The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson. The Collegium Musicum explores and performs vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.
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The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
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The Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
After 37 years of teaching in higher education, including 25 years at UMBC, composer Linda Dusman will retire at the end of 2025. The campus community is invited to celebrate her creativity and contributions with a concert of her works performed by UMBC faculty.
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Join us for a special look inside the graduate studios of the Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) program!
View Full Event Details and Register for IMDA MFA Open Studios, Friday, December 12, 2025
Shakespeare in Harlem moves downtown to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company! If you missed the performances at UMBC’s Proscenium Theatre in October and November, be sure to reserve tickets for four performances in January! UMBC Theatre presents Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes, adapted and directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor, a university-professional collaboration between UMBC Theatre and the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
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Join us January 21–25 for five concerts — collectively called The Night Suite — that celebrate the life and creativity of composer Stuart Saunders Smith, who was professor of music at UMBC for many years. His more than 300 compositions, both solo and ensemble, explore a diverse world of sound and experimentation.
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, a photography exhibition on display from January 26 through May 22. In 1976, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and sociologist Karen Folger Jacobs spent thirty-six days living in the Oregon State Hospital, where they photographed the residents of Ward 81, the hospital’s all-female, high-security psychiatric unit. Their unprecedented access allowed them to create a deeply nuanced portrayal of women navigating psychiatric care in the mid-1970s. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 brings together Mark’s photographs, Jacobs’s newly uncovered audio recordings, and rare archival materials, offering an intimate and expanded view of this landmark documentary project.
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The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Petra Poláčková and Hao Yang in their Baltimore debuts. An acclaimed performer and educator, Poláčková has appeared at festivals worldwide; Hao has performed at major venues including Carnegie Hall.
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents absolute alternatives, the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition. Organized by guest curator Maleke Glee, absolute alternatives presents faculty from across UMBC whose interdisciplinary research is a form of creative practice, including Jude Agboada, Fiona Bell, Kelley Bell and the Cheeky Magpie Collective, Lee Boot, Lynn Cazabon, Lisa Cella, Mayank Chugh, Cathy Cook, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Eva Grandoni, Tahira Chloe Mahdi, Phillip Mann, Steven McAlpine, Lisa Moren, Edgar Reyes, Julie Sayo, Sarah G. Sharp, and Airi Yoshioka.
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents a program by Tahira Chloe Mahdi entitled Adjuncts, Artists, and Other Innovators Engaging Community from the In-Between Spaces. In this interactive workshop, participants are invited to explore and expand their perspectives on what it means to be in community with people outside of and between our boundaries.
Explore breathtaking musical landscapes as pianist Liana Pailodze Harron presents an extraordinary program that celebrates both America's 250th birthday and the diverse musical traditions close to her heart. The centerpiece of the evening will be Aaron Copland's beloved Appalachian Spring, performed in its complete ballet version in an arrangement for solo piano. Joining Liana Harron is special guest McCoy Chance, an experimental visual and interdisciplinary artist, for a groundbreaking performance of an Icelandic piece, Ekki Hugsa (Don't Think) by Ólafur Arnalds, arranged for loop station and piano by the pianist.
View Full Event Details and Register for Liana Pailodze Harron, piano, Wednesday, February 4, 2026
How can we collect, preserve, and learn from art practices that aren’t primarily “objects” — projects that live in relationships, events, conversations, care work, and civic collaboration? This panel discussion will open with a brief introduction to social practice as a contemporary art form and consider why archives, memory, and data are central when the work is ephemeral, community-based, or resistant to being “captured.”
Join us for Baltimore Dance Project, a company known for edgy collaborations with composers, directors, sound artists, video artists, engineers, and technologists, and for integrating visual media and technology in riveting dance performances! Special guests Orange Grove Dance will present their dance film Organism and also premiere a new work.
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A champion of contemporary music, flutist Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. In this concert, she presents works for flute, alto flute, and bass flute by composers Sidney Boquiren, Tessa Brinckman, Donnacha Dennehy, Adam Greene, Mario Lavista, and João Pedro Oliveira.
View Full Event Details and Register for Lisa Cella, flutes, Sunday, February 8, 2026