North Pole Narratives
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents North Pole Narratives: Photographs from the Wendorff Collection on Robert E. Peary, on display from February 14 through May 20.
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents North Pole Narratives: Photographs from the Wendorff Collection on Robert E. Peary, on display from February 14 through May 20.
ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM
Cézanne and the Human Figure: from Portraits to Abstractions with Aneta Georgievska-Shine, professor of art history, University of Maryland
In conjunction with Spectrum: 2022 Visual Arts Exhibition (February 3 – March 12), UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents a lecture by artist Lynn Cazabon, whose works will be on display.
McDaniel College hosts the inaugural Black History Month Convocation in recognition of Black History Month featuring human rights activist Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu. Rev. Tutu shares her experiences as a human rights advocate as well as growing up as the daughter of the late Desmond Tutu in apartheid South Africa.
What makes a lasting legacy? Join the artists from the BMA's current exhibition All Due Respect—Lauren Frances Adams, Mequitta Ahuja, LaToya M. Hobbs, and Cindy Chen—as they reflect on their work and how materials and artist resources have influenced their careers. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, art historian, curator, and Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Center of Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Watch live on Facebook and YouTube.
Panelists:
Lauren Frances Adams
The premiere program (virtual) on a Maryland African American soldier of the War for Independence, 'The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney - A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War', is a period performance piece, derived from the new book of the same name, by a Baltimore author, to be released this spring.
Maryland Arts Day is the largest annual gathering of arts professionals in Maryland. With more than 500 participants, representing every county in the state and Baltimore City, this statewide arts advocacy event connects artists, educators, administrators, volunteers and trustees with lawmakers from every legislative district in Maryland. Maryland Arts Day needs your participation to show strong support for the arts in Maryland and its impact on the economic and cultural vitality of the state.
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In conjunction with Spectrum: 2022 Visual Arts Exhibition (February 3 – March 12), UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents a lecture by artist Lisa Moren, whose works will be on display.
In the spirit of arm-chair travelers everywhere, the Voyager Ensemble, featuring violinists Airi Yoshioka and Zheyang “Jerry” Xiong, violist David Yang, and cellist Summer Hu, explores a new country of the world each year by performing repertoire by composers from the region. In its sixth season, this year’s concert focuses on China with a program featuring:
In partnership with Howard County Recreation and Parks’ Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services, this annual 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.
Presented through an ongoing partnership between Howard County Public School System and the Arts Council, this year’s Youth Art Month exhibit features dozens of works by HCPSS students in secondary grades 6-12, selected from public school art classes throughout the county. Inspired by the title theme, Discarded: What’s Worth Saving, students created artwork in a variety of styles and media.
Join us for a multimedia presentation on the Blacks of the Cheapeake, presented by Vincent Leggett, founder and president of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation. Former Governor of Maryland, Parris J. Glendening, commisoned Mr. Leggett as an honorary Admiral of the Chesapeake in 2003.
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro! Join us in Seville for BCO’s first fully-staged production with orchestra. Whether you know Rossini’s Il barbiere as the greatest example of opera buffa, or because you know it from Bugs Bunny, you are sure to come away singing the classic tunes. This production will take place at Stephens Hall at Towson University.
Fully staged concert opera with orchestra*
UMBC's Department of Music presents Love You Madly: The Life and Music of Duke Ellington, a multimedia presentation featuring special guest Earl H. Brooks with the UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Belzer.
Back in person for a 7th year of Two nights of blazing guitar runs, violin crescendo’s, luscious vocals, and jazz heat all in the spirit of the great Django Reinhardt!
Consider purchasing a Two Night Pass for $53. This provides you with access to both Friday & Saturday performances.
Friday
Harmonious Wail
Ultrafaux Ensemble with Grant Flick
Saturday
Adrien Chevalier's Sedi Donka Balkan Band
Hot Club of Baltimore with Nataly Merezhuk and vocalist Sweet Megg
Baklava Express with Daisy Castro
Pianist extraordinaire Aaron Diehl joins the BSO for Ellington’s intoxicating “New World A-Comin’” and Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody, an animated and jaunty follow-up to Rhapsody in Blue. Guest conductor Ken-David Masur leads the orchestra in Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture, featuring exhilarating passages from the strings and horns, and closes the program with Brahms' sunny and uplifting Second Symphony.
Date: February 20, 2022,
Time: 1pm
Location: The Middendorf lounge located on the first mezzanine of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theatre, 7 S Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Masks and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test taken within the past 72 hours are required for entrance.
Join UMBC faculty Dr. Michelle R. Scott and Dr. Tammy Henderson as they lead a discussion surrounding the roles of gender and the Black family seen in the 50’s as well as in the play, “A Raisin In The Sun.”
After going virtual this year, the CIAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament is headed to the Charm City from February 21-26, 2022.
For additional information on Baltimore tourism, special permitting process for promoters/venues and for the most up-to-date communications, go to Baltimore.org/CIAA.
Visit the historic Liriodendron Mansion in Bel Air on Presidents' Day (2/21) for this free popular annual outdoor event!
Enjoy an easy walk through the woods around the Liriodendron Mansion and along the Ma and Pa Trail as you learn about what's happening in the colder months from Naturalist Scott McDaniel from Susquehannock Wildlife Society.
We'll meet in the Broadway parking lot at 1 pm, and make our way to one of the Mansion's porticos, where free light refreshments will be provided. All ages welcome! Please wear sturdy shoes and warm clothes!
ART SEMINAR GROUP IN-PERSON LECTURE (ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM)
Cézanne and Nature - Change and Permanence
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, professor of art history, University of Maryland
Venue: Central Presbyterian Church 7308 York Road Towson, MD, 21204
Lecture four in a five-part series: Paul Cézanne and the Art of Seeing