th.

Don’t miss your chance to see this landmark exhibition bringing together artwork by the Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellows for Artists of Color (1985–1999) — a distinguished cohort whose work has shaped the national and global art world.

Featuring work by Candida Alvarez, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Sonya Clark, Stephanie Dinkins, Espi Frazier, Bill Gaskins, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cynthia Hawkins, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Joe Lewis, Tom Miller, Joyce Wellman. It also includes artists such as Joyce J. Scott, Oletha Devane and Lola Flash who preceded this cohort, as well as artists who came to MICA in the wake of the program such as Jerrell Gibbs, Monica Ikegwu, Jeffrey Kent, Amy Sherald, Shinique Smith, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and René Treviño.

Curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond (Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of MICA’s Center for Race and Culture) and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims (Curator Emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design).

📍 Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery
MICA Fred Lazarus IV Center
131 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Monday - Sunday, 10AM - 5PM

Campus galleries are open to the public. Outside visitors can enter galleries after signing in at the front desk of the respective building. Please note, on weekends outside visitors will need to be accompanied by a MICA community member with a MICA ID in order to swipe and gain access into respective buildings.

     

The annual First Year Experience (FYE) Exhibition is currently on view through Sunday, September 13th in the Meyerhoff G...
09/08/2026

The annual First Year Experience (FYE) Exhibition is currently on view through Sunday, September 13th in the Meyerhoff Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 1) and Pinkard Gallery (Bunting Center, Floor 1). This exhibition features work by rising sophomores made during the 2025-26 academic year.

🥳 Join us for a reception this Thursday, September 10th 5-7pm. Light refreshments will be served in both locations.

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Monday - Sunday, 10AM - 5PM

Campus galleries are open to the public. Outside visitors can enter galleries after signing in at the front desk of the respective building. Please note, on weekends outside visitors will need to be accompanied by a MICA community member with a MICA ID in order to swipe and gain access into respective buildings.

MICA is honored to invite you to the exhibition reception for “Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True” — ins...
09/01/2026

MICA is honored to invite you to the exhibition reception for “Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True” — inspired by Langston Hughes’ 1935 poem and curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond (Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of MICA’s Center for Race and Culture) and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims (Curator Emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design).

This landmark exhibition brings together artwork by the Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellows for Artists of Color (1985–1999) — a distinguished cohort whose work has shaped the national and global art world.

📍 MICA Fred Lazarus IV Center
131 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
🗓️ Thursday, September 3, 2026
🕔 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Join us for light food and remarks from MICA President Cecilia M. McCormick, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims.

Featuring work by Candida Alvarez, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Sonya Clark, Stephanie Dinkins, Espi Frazier, Bill Gaskins, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cynthia Hawkins, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Joe Lewis, Tom Miller, Joyce Wellman. It also includes artists such as Joyce J. Scott, Oletha Devane and Lola Flash who preceded this cohort, as well as artists who came to MICA in the wake of the program such as Jerrell Gibbs, Monica Ikegwu, Jeffrey Kent, Amy Sherald, Shinique Smith, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and René Treviño.

In 1985, MICA launched a groundbreaking initiative — supported by the Ford Foundation and Philip Morris Foundation — to increase representation of artists of color in the visual arts. Led by Dr. King-Hammond, it was the only program of its kind in the nation, and its impact is still felt today.

This exhibition celebrates that legacy while reaffirming MICA’s commitment to expanding the art historical canon and advancing equity and artistic excellence.


MICA Dr. Leslie King Hammond

✨Here’s a small taste of Grad Show II, currently on view through Sunday, April 12th.Grad Show II features our Graphic De...
03/31/2026

✨Here’s a small taste of Grad Show II, currently on view through Sunday, April 12th.

Grad Show II features our Graphic Design MA, Graphic Design MFA, Illustration MA, and Illustration Practice MFA programs.

The exhibition is spread across multiple campus galleries:
🔹Illustration Practice MFA - Decker Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 1)
🔹Illustration MA - Fox 3 Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 3)
🔹Graphic Design MFA - Riggs & Leidy Galleries (Lazarus Center, Floor 1 + Lower Level)
🔹Graphic Design MA - Meyerhoff Gallery (Fox Building, Floor 1)

𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: 
Grad Show II galleries are open to the public Monday-Sunday 10AM - 5PM. Please note, on weekends, outside visitors will need to be accompanied by a MICA community member with a MICA ID in order to swipe and gain access into respective buildings.

      

         

In case y’all haven’t heard yet it’s ✨MICA Grad Show season✨! Don’t miss seeing MICA Grad Show I currently on view throu...
02/27/2026

In case y’all haven’t heard yet it’s ✨MICA Grad Show season✨! Don’t miss seeing MICA Grad Show I currently on view through Sunday, March 8th. Grad Show I highlights our Teaching, MA program in the Riggs & Leidy Galleries located at the Fred Lazarus IV Center.

MICA’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) 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.

Learn more at www.mica.edu/gradshow

📍Riggs & Leidy Galleries
(MICA Fred Lazarus Center)
131 W North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21201

𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: Free and open to the public Monday - Sunday, 10AM - 5PM. Outside visitors can enter galleries after signing in at the front desk of the respective building. PLEASE NOTE: On weekends outside visitors will need to be accompanied by a MICA community member with a MICA ID in order to swipe and gain access into respective buildings.

        

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