Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryThe Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Revisions: Celebrating Fifty Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, featuring highlights and lesser-known gems from UMBC’s considerable photography holdings. Looking back at a half-century of collecting, the exhibition offers thematic groupings and visual juxtapositions of photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. The display asks viewers to approach the history of photography with fresh eyes. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Cary Beth Cryor, Darryl Curran, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Levester Williams: all matters aside
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade, including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation.
Artist Talk: Tommy Kha
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryIn conjunction with the exhibition Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through December 15, the Library Gallery presents an artist talk by Tommy Kha, whose work is featured in the show.
UMBC New Music Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Lisa Cella.
Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger
Fine Arts Recital Hall MDRace Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger celebrates the life and legacy of Maurice Berger, who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) until his death in 2020. The event will include the launch of the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of award-winning essays by Maurice Berger, the relaunch of the CADVC’s Issues in Cultural Theory publication series, the publication of Cockeysville to Baltimore (accompanying the exhibition Levester Williams: all matters aside), and remarks from noted speakers.
Fall Dance Showcase
Proscenium TheatreThe Department of Dance presents the Fall Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students and independent student research.
Down With Love: An Actor Showcase
Black Box TheatreUMBC Theatre presents Down With Love: An Actor Showcase, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, with musical direction by Andrew Hann. Join our acting majors for an evening of songs, scenes, and speeches exploring love’s highs, lows, and everything in between!
UMBC Percussion Ensemble
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.
UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
UMBC Jazz in Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.
UMBC Opera Workshop
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.
Department of Music Honors Showcase
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the Honors Showcase, featuring students selected by audition to present their creative work.
UMBC Improvisation Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Improvisation Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with pianist/composer Fazil Say
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesChamber Music Maryland presents cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in concert with pianist/composer Fazil Say. Their program will feature Say's masterpiece Four Cities, in addition to works by Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, and Johannes Brahms.
Gabriel Bianco, classical guitar
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents Gabriel Bianco, who has earned first prize in multiple international competitions in Austria (Vienna), Germany (Koblenz), France (Ile de Ré and Barbezieux), Poland (Tychy) and Portugal (Sernancelhe). His most recent win at the 2008 Guitar Foundation of America Competition has earned him the coveted 50-concert tour in the United States, Mexico, and Canada with additional concerts in China, Colombia, and Brazil. Bianco has already performed in over 30 music festivals across the world, in France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, and Thaïland.
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Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Revisions: Celebrating Fifty Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, featuring highlights and lesser-known gems from UMBC’s considerable photography holdings. Looking back at a half-century of collecting, the exhibition offers thematic groupings and visual juxtapositions of photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. The display asks viewers to approach the history of photography with fresh eyes. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Cary Beth Cryor, Darryl Curran, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Levester Williams: all matters aside
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade, including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation.
3 events,
Humanities Forum — Dagmawi Woubshet
Humanities Forum — Dagmawi Woubshet
The annual Daphne Harrison Lecture features Dagmawi Woubshet, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania, who will speak on James Baldwin and the Art of Late Style. James Baldwin has come back with full force in our era of Black Lives Matter. In the 100 years since his birth, he has become the most cited literary artist—living or dead—on matters of race on social media since the Ferguson Uprising, his words deployed to expose white power and innocence and to express black rage and ethics. Decades after his death, the fact that Baldwin’s words ring loud and true today not only testifies to his genius, but also offers an indictment of an America that continues to disparage, torture, and murder black people with impunity.
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Stupid F*cking Bird
UMBC Theatre presents Stupid F*cking Bird by Aaron Posner, sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, with songs by Aaron Posner and James Sugg, directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, art and life. Stupid F*cking Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
Special Collections Open House — A haunting Halloween afternoon!
Special Collections Open House — A haunting Halloween afternoon!
Mark your calendars for a haunting Halloween afternoon of apparitions, psychic phenomenon, thoughtography and cartomancy in Special Collections and the Library Gallery! Special Collections will host an Open House from 12–3 p.m. on Thursday, October 31! Drop by the reading room to view selected highlights from the Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, such as early Spiritualist texts, séance recordings, divination tools, and Gef the Talking Mongoose. You’ll also see how students and researchers use these items in their original scholarship.
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Humanities Forum — Adrian De Leon
Humanities Forum — Adrian De Leon
In this Humanities Forum talk, Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor, History, New York University, discusses Diaspora’s Boondocks: Hinterlands in Filipino American History. How were the native people from the margins of empire, from Christianized lowlands peasants to sovereign indigenous people in the mountainous highlands, thrust into the center of late Spanish and American imperial projects of race-making across the Pacific? In this talk, Adrian De Leon re-routes the history of Filipino American migration to its indigenous roots in the bundok (Tagalog: the hinterland) of Northern Luzon.
4 events,
Juan Sebastián Delgado: Imaginary Tangos
Juan Sebastián Delgado: Imaginary Tangos
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents cellist Juan Sebastián Delgado, faculty fellow for diversity in the arts, who will discuss Imaginary Tangos: Research, improvisation, and performance practice in contemporary tango music. In this talk, he will discuss and analyze different works featuring the cello by prominent living composers that showcase a distinctive style, musical narrative, and contemporary practices.
4 events,
First Works Concert
First Works Concert
The Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
4 events,
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Inscape, praised by The New York Times, as “brilliant,” performs a program featuring Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler (arranged for chamber orchestra), and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae.
3 events,
46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture — Nikki M. Taylor
46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture — Nikki M. Taylor
The 46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, organized by the Department of Africana Studies, presents Nikki M. Taylor, professor of history at Howard University, who will speak on Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance. In this lecture, Taylor contends that enslaved black women carried deep and personal ideas about justice, which they exercised to resist slavery and ultimately end the tyranny of their enslavers. This event is part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum and Humanities Forum.
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CANCELED — A Conversation with Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today
CANCELED — A Conversation with Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today
Jelani Cobb’s riveting, hopeful keynotes are up-to-the-moment meditations and breakdowns of the complex dynamics of race and racism in America. Whether speaking on Black Lives Matter and activism, the battle zones of Ferguson or Baltimore, the legacy of a black presidency, or the implications of the Trump era — or, more generally, on the history of civil rights, violence, and inequality in employment, housing, or incarceration in the US — Cobb speaks with the surety and articulate passion of only our best journalists.
4 events,
New Bartók Quartet
New Bartók Quartet
Join us as we embark on a mesmerizing journey through the masterpieces of two renowned composers, Mozart and Bartók, performed by the New Bartók Quartet, comprised of Wanchi Huang and Airi Yoshioka on violins, James Stern on viola, and Eric Kutz on cello. This ensemble of exceptional musicians will enrapture your senses with their skillful interpretation and heartfelt expressions.
UMBC Symphony Orchestra and UMBC String Chamber Orchestra
UMBC Symphony Orchestra and UMBC String Chamber Orchestra
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Philip Mann, in a program of music by William Grant Still, Carl Nielsen, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Max Bruch, and Arturo Márquez.
3 events,
UMBC Chamber Players
UMBC Chamber Players
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka, in a program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Borodin, and Brahms.
4 events,
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
UMBC Collegium Musicum
UMBC Collegium Musicum
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson in a program entitled Phat Phancies and other English Ditties. The ensemble will perform a variety of short works in small consort groupings, using viola da gamba, recorder, and drum.
3 events,
UMBC Camerata
UMBC Camerata
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Lulu Mwangi. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.
4 events,
Student Composers Recital
Student Composers Recital
The Department of Music presents a concert featuring premieres of works by student composers.
UMBC Wind Ensemble
UMBC Wind Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman, in a program of works inspired by the wonders of outer space. Peabody saxophone faculty Doug O’Connor will give the Baltimore premiere of Alexandra Gardner’s new saxophone concerto Time Unfolding. Additional works by Jennifer Jolley, Jim Colonna, Wataru Hokoyama, and Chandler L. Wilson take us on a journey of exploration beyond the “surly bonds of earth.”
