Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryFor the past twenty years, American artist Shannon Taggart (born 1975) has documented Spiritualist practices and communities in the United States, England, and Europe. The resulting body of work, Séance, examines the relationship of Spiritualism to human celebrity, its connections to art, science, and technology, and its intrinsic bond with the medium of photography. This exhibition presents forty-seven haunting images from the series, revealing the emotional, psychological, and physical dimensions of Spiritualism in the 21st century.
Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles, on display from September 30 through December 11. The exhibition presents an overview of ten years of cultural research, digital experimentation, and finished artifacts by Couwenberg, who uses lace as a primary material. Through her creations, the artist asks how traditional textile construction can be modified or transformed by adapting it to digital fabrication processes.
Melissa Michelson: Mobilizing Black Turnout with Celebrations of Community: The Party at the Mailbox Project
OnlineThe Social Sciences Forum, presented by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, presents Melissa Michelson, Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Menlo College, who will speak on Mobilizing Black Turnout with Celebrations of Community: The Party at the Mailbox Project.
Pro Voce Washington
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents Pro Voce Washington. Founded in 2019 by a group of classical musicians who teach at universities and colleges in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, Pro Voce Washington promotes exceptional vocal music through public performances, mentoring, and education programs for young vocalists.
CIRCA Arts Alumni Spotlight: Mary Dell’Erba and Colin Holter
OnlineThe Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents an arts alumni spotlight featuring Mary Dell’Erba ‘14, dance and INDS, a senior project manager at the Arts Education Partnership, a center within the Education Commission of the States and a collaborative of the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Department of Education, and Colin Holter ‘01, music, Executive Director of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, northeast Ohio’s oldest extracurricular large-ensemble program. They will each talk about their respective careers and professional trajectories since graduating from UMBC.
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, which will perform three seminal works written between 1946 and 1948 that showcase American creativity in the immediate post-World War II years — Walter Piston's Divertimento for Nine Instruments, Ulysses Kay's The Quiet One: Suite from the film score, and Samuel Barber's Medea.
Joseph B. Richardson: Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and Trauma Among Young Black Men In Washington, D.C.
OnlineThe Humanities Forum and the Social Sciences Forum present the 43rd Annual Du Bois Lecture, featuring Joseph Richardson, Joel and Kim Feller Professor of African-American Studies and Medical Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, who will speak on Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and Trauma Among Young Black Men In Washington, D.C.
Everything Is Performance
Proscenium TheatreThe Department of Theatre presents Everything Is Performance, a production devised by the Ensemble and directed by Laley Lippard. How do we measure worth when all the world is a stage? Everything Is Performance Productions invites you to join our live studio audience for a taping of Know Your Worth!, a fabulous new reality show to find America’s Most Worthy.
CIRCA Presents: Tahir Hemphill
102 Performing Arts and Humanities BuildingThe Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Tahir Hemphill, UMBC Diversity of the Arts Fellow, who will give a presentation about his multifaceted practice as a creative technologist, multimedia artist, and design researcher. Hemphill’s work investigates the role systems play in the generation of form and the role collaborative knowledge production plays in the resilience of communities.
Amadou Kouyate
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music and the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) present Amadou Kouyate in concert. Amadou Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate family of Manding Diali, renowned oral historians and musicians of West Africa. Amadou performs on the 21-string Kora and also on Djembe and Koutiro drums.
UMBC Symphony Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Nell Flanders. The Symphony performs orchestral literature from the 18th to the 21st centuries including both standard repertoire and contemporary works, from a broad range of musical styles.
Constantine N. Vaporis: A Lord, a Pauper, and an Artist: Putting People Back into Samurai History
Online and at the Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryThe Humanities Forum presents Constantine N. Vaporis, who will speak on A Lord, a Pauper, and an Artist: Putting People Back into Samurai History.
CIRCA Presents: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles with Harley Spiller
OnlineThe Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents transdisciplinary artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, who will present his category-defying work that treads an elusive route manifesting itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. Ken Dewey Director of Franklin Furnace Archive Harley Spiller will lead a lively conversation with the artist.
New Music Ensemble
Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
Chamber Players
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.
Jubilee Singers
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
UMBC Jazz in Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, directed by Matthew Belzer.
Wind Ensemble
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble in concert, directed by Brian Kaufman. The ensemble is a large chamber group of approximately 40 musicians that perform great wind repertoire from octets to larger masterworks.
Camerata Chamber Choir
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Camerata Chamber Choir directed by Stephen Caracciolo. A small choral ensemble consisting of 26 auditioned singers from across the university, Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire, including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, choral-orchestral works, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new works.
Gamelan Ensemble
Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the Gamelan Ensemble in concert, directed by Gina Beck. UMBC is fortunate to be home to two distinct Gamelan orchestras — a central Javanese gamelan and a gamelan angklung from Bali. Both will be heard in performance.
Percussion Ensemble
Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, directed by Tom Goldstein. The ensemble is highly adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works and theater pieces, as well as works by important early percussion composers such as John Cage, Carlos Chavez, and Alan Hovhaness.
Collegium Musicum
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum in concert. The Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing Western vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.
Opera Workshop
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Opera Workshop in concert.
Department of Music Honors Showcase
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.