The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) recently welcomed to campus Tiffany Holmes ’96 as its new Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies.

As Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies, Holmes offers an extraordinary record of academic, artistic and administrative experience. Holmes comes to MICA after 18 years with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she developed an honors program and professional practices curriculum as a full professor and dean.

For Holmes, her move to MICA is a return to Baltimore, where she was born and raised before working with Teach for America and a teacher in the Baltimore City Public Schools. She later attended MICA, receiving her M.F.A in Painting in 1996.

“As an alum … I am thrilled to return to Baltimore in a new capacity, to collaborate with MICA faculty and staff to create new opportunities for undergraduate students to forge creative, purposeful lives and careers in a diverse and changing world,” Holmes said.

An accomplished artist, Holmes’ installation work explores the potential of art and design to promote environmental awareness and sensitivity to shifting ecologies on the planet. She lectures and exhibits worldwide at a variety of venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the 01SJ Biennial. Holmes has also earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant, an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland and a 2010 Rhizome Commission.

Founded in 1826, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is the oldest continuously degree-granting college of art and design in the nation. The College enrolls over 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies students from 49 states and 65 countries in fine arts, design, electronic media, art education, liberal arts, and professional studies degree and non-credit programs. With art and design programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News and World Report, MICA is pioneering interdisciplinary approaches to innovation, research, and community and social engagement. Alumni and programming reach around the globe, even as MICA remains a cultural cornerstone in the Baltimore/Washington region, hosting hundreds of exhibitions and events annually by students, faculty and other established artists.