UMBC Opera Workshop
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
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2025 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)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.
Department of Music Honors Showcase
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallThe Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
2025 Senior Exhibition — Artist Reception and Awards Presentation
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)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: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryPicturing 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.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallJoin 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!
Picturing Mobility — Curatorial Talk and Opening Reception
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryIn 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 — UNAPOLOGETIC: Street Art as Activism and Liberation
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryJohanna 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.
Queer Futures: A Roundtable Conversation
105 Performing Arts and Humanities BuildingThe 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.
Beethoven Reimagined
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallWhen 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.
Inclusive Excellence
The CommonsThe campus community is invited to explore Inclusive Excellence, a set of two visual arts installations in The Commons. Developed by students in the spring 2025 Professional Practices in Graphic Design course taught by adjunct professor Katie Heater ’09, visual arts, and MFA ’13, imaging and digital arts, the striking displays can be viewed in the Mezzanine Gallery and West Entrance to The Commons.
Harmony Across Borders: UMBC Choirs Homecoming Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallIn June 2025, three UMBC choirs took part in an extraordinary summer performance tour through Europe. In this Choirs Homecoming Concert, the three choirs — the UMBC Camerata, the UMBC Jubilee Singers, and the UMBC Gospel Choir — will perform selections from their European tour, talk about their experiences, present photos and videos from the trip, and thank all the supporters who made this event possible.
Energy Wars at Home and Abroad
Fine Arts Recital HallThe Center for Ethics and Values presents Energy Wars at Home and Abroad: A conversation with Andrew Light, Philosopher and Former Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the Department of Energy (2021–2025). The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Context of Science and Technology Program.
Entrepreneurship for Social Impact in the Arts and Humanities
216 Performing Arts and Humanities BuildingThe Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents a panel discussion, Entrepreneurship for Social Impact in the Arts and Humanities. Entrepreneurship is often defined as the process of identifying, developing, and bringing a new venture to life, often involving innovation, risk-taking, and the creation of economic value. This panel will highlight the entrepreneurial work of UMBC arts and humanities faculty in both their research and teaching.
Pedagogy Study Hall
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Pedagogy Study Hall, a collaborative exhibition, research project, and public humanities residency by interdisciplinary artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans. The project examines systems of investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures. Drawing on Baltimore’s grassroots history of cultural labor and social justice organizing, Pedagogy Study Hall offers a multilayered model for public memory, artistic research, and civic pedagogy.