The Community Retriever Project is a Center for Democracy and Civic Life virtual art series designed to sustain connections within the UMBC community during and beyond the period of physical distancing in connection with COVID-19. Groups within the UMBC community create photo collages in which members communicate their shared hopes and perspectives on solidarity and …
OCA Mocha presents Visualizing the Intangible: An Exploration into Non-Objective Portraiture, a virtual exhibition featuring artwork ryy casper, Alexandra Slezak, Zoe Balderson, Cameron Matthew Thorn, Katelynn Herty, Bess Lumsden, and Zach Manuel. Images will also be featured on OCA Mocha’s Instagram and Facebook feeds. Start Date: Start Time: End Date: End Time: Department Represented: OCA Mocha …
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It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of Dr. Maurice Berger, chief curator and research professor at UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), who died Sunday, March 22, in Craryville, New York from complications of COVID-19. A path-breaking art historian and curator, Maurice was a fierce advocate …
UMBC’s 24th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) was originally scheduled to be held on campus on but due to the campus closure moved online. Converting URCAD from an on-campus, day-long symposium to an online event has been supported by a technology called VoiceThread (VT), an asynchronous (“not in real time”) platform for …
In fall 2019, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presented Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter, the first retrospective of the artist’s career in over thirty years. We are pleased now offer this exhibition in an online version, available here. Drawn from his archive at UMBC, the 55 works in this exhibition created between 1962 …
The Department of Music presents an online Student Composers Recital, featuring live performances, recordings of performances, live performances mixed with MIDI, and some MIDI performances: Peter Bailer: Pebbles (premiere) Jonathan Sotelo and Adam Smith, marimbas David Lomotey: Reveille David Lomotey, euphonium, with midi piano CJ Escobar: Wonderflux (Movement I: Wonder Ponders; Movement II: Wonder Wanders) …
The Department of Music presents an online Senior Honors Recital, featuring performances by graduating seniors. For security purposes, we are not sharing the link to the Zoom presentation here, but we’re happy for you to join us! Please email tmoore@umbc.edu for a link. Start Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Start Time: 8:00 pm End …
UMBC’s Department of Dance presents Twisted from Constantly Watching Doves, conceived and directed by Zack Fuller in collaboration with Emily Smith with music by Michael Evans. Twisted from Constantly Watching Doves is a new dance/butoh score by New York based dancer/choreographers Zack Fuller and Emily Smith, two amorphous shape shifting entities on a cryptic journey …
UMBC’s Wind Ensemble teams up with The Sounding Board, Baltimore Symphony’s OrchKids students, singer-songwriter Diana Lawrence, Emmy-nominated composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, and other special guests to present an interactive musical event exploring the issue of gun violence. Music, multimedia, and spoken-word serve as catalysts for an interactive discussion with performers and audience members …
The Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts presents Sara L. Kaufman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chief Dance Critic and Senior Arts Writer of The Washington Post, and Rebekah Kirkman, Managing Editor of BmoreArt, who will discuss their work. Sara L. Kaufman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chief Dance Critic and Senior Arts Writer of …
