On October 18 and 19, choreography by Ann Sofie Clemmensen, assistant professor of dance, will be presented at the new REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Featuring 20 dancers, including UMBC students, Clemmensen’s three-part experience — In To and Out Of — transports audiences through different spaces of the REACH using the unique characteristics of each location to explore concepts in pattern and timing, light and dark, and limitation and transformation. Continue Reading UMBC’s Ann Sofie Clemmensen explores The Kennedy Center’s REACH through choreography
On June 6–8, UMBC hosted the inaugural Maryland Arts Summit. During the three-day event, five hundred artists, educators, advocates, and arts administrators from across the state convened for workshops, award programs, networking sessions, performances, and more. Continue Reading Inaugural Maryland Arts Summit convenes at UMBC
Saunders comes to UMBC from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was assistant curator in the Department of Photographs. She will oversee the management, preservation, and exhibition of UMBC’s photography, rare book, and archival collections. “One of the things that excites me about Special Collections is that it’s a nerdy collection in the best possible way, bridging the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and other fields of research,” she says. Continue Reading UMBC welcomes Beth Saunders as the new curator and head of Special Collections
On Wednesday, August 29, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery launches UMBC’s Fall 2018 arts season with the exhibition Depth of Field, presenting approximately one hundred images acquired over the last ten years by UMBC’s Photography Collections through gifts from donors and artists. Continue Reading Library Gallery displays recent acquisitions in “Depth of Field” exhibition
On Saturday, June 9, the stage of Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., will be graced by the choreography of new UMBC alumna Maia Schechter, a Linehan Artist Scholar whose work was selected for the finals of the American College Dance Festival through a nationally competitive process. Continue Reading UMBC’s Maia Schechter lights up the stage at the Kennedy Center
This spring, the Department of Music welcomes new members to the UMBC community: two violins and a violin bow, contributed to the department by Joel Liebman, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his life partner Kathleen F. (Kay) Edwards, professor in the doctor of management program, University of Maryland University College. Continue Reading Gift of two historic violins provides opportunities for music students