In collaboration with the Maryland State Arts Council, UMBC is delighted to host artist Marc Archambault, who has been commissioned to create a new public artwork for Sherman Hall.
This week, on Wednesday and Thursday, the campus community is invited to meet the artist and to learn more about his work.
Opening tomorrow, March 25!
Join us for The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition, on display at UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) through April 11.
The exhibition features work by McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber, and Mariia Usova.
Join us for the INTERFERENCE New Music Collective! William Brent and Nancy Jo Snider partner with artist/dancer Miřenka Čechová for works of their own and Steve Antosca's MA.
Wed, Mar 12, 7:30 pm, Linehan Concert Hall.
Learn more about the fabulous work of artist Kelley Bell this Wednesday at UMBC!
In this presentation, she will take us on a tour of her best, worst and wildest art adventures and discover how delight and imagination can lead to contemplation and meaningful interpersonal connection, and how art doesn’t have to be big or in the public eye to be spectacular.
Wednesday, March 12, 12 pm, 216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building — lunch included!
https://umbc.edu/event/kelley-bell-projections-inflatables-and-artistic-spectacles/
Today at 3 pm, join us for a concert by renowned percussionist Aiyun Huang, with video and live electronics!
Sunday, March 9, 3 pm, Linehan Concert Hall
Complete information: https://umbc.edu/event/aiyun-huang-percussion/
The Department of Music presents the second UMBC Create Music Festival, an event that reimagines music education festivals for equity and 21st century music learning, with the collaboration of the BSO OrchKids program and several Maryland school large ensembles!
Saturday, March 1, 5:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
Venture into the world of renowned flutist Nicole Mitchell when she performs with the UMBC Jazz Ensemble on Friday, February 28! Linehan Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. —
https://umbc.edu/event/umbc-jazz-ensemble-with-nicole-mitchell/
Join us on Wednesday, March 5, for Artful Conversations: An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith!
The noted writer and actor will be joined by UMBC's Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Kimberly Moffitt, for a public conversation in Linehan Concert Hall at 6 pm. Tickets are now on sale!
https://umbc.edu/event/artful-conversations-an-evening-withanna-deavere-smith/
Kick off your weekend with the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble!
Trumpeter Brent Madsen, saxophonist Matt Belzer, pianist Harry Appelman, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Mark Merella will take the stage tomorrow — Friday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall.
Escape the miserable weather with chamber music in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall!
Join us Sunday, 2/16, at 3 pm, when the Voyager Ensemble will present works by Antonîn Dvořák, Jan Kučera, and Bedřich Smetana.
Still looking for that perfect Valentine's Day outing? We've got just the thing at UMBC tonight — a flute trio new music concert, “Pareidolia Memories: Imagined faces in noises of sounds remembered”! Friday 2/14, 7:30 pm, Linehan Concert Hall —
Snow? What snow?! We're on for tonight's concert by the Smithsonian Academy Orchestra! Join us Wednesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall for a rousing performance of works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn.
This afternoon, Tuesday, 2/11, join us online at 5 pm for Kei Ito: Beyond the Mushroom Cloud!
UMBC's Department of Visual Arts presents a lecture by Kei Ito, an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered around utilizing the conceptual framework of photography to visualize the invisible.
Sunday 2/9, join us at UMBC for the Andrist-Stern-Honigberg Trio, featuring pianist Audrey Andrist, violinist James Stern, and cellist Steven Honigberg in a program of works by Rebecca Clarke, Kent Holliday, and Robert Schumann!
A renowned composer for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Lucia Dlugoszewski spent a lifetime searching for radical new ways of making sound. Sadly, much of her music faded into obscurity. On Friday, Feb 7, 7:30 pm in Linehan Concert Hall, UMBC's Dustin Donahue and Australian percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones present a special performance reconstructing the composer's works —
https://umbc.edu/event/the-music-of-lucia-dlugoszewski-rebecca-lloyd-jones-and-dustin-donahue/
Tonight! Join us for Maryland Winds under guest conductor Michael Votta, Jr., for a program entitled Dances Around the World! Wednesday, 2/5, 7:30p.m., UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall!
This Friday evening 2/7 at UMBC!
Rediscovering the Music of Lucia Dlugoszewski: Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Dustin Donahue
Australian percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and UMBC percussion faculty Dustin Donahue present the enigmatic work of Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000).
https://umbc.edu/event/the-music-of-lucia-dlugoszewski-rebecca-lloyd-jones-and-dustin-donahue/
We're thrilled that UMBC's Kelley Bell is the recipient of a Baker Artist Award! Tune in tonight (Friday, January 31) to Maryland Public Television for a special Artworks episode featuring Bell and others — https://youtu.be/-7uXRWj_394?si=s12c2oyiLMRabJo7
Maurice Berger served as chief curator and research professor at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture until his untimely death in 2020 during the pandemic. His notable writings in The NY Times, "Race Stories," have now been published in book form by the Times and Aperture —
The remarkable exhibition Revisions: Celebrating Fifty Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, closes this weekend at our Library Gallery! Here's a peek inside the show, courtesy of UMBC Magazine —
https://umbc.edu/stories/seeing-with-fresh-eyes-photography-collection/
