The study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude various aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this Humanities Forum talk, Debby Sneed will present a marble sculpture of a korē (maiden) that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis in the late 6th century BCE.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Rowan Bathhurst, Kei Ito, and Rachel Stein in a conversation about Climate Change through Science-Informed Art. This event will take place at The Crow's Nest in downtown Baltimore, where all three artists are in residence.
Join us for a special celebration of the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance from an interdisciplinary perspective focused on music, history, literature, and art. Moderated by Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, a panel of UMBC faculty will explore the impact and legacy of this intellectual, social, and artistic movement. The UMBC Jazz Ensemble will perform music selections from the Harlem Renaissance.
Long before institutions turned their attention to LGBTQ+ archives, Queer individuals preserved, shared, and celebrated their own personal and community histories. Celebrating Archives month and LGBTQ+ History month, the Queer Artists + Archives Symposium brings together artists, archivists, and historians — as well as those working across disciplines — to reflect upon the evolving role of archives in preserving and sharing the stories and histories of Queer artists. Participants include Rahne Alexander, Alexander D'Agostino, Leslie Cozzi, Kate Drabinski, Ben Egerman, Hunter O'Hanian, Joseph Plaster, James Smalls, and SHAN Wallace.
Please join us for presentations by two accomplished alumni, Ellington Carthan ’18, music (jazz studies and music technology), and Linehan Artist Scholar Hannah Korangkool ’15, visual arts (graphic design), who will tell us about their journeys from UMBC to their current careers. This event is hosted by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).
The Department of Visual Arts hosts Rich Zim, who is about to celebrate 40 years of professional stop motion animation, for an artist talk and claymation workshop. His notable credits include Gumby, Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline, and The SpongeBob Movie. He is currently the CEO and president of Zim animation, where he has been making psychedelic oozing dripping clay animation sequences in his own studio for projects such as Smiling friends, Rick and Morty, Middlemost Post and many other TV shows and movies.
Jayme McLellan is a curator, gallery director, artist, and educator. Over the past two decades, she has curated 150 solo, group, and thematic exhibitions of contemporary artists. In this presentation by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), she will share stories about successes and failures in her efforts to help artists carve out their own sustainable paths.
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.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts presents a talk by visual artist Eric Millikin. An assistant professor of visual arts, Millikin was awarded the 2024 CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, during which he worked on Mecha/Magical Marine Materials, an ongoing series of wearable electronic and robotic sculptures based on marine biology for performances with live-coded ambient sound and spiraling video projections. The work is based in part on the work of IMET Assistant Professor Allison Tracy as well as on Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of sea-faring science and the supernatural, including depictions of necromancers creating mechanical sea monsters.
The campus community is invited to participate in an event to celebrate the life and work Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, who had a long and impactful relationship with the arts at UMBC. Knowles passed away on October 29. An exhibition of her books, boxes, and performance work will be on display in the Library Rotunda, and attendees are invited to participate in a performance of Shoes of Your Choice.
In conjunction with the exhibition the exhibition Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, on display from September 2 through December 19, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a panel discussion.
Celebrate the Arts at UMBC the evening on December 5, when we'll present an extravaganza of concurrent events featuring dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts!
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents a special one-night-only outdoor screening and performance with KaMag, the performance collaboration between artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and musician Kamaal Malak. Vignettes in 3 Sessions: An Immersive Ancestral Experience with KaMag is an interactive performance created for the CADVC. KaMag invites members of the public into a shared ritual environment — “a sacred space where ancestral energies transcend temporal boundaries, creating a transformative portal between past and present.” The performance unfolds as a multi-media, multi-sensory sanctuary combining spoken word, live music, sound design, and other sensorial experiences in an intimate, participatory format.
Join us for a Film and Animation Showcase, featuring works by students and recent graduates of UMBC's Visual Arts and Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) programs.
Join us for a special look inside the graduate studios of the Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) program!
