The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents an event featuring Susan McCully, “Acting Out for Climate Solutions,” which will include a dramatic reading of Merlin, a new play by McCully that uses “solution-based” storytelling featuring positive climate science and mutual aid activism.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
The Oxford philosopher Toby Ord estimates that there is a one in six chance that humanity will experience an “existential catastrophe” within the next hundred years. By an existential catastrophe he means either the extinction of humanity or some other event, like the irreversible collapse of civilization, that destroys what he calls humanity’s “long-term potential.” If it is true that humanity faces a serious risk of existential catastrophe within the next hundred years, how should we respond? In this talk, Samuel Scheffler will address this question and offer a compelling response to the prospect of existential catastrophe.
The Department of Dance presents the Spring Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students and independent student research.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Philip Mann.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the 2025 Senior Exhibition, on display from May 13 through 24. Curated and designed by CADVC Exhibitions Designer and Coordinator Andrew Liang, with curatorial assistance from IMDA MFA student Mariia Usova, this exhibition presents the broad and dynamic scope of senior undergraduate student work within the Department of Visual Arts.
The Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents an Artist Reception and Awards Presentation for the 2025 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition, on display from May 13 through 24.
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.
Join us for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and music director Jonathon Heyward in a performance Haydn's Symphony No. 100, Emelie Mayer's Faust Overture, and Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2, with soloist Martha Long!
In conjunction with the exhibition the exhibition Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, on display from September 2 through December 19, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a curatorial talk with Elizabeth Patton, followed by an opening reception.
Johanna Toruño is a Salvadoran-born, community-taught visual artist who uses the streets as a public platform and gallery. In this talk, Toruño will discuss how she utilizes street art as a tool of resistance.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Queer Futures, a roundtable gathering of visionary queer artists, thinkers, and culture-makers designed to explore the evolving possibilities of queer life, art, and community. In an open and generative conversation, panelists will reflect on the current moment, imagine what’s ahead, and share how their creative and political practices are shaping the world to come.
When Ludwig van Beethoven published the 29th of his 32 piano sonatas, nicknamed “the Hammerklavier,” he is said to have quipped to his publisher in 1819 that the work would keep pianists busy for the next 50 years — and it’s still keeping pianists busy. Pianist Hui-Chuan Chen’s program, Beethoven Reimagined, features not only the massive and technically challenging Hammerklavier sonata, but also a new commissioned work by composer Daniel Pesca, Impromptu #2 (after Beethoven), directly inspired by Beethoven’s masterpiece.