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Envisioning a future that is better than our present in garments, images, and performance

For over a decade, Corona's work has touched on themes of displacement and arrival and their cyclical nature

Studio Visit with a Baltimore Clayworks Resident and Graphic Designer Who Also Teaches at MICA

Kiran Joan creates ceramic sculpture and functional pieces, but also regularly publishes illustrations in major US Publications

How do two artists who study the urban landscape approach ecology?

For these two transplants working in education—Evans hails from Tempe, Arizona, and Cazabon from Detroit—Baltimore’s landscape has become important to their work.

“Photographer, Wizard, Friend to All”

Timeless nature, without the compromise of any man made structures, is Joe Hyde's most inspired subject.

MICA Students and Alumni Raise Funds for Diversity and Inclusion Through Design

Flourish: MICA’s 29th Annual Experimental Benefit Fashion Show

Meet the textile artist obsessed with making her own looms

“Find your life’s passion, make your life’s work, and give back to others.”

A Baltimore Homecoming, of Sorts, for a Painter and Fabricator Celebrating Movement in all Traditions

“I came back to oil, my first love, because it's how I move—it's slow, rich, flexible and giving. I needed this generosity and consistency after so much searching.”

Studio Visit with an artist-curator who moved to Baltimore from Addis Ababa in 2016 to attend Graduate School at MICA

How Fitsum Shebeshe's studio work and curatorial projects explore a wide spectrum of cultural and existential questions

On fearless artmaking, the value of openness, and why wanting stability is not selling out

"Nothing is ever failed. It's just going to take a form that I don't know about yet.”

Photos of the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens

“There’s a rhythm to the garden. You wanna be able to look at it and your eye feels at ease.”

On healing through art, the landscape's influence, and material problem-solving

Working with everything from moss and money plant membranes to artificial ivy and metal, Laura Amussen creates thematic exhibitions around singular ideas, such as the buoyancy of water as a metaphor for overcoming struggle.

A Ceramics Artist Living Thousands of Miles from Home Shares Her Love of Fashion, Ice Cream, Raw Clay, and her "Art Family"

Koh is a Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington DC, but originally studied fine arts at Hongik University in Seoul, and later earned an MFA from Alfred University in New York

On museum unions, getting to know a city by walking, and designed structures

For Mangus, an artist, writer, and museum guard, space for reflection is essential to a strong end result.

On abstracting the domestic, home improvement as curation, and being both a mentor and a mentee

Livi is an artist who moves between media seamlessly, always seeking out material that speaks to the domestic space and figuring out how to manipulate it after.

Contemplating the legacy of protest art created by the famous American Catholic nun-turned-artist-educator

'We Care: Works by Corita Kent' at Silber Gallery is a vibrant color bomb mission-driven text-heavy advertisement-inspired serigraphs.

"When you bring things together, you can make new connections."

On taking things apart to put them back together

The self-taught historian finding treasures in backyard privies

To arrive at their resting place, items found at the bottom of a privy had to fall often ten or more feet, often out of someone’s back pocket, the same way many of us have dropped a cellphone in the modern toilet.

On the fickle nature of creativity and the desire to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are

There is more than the single story of the material; there is usually a personal tie-in, a cultural or historical reference the viewer can also pick up on if they engage with it.