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Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

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, Cary Beth Cryor, Darryl Curran, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, and Alfred Stieglitz.

Levester Williams: all matters aside

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade, including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation.

Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger

Fine Arts Recital Hall MD

Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger celebrates the life and legacy of Maurice Berger, who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) until his death in 2020. The event will include the launch of the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of award-winning essays by Maurice Berger, the relaunch of the CADVC’s Issues in Cultural Theory publication series, the publication of Cockeysville to Baltimore (accompanying the exhibition Levester Williams: all matters aside), and remarks from noted speakers.

Fall Dance Showcase

Proscenium Theatre

The Department of Dance presents the Fall Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students and independent student research.

Down With Love: An Actor Showcase

Black Box Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents Down With Love: An Actor Showcase, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, with musical direction by Andrew Hann. Join our acting majors for an evening of songs, scenes, and speeches exploring love’s highs, lows, and everything in between!

UMBC Percussion Ensemble

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.

UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.

UMBC Jazz in Concert

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.

UMBC Opera Workshop

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.

Department of Music Honors Showcase

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.

Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with pianist/composer Fazil Say

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

Chamber Music Maryland presents cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in concert with pianist/composer Fazil Say. Their program will feature Say's masterpiece Four Cities, in addition to works by Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, and Johannes Brahms.

Gabriel Bianco, classical guitar

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Gabriel Bianco, who has earned first prize in multiple international competitions in Austria (Vienna), Germany (Koblenz), France (Ile de Ré and Barbezieux), Poland (Tychy) and Portugal (Sernancelhe). His most recent win at the 2008 Guitar Foundation of America Competition has earned him the coveted 50-concert tour in the United States, Mexico, and Canada with additional concerts in China, Colombia, and Brazil. Bianco has already performed in over 30 music festivals across the world, in France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, and Thaïland. 

Made in Baltimore

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Made in Baltimore, featuring new works for classical guitar written by local composers commissioned by BCGS. For the 2024–2025 season, the awardees are Zhishu Chang, Zac Fick-Cambria, Antonio Sanz Escallón, and UMBC student Jack McGrath, who will write ensemble works inspired by Charm City.

Ivalas Quartet

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents charismatic rising stars the Ivalas Quartet in a program of three works traversing the musical heavens. Osvaldo Golijov took inspiration for his poignant Tenebrae from a planetarium visit with his son. Sparked by a lecture on physics, Eleanor Alberga’s rich and spellbinding quartet explores the ideas of swirling particles and stargazing from outer space. Finally, the group infuses one of Beethoven’s final works with “tremendous heart and beauty” (The Strad).

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