Maryland Institute College of Art

Spaces for Creators and Innovators

At MICA, you’ll find an amazing range of spaces and tools for artmaking that allow you to explore every avenue of creative expression.

From traditional lost-wax casting to interactive video and sound, wet-processing for film-based photography to advanced digital workstations, 3D imaging and software to foundry, chisels and metalworking equipment, MICA gives our students the tools to turn ideas into works of art. If you can imagine it, you can make it at MICA.

• MICA provides state-of-the-art hardware and software for 3D animation, video and sound editing, graphic design and illustration applications, and awide range of fine arts applications – from 3D modeling to computer- assisted printmaking.

• Fabrication studios provide space and equipment for conventional building – wood shop, metalworking foundry and a model shop – as well asceramic, fiber and printmaking studios.

• Our digital fabrication studio houses 3D printers and scanners, computer controlled milling machines, laser cutters and other equipment that allows you to integrate digital modeling and control into fabricated objects.

• Full time graduate students are provided independent studios or collaborative workspaces with 24/7 access while their classes are in session and during spring break periods for the duration of their residencies. Full-time MFA students maintain studio access during the summer months between their first and second year of study.

• With over 40,000 square feet of studio space, most undergraduate departments offer independent studios for upper-division students.

• The JHU-MICA Film Centre is a state-of-the-art production facility housed in Baltimore’s historic Centre Theatre, renovated in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University.

• Brown Center features the versatile, 525-seat Falvey Hall, renowned asa venue for performance art, video and film, dance, theater, poetry readings and lectures. The Gateway is home to BBOX, a black box performance space that is the site of interdisciplinary, experimental, traditional and multimedia works created by MICA students, faculty and staff as well as the greater Baltimore arts community.

• The Fred Lazarus IV Graduate Center houses 12 of our 16 graduate programs and is the hub of graduate study at MICA. The center houses independent studios and collaborative workspaces, a public café and public galleries, digital computer and photo labs, fabrication shops, dedicated meeting spaces, seminar rooms, casual lounges, and student exhibition and critique areas.

• Decker Library has approximately 100,000 monographs and over 300current periodicals. The library’s website provides access to more than 9,200full-text research journals and 140,000 E-Books. Media resources include 40,000digital images, two streaming video collections and a circulating video/DVD collection of more than 5,000 titles.

• MICA has 12 gallery spaces and mounts more than 100 exhibitions each academic year, with work ranging from visiting artists to faculty and student shows.