Ongoing Event
Visual Arts
All Day •
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
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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Ongoing Event
Music
Visual Arts
All Day •
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)
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.
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Ongoing Event
Dance
All Day •
Proscenium Theatre
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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Sun
2/8
Music
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm •
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
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.
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Thu
2/12
Visual Arts
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm •
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a Curator Tour and Opening Reception for Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, a photography exhibition on display from January 26 through May 22.
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Thu
2/12
Music
Visual Arts
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm •
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception for absolute alternatives, the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition. The reception will feature a performance of Dream Feed, composed by Zosha Di Castri, by flutist Lisa Cella and violinist Airi Yoshioka.
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Fri
2/13
Dance
Music
Theatre
Visual Arts
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm •
Location to be announced
“I didn’t sign up to be a grant writer,“ says Andrew Simonet. “I wanted to be a choreographer. I discovered that, to make my work, I needed to find support and opportunities to present my work.” In this workshop, Simonet will share tools for grantwriting, finding performance opportunities, and more.
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Fri
2/13
Music
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm •
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
In the spirit of armchair travelers everywhere, the Voyager Ensemble explores a new culture each year by combining standard repertoire along with contemporary works by composers from the region. This year’s concert focuses on the United States and its 250th annivesary with directors Airi Yoshioka (violin) and David Yang (viola) joined by eminent musicians Lina Bahn (violin) and Jan Mueller-Szeraws (cello). Their program features the premiere of a work by Linda Dusman, a composition by Thomas DeLio, and George Crumb’s electrifying Black Angels string quartet.
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Thu
2/19
Visual Arts
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm •
Fine Arts Recital Hall
Join us for a talk on creativity by award-winning author, artist, and cartoonist Lynda Barry. Author of 21 books, Barry was the creator of the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, and in 2019 received a MacArthur “genius” grant.
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Mon
2/23
Humanities
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm •
Fine Arts Recital Hall
The Humanities Forum presents the Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture with Hanna Pickard, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University, who will discuss What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? A Philosophy of Addiction.
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