Stop by the Library Gallery for a Special Collections open house with Lindsay DiCuirci’s English 243 class! Rare books, serials, pamphlets, and even comics from the historical publications collections in Special Collections will be on display. The student docents will be available to talk with you about each item.
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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.
UMBC Theatre presents Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes, adapted and directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor, a special co-production of UMBC Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and CSC's Black Classical Acting Ensemble. A rare gem from Langston Hughes, this collection of monologue poems revives the rhythms of jazz, the blues, and the pulse of the Harlem Renaissance—its love, struggles, and street-corner spirit. In director Gerrad Alex Taylor’s adaptation, Hughes’ words come alive in a dynamic full-length play, blending poetry, music, and dance for an immersive journey into the world he so vividly celebrated.
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The UMBC Department of Music invites you to the 2025 Annual UMBC Piano Day This event is FREE and open to all pianists, friends, family, and colleagues.
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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.
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The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents the Baltimore debut of the Abeo Quartet in a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Adolphus Hailstork.
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Join us on campus to experience life a UMBC Theatre Major! Our Prospective Student Days usually sell out, so be sure to claim your spot early.
Journey beyond the earthly realm with Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore musical visions of the divine. This extraordinary concert weaves together three masters whose works touch the very essence of the sacred and sublime — Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, and Arvo Pärt.
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.
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 Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
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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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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.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.
View Full Event Details and Register for UMBC Chamber Players, Wednesday, November 19, 2025