The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master's Program presents despite // bất chấp: The 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from April 1 through 18 at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, the exhibition features work by graduating students Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen, and Lynn Nguyen.
UMBC Theatre presents The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, adapted by Jacqueline Lawton and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch. Life in modern day Baltimore has been a bit boring for Dorothy and her little dog Toto. Until one day, when a cyclone swoops in and takes them “over the rainbow” to the wonderful and magical land of Oz. With the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy sets off on the adventure of a lifetime down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. These new friends brave witches, flying monkeys, and a Haunted Forest all to meet the Wizard of Oz, who promises to make their dreams come true.
View Full Event Details and Register for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Thursday, April 2, 2026
In conjunction with the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through May 22, the Library Gallery presents a public program featuring Kaitlin Booher (William and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography, Columbus Museum of Art) and Holly Avella (assistant professor of media studies and data analytics, UMBC).
The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master's Program presents the Artist Reception for despite // bất chấp: The 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from April 1 through 18 at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, the exhibition features work by graduating students Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen, and Lynn Nguyen.
In celebration of a historic UMBC undergraduate publication and the university’s Arts+ initiative, the Bartleby 50+ exhibition presents a retrospective of works from the undergraduate creative arts journal, published since 1972. Bartleby remains a vital part of our campus community as a voice for undergraduate student creativity, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art.
View Full Event Details and Register for Bartleby 50+ Exhibition, Tuesday, April 7, 2026
The Social Sciences Forum presents Amber Spry, assistant professor in the Departments of Politics and African + African American Studies at Brandeis University, who will speak on “The Technological Future: Shifting the Focus from What We Build to Who We Build It For.”
In this artist lecture, Amina Ross unearths the possibilities of a multi-media practice through an active engagement of turbulence. How might an art practice pull apart the complexities of our current conditions by offering transitory spaces of refuge? How might transformation of an unbearable reality become possible only through “staying with the trouble”?
Join us as the UMBC Wind Ensemble presents Profit and Peril, which explores through music the human cost of progress across American history and lived experience. The event features the UMBC Camerata (Lulu Mwangi, director) and guest vocal soloist Janice Jackson of UMBC. From the American Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, the program traces how systems of power—political, industrial, and technological—shape and challenge human lives. The performed works humanize industrial labor, the Great Migration, and the lasting impact of racial and economic injustice. Across wind ensemble, choral, and vocal works—including music from Hamilton—the program centers the individuals living within these systems, ultimately affirming dignity, resilience, and human connection as the true measure of progress.
Ruptures gathers short films by Amina Ross that linger at the edge of collapse. Moving between video, sound, and digital space, the works explore moments when systems strain, bodies speak, and structures begin to crack open. For Ross, rupture is not simply destruction. It is a threshold where the pressure of the present splits something apart and makes space for new forms of relation, perception, and possibility.
Transport yourself to the Rhine Valley for an evening of history and creativity! In conjunction with this year’s Meeting in the Middle undergraduate conference, UMBC's Medieval and Early Modern Studies program invites you to Klopp Castle in Bingen for an immersive dining experience.
Three members of UMBC's music faculty — pianist Audrey Andrist, violist Renate Falkner, and oboist Fatma Daglar — present an afternoon of chamber music for their unusual instrumental pairing. Their concert will feature works by Claude Debussy, Rebecca Clarke, Cécile Chaminade, and Charles Martin Loeffler.
The Center for Ethics and Values presents the Eminent Scholar Lecture, featuring Stephen C. Angle, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, whose talk is entitled Progressive Confucianism, Nei-Wai Citizenship, and the Family.
The Humanities Forum presents Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Olden Street Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University, who will speak on Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease.
Manil Suri, distinguished university professor of mathematics and statistics, and the author of the forthcoming memoir A Room in Bombay, is joined by Aditya Desai ’09, English and media and communication studies, to discuss the book.
View Full Event Details and Register for Manil Suri: A Room in Bombay, Thursday, April 16, 2026
Baltimore’s creative heart beats stronger than ever as we gather for Art Rysing 2026: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation — a citywide celebration of art, equity, and community healing through creative expression. Building on the legacy of previous Arts Rysing gatherings as a creative response to the murder of Freddie Gray in 2015, this year’s 11th convening expands its reach and impact, bringing together youth arts organizations, cultural leaders, educators, and community visionaries who use art as a catalyst for justice, belonging, and renewal.