Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today
    • In a black and white photograph, a group of 22 Black Americans pose in and on a fancy early 1920s touring car.

    Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    Picturing Mobility explores what it meant to seek leisure and travel as a Black American during the Jim Crow era, and features snapshots and travel ephemera of Black leisure experiences from the mid-Atlantic during the 1920s to 1960s. From beach outings to family road trips, these images offer glimpses into everyday moments of happiness, relaxation and community, challenging dominant narratives that define the era solely through restriction and struggle. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on the emotional power of these images of Black resistance and mobility.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A wall with a design of brightly colored flowers branching off green tree limbs.

    Inclusive Excellence

    The Commons

    The campus community is invited to explore Inclusive Excellence, a set of two visual arts installations in The Commons. Developed by students in the spring 2025 Professional Practices in Graphic Design course taught by adjunct professor Katie Heater ’09, visual arts, and MFA ’13, imaging and digital arts, the striking displays can be viewed in the Mezzanine Gallery and West Entrance to The Commons.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A person stands on a ladder in front of a wall that says Pedagogy Study Hall and other texts, with another ladder nearby.

    Pedagogy Study Hall

    Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

    The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Pedagogy Study Hall, a collaborative exhibition, research project, and public humanities residency by interdisciplinary artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans. The project examines systems of investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures. Drawing on Baltimore’s grassroots history of cultural labor and social justice organizing, Pedagogy Study Hall offers a multilayered model for public memory, artistic research, and civic pedagogy.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A poster show the image of Langston Hughes and says Shakespeare in Harlem.

    Shakespeare in Harlem

    Proscenium Theatre

    UMBC Theatre presents Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes, adapted and directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor, a special co-production of UMBC Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and CSC's Black Classical Acting Ensemble. A rare gem from Langston Hughes, this collection of monologue poems revives the rhythms of jazz, the blues, and the pulse of the Harlem Renaissance—its love, struggles, and street-corner spirit. In director Gerrad Alex Taylor’s adaptation, Hughes’ words come alive in a dynamic full-length play, blending poetry, music, and dance for an immersive journey into the world he so vividly celebrated.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A design says Spark — Industrial Afterglow.

    SPARK: Industrial Afterglow

    The Peale

    SPARK VII: Industrial Afterglow, a collaboration between UMBC and Towson University, brings together over twenty artists working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography, video, textiles, and ecological documentation to explore what lingers in the wake of industrial and technological systems. 

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A group of UMBC students walking down academic row

    Celebrating Black Excellence at UMBC

    Main Campus

    The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation invites you to join us in celebrating Black Excellence at UMBC.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A diverse group of students walk outside together on a sunny Spring day, on a path lined with bolooming cherry blossom trees.

    Visual & Performing Arts Tour

    Main Campus

    Interested in studying a visual or performing arts field at UMBC? This custom experience will allow you to learn more about the arts majors and minors offered, our exclusive Linehan Artist Scholars Program, and how to apply - and will be capped by a student-led tour of relevant campus spaces.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    Black and Gold Information Session and Campus Tour

    Main Campus

    Join a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation for a 30-minute information session covering UMBC traditions and values, application requirements, and opportunities for funding your education.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A string quartet poses with their instruments.

    Abeo Quartet

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Baltimore debut of the Abeo Quartet in a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Adolphus Hailstork.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    Several Theatre students pose with Theatre Department Chair, Eve Muson, on a staircase. They are smiling at the camera.

    Fall 2025 Prospective Theatre Student Visit Day

    Join us on campus to experience life a UMBC Theatre Major! Our Prospective Student Days usually sell out, so be sure to claim your spot early.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    A group of musicians pose, some holding instruments

    Inscape Chamber Orchestra: Echoes of Paradise

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    Journey beyond the earthly realm with Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore musical visions of the divine. This extraordinary concert weaves together three masters whose works touch the very essence of the sacred and sublime — Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, and Arvo Pärt.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    a large group of students wearing black and gold waving flags and celebrating

    Black and Gold Information Session and Campus Tour

    Main Campus

    Join a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation for a 30-minute information session covering UMBC traditions and values, application requirements, and opportunities for funding your education.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    Ousseina Alidou, a Black woman wearing a white headwrap, smiles at the camera.

    Ousseina Alidou: Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives

    University Center Ballroom

    In the 47th Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture, Ousseina Alidou examines life and being human in West African Sahel women’s ecological thoughts as articulated in their literary and cultural narratives. Alidou’s aim is to expand our understanding of Sahelian women’s enduring contributions to ethical engagement with environmental concerns and preservation, climate change, vulnerability, migration, gender equity, and resilience.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    Black and Gold Information Session and Campus Tour

    Main Campus

    Join a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation for a 30-minute information session covering UMBC traditions and values, application requirements, and opportunities for funding your education.

    View Full Event Details and Register

    © UMBC: A University System of Maryland
    Member Institution
    Scroll to Top