Saturday, April 18, 5 pm and 8 pm; doors open at 3:30

Tickets: $7, students; $12, general public, available at the MICA Store (1200 W. Mount Royal Ave. and store.mica.edu); no tickets will be sold at the door.

MEDIUMRARE: An Experimental Fashion Event involves more than 250 designers, models, and performers, representing a variety of concepts and skill sets, with work speaking to the performative nature of fashion and the merging of runway, stage, and gallery. The Experimental Fashion Event is directed, designed, and produced by the artists from the MICA Fiber Department’s Multi Media Event class. Together, they will collaboratively transform Baltimore’s Lithuanian Hall into a venue for innovative fashion, costume design, puppetry, performance art, and soft sculpture. This annual event features individually crafted garment-based works, pushing the boundaries of fashion and art.

This year’s Experimental Fashion Event will also feature MICA’s Retooling the Cottage class in the Lithuanian Hall lobby prior to the event. These student vendors and young entrepreneurs will be showcasing and selling a wide array of artistic and utilitarian items, focusing on smart design, fair labor, and sustainability.

Image: Kurina Sohn ’15 (Fiber BFA), Urban Adaptation collection (photo by Helgi R. Olgeirsson ’15)