The Department of Theatre’s production of The Laramie Project, directed by Nyalls Hartman (associate professor), received a review in The Baltimore Sun and Howard County Times by critic Mike Giuliano on December 7, and received a review in Maryland Theatre Guide by UMBC alumna Amanda Gunther on December 9. The production concludes its run at the UMBC Theatre on Sunday, December 11. Work by Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, will be featured in Radio Arts Space FM, an international radio art and sound art exhibition at the Škuc Gallery in Ljubjana, Slovenia, from December 7 to 16. The exhibition, which features audio works by 42 artists from 22 countries, is available as an audio stream at at the website radioCona. James Smalls, professor of Visual Arts and affiliate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, will be featured on a panel, Gender and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday, December 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. In connection with works from two exhibitions, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties and Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Terry Carbone, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum, will be in conversation with Professor Smalls and with scholar-collector Thomas H. Wirth. This discussion will explore the intersections of race, gender,… Continue Reading James Smalls, Visual Arts, Featured at the Brooklyn Museum Fred Worden (assistant professor, Visual Arts) will be featured on the American Originals Now series at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on December 11 and 17. Since the 1970s, Worden has been making experimental films primarily to examine “how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism.” With wholehearted revelry in cinematic illusion and a commitment to kinetic abstractions, he produces short films and digital videos that draw attention to subjective perceptual play through the manipulation of visual phenomena.… Continue Reading Fred Worden (Visual Arts) Featured at National Gallery of Art (12/11, 12/17) The UMBC Wind Ensemble, directed by Richard Spece (adjunct instructor, Music), has been invited to perform at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, November 29. The UMBC Wind Ensemble is comprised of exceptional woodwind, brass and percussion performers who enjoy the challenge of performing excellent concert literature. “The UMBC Wind Ensemble is honored and excited to be performing at the Kennedy Center,” remarked Dr. Spece. “This is an incredible opportunity for the students who, through hard work and dedication, have become a regionally recognized and accomplished ensemble.” The program will feature Trittico by Vaclav Nelhybel, Equus… Continue Reading UMBC Wind Ensemble to Perform at the Kennedy Center (11/29) Sandra Abbott, curator of collections and outreach at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, was featured in Maryland Life Magazine on November 8 in an article, “Unbound,” by Mary Medland. The article investigates the art of “altered books,” which are ordinary books that have been transformed into art objects. Abbott was a judge for the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s altered books exhibition last year. The exhibition A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture, featuring photographs by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Freidus, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through December 21, was featured in The Baltimore Sun by critic Mike Giuliano on Wednesday, November 16. The review also appeared in local papers published by Patuxent Publishing. Steve Bradley (associate professor, Visual Arts) is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Arts in Community (MSAC AIC) matching grant for his “Portrait Stories” initiative in the Baybrook community. In addition to this grant, “Portrait Stories” has been chosen by the Baltimore Rotterdam Sister City for its Artist Exchange program. The intended exchange will occur between the Baybrook neighborhood and Rotterdam’s Heijplaat neighborhood in the future. The Baybrook initiatives are rooted in Professor Bradley’s 2009 residency in the Heijplaat neighborhood. His inspiration came from an educational curriculum developed by the Willem de Kooning Academie, also in Rotterdam. Cut… Continue Reading Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from Maryland State Arts Council Tim Nohe (associate professor, Visual Arts) has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Project – Creative Placemaking program, managed by the Station North Arts & Entertainment District. The grant supports his sound project, “My Station North.” This winter and spring he will work collaboratively with children at Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, their teacher, Ms. Meg Fink, and IMDA MFA graduate student Charlotte Keniston to document the Station North neighborhood through sound. Students working with an easy to use audio recorder will sample the sounds and stories of their neighborhood and school, which is located at… Continue Reading Tim Nohe, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts The exhibition Where Do We Migrate To?, organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, will tour in spring 2012 to the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. Opening on February 2, the exhibition will remain on view through April 15. Artists Space in New York will host a launch for a book that accompanies the exhibition, also entitled Where Do We Migrate To?, on December 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. Svetlana Boym, an artist whose work is featured in the exhibition and who contributed an essay to the book, will… Continue Reading CADVC Exhibition “Where Do We Migrate To?” Tours to New York On Thursday, November 10, the Department of Music presents presents a program entitled The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words, featuring performers Maria Lambros, viola; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Audrey Andrist, piano; E. Michael Richards, clarinet; Lisa Cella, flute; and guests Alison Wells, cello; Michael Kannen, cello; and Diane Walsh, piano. The program will feature: * Osvaldo Golijov – Doina (2001) * Felix Mendelssohn – Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 58 (1843) * Michael Alec Rose – Burlesques for Piano Quartet (2010, world premiere) * Gerald Cohen – Yedid Nefesh (Beloved of my Soul) (2007) *… Continue Reading The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words (11/10) Timothy Nohe, associate professor of Visual Arts, will exhibit his work Candles for Faust at the in/flux gallery, 307 West Baltimore Street, from November 5 through 19.Nohe remarks, “Candles for Faust portrays candles, burning at both ends, that eventually extinguish themselves and fall from sight. Stereo recordings were produced of the drumming sound of dripping wax falling on printmaking paper. I imagined the candles as ‘musical instruments’ producing unique and chaotic drum patterns. As the candles attempted to reach equilibrium, teetering back and forth, they tattooed a pattern of wax scatter on the paper below. The resulting wax splashed detritus… Continue Reading Timothy Nohe, Visual Arts, to Exhibit at in/flux Gallery
Department of Theatre’s “The Laramie Project” in The Baltimore Sun
Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Featured in Exhibition in Slovenia
James Smalls, Visual Arts, Featured at the Brooklyn Museum
Fred Worden (Visual Arts) Featured at National Gallery of Art (12/11, 12/17)
UMBC Wind Ensemble to Perform at the Kennedy Center (11/29)
Sandra Abbott (Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) in Maryland Life Magazine
Library Gallery’s “Legacy of Love” Exhibition in The Baltimore Sun
Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from Maryland State Arts Council
Tim Nohe, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
CADVC Exhibition “Where Do We Migrate To?” Tours to New York
The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words (11/10)
Timothy Nohe, Visual Arts, to Exhibit at in/flux Gallery
