Art and Education
Baltimore offers a robust arts education landscape, highlighted by nationally recognized public institutions from high schools to colleges and universities.
Baltimore Design School
1500 Barclay Street Baltimore, MD 21202
The Baltimore Design School was founded in 2010 to bring design education to the students of Baltimore City. BDS not only teaches basic art, design, and communication skills, but engages students in problem solving, finding solutions, and thinking critically.
Baltimore School for the Arts
712 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Baltimore School for the Arts is one of the top five public performing arts high schools in the country, and we combine a rigorous college prep program with pre-professional training in the arts, offering programs in dance, film, music, stage design and production, theatre, and the visual arts.
Community College of Baltimore County
7201 Rossville Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21237 (Essex) 800 S Rolling Rd, Catonsville, MD 21228 (Catonsville)
Creatives, expressive communicators, deep thinkers and performers will find a home in the School of Arts and Communication.
Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204
A combination of technical skill, creative thought, and unleashed emotion converge in the Studio Art Program to not only imagine new possibilities but also examine the role of visual arts in present-day issues.
Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies
JHU-MICA Film Centre 10 E. North Ave, 2nd Floor Baltimore, MD 21202
Students in the Program in Film and Media Studies can choose from a broad range of small, hands-on courses that combine theory and practice in film, television, popular culture, and new media. Courses are taught by faculty who include award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters, animators, sound designers, composers, film critics, historians, and theorists.
Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 W Mount Royal Ave Baltimore, MD 21217
We prepare artists and designers to make a living doing what they love, while making the world a better place.
Towson University Studio Art
8000 York Road Towson, MD 21252
Create. Explore. Emerge. Take your conceptual and technical artistic skills to the next level in the production of art and design work.
UMBC Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture
UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle Fine Arts Building, 105 Baltimore, MD 21250
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) is a forum for research, exhibition, publication, and public programming in the fields of art, design, and visual culture.
UMBC Intermedia and Digital Arts Master’s Program
Lions Brothers Building 875 Hollins Street Baltimore MD 21201
The IMDA M.F.A. consists of 60 credits, including 18 credits of electives and 12 credits that go toward the thesis exhibition and written thesis. Students are guided through a full-time curriculum with regular one-on-one and group feedback from faculty and visiting artists and critics who review their work throughout their course.