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Maryland Arts Summit

Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Maryland Arts Summit, produced by Maryland Citizens for the Arts and hosted at UMBC, is a statewide conference presented by and for the Maryland arts sector, which includes, but is not limited to, arts advocates, arts educators and teaching artists, independent artists, arts organizations, youth, community stakeholders, arts and entertainment districts, county arts agencies of Maryland, public artists, boards of directors, and folklife artists.

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.

Opening Reception — Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents an Opening Reception and Curatorial Tour for the exhibition Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Kerry Coppin, Cary Beth Cryor, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz.

Levester Williams: all matters aside — Opening Reception

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception for 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 Opening Reception will including a public program featuring Levester Williams, Michelle D. Wright, and Lisa Freiman.

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.

Story Development Workshop with Miguel Jiron

234 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) welcomes Miguel Jiron, director at Sony Pictures Animation! Jiron will host a Storyboarding workshop for UMBC students on Friday October 18th and a public artist’s talk at the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival in Baltimore on Saturday, October 19th. For this masterclass on storyboarding and story development, Jiron will share story pitches, outlining the progression from initial ideas to final animation. A live pitch and feedback session of selected UMBC student projects will follow.

Miguel Jiron Artist Talk

Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) welcomes Miguel Jiron, director at Sony Pictures Animation! Jiron will host a storyboarding workshop for UMBC students on Friday, October 18, and a public artist’s talk at the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival in Baltimore on Saturday, October 19. From Takashi Murakami to the Spider-verse, join Miguel Jiron on Saturday for a talk about his personal, roundabout journey from the independent and fine art world to the feature animation industry, along with a screening of his shorts.

Artist Talk: Tommy Kha

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

In conjunction with the exhibition Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through December 15, the Library Gallery presents an artist talk by Tommy Kha, whose work is featured in the show.

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.

Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women, featuring works by Sara Angelucci, Claudia Fáhrenkemper, Jennifer Garza Cuen, Sage Lewis, Claire A. Warden, and others. This exhibition presents a selection of objects from Archive 192, an independent archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating abstractionist works by women photographers. The prints on view survey the array of photographic processes and diverse techniques of abstraction employed by photographers over the past century. Related ephemera, including publications, artist books, and posters document the evolution of abstractionism in photography and political movements that impact women working within the medium.

Kei Ito: Beyond the Mushroom Cloud

Online

The Department of Visual Arts presents a lecture by Kei Ito, an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered around utilizing the conceptual framework of photography to visualize the invisible. Mainly employing camera-less photographic techniques, performance, and installation, Ito creates large-scale installations and a variety of photographic projects that excavate hidden histories.

Conflux: Variation

Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture launches its 2025 program with Conflux: Variation (2025) by Baltimore-region artist collective Collis Donadio. This public video art projection, showing nightly in the Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre, explores the intersections of industry and the environment in Baltimore, where water meets land.

Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall”

Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity.

Tatiana Mann: Find Your Why

216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

In Find Your Why, presented by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), Tatiana Mann will lead us to explore why we engage with our disciplines, what informs our decisions and how to light our creative fire to fuel our future success. As artists and humanists, why do we choose our career paths? Because of lucrative remuneration (supported by plentiful research grants) and a lavish lifestyle (afforded by sleepless nights working several jobs)? In pursuit of quixotic research, prestigious performances, exhibitions, publications, and accolades? Or do we choose to do what we do because at some point we couldn’t imagine a life without art, or without investigating humanity’s larger questions?