Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Exhibition Highlights Outreach to Area Schools

Dec 12, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture celebrates its Fall 2011 K-12 school and community partnerships with an exhibition in the Hall Gallery on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building through February 9. The multi-media display features original artwork by more than two hundred students from four area schools—Lansdowne High School (Academy of Arts & Communication), Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School and Hampstead Hill Academy—alongside work by their UMBC student and faculty collaborators. Their artwork responds to the CADVC’s main gallery exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, which was on… Continue Reading Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Exhibition Highlights Outreach to Area Schools

Christopher Corbett, English, in Style

Dec 2, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

“Taylor Swift is a sweet gal and I just read where she made $45 million last year. She’s got a fine voice. But listen to her sing. And then listen to Patsy Cline do ‘Crazy’ or ‘I Fall To Pieces.’ I rest my case,” writes Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, in “Radio Days,” his latest essay in Style magazine. In the piece, Corbett recalls his first job at a country and western radio station in Maine. “Alas, the country and western life was not the life for me. I took a turn for the worse and wound… Continue Reading Christopher Corbett, English, in Style

UMBC Wind Ensemble to Perform at the Kennedy Center (11/29)

Nov 28, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The UMBC Wind Ensemble, directed by Richard Spece (adjunct instructor, Music), has been invited to perform at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, November 29. The UMBC Wind Ensemble is comprised of exceptional woodwind, brass and percussion performers who enjoy the challenge of performing excellent concert literature. “The UMBC Wind Ensemble is honored and excited to be performing at the Kennedy Center,” remarked Dr. Spece. “This is an incredible opportunity for the students who, through hard work and dedication, have become a regionally recognized and accomplished ensemble.” The program will feature Trittico by Vaclav Nelhybel, Equus… Continue Reading UMBC Wind Ensemble to Perform at the Kennedy Center (11/29)

Library Gallery’s “Legacy of Love” Exhibition in The Baltimore Sun

Nov 23, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The exhibition A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture, featuring photographs by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Freidus, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through December 21, was featured in The Baltimore Sun by critic Mike Giuliano on Wednesday, November 16. The review also appeared in local papers published by Patuxent Publishing.

Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from Maryland State Arts Council

Nov 15, 2011 / 2 minutes of reading

Steve Bradley (associate professor, Visual Arts) is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Arts in Community (MSAC AIC) matching grant for his “Portrait Stories” initiative in the Baybrook community. In addition to this grant, “Portrait Stories” has been chosen by the Baltimore Rotterdam Sister City for its Artist Exchange program. The intended exchange will occur between the Baybrook neighborhood and Rotterdam’s Heijplaat neighborhood in the future. The Baybrook initiatives are rooted in Professor Bradley’s 2009 residency in the Heijplaat neighborhood. His inspiration came from an educational curriculum developed by the Willem de Kooning Academie, also in Rotterdam. Cut… Continue Reading Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from Maryland State Arts Council

CADVC Exhibition “Where Do We Migrate To?” Tours to New York

Nov 10, 2011 / 2 minutes of reading

The exhibition Where Do We Migrate To?, organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, will tour in spring 2012 to the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. Opening on February 2, the exhibition will remain on view through April 15. Artists Space in New York will host a launch for a book that accompanies the exhibition, also entitled Where Do We Migrate To?, on December 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. Svetlana Boym, an artist whose work is featured in the exhibition and who contributed an essay to the book, will… Continue Reading CADVC Exhibition “Where Do We Migrate To?” Tours to New York

The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words (11/10)

Nov 4, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

On Thursday, November 10, the Department of Music presents presents a program entitled The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words, featuring performers Maria Lambros, viola; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Audrey Andrist, piano; E. Michael Richards, clarinet; Lisa Cella, flute; and guests Alison Wells, cello; Michael Kannen, cello; and Diane Walsh, piano. The program will feature: * Osvaldo Golijov – Doina (2001) * Felix Mendelssohn – Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 58 (1843) * Michael Alec Rose – Burlesques for Piano Quartet (2010, world premiere) * Gerald Cohen – Yedid Nefesh (Beloved of my Soul) (2007) *… Continue Reading The Expressive Jewish Tradition Through Music and Words (11/10)

Exhibition Featuring Work by IRC Fellows Opens

Oct 21, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

A new exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland features work completed by Imaging Research Center (IRC) Fellows in the spring of 2011. “Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity” examines the diversity of Jewish eating and uncovers the messages in meals. To make these ideas tangible in an exhibition setting, the IRC Fellows recorded audio and video interviews and produced location documentary works. The IRC Fellows documented food experiences of the farm, home and marketplace, and that content has been interwoven in the exhibition. The exhibition will open at the Jewish Museum of Maryland on Sunday, October 23,… Continue Reading Exhibition Featuring Work by IRC Fellows Opens

Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture (10/6-12/10)

Sep 28, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents “Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture,” curated by Sara Krajewski and co-organized by Independent Curators International and the Henry Art Gallery, on display October 6-December 10. “Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture” spotlights evolving attitudes toward the appropriation, recuperation and repurposing of extant photographic imagery. Artists, as both producers and consumers in today’s vast image economy, freely adopt and adapt materials from myriad sources. Images culled from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, advertisements, television, films, personal and public archives, studio walls and from other works of art are all… Continue Reading Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture (10/6-12/10)

100,000 Stories: A Selection of Women Photographers (9/28)

Sep 21, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

“100,000 Stories, a Selection of Women Photographers from the Photography Collections, in Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the UMBC Women’s Center” will open for public viewing on Wednesday, September 28, noon, in the Library Rotunda. Refreshments will be served. 100,000 people have visited the UMBC Women’s Center and have shared their lives and stories with other visitors and the staff. Equally, that many stories have been told by the women photographers held in the Photography Collections of the Albiin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. A selection of photographs is presented with the stories of the photographers and their images… Continue Reading 100,000 Stories: A Selection of Women Photographers (9/28)

New Branding Campaign Launched for UMBC Arts and Humanities

Aug 28, 2011 / 2 minutes of reading

What makes UMBC offerings in the arts and humanities unique? Why might you choose to attend a UMBC theatre performance, humanities forum lecture or arts exhibition? And, perhaps most important, what does the arts and humanities experience at UMBC feel like? Those are some of the questions that a committee of from UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA), the provost’s office and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) started asking last year. Beginning today, the results can be seen in a new branding and marketing campaign that reflects—and sets expectations of—the experience at UMBC. The most noticeable… Continue Reading New Branding Campaign Launched for UMBC Arts and Humanities

A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture (Through 12/21)

Aug 25, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents “A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture.” Dramatic social, political and artistic changes swept across Italy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, finding expression in remarkable funerary sculptures commissioned by the newly affluent middle class. Featured in “A Legacy of Love” are photographs of memorial sculptures created between 1820 and 1840 and ranging in style from Neoclassicism through ever more astonishing forms of Realism, Symbolism and Art Deco. These sculptures, artifacts of both a personal and a public history, express the values, aspirations, virtues and sins of a rising social and economic… Continue Reading A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture (Through 12/21)