To: The UMBC Community
From: John Jeffries, Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Date: June 13, 2013
Re: Appointment of Professor Tim Nohe as Director of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Nohe of the Department of Visual Arts as the founding Director of the new UMBC arts research center—the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts [CIRCA]. Professor Nohe has achieved a remarkable record at UMBC as a multi-talented and interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited and performed widely, as a fine teacher and mentor, and as a leader in shared governance, most recently as President of the Faculty Senate for two years. His work has included collaborations with all of the arts departments at UMBC and with numerous local, regional, national, and international artists, arts organizations, and universities. He is currently Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and his many distinctions include two Fulbright awards and four Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards. Professor Nohe will bring his wide-ranging skills, experience, and connections to his new position of Director of CIRCA. I look forward to his working with others, at UMBC and elsewhere, to facilitate innovation, research, and creativity in the arts and to raise the visibility and enhance the already strong reputation of the arts at UMBC.
