Organization

Maryland Institute College of Art

Art & design college

Connection with Alex

Alex earned his MFA in Multidisciplinary Art at MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art in 2023. Alongside his thesis work, he was a graduate teaching intern in Interdisciplinary Sculpture in Fall 2022 and Visual Culture and the Holocaust in Spring 2023. He exhibited in Holding Tension in December 2022 and the Mount Royal thesis show in April 2023. His design coursework in Visual Identity Systems included the Meals On, Levant Museum of Art and Murray — Mediterranean Cocktails concepts.

Work & recognition

Projects, programmes and milestones. Each entry explains its relationship and attribution.

13 entries

Printed signage & spatial graphics · 2023

Mount Royal — Studio Signage

Maryland Institute College of Art
Mount Royal School of Art · Program context
Alex Dahdah
Concept & graphic design

Video art

In My Space

Connection
Presented in Holding Tension at MICA’s Leidy Gallery in 2022.
The original orange Meals On wordmark, stacked in two lines on pale grey.

Visual identity · course proposal

Meals On

Connection
Alex developed Meals On as a rebranding proposal for MICA’s Visual Identity Systems course.
Eight original Levant Museum of Art identity lockups with a looping circular mark.

Museum identity & exhibition concept

Levant Museum of Art

Connection
Alex developed the imagined Levant Museum of Art identity and exhibition concept for MICA’s Visual Identity Systems course.
The original Murray wordmark and looping Europa and bull emblem on burgundy.

Brand identity & packaging concept

Murray — Mediterranean Cocktails

Connection
Alex developed the Murray — Mediterranean Cocktails identity and packaging concept for MICA’s Visual Identity Systems course.

Class of 2023 · Study & artistic development · Maryland Institute College of Art

Graduate study & thesis development

Alex earned the Mount Royal MFA in Multidisciplinary Art in 2023, developing Perceiving Nationhood in the thesis programme.

Alex Dahdah
MFA, Multidisciplinary Art · Mount Royal School of Art
Class of 2023

Spring 2023 · Teaching · Maryland Institute College of Art

Visual Culture and the Holocaust

Graduate Teaching Intern for the Spring 2023 course.

14–30 April 2023 · Host institution · Mount Royal School of Art · Mount Royal exhibition archive and poster

Mount Royal School of Art · Thesis Show 2023

MICA hosted this Mount Royal School of Art exhibition, including Alex’s work, 14–30 April 2023.

2–10 December 2022 · Host institution · Mount Royal School of Art · Mount Royal exhibition archive and dated poster

Holding Tension

MICA hosted this Mount Royal School of Art exhibition, including Alex’s work, 2–10 December 2022.

Fall 2022 · Teaching · Alex Dahdah’s teaching record

Interdisciplinary Sculpture

Graduate teaching internship in the senior sculpture programme, listed in Alex’s teaching record.

2023 · Grant recipient · Maryland Institute College of Art

Graduate Research Development Grant

Alex received a Graduate Research Development Grant from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023.

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About & links

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Biography

Founded in 1826, the Maryland Institute College of Art is an independent art and design college in Baltimore. Its programmes combine studio practice, technical skills and liberal arts, with opportunities to work across disciplines and with the surrounding city.

Purpose & approach

MICA’s stated mission links creative lives and careers with Baltimore. Its educational values emphasize collaboration, individual artistic development and the role of artists, designers and educators in society.

Graduate art education · Programme listed October 2026

Mount Royal School of Art

MICA’s multidisciplinary MFA supports practice across media, combining studio work and research with visiting artists, curators and individual critiques.

Institutional history · 1826–2026

Two centuries of art education

MICA’s bicentennial account traces its origins to the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, founded in Baltimore in 1826.

MICA

Institutional accreditation

Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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