8-8-12: Art, History

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This conversation originally aired on September 20th, 2011.

In November of 1825, a 22-year-old lawyer, John H. B. LaTrobe, gathered a group of some of Baltimore’s most prominent citizens to organize a new school. They called the school the “Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.”  

Nearly 190 years later, we know it as the Maryland Institute College of Art, and its fascinating history is chronicled in a beautiful book by Douglas Frost, who served as MICA’s Vice President for Development for 40 years.  The book is called Making History, Making Art: MICA. We spoke with Doug about the book – and about the origins of MICA during the industrial revolution – in September of last year.