Visual Arts

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 …

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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 …

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OCA Mocha presents Planet or Plastic and Buy Now, Pay Later, exhibitions of works by UMBC students Kenzie Gilbert and Cristina Calderón that explore the harmful effects of single-use plastics on the environment and features. A closing reception will be held on Friday, February 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring live music by DANEXATORT. …

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Images and the Fight for Women’s Voting Rights in the U.S. Allison K. Lange, assistant professor of history, Wentworth Institute of Technology For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images—whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been …

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Art, Race, and the Archive: Antonio McAfee in Conversation with Shawn Michelle Smith Reception to follow this program. Presented in association with the exhibition Antonio McAfee: Through the Layers, Pt. 2. in the gallery January 27 through March 13. Since 2011, Antonio McAfee has been making work influenced by historical portraiture of African Americans in …

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