"Taproot": Reading and Book Launch
Reading, book sale and celebration of McDaniel College English Professor Kathy Mangan’s new book of poems, “Taproot.” The poems in “Taproot” honor the anchoring and nurturing elements in a life.
Reading, book sale and celebration of McDaniel College English Professor Kathy Mangan’s new book of poems, “Taproot.” The poems in “Taproot” honor the anchoring and nurturing elements in a life.
Screen your new work or work in progress (max length 15 min) at this monthly feedback session from your Baltimore filmmaking peers in the Creative Alliance Lounge! Send your short films via email by the Friday before to Creative Alliance Film Curator, Samantha Mitchell ([email protected]) to be added to the lineup.
Thanks to our generous sponsors Baltimore Filmmakers Collective & Charm City Filmmakers for helping to make these sessions possible!
WombWork Productions, Inc. present SISTER PLAYS!
Two Plays in Reportory by Maryland playwrights Kia and Kara Lee Corthron.
Visitors can enjoy free admission to the entire museum on the first Thursday of every month. A collection highlights tour takes place at 11 a.m. - explore the galleries with a member of our staff, hear the stories behind the artifacts on display and learn about Maryland’s rich history. Groups of 10 or more people must book the tour ahead of time.
This end-of-the-year exhibition showcases works by graduating art and art history majors working in a range of media from two- and three-dimensional approaches to digital and new media.
Join us at the Alchemy of Art for the opening reception of HAL BOYD - RETHINKING DESIRE. Boyd's paintings are lush, accessible, and steeped in psycho-analysis.The exhibition runs May 2 - June 2, 2019. There will also be a closing reception for this exhibition on Sunday, June 2, 2:00 - 5pm. Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday 12:30 - 6:30 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble, which explores and performs Western chamber music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Admission is free.
This annual traveling sex and body positive queer erotic short film festival stops in Baltimore for 2 nights only to celebrate queer and trans pleasure and desire as one part of the path towards empowerment, healing, connection, and liberatory self- and communal-love. A different line up each night to arouse and inspire!
In its 35th year at the Howard County Arts Council, this exhibit features recent work created by artists who have studios at the Center for the Arts: James Adkins, Joan Bevelaqua, Han Jeon, Myungsook Ryu Kim, Art Landerman, Diana Marta, Brendan Nass, Joyce Ritter, Jereme Scott, Alice St. Germain-Gray, Andrei Trach, Jamie Travers, Mary Jo Tydlacka, and David Zuccarini. The artists work in a variety of media including oil and watercolor painting, drawing, fiber art, and glass bead-making.
In partnership with Howard County Recreation and Parks’ Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services, this exhibit showcases work by youth and adult artists with developmental disabilities, created in the Exploring Art and Focus on Art programs offered by the Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services. In these programs, youth and adults with developmental disabilities have the opportunity to explore a variety of media, styles, and methods of creating art.
During the month of May, Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and Make Studio are teaming up to present the exchange exhibitions (re)shaping: expressions and abstractions. A selection of Make Studio’s 35 program artists will be on display in Hamilton at Hamilton Gallery and the 15 HAC members will be on display in Hampden at Make Studio’s Showroom Gallery. In both exhibitions the artists consider and reshape their viewpoints through visual expression and through the abstraction of ideas using various media.
The Trio des Alpes, an Italian-Swiss ensemble, featuring violinist Hana Kotková, cellist Claude Hauri, and pianist Corrado Greco, returns to UMBC for a evening of chamber music. The trio will also perform on Sunday, May 5 with the UMBC Symphony (more here).
During our walk we will highlight the way species, water and energy move through the landscape. During this event, people will be exposed to ecological patterns and processes often overlooked or unseen. We will begin concentrating on nested scales and connections between things that happen locally, experiencing how macro emerges from micro and micro is shaped by the macro. Attention to urban stream headwaters, native plants and animals (i.e. yellow-crowned night herons) that survive and thrive in cities will bring this into view.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary, AACC Dance Company alumni are returning to Anne Arundel Community College to perform in the Alumni Concert. See dancers from the local area and beyond return to the stage. If you can, stay for the current Dance Company performance, “Spring Migration.”
Enjoy quilting at its best with an artist talk with renown quilting artists from the B’more region. Visitors will view various quilting images and see several quilts during this discussion with fiber artist Stephen Towns, quilting artist Dr. Joan Gaither and quilter Sandra Smith from the African American Quilters of Baltimore.
In conjunction with Linda Day Clark: The Gee’s Bend Photographs
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The performance will be followed by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 7 p.m.
Admission is free.
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Mark your calendar for a stupendous journey around the world of wines at the Sykesville Art & Wine Festival, on Sunday May 5th, 12 to 5pm!
This year, the Downtown Sykesville Connection (DSC) is not only showcasing some of the best Maryland wineries, the DSC is also bringing to downtown Sykesville over 50 vineyards from the Sonoma Valley, Argentina, France and Italy. Whites, reds and rosés, wines, cavas and other specialty wines will be available for unlimited sampling with your collectible Sykesville glass.
Lake Roland: Living Boundaries explores the scientific, artistic and social principles of absorption at Lake Roland, a defunct reservoir surrounded by parkland at the edge of Baltimore City. Artist Miguel Braceli seeks to approach the different boundaries and access that exist between the city, its inhabitants and the environment. This work uses food grade paper, benign particulates and water to interrogate the concepts of absorption and particulate suspension, within the social context of racial and social segregation.
The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert under the direction of Matthew Belzer, featuring all of the UMBC jazz groups, large and small, and spotlighting student compositions.
Admission is free.