Arts & Culture

Jason Loviglio, Media and Communication Studies, Joins Board of Wide Angle Youth Media

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Jason Loviglio, director of the media and communication studies program, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Wide Angle Youth Media. Wide Angle Youth Media provides Baltimore youth with media education to tell their own stories and become engaged with their communities. Through after-school programming, in-school opportunities, summer workshops, community events, and an annual Youth Media Festival, Wide Angle supports young people making a difference through media. Congratulations!

Emerald Christopher, LLC PhD Student, Honored as WREI Congressional Fellow

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Earlier this month, Emerald Christopher—a Language, Literacy and Culture PhD student at UMBC—was recognized at a reception honoring Women’s Research and Education Institute (WREI) 2013 Congressional Fellows on Women and Public Policy (see photo). Through this fellowship program she has served as a legislative assistant in the Office of Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut’s third district. Christopher’s portfolio has included legislation on women’s equal pay, paid sick days, domestic human trafficking and the Congressional Baby Caucus. She has drafted legislation, written talking points and letters for the Congresswoman, and planned and implemented events for the Congressional Baby Caucus, among other… Continue Reading Emerald Christopher, LLC PhD Student, Honored as WREI Congressional Fellow

Sandra Abbott, CADVC, Appointed to Baltimore City Public Art Commission

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Curator of collections and outreach for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Sandra Abbott, was sworn in to the board of the Baltimore City Public Art Commission on Monday, June 10, 2013 by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. As a member of the board of the Public Art Commission, Abbott juries public art projects along with eight other members under the City’s 1% for Art Program. The 1%-for-Art Ordinance requires at least one percent of the City’s capital construction project’s eligible funds be used for the selection, acquisition, commissioning, fabrication, placement, installation, display and maintenance of public fine artwork. The… Continue Reading Sandra Abbott, CADVC, Appointed to Baltimore City Public Art Commission

Appointment of Professor Tim Nohe as Director of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts

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To: The UMBC Community From: John Jeffries, Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Date: June 13, 2013 Re: Appointment of Professor Tim Nohe as Director of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Nohe of the Department of Visual Arts as the founding Director of the new UMBC arts research center—the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts [CIRCA]. Professor Nohe has achieved a remarkable record at UMBC as a multi-talented and interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited and performed widely, as a fine teacher… Continue Reading Appointment of Professor Tim Nohe as Director of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts

Robert Deluty, Graduate School, in The Faculty Voice

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Robert Deluty, associate dean of the Graduate School, has published two poems—”Rejoinder” and “Higher Education”—in the “Poetry of the Academy” section of the Spring 2013 issue of The Faculty Voice.

Solo Exhibition by Christine Ferrera, New Media Studio, Opens At Gibbs Street Gallery (6/21)

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Friday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m., Between You and Me, an exhibition by Coordinator/Producer of the New Media Studio, Christine Ferrera ’10 M.F.A., Imaging and Digital Arts, opens at the Gibbs Street Gallery in Rockville, Maryland. According to Rockville’s VisArts website, Between You and Me is a collection of performance pieces “that circuitously contemplate art, humor and feminism. Each piece uses personal monologue as a vehicle to explore longing, insecurity, narcissism and enlightenment. By counter-posing live and recorded performance, satire and sincerity, the artist either transcends her angst or winds up in a self-reflexive tangle.” The works include Starbux Diary; Awkward Pauzez… Continue Reading Solo Exhibition by Christine Ferrera, New Media Studio, Opens At Gibbs Street Gallery (6/21)

Dr. Jason Loviglio, MCS, Publishes Book

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Jason Loviglio, Director of the Media and Communication Studies Program, is co-editor with Michele Hilmes of the new book “Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era” (Routledge, 2013). The book website notes, “Radio’s New Wave explores the evolution of audio media and sound scholarship in the digital age. Extending and updating the focus of their widely acclaimed 2001 book The Radio Reader, Hilmes and Loviglio gather together innovative work by both established and rising scholars to explore the ways that radio has transformed in the digital environment. Contributors explore what sound looks like on screens, how digital listening… Continue Reading Dr. Jason Loviglio, MCS, Publishes Book

Christine Mallinson, Language, Literacy & Culture, Presents at Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies

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Christine Mallinson, Language, Literacy & Culture, was one of three faculty experts invited to present at the 2013 Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies. Mallinson presented a three-hour workshop on “Judicial Fact Finding and Decision Making: The Role of Language and Language Variation” to county, circuit, trial court, and appellate judges. The Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies, held annually, provides advanced continuing education to a select group of judges seeking to improve their adjudication skills and acquire more specialized knowledge about fact finding and decision making.

Lynn Cazabon and Neal McDonald, Visual Arts, Exhibit in Poland Art Festival

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Junkspace, 2012, a collaborative installation piece by Department of Visual Arts faculty, Lynn Cazabon and Neal McDonald, was selected for exhibition at the WRO 15th Media Arts Biennale, in Wrocław, Poland. The event features work by artists around the world, and this year, celebrates 50 years of electronic art. Part of WRO’s Rings of Saturn exhibition, Junkspace “is a time and location sensitive video installation and corresponding iOS App that superimposes two forms of waste, one earth—bound (electronic waste) and the other celestial (orbital debris).” Learn more, or download the app at the installation’s website.

Lindsay DiCuirci, English, Awarded Fellowship

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Lindsay DiCuirci, assistant professor of English, has been selected as the Stephen Botein Fellow in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. She will be conducting research for a book based on her dissertation research, titled “History’s Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855,” this summer. Botein Fellows are selected for the one-month fellowship on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society’s collections.

MAP Exhibition Features Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts

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Beginning next month, the Maryland Art Place will host the exhibition Oasis Places, featuring the work of five artists, including collaborative work by Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts. Bradley states that the collaborative, inter-media art piece consists of multiple parts including Place Immersion which, “reframes an industrialized community in Baltimore City called Greater Baybrook by homaging the lost neighborhood and it’s remnants of material culture, including photographic travel archives and field recordings of voices, stories and sounds of the existing place.” The writings of Nicole King are meant to “punctuate the transitional spirit of the [Baybrook] community… Continue Reading MAP Exhibition Features Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts

Carlyn Thomas ’13, Visual Arts, First UMBC Art History Student to Curate Exhibition for Thesis

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Carlyn Thomas ’13, visual arts, is curating an art exhibition as part of her senior thesis project, and will install the show, Out of Mind, in Gallery 788. She is the first art history & museum studies student to independently curate an exhibition. Out of Mind, features artwork by eight contemporary artists who explore various states of mental distress including depression, self-harm, phobias and bi-polar disorder. Out of Mind will be on display at Gallery 788, located in downtown Baltimore, from May 2-11. Thomas states that, “the artists featured in Out of Mind share a deep-seated desire to bring public awareness to the subject of human… Continue Reading Carlyn Thomas ’13, Visual Arts, First UMBC Art History Student to Curate Exhibition for Thesis

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