Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). States of Becoming examines the dynamic forces of relocation, resettling, and assimilation that shape the artistic practices of a group of 17 contemporary African artists who have lived and worked in the United States within the last three decades, and informs the discourse on identity construction within the African Diaspora.
Spark 6: Refractions features the work of UMBC and Towson faculty, recent graduates, and current students in the historic galleries of The Peale in Baltimore City, sponsored by PNC. Refraction is the change in direction of a wave as it passes from one transparent substance into another — a phenomenon most commonly observed when light waves pass through lenses, magnifying glasses, and prisms. Each of the artists in this exhibition serves as an apparatus of refraction: focusing, magnifying, or redirecting our attention and experience of our world.
FloodZone, featuring photography by Anastasia Samoylova, explores what it looks like to live in the southern United States at a time when rising sea levels and hurricanes threaten the most prized locations with storm surges and coastal erosion. Samoylova’s lyrical photographs are deceptive, drawing us in with a seemingly documentary promise of a palm-treed paradise. Their alluring color palette — filled with lush greens, azure blues, and pastel pinks — gives way to minute details that reveal decaying infrastructure, encroaching flora, and displaced fauna.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a book launch to celebrate the publication of Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit. This online event will feature Oletha DeVane, Lowery Stokes Sims, Christopher Kojzar, and Serubiri Moses.
In conjunction with the exhibition Anastasia Samoylov: FloodZone on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 29 through May 24, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Anastasia Samoylova in conversation with Mark Alice Durant.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception for Spectrum of Process: 2024 UMBC Faculty Exhibition. Spectrum of Process presents a range of UMBC faculty approaches to art and culture through rigorous, experimental processes.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Spectrum of Process: 2024 UMBC Faculty Exhibition, on display from February 9 through March 2. Spectrum of Process presents a range of UMBC faculty approaches to art and culture through rigorous, experimental processes. The exhibition is interdisciplinary, including works of fine art, design, pedagogy, and the visual culture of research.
Join artists Paul Rucker (artist in residence at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) and Kim Rice in a public discussion about their research into the history of urban redlining. Rucker and Rice will discuss a project-in-process focused on discriminatory real estate practices and the power of art to change spatial injustice.
In conjunction with the exhibition Spectrum of Process, on display from February 9 through March 2, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a discussion, Research and Process, featuring faculty and students involved in the “Can You Catch a Deep Fake?” and “Artifacts” research projects.
Join Tomashi Jackson (artist in residence at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) for a public discussion about her present research. Jackson will be in conversation with Nicole King, associate professor of American Studies and director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture at UMBC.
In conjunction with the exhibition Spectrum of Process, on display from February 9 through March 2, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents assistant professor of graphic design Julie Sayo, who will offer a Babayin Writing Workshop.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture inaugurates the “demo” of a new public video art projection gallery with work by artist Levester Williams, featuring his work dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore (2021–2024). The event will include a conversation between Williams and curator Lisa Freiman. Showings of the work will continue on select evenings in late February and early March.
Join Levester Williams (artist in residence at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) for a conversation with collaborators Sheila Gaskins and Savannah Knoop on his current work in progress, “dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore” (2021–2024).
