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.
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.
Interdisciplinary visual artist Stephanie J. Williams will tell us about her artistic practice, which bridges sculpture and animation. Her work navigates hierarchies of taste, unpacking how “official” histories are constructed in order to understand contemporary social coding.
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 talk about memory, communal and familial photographic archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Washington in conversation with Darrius Fox and Kelvin Bulluck.
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Stan VanDerBeek: Machine Art, on display from January 26 through May 23. The exhibition will be shown concurrently with Alison Knowles: The House of Dust. VanDerBeek was a pioneering intermedia artist and filmmaker, who, from 1975 until his untimely death in 1984, was professor of visual arts at UMBC and founder of the university’s Image Lab, the predecessor to the Imaging Research Center. This exhibition explores the artist’s wide-ranging experimental practice from his early forays into blending computer graphics and intaglio printmaking, to transmitted collage murals, and computer-generated animated films created at Bell Labs.
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