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    Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form

    216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

    The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Melissa Hyatt Foss, an instrument-maker, musician, composer-performer, researcher, and teaching artist who develops artistic and educational projects that explore pre-Colonial sound artifacts of the Americas and their applications in contemporary art and music. Foss is the Maryland Traditions Artist-in-Residence at UMBC where she shared her tradition and practice with Linehan Artist Scholars students and is guiding them to develop teaching materials that will enable public school teachers to introduce the practice, history, and cultural significance of clay instrument making to their students.

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    A graphic design says John Proctor Is the Villain.

    John Proctor is the Villain

    Proscenium Theatre

    UMBC Theatre presents John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, directed by Susan Stroupe. In a high school English class, a group of lively teens are studying “The Crucible” while navigating young love, sex education, and the founding of a feminist club. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, the kids uncover more than one school scandal and discover their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy runs on pop music, fury, and the audacity of a new generation coming-of-age.

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    Social Sciences Forum — Distinguished Lecture in Psychology — Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    The mental health needs of people of color are largely invisible because they underutilize mental health services and are not the focus of research. Neuroscience data suggest that pragmatic, problem-solving approaches are the most personally relevant for Asian Americans, the least likely ethnic group to use mental health services. In this talk, Gordon Hall will discuss the development of the Mind Boba app to make psychotherapy more personally relevant and accessible to Asian Americans.

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    A man poses with a classical guitar.

    David Russell, classical guitar

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents classical guitarist David Russell, who is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. Russell appears regularly at prestigious halls in main cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto, and Rome. Russell received a Grammy award for his CD “Aire Latino” in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.

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    Tomashi Jackson, a Black woman, speaks while gesturing with her right hand. The image of another woman, Nia Evans, is seen on a screen to the right.

    Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Structures of cultural support

    Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore

    The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity. The event will be a conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson.

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    A complex poster design says Public Forum: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Fine Arts Recital Hall

    The Center for Ethics and Values presents a discussion, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, featuring three panelists — Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce; David Danks, Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, & Policy, UC San Diego; and Gabriella Waters, Director of Operations and Director of the Cognitive and Neurodiversity AI Lab (CoNA) at the Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems, Morgan State University. The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis.

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    Humanities Forum — Tommy Orange — Canceled

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    In this Humanities Forum talk, award-winning author Tommy Orange will converse with community-based visual artist and folklorist Ashley Minner Jones (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) about his recent novel, Wandering Stars. A follow-up to his bestselling debut, There There, Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.

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    A portrait of Nicole R. Fleetwood, a Black woman, wearing a black dress with red flowers on it.

    Humanities Forum — Nicole R. Fleetwood

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    In this Humanities Forum talk, Nicole R. Fleetwood emerges from her current book project, Between the River and the Railroad Tracks, part memoir and part cultural history of growing up in Hamilton, Ohio. Her exploration of her hometown is a lens to meditate on the cultural life and labor of the Black Midwest through its music, art, and community practices.

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    In a costume that obscures her face, Ada Pinkston stands and gestures on the base of a former Confederate memorial.

    Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene

    011 Fine Arts Building

    The Department of Visual Arts presents a talk by multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene, inspired by musical selections including Triptych by Max Roach.

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    Inscape Chamber Orchestra

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    Inscape, praised by The New York Times as "brilliant," performs a program featuring works by Steven Stucky's Ad Parnassum, Joan Tower's Into the Night, and other works. Originally commissioned by the group Eighth Blackbird, Tower says Into the Night commemorates the treasured final months she and her late husband had together.

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    Tomashi Jackson, a Black woman, speaks while gesturing with her right hand. The image of another woman, Nia Evans, is seen on a screen to the right.

    Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Education history and policy

    Online

    The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity. The event will be a conversation on education history and policy with Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor.

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    Social Sciences Forum — Low Lecture — Amber N. Mitchell

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    Amber N. Mitchell will discuss the unique intersections of Black history, preservation, and memory that have presented opportunities and challenges in her career as a public historian and museum worker and look toward the future of African American storytelling in American public spaces.

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    Rob Flax, a white man wearing a suit, poses behind a chess board while holding a blue violin.

    UMBC Wind Ensemble

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman in Love Notes, a program of music inspired by love. The event will feature critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist improviser Rob Flax and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra directed by Philip Mann.

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    Ruckus

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Department of Music presents RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, in a program of works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray.

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    Seated at a grand piano, and viewed from the perspective of the strings, a person with glasses and a light blue shirt raises their left hand, as if about to play.

    Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs pre-concert talk

    The Music Box

    In conjunction with a concert on Wednesday evening, April 23 — Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — pianist Joel Sachs will give an informal talk about Ives (1874–1954) and his remarkable creative output.

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