Group Exhibition at Goucher College Features Visual Arts Faculty

Apr 19, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

A group exhibition at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery, Hydroflow, is displaying the work of ten artists including UMBC visual arts faculty, Eric Dyer, Lisa Moren and Calla Thompson. Hydroflow, centered upon works “that explore the multifaceted aspects of water,” opened April 9 and continues through May 19. A free artists’ reception will take place in the Silber, Friday, May 10 from 6 to 9 pm. Learn more about Dyer, Moren and Thompsons’ works in the exhibition, at Goucher College’s community news publication In The Loop.

A New Context Featured on WAMU Art Beat

Apr 19, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

This month, the WAMU segment Art Beat with Lauren Landau, a daily update of arts and culture events in the D.C. area, highlighted the exhibition currently running in the Library Gallery, A New Context: Photographs from the Baltimore Sun Revisited. Listen at WAMU’s website. A New Context is on display through Friday, May 31.

A New Context Reviewed by City Paper

Apr 18, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

The exhibition currently in the Library Gallery, A New Context: Photographs from the Baltimore Sun Revisited, was featured in a City Paper article today. The favorable review of show, curated from UMBC’s Baltimore Sun Archives, was written by Joe MacLeod. In the piece, MacLeod explores the exhibition’s ability to highlight a transformation in the responsibility of photography in the news, and comments on how biases of the time, revealed in the edited photographs, influenced reporting. He says of the blatantly prejudiced cropping and its effect on the picture as a whole, “[c]ontext is all, and history changes context and what we decide an… Continue Reading A New Context Reviewed by City Paper

UMBC Camerata in the Baltimore Sun

Apr 18, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

The UMBC Camerata’s performance last Sunday with the Handel Choir of Baltimore was mentioned yesterday in a Baltimore Sun article by Tim Smith, praising the career of Handel Choir director, Linda O’Neal. The concert performed, Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, was considered by the Baltimore Sun arts critic, Tim Smith, one that “sounded smoothly balanced and articulated with admirable quality.”

Robert Deluty, Graduate School, in The Faculty Voice

Apr 4, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published three poems in the March 2013 issue of The Faculty Voice. The poems – “Thinking Ahead,” “English Department,” and “Unhappy Returns” – may be found on-line at imerrill.umd.edu/facultyvoice1/

Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

Apr 3, 2013 / 2 minutes of reading

UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 Educational Outreach Collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools. After experiencing the CADVC gallery and/or virtual exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, the students were invited to create visual artwork, poetry, or prose for display at UMBC as well. Their work is a creative interpretation of the interaction between visual culture and social justice. The exhibition is featured at the UMBC Commons Mezzanine Gallery beginning with an artist’s… Continue Reading Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

Piotr Gwiazda in The Nation

Mar 29, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

An excerpt from Piotr Gwiazda’s translation of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems, Kopenhaga, scheduled for publication by Zephyr Press, is scheduled to appear in the April 1, 2013 issue of The Nation. Read a translated selection from Kopenhaga at the PEN America Center’s website: http://www.pen.org/poetry/kopenhaga. http://www.thenation.com/authors/grzegorz-wroblewski

Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Receive MSAC Individual Artist Awards

Mar 27, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Several faculty members and alumni were awarded Individual Artist Awards by the Maryland State Arts Council this month. The Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards are monetary prizes given to a select group of artists each year. This year the Maryland Art Council welcomed applications from artists working in fiction, painting, media/digital/electronic arts, solo theatrical performance and works on paper. Recipients in the media/digital/electronic arts category include: Kelley Bell ’06, MFA IMDA, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Carrie Fucile, Adjunct faculty, Visual Arts Agnes Moon ’99, MFA IMDA Phil Davis ’07, MFA IMDA Christine Ferrera ’10, MFA IMDA Recipients in the… Continue Reading Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Receive MSAC Individual Artist Awards

Collage of For All the World to Hear in Afro-American

Mar 12, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Last week, The Afro-American created and published a full-color collage featuring scenes from the CADVC’s outreach project, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, in it’s print and digital editions. The photos were taken during its final performance, February 23, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Main Branch. Click the image to view a larger version of the collage, or see the image at Afro.com.

Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, Travels to Appalachia

Mar 8, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, recently spent several days in southern Appalachia as part of a program at the University of the South sponsored by the Yale University School of Medicine and Scholastic Books. During her visit, Spitz spoke on “Reflections on Children’s Cultural Lives.” Spitz’s lecture was the third event in the annual Easter semester lecture series presented by Community Engaged Learning, the University of the South’s academic community engagement program. This annual series features a range of speakers from all over the world. Speakers address a variety of topics of concern for people living… Continue Reading Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, Travels to Appalachia

Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, to Participate in Panel

Mar 8, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

On Saturday, March 16, Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, will participate in a panel discussion in New York City about what we can learn from the perennial controversies about children’s books that are “too dark.” Spitz will be joined on the panel by author Lois Lowry and former New York Times children’s books editor Julie Just. The event will take place at 2:00 p.m. at the New School’s Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th St., New York, NY.

Graduate Student Charlotte Keniston, IMDA, Selected for MAP’s ‘THIRTY’

Mar 4, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Charlotte Keniston, an imaging and digital arts (IMDA) graduate student, has been selected as a featured artist in Maryland Art Place’s upcoming project, THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30. Find out more at Maryland Art Place’s website. “THIRTY is a series of monthly talks featuring thirty emerging Baltimore artists under the age of thirty. All of the participants use a diverse range of creative practices, from visual art to performance, curatorial, community art, design, film, photography and technology to create visual experiences.”