Command Z Featured as Top Ten Art Show of 2012 by City Paper

Dec 12, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology curated by Lisa Moren, presented by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture last spring was featured today as one of the top ten art exhibitions of 2012 by City Paper. The show, described as one that “reawakened our sense of wonder and possibility,” was alongside exhibitions presented by the Contemporary Museum, Open Space, Nudashank and others. Command Z also made the top ten list of Baker award-winning artist, Gary Kachadourian. See the list here: “2012 Top Ten Art Shows.” Image: Leçon de Piano, Lisa Moren and Jocelyn Robert.

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

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

Angel Chinn, Dance ’08, Catches The Attention of The Gazette

Nov 30, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

Angel Chinn, Dance ’08, was featured in The Gazette this month when the newly formed dance company, NonaLee Dance Theatre, was slated to perform an adventurous, site-specific program at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier. In the article, Angel Chinn speaks about her switch from competitive running and studying education, to pursuing a degree in dance at UMBC with an honesty and openness that is mirrored in her performance which featured movements about life questions, faith and hope. The NonaLee Dance Theatre, created and directed by Angel Chinn was developed in 2011, with the intention of striving to give dancers with… Continue Reading Angel Chinn, Dance ’08, Catches The Attention of The Gazette

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

Kevin Kallaugher, Artist-in-Residence, Interviewed in Asia Society Blog

Nov 29, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

An interview featuring UMBC Artist-in-Residence, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, was released yesterday by Asia Society. In the interview Kal speaks about a range of topics, including his recent return to working with the Baltimore Sun, and shares his thoughts on the creation of politically charged, satirical work. A cartoonist for 35 years, he closes the interview expressing his opinion on the fate of traditional mediums in the decline of print cartoons, and the possibilities for cartooning in a “promising new era of visual satire.” KAL will share personal stories and discuss his practice through teaching and live sketching in an event in… Continue Reading Kevin Kallaugher, Artist-in-Residence, Interviewed in Asia Society Blog

Timothy Nohe, Visual Arts, Featured in Center for Creative Arts Exhibition

Nov 19, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Associate Professor of Visual Arts Timothy Nohe is one of ten artists selected to show work in the upcoming exhibition Nature in The Dark presented by the Center for Creative Arts in Melbourne, Australia. Nohe’s piece, At The Wall of the Anthropocene, is an animation set to an original film score, and will be available for view online beginning at the close of the exhibition’s screenings (which take place through December 23). Nature in the Dark presents a rare intersection of scientific study and artistic practice; animals were “caught on camera” as part of a collection project, and the data was… Continue Reading Timothy Nohe, Visual Arts, Featured in Center for Creative Arts Exhibition

Alumna Rachel Younghans ’12, Geography, in The Washington Post

Sep 18, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

It’s the open road for the next few months for recent alumna Rachel Younghans ’12, geography, as she and her boyfriend, photographer Rob Brulinski, cross the country in search of “Only-in-America Americans” for their art-project/website Freak Flag America. The couple were profiled by The Washington Post‘s Michael Rosenwald on September 17th, one day after they had set out on their cross-country trip. The two will travel to the Pacific and back in a Toyota Yaris packed with supplies ranging from a tent to rolls of film, from an American flag from Goodwill to a stuffed rat from IKEA which Brulinski plans to bug… Continue Reading Alumna Rachel Younghans ’12, Geography, in The Washington Post

Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, in The New York Times

Aug 29, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The impulse small children have towards creating pictures and stories lies at the center of several new children’s books reviewed by Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, in a story entitled “Drawn Out” in the August 23rd edition of The New York Times. I Gotta Draw, by Bruce Degen, and Dog Loves Drawing by Louise Yates deal with the visual side of children’s imagination, while Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hills deals with the written word, with all featuring canine protagonists as they go about letting their imaginations run free, even if it causes them trouble. Spitz praised all three stories in her review,… Continue Reading Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, in The New York Times

Ellen Handler Spitz, Visual Arts, in The New Republic’s “The Book”

Aug 15, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visal arts, discussed author Betsy Rosenthal’s latest children’s book Looking for Me for her monthly column in The New Republic. The book follows its protagonist Edith Paul, the fourth of twelve children born to a working-class Jewish family, as she grows up in Baltimore during the 1930’s. Over the course of the short book, Edith experiences poverty, bigotry, and even death within the family as a sibling succombs to illness. Spitz noted the Tolstoyan aspects of Rosenthal’s novel, drawing parallels with the seemingly inconsequential decision of a French corporal to re-enlist in War and Peace… Continue Reading Ellen Handler Spitz, Visual Arts, in The New Republic’s “The Book”

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