Arts+ at UMBC
Celebrating+Connecting the Arts at UMBC
UMBC is a transformative, inviting arts destination where creative interdisciplinary research and public-facing programming challenge, enrich, and inspire. Through Arts+, we invite arts lovers near and far to participate in and celebrate the breadth and depth of work and research happening in the visual and performing arts disciplines at UMBC.
Sat
4/18
Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Baltimore’s creative heart beats stronger than ever as we gather for Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation — a citywide celebration of art,…
Sat
4/18
The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!
The U.S. Army Blues, a component of the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” will perform a free concert at UMBC in honor of Jazz…
Sun
4/19
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Journey with the acclaimed Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Richard Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto…
Wed
4/29
Guenet Abraham: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in Arts (CIRCA) presents Guenet Abraham, professor of visual arts at UMBC, who will speak on “Exploring and…
Fri
5/1
Sun
5/3
User Agreement
UMBC Theatre presents User Agreeement by Ben Holbrook and directed by Sean DiGiorgio ’26. Set in the near future, Sy and Theo attempt to navigate their…
Thu
4/30
Sat
5/2
The Polar Ice Museum
Visual Arts
Ongoing
The Imaging Research Center (IRC) presents The Polar Ice Museum, a series of artworks and immersive, data-driven installations that transform polar data into meaningful public…
Thu
4/30
Fri
5/1
Orange Grove Dance — Site/Unseen
Join us for a special event with Site/Unseen, a production by Orange Grove Dance that brings ten performers into dynamic partnership with sidewalks, stairways, and…
Tue
4/21
Brass Bash, featuring Brass for Uncommon Times
Join us for UMBC’s annual Brass Bash, this year featuring Brass for Uncommon Times, a brass and percussion ensemble including top players from across the…
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Six April arts events not to be missed at UMBC
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Author Kristina Gaddy ’09, collaborates with Rhiannon Giddens, Grammy Award-winning musician, on the history of Black American music
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Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world
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Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco
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