Making Cinema Matter: Masterclass w/ Josephine Decker
About Josephine Decker:
About Josephine Decker:
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.
The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of E. Michael Richards, featuring the Trio des Alpes in the Concertino for Piano, Violin, Cello, and String Orchestra by Bohuslav Martinu. (The Trio des Alpes will also present an ensemble concert on Friday, May 3, with additional information here.)
Admission is free but a ticket required for entry. Please note that additional day-of-performance tickets will be available at the door only as space permits. (Tickets will be available online beginning April 5)
For three weeks in September, beer-fueled debates in the bars of one Michigan town aren’t about sports and politics but art. Hundreds of thousands of people come to Grand Rapids to engage with blue-chip artists in ways that rarely happen at Art Basel or other established art events, unless you’re a major collector or critic.
More Art Upstairs follows four accomplished artists as they compete at ArtPrize, a populist experiment that’s challenging the art world’s hierarchy by giving the public the power to decide which art will win almost half the $500,000 in prize money.
Honest, funny, and dancing with heart, Queens Girl in the World chronicles the misadventures of bright-eyed, brown-skinned Jacqueline Marie Butler, whose sudden transfer from a protective, middle class late-1950s upbringing in Queens to a progressive, predominantly-Jewish private school in Greenwich Village, adds comical confusion to her already quizzical, fish-out-of-water adolescence. Lively and poignant—and punctuated with the irresistible sound of Motown—Queens Girl in the World tags along for a young woman’s journey of self-discovery, at the onset of Civil Rights-era social change.
Honest, funny, and dancing with heart, Queens Girl in the World chronicles the misadventures of bright-eyed, brown-skinned Jacqueline Marie Butler, whose sudden transfer from a protective, middle class late-1950s upbringing in Queens to a progressive, predominantly-Jewish private school in Greenwich Village, adds comical confusion to her already quizzical, fish-out-of-water adolescence. Lively and poignant—and punctuated with the irresistible sound of Motown—Queens Girl in the World tags along for a young woman’s journey of self-discovery, at the onset of Civil Rights-era social change.
The UMBC Wind Ensemble, directed by Brian Kaufman, has celebrated performances with internationally celebrated guest artists including Glee pianist and music director Brad Ellis, Emmy-nominated composer and genre-bending violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, The American Brass Quintet, Canadian Brass veteran Joe Burgstaller, international tuba artist Øystein Baadsvik, Cleveland Orchestra trombonist Shachar Israel, Marine Band co-principal oboe Trevor Mowry, former Marine Band clarinetist Randall Riffle, and UMBC Professor of Violin Airi Yoshioka.
In this talk, Dan Bailey considers human scale, perception, and natural landscape, which are central to his current work on long-duration photography of landscapes and a reconstruction of Baltimore’s geographic past. Seemingly disparate, his two projects, Slow Exposure and Early Baltimore, encourage us to examine the meanings of viewpoint — focused versus fuzzy — and how the “long view” can be used to augment “thinly-sliced” data.
“No Walls, No Bans, No Borders” is a benefit photography and art exhibit featuring the work of Baltimore-based activists connecting ideas of the violence of capitalism, colonialism, and the racist/fascist state both locally here in Baltimore and globally. A portion of artist’s sales will go back to the groups doing the work on the ground.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. The UMBC Percussion Ensemble is a dedicated performing group of advanced percussion students. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and Carlos Chavez.
In partnership with Maryland Art Place, the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Maryland Art Place celebrates 10 years of the Baker Artist Awards with a new exhibition featuring over 30 recipients of the Mary Sawyers Baker and Mary Sawyers Imboden Prizes,
Since 2008, the Baker Artist Awards have recognized over 100 artists in the Baltimore region and awarded over $900,000 in prize money to artists working in all disciplines who exemplify excellence in three areas: Mastery of Craft, Depth of Artistic Exploration and a Unique Vision.
You're invited to Baltimore Clayworks' Resident Artists' Open Studio! Join us Friday, May 10th, from 6-9pm on the second floor of our studio building for an evening with our resident artists. Our artists will be in their studios and available for conversations, and Jason Piccoli and Hae Won Sohn will give demonstrations. Visiting Artist Yoshi Fujii may also be available for demos and questions. Light refreshments will be served. Event is free and open to the public.
Please join us at Maryland Art Place for the opening of the Baker Artist Awards Retrospective on May 10th. In partnership with the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Maryland Art Place celebrates 10 years of the Baker Artist Awards with a new exhibition featuring over 30 recipients of the Mary Sawyers Baker and Mary Sawyers Imboden Prizes. The opening will be held on Friday, May 10th from 6 to 9 pm at MAP. We hope to see you there!
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh. Created to provide students the opportunity to study acting and musical performance through opera, the UMBC Opera Workshop annually performs major scenes from notable operas. Previous performances have included The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Così Fan Tutte, The Merry Widow, and Romeó et Juliette.
Admission is free.
Kinetics Dance Theatre continues its 35thAnniversary Season with Rooted, Winged, at 8pm on Saturday, May 11that the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Theatre.
Take a self-guided tour to learn about mothers who shaped Maryland history. Create a special Mother’s Day craft. Museum admission is free on Second Sundays and no advanced registration required.
Paul Peers, stage director
Linda Maguire, mezzo-soprano; Brian Giebler. Tenor; Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone
Maryland State Boychoir, Stephen Holmes, artistic director
The Larks of the Junior League of Baltimore, Leo Wanenchak, musical director
Overlea High School Chorus, Kellie Zephir, director
Muse 360, Sharayna Christmas, executive director
Peabody Youth Orchestra, Ankush Kumar Bahl, music director
The Baltimore Choral Arts Orchestra
The Department of Music Honors Showcase is a culmination of students’ work in the areas of solo performance, chamber ensemble performance, and composition.
Program and performers to be announced.
Admission is free.