Artwork by Vin Grabill, Visual Arts, on Display at MICA

Feb 7, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Artwork by Vin Grabill, chair and associate professor of visual arts, is on display at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) through March 11 in an exhibition entitled Under Cover. Grabill’s 2010 video Frontier is among the approximately 50 works of sculpture, photography and video featured in the show, which is a project of MICA’s Exhibition Development Seminar. Professor Grabill was interviewed by WYPR’s Tom Hall for a segment on Maryland Morning that aired on January 31. An audio file of the interview is here.

Eric Dyer, Visual Arts, Receives Grant from Creative Capital

Feb 7, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Eric Dyer, associate professor of visual arts, has been awarded a 2012 grant from Creative Capital for his project “Short Ride in a Phat Machine.” Professor Dyer was one of only 56 artists selected out of an applicant pool of 3,247 artists in all 50 states. Creative Capital grants provide up to $50,000 in direct project funds, plus advisory services. Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts.

Lee Boot, Imaging Research Center, in “Issues in Science and Technology”

Jan 9, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The Winter 2012 issue of Issues in Science and Technology includes a writeup describing a project that Lee Boot, associate director of the Imaging Research Center, and IRC staff created for the National Academy of Sciences. The Seeintuit project, an exhibition and data collection center exploring the intuitive processes of the human brain, appears in the Archives section of the magazine and features an image of an artwork by professor Boot that is now in the permanent collection of the NAS. This collaboration between Mr. Boot, the IRC, and the NAS is ongoing (a third project is slated to begin at the end of January 2012) and is aimed at finding… Continue Reading Lee Boot, Imaging Research Center, in “Issues in Science and Technology”

Lexie Macchi, Visual Arts Graduate Student, in The Village Voice

Jan 9, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Lexie Macchi, a graduate student in the Department of Visual Arts and graduate assistant at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, was profiled in The Village Voice on Thursday, January 5. On page 5 of her interview she discusses her work at the CADVC and her studies at UMBC.

Gary Kachadourian, IMDA Graduate Student, Receives Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation

Jan 9, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Gary Kachadourian, an MFA student in Imaging and Digital Arts, has received a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program was established in 1993 to assist individual artists. The grants are given to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality. Mr. Kachadourian will have work on display at UMBC from January 26 through February 18 at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s MFA Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition.

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

Department of Theatre’s “The Laramie Project” in The Baltimore Sun

Dec 9, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

The Department of Theatre’s production of The Laramie Project, directed by Nyalls Hartman (associate professor), received a review in The Baltimore Sun and Howard County Times by critic Mike Giuliano on December 7, and received a review in Maryland Theatre Guide by UMBC alumna Amanda Gunther on December 9. The production concludes its run at the UMBC Theatre on Sunday, December 11.

Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, Featured in Exhibition in Slovenia

Dec 7, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

Work by Steve Bradley, Visual Arts, will be featured in Radio Arts Space FM, an international radio art and sound art exhibition at the Škuc Gallery in Ljubjana, Slovenia, from December 7 to 16. The exhibition, which features audio works by 42 artists from 22 countries, is available as an audio stream at at the website radioCona.

James Smalls, Visual Arts, Featured at the Brooklyn Museum

Dec 6, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

James Smalls, professor of Visual Arts and affiliate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, will be featured on a panel, Gender and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday, December 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. In connection with works from two exhibitions, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties and Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Terry Carbone, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum, will be in conversation with Professor Smalls and with scholar-collector Thomas H. Wirth. This discussion will explore the intersections of race, gender,… Continue Reading James Smalls, Visual Arts, Featured at the Brooklyn Museum

Fred Worden (Visual Arts) Featured at National Gallery of Art (12/11, 12/17)

Nov 29, 2011 / 2 minutes of reading

Fred Worden (assistant professor, Visual Arts) will be featured on the American Originals Now series at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on December 11 and 17. Since the 1970s, Worden has been making experimental films primarily to examine “how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism.” With wholehearted revelry in cinematic illusion and a commitment to kinetic abstractions, he produces short films and digital videos that draw attention to subjective perceptual play through the manipulation of visual phenomena.… Continue Reading Fred Worden (Visual Arts) Featured at National Gallery of Art (12/11, 12/17)

Sandra Abbott (Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) in Maryland Life Magazine

Nov 23, 2011 / 1 minute of reading

Sandra Abbott, curator of collections and outreach at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, was featured in Maryland Life Magazine on November 8 in an article, “Unbound,” by Mary Medland. The article investigates the art of “altered books,” which are ordinary books that have been transformed into art objects. Abbott was a judge for the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s altered books exhibition last year.

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.

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