Spring Dance Showcase
Dance CubeThe Department of Dance presents the Spring Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students, independent student research, and a repertory work by faculty member Sandra Lacy.
The Department of Dance presents the Spring Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students, independent student research, and a repertory work by faculty member Sandra Lacy.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.
The Department of Music presents a concert featuring premieres of works by student composers.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Improvisation Ensemble, directed by Patrick Crossland.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson. The UMBC Collegium Musicum explores and performs vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
The Department of Visual Arts presents the 2024 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition. Curated and designed by IMDA MFA student and CADVC graduate assistant Andrew Liang, this exhibition celebrates the extensive work of senior undergraduates.
The Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
Please join us for an Artists Reception and Awards Presentation for the 2024 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition. Curated and designed by IMDA MFA student and CADVC graduate assistant Andrew Liang, this exhibition celebrates the extensive work of senior undergraduates.
The Maryland Arts Summit, produced by Maryland Citizens for the Arts and hosted at UMBC, is a statewide conference presented by and for the Maryland arts sector, which includes, but is not limited to, arts advocates, arts educators and teaching artists, independent artists, arts organizations, youth, community stakeholders, arts and entertainment districts, county arts agencies of Maryland, public artists, boards of directors, and folklife artists.
Whistling Hens, a duo featuring the unusual combination of clarinet and soprano, premieres a new work by composer Kate Soper entitled Chutes and Ladders. A commission made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Mellon Foundation, the work invites us to step into a unique soundscape of vocalizations, quarter tones, multiphones, and speak-singing.
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Revisions: Celebrating Fifty Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, featuring highlights and lesser-known gems from UMBC’s considerable photography holdings. Looking back at a half-century of collecting, the exhibition offers thematic groupings and visual juxtapositions of photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. The display asks viewers to approach the history of photography with fresh eyes. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Kerry Coppin, Cary Beth Cryor, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz.
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents an Opening Reception and Curatorial Tour for the exhibition Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Kerry Coppin, Cary Beth Cryor, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry, art songs and discussion, entitled Mapping Ancestral Discoveries From The Eastern Shore to New York in Poetry and Song, as composer, poet, and scholar Toni Lester shares her journey of discovery about ancestors who migrated from DelMarVA to New York to form one of the oldest, continuous free Black communities in the North. This event will feature baritone Brandon Bell, soprano Adia Evans, and pianist/percussionist Bill Solomon.