Perspective: An American Artist in Italy
While fulfilling her dream of studying language, MFA alumna Leah Michaels witnessed the first days of COVID-19’s brutal strike of Italy. Continue Reading Perspective: An American Artist in Italy
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UMBC Shines at Brilliant Baltimore
In this first year of Baltimore’s mash-up of eclectic and electric art festival Light City and the annual book festival—a hybrid called Brilliant Baltimore—UMBC shone brightly. Continue Reading UMBC Shines at Brilliant Baltimore
Depth of Field
Visiting senior research scholar Marvin Heiferman explores the intersection of photography and science in a new collaborative book called Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe. Continue Reading Depth of Field
Invested in the Arts — Grants Help Alumni Artists Thrive
As UMBC alumni artists interpret the world around them, prestigious awards and grants help celebrate and nurture their work. Continue Reading Invested in the Arts — Grants Help Alumni Artists Thrive
IMDA Alumnae in the News: Cheon, Ferrera
UMBC’s master of fine arts program in intermedia and digital arts (formerly imaging and digital arts) has stood out for over twenty years as one of the only ones like it in the country. Here’s what two of our MFA alumnae are doing now. Mina Cheon ’02, M.F.A. imaging and digital arts, along with her husband, Gabriel Kroiz, will install 15 diamond-shaped sculptures along Pier 5 for Light City in an exhibit called “Diamonds Light Baltimore.” Cheon, who teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art, says that she and Kroiz “wanted to participate in the healing aspect of our… Continue Reading IMDA Alumnae in the News: Cheon, Ferrera