The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso. From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll. The exhibition features artists based in or connected to Baltimore, exploring the city’s cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary practices, including Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and the presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.
UMBC Theatre presents the serpent under’t, an experimental dance theatre adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, conceived and directed by Nigel Semaj. Blending movement, dance, and spoken text, this reimagining draws inspiration from horror and the macabre of Edgar Allen Poe. Join us as we explore the shadows of the human psyche where ambition, guilt, and fate intertwine with the supernatural.
The Center for Ethics and Values presents an Eminent Scholar Lecture with Kieran Setiya, Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT, who will speak on Laughter in the Dark: The Consolation of Comedy.
Mary Celenza, a showrunner, director, and writer with over 25 years of experience in television and audio production, will discuss her extensive career. She is currently the Head of Current and Executive Producer at Treefort Media, where she oversees series for Audible, Wondery, Netflix, and Focus Features.
Grammy Award-winning music producer, mixer, songwriter, arranger, musician, and finisher Ken Lewis will discuss his wide-ranging career in this presentation. With 166 Gold records, Lewis’s work has contributed to the success of global superstars including Taylor Swift, BTS, Kanye, Drake, NF, Khalil Fong, Alicia Keys, Ariana Grande, Vybz Kartel, NewJeans, Assi El Hallani, Mark Ronson, and Bruno Mars.
Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.
In conjunction with Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll, the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents an artist roundtable on experimental praxis moderated by Karin Oen-Lee in conversation with Lehna Huie and Ada Pinkston.
Join writer and performance artist and UMBC alum Rahne Alexander for this workshop focused on writing, editing and performance! Each participant will use a new sketchbook and markers to explore ideas, set aside pages to let go of, and wrap their notebook as a gift to themselves.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty String Sextet in a performance of two of the keystone Romantic works for string ensemble — the String Sextet No. 2 by Johannes Brahms, and the String Sextet “Souvenir de Florence” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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