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    • In a black and white photograph, a group of 22 Black Americans pose in and on a fancy early 1920s touring car.

    Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    Picturing Mobility explores what it meant to seek leisure and travel as a Black American during the Jim Crow era, and features snapshots and travel ephemera of Black leisure experiences from the mid-Atlantic during the 1920s to 1960s. From beach outings to family road trips, these images offer glimpses into everyday moments of happiness, relaxation and community, challenging dominant narratives that define the era solely through restriction and struggle. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on the emotional power of these images of Black resistance and mobility.

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    A wall with a design of brightly colored flowers branching off green tree limbs.

    Inclusive Excellence

    The Commons

    The campus community is invited to explore Inclusive Excellence, a set of two visual arts installations in The Commons. Developed by students in the spring 2025 Professional Practices in Graphic Design course taught by adjunct professor Katie Heater ’09, visual arts, and MFA ’13, imaging and digital arts, the striking displays can be viewed in the Mezzanine Gallery and West Entrance to The Commons.

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    Pedagogy Study Hall

    Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

    The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Pedagogy Study Hall, a collaborative exhibition, research project, and public humanities residency by interdisciplinary artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans. The project examines systems of investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures. Drawing on Baltimore’s grassroots history of cultural labor and social justice organizing, Pedagogy Study Hall offers a multilayered model for public memory, artistic research, and civic pedagogy.

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    A design says Spark — Industrial Afterglow.

    SPARK: Industrial Afterglow

    The Peale

    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. 

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    Black and Gold Information Session and Campus Tour

    Main Campus

    Join a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation for a 30-minute information session covering UMBC traditions and values, application requirements, and opportunities for funding your education.

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    Virtual Black & Gold Information Session and Student Panel

    Main Campus

    Can't make it to campus? No problem; we'll bring #RetrieverNation to you! We invite you and any guests to join us for a virtual information session and student panel from the comfort of home or work.

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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Dark Times: The Uses and Abuses of History in an Authoritarian Era

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    Until recently, the history profession has expressed skepticism about using history to understand contemporary events. At the same time, many historians have excelled at using historical comparisons to illuminate the current order of things. The annual Robert K. Webb Lecture, part of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum, explains the origins of the recent turn to the present in the professional study of history, while looking at its promises and perils for the field.

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    COEIT Pre-Transfer Academy

    COEIT Pre-Transfer Academy

    Online

    Discover Your Path in the College of Engineering & Information Technology! The Computing & Engineering Pre-Transfer Academy is a virtual workshop hosted by COEIT Transfer Advisors.

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    Five musicians — one pianist and four cellists — perform on stage.

    UMBC Chamber Players

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.

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    Day in the Life: The Arts at UMBC

    Main Campus

    Want the inside scoop on what it’s like to study the arts at UMBC? Join a virtual panel of current visual and performing arts majors where they can tell you their favorite things about life as a Retriever.

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    Black and Gold Information Session and Campus Tour

    Main Campus

    Join a staff member from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation for a 30-minute information session covering UMBC traditions and values, application requirements, and opportunities for funding your education.

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    Musicians perform on a gamelan.

    UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

    The Music Box

    The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).

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    A group of saxophonists performs on stage in front of a larger group of musicians.

    U.S. Army Field Band Saxophone Quartet

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The United States Army Field Band Saxophone Quartet performs a program of works by Chick Corea and Marc Mellits alongside works by UMBC student composers Jean Nguyen and Alexander Edwards.

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    UMBC Jazz in Concert

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    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.

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    UMBC Percussion Ensemble

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue in a concert of music by William Duckworth, Philip Glass, Fritz Hauser, JLIN, and Yousif Sheronick.

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