For All the World to See at CADVC Reviewed by City Paper

Dec 12, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The exhibition currently running at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, For All The World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, curated by Dr. Maurice Berger, was reviewed this morning by City Paper. The review uses commentary from Berger, chronicles the impact of items featured in the exhibition and the discusses overall power of the story told through For All The World to See, to examine the way in which the exhibition relates to the evolution of black identity in America. Read the review “Visual Politics: UMBC Show Looks at The Visual Culture Surrounding… Continue Reading For All the World to See at CADVC Reviewed by City Paper

Painting by Diana Chou, Visual Arts, to be Featured in Annual Anthology of Student Work

Dec 11, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Visual Arts major, Diana Chou’s painting, Play the Cards, has been selected for inclusion in a prominent, annual anthology of student work. Chou’s work originally appeared in the 2012 issue of Bartleby, where Chou’s piece wasn’t the only one to capture the attention of the judges. The highly selective collection, Bennington’s plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2012, will feature Chou’s work, along with fiction, poetry, non-fiction writing and fine art from a select few students of colleges and universities around the country.

Maurice Berger, CADVC, Receives Warhol Foundation Fellowship

Dec 11, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Research Professor and Chief Curator, Dr. Maurice Berger, a $50,000 curatorial research fellowship award for his forthcoming project Revolution of The Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. This exhibition and publication project represents the first collaborative institutional effort between the CADVC and the Jewish Museum in New York, where Berger holds the title of Consulting Curator. The grant will be administered through the Jewish Museum. About Revolution of The Eye: “From the early-1940s through the mid-1960s, a dynamic new visual… Continue Reading Maurice Berger, CADVC, Receives Warhol Foundation Fellowship

Video Produced by New Media Studio Featured in the New York Times

Dec 10, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

On December 10, the New York Times profiled weather prognosticator William O’Toole, III, of the J. Gruber’s Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack in an article entitled “Divining the Weather, With Methods Old and New.” Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council, which is a partner with UMBC, recently honored the Almanack with its annual “Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts” Award. Maryland Traditions partnered with the New Media Studio to produce a short film for the awards ceremony, which was featured in the New York Times story. The video can be seen here: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfA1OOhaCY&w=560&h=315]

CADVC Awarded Andy Warhol Grant for Upcoming Project

Dec 10, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts has awarded the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture $50,000 for the upcoming project, Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen. The project, headed by Visiting Curator to the CADVC, Niels Van Tomme, is a traveling exhibition and publication project which explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as meticulous observers of the global military industrial complex. Investigating forms of military surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, Farocki and Paglen each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images… Continue Reading CADVC Awarded Andy Warhol Grant for Upcoming Project

Manil Suri, Mathematics, in the Washington Post Magazine

Dec 3, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

“Hugging Laxmi to his chest, Mr. Garg climbed the ladder propped against the wall of his house. The Devi weighed more than he’d expected,” begins a short story by Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, in the Washington Post Magazine. “The Silver Spring Laxmi” is the tale of a homeowner who erects a Devi display to rival his neighbor’s Christmas decorations in an act of cultural rebellion. “Mr. Garg intended his Laxmi to give Christmas a run for its money, to rival the multitude of displays sure to invade the neighborhood in the coming weeks,” writes Suri. The story was published in… Continue Reading Manil Suri, Mathematics, in the Washington Post Magazine

Mapping Baybrook in Baltimore Magazine

Nov 30, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

What’s Baltimore buzzing about? A fascinating community project from UMBC’s Departments of American Studies and Visual Arts. Students from the multidisciplinary BreakingGround course “Mapping Baybrook” have been working toward a special community event all semester, producing oral history recordings, a walking tour brochure and other work to highlight the area’s history and culture. The community celebration, highlighted on the Baltimore Magazine blog “The Chatter,” will take place this Saturday, December 1, 1:00-5:00 p.m. at the Polish Home Hall, 4416 Fairhaven Avenue in Curtis Bay. The event will also launch the new Mapping Baybrook website, designed in collaboration with UMBC’s Imaging… Continue Reading Mapping Baybrook in Baltimore Magazine

UMBC Faculty at Baltimore Book Festival

Sep 24, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

UMBC Faculty will be appearing at the Baltimore book festival this weekend. On Friday, September 28 at 7 p.m., Craig Sapier, chair of the language, literacy, and culture program, will be part of a panel at the Radical Pavillion, where he will discuss the piece he contributed to the new collection of essays exploring the structure and strategy of the Occupy movement being published by Baltimore’s AK Press. From noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30, “Illuminating Childhood,” by Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, will be featured in the Authors’ Tent. Spitz will be present to… Continue Reading UMBC Faculty at Baltimore Book Festival

UMBC Announces New Certificate Program in Music Entrepreneurship

Jul 11, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The one-year, post-baccalaureate Music Entrepreneurship Certificate Program is modeled around an innovative collaboration between UMBC and The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). This marks the first time that a major American orchestra has collaborated with a university in a new academic program. With the BSO’s public education music program, OrchKids, at the center of the Music Entrepreneurship program curriculum, students will obtain practical experiences in entrepreneurial and educational ventures to make them successful twenty-first century musicians. Applications for Fall 2012 will be accepted through Friday, August 10. For more information, click here.

“Where Do We Migrate To?” Travelling Exhibition Reviewed in Art in America

Jul 2, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

“Where Do We Migrate To?”, a national touring exhibition organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), was reviewed for the June/July issue of Art in America. The exhibit was curated by Niels Van Tomme, director of arts and media at Provisions Learning Project in Washington, DC, and features 19 internationally-recognized artists and art collectives. The works exhibited deal in various mediums with the subject of migration, ranging from the two video pieces by Kimsooja and Julika Rudelius which anchor the exhibition, to more sculptural and installation-oriented work by Blane De St. Croix and the French collective Claire Fontaine, and… Continue Reading “Where Do We Migrate To?” Travelling Exhibition Reviewed in Art in America

Dance Piece by Josephine Kalema ’13, Dance, Performed in D.C. in July

Jun 29, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Josephine Kalema, a senior dance major, will have her piece Past, Present, and Future performed at the Washington, D.C. performance space Dance Place as part of the annual New Release Choreographer’s Showcase this coming July. It will feature dancers Arnesha Reives, Jonique Holcomb, Alexis Renee, Candice Grace, and Jasmynn Speight, and mixes traditional and modern African dance. Kalema dedicates Past, Present, and Future to her Ugandan family, as well as “every culture that has gone through life changing barriers,” according to Dance Place’s website. The dates for the New Release Choreographer’s Showcase are July 7th at 8 p.m., and July 8th at… Continue Reading Dance Piece by Josephine Kalema ’13, Dance, Performed in D.C. in July

Vin Grabill, Visual Arts: Latest Video “Wet” and The Light Ekphrastic

Jun 11, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Visual Arts associate professor and chair Vin Grabill’s latest experimental video Wet has been making the rounds for the past few months, including being show at the 2012 Athens International Film & Video Festival at Ohio University this past April and at the Tenement Street Workshop’s Second Annual Snowballs Film Festival in New York City June 3rd. Describing the piece, Grabill says on the video’s site that, ” I collaborated with computer animator Francisco Olivares to create a waterspout sequence designed to overwhelm a series of abstracted TV scenes. A second animated water sequence depicts the flooding of the physical detritus of our… Continue Reading Vin Grabill, Visual Arts: Latest Video “Wet” and The Light Ekphrastic