Maryland Institute College of Art

Spaces for Creators and Innovators

At MICA, you’ll find an amazing range of spacesand tools for artmaking that allow you to explore every avenue of creativeexpression.

From traditional lost-wax casting to interactivevideo and sound, wet-processing for film-based photography to advanced digitalworkstations, 3D imaging and software to foundry, chisels and metalworkingequipment, 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-assistedprintmaking.
•  Fabrication studios provide space and equipment for conventionalbuilding – 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 thatallows you to integrate digital modeling and control into fabricated objects.
• Full time graduate studentsare provided independent studios or collaborative workspaces with 24/7 accesswhile their classes are in session and during spring break periods for theduration of their residencies. Full-time MFA students maintain studio accessduring the summer months between their first and second year of study.
• With over 40,000 square feet of studio space, most undergraduate departmentsoffer independent studios for upper-division students.
• The JHU-MICA Film Centre is a state-of-the-art production facilityhoused in Baltimore’s historic Centre Theatre, renovated in conjunction withJohns Hopkins University.
• Brown Center features the versatile, 525-seat Falvey Hall, renowned asa venue for performance art, video and film, dance, theater, poetry readingsand lectures. The Gateway is home to BBOX, a black box performance space thatis the site of interdisciplinary, experimental, traditional and multimediaworks created by MICA students, faculty and staff as well as the greaterBaltimore arts community.
• The Fred Lazarus IV Graduate Center houses 12 of our 16 graduateprograms and is the hub of graduate study at MICA. The center housesindependent studios and collaborative workspaces, a public café and publicgalleries, digital computer and photo labs, fabrication shops, dedicatedmeeting spaces, seminar rooms, casual lounges, and student exhibition andcritique 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/DVDcollection of more than 5,000 titles.
• MICA has 12 gallery spaces and mounts more than 100 exhibitions eachacademic year, with work ranging from visiting artists to faculty and studentshows.