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Tue 9/2

Fri 12/19

Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era

Ongoing Event Visual Arts

All Day • Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Picturing 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.

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In a black and white photograph, a group of 22 Black Americans pose in and on a fancy early 1920s touring car.

Tue 9/30

Wed 12/24

Inclusive Excellence

Ongoing Event Student Arts Events Visual Arts

All Day • The Commons

The 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.

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A wall with a design of brightly colored flowers branching off green tree limbs.

Thu 11/6

Sun 12/7

SPARK: Industrial Afterglow

Ongoing Event Visual Arts

All Day • The Peale

SPARK VII: Industrial Afterglow, a collaboration between UMBC and Towson University, brings together over twenty artists working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography, video, textiles, and ecological documentation to explore what lingers in the wake of industrial and technological systems.

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A design says Spark — Industrial Afterglow.

Fri 12/5

Wed 12/31

I am Soil – My Tears Are Water

Ongoing Event Visual Arts

All Day • Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture debuts a new public projection of I am Soil – My Tears Are Water (2025), a single-channel video by Kamaal Malak and María Magdalena Campos-Pons that has been adapted for the CADVC’s Fine Arts Building amphitheater projection program.

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