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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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    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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    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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    Ousseina Alidou, a Black woman wearing a white headwrap, smiles at the camera.

    Ousseina Alidou: Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives

    University Center Ballroom

    In the 47th Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture, Ousseina Alidou examines life and being human in West African Sahel women’s ecological thoughts as articulated in their literary and cultural narratives. Alidou’s aim is to expand our understanding of Sahelian women’s enduring contributions to ethical engagement with environmental concerns and preservation, climate change, vulnerability, migration, gender equity, and resilience.

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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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    Eric Millikin: Mecha/Magical Marine Materials

    216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

    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.

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    UMBC Accelerated Professional Programs Information Session

    Main Campus

    As you begin to think ahead to graduation, you might be considering graduate school.

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    Retriever Roadmap: Transfer Open House

    Main Campus

    It's never too early to think about transferring! Join UMBC's transfer admissions team, campus support staff, and current students as we help provide you with a roadmap to becoming a Retriever - whenever that may be for you.

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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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    Visual & Performing Arts Tour

    Main Campus

    Interested in studying a visual or performing arts field at UMBC? This custom experience will allow you to learn more about the arts majors and minors offered, our exclusive Linehan Artist Scholars Program, and how to apply - and will be capped by a student-led tour of relevant campus spaces.

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    First Works Concert

    Dance Cube

    The Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.

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    UMBC Wind Ensemble: Fire

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    What could possibly bring together the intricate melodies of Indian raga, the driving beats of techno, the infectious groove of New Orleans brass band music, the drama of powerful Western Classical works, and the innovative jazz influences of Charles Mingus? The answer, brought to life by the UMBC Wind Ensemble, is fire — in all its primal power and rich symbolism. This program will feature the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids Brass Band (Jared Perry, director), internationally renowned tabla artist Neelamjit Dhillon, the UMBC Percussion Ensemble (Dustin Donahue. director), and UMBC's String Chamber Orchestra (Philip Mann, director). The Wind Ensemble is directed by Brian Kaufman.

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