Asia in Maryland: Expressing Cross-Cultural Experience (Exhibition)
Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts (CA 2038)
September 7 – December 8, 2018 (closed Nov. 21-25)
Opening Reception/Meet the Artists: September 6, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts (CA 2038)
September 7 – December 8, 2018 (closed Nov. 21-25)
Opening Reception/Meet the Artists: September 6, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is bringing artists, designers, scholars, curators and educators to campus as apart of its spring 2019 Mixed Media Speaker Series. The first artist is Martha Rosler, who works in video, photography, text, installation and performance. She will participate in a public lecture.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents an exhibition of work by artist John Ruppert entitled LAB: Empirical Evidence: John Ruppert. The exhibition will span the artist’s recent explorations with installation, sculptural objects, photography, and sound as it relates to the world around us. Influenced by his intense interest in natural phenomena, Ruppert’s overarching investigation will focus on the intersection of the natural world and humanity. In a broader sense, he seeks to develop a heightened consciousness of our precarious existence on the planet.
LAB: Empirical Evidence: John Ruppert
January 31 – March 16
Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 31, 5 – 7 p.m.
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
El Sueño Americano / The American Dream
February 4 – May 23
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents talks by Joy Davis ’11 and Phil Davis ’07 M.F.A, in a CIRCA Catalyst event, an ongoing series promoting conversations around transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research that fuses the performing and visual arts with other fields of inquiry and scholarship.
In a time of profound civic challenges, can higher education be a catalyst for a democratic awakening? Boyte will share evidence that it can be, including pioneering initiatives at UMBC and other institutions that are demonstrating the viability of a politics of public work that bridges divides and develops civic agency. Boyte also will discuss his new book Awakening Democracy Through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment.
Book signing and reception to follow lecture.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Truth and Reconciliation in Baltimore.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019. 6:30pm
The Barber Room, Charles Commons (enter on 33rd St)
Baltimore Dance Project
Thursday, February 7 – Saturday, February 9, 8 p.m.
UMBC Proscenium Theatre
United States Army Field Band Woodwind Quintet
Sunday, February 10, 3 p.m.
UMBC Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts presents Andrew Keiper and Kei Ito, a collaborative artist team whose large-scale visual and sound installations probe the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and their intertwined family histories. Ito’s grandfather witnessed the explosion of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that killed his family, while Keiper’s grandfather was an engineer who contributed to the effort to develop the bomb.
Hopkins Concert Orchestra season finale, led by Jordan Randall Smith. Free performance features music by Bologne, CPE Bach, and Haydn, including concerto competition runner-up Isabel Won.
Concert is free, no tickets or reservations required, and begins with small chamber ensemble performances.
Anansi Trio
Sunday, February 17, 3 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The Anansi Trio, featuring Mark Merella, Matt Belzer (director of jazz studies at UMBC), and Larry Melton, celebrate the launch of their debut album, On the Path, with an afternoon of jazz.
The Department of English presents a reading by novelist Michael Downs. A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Downs is the author of The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, his debut novel from Acre Books. Earlier works include The Greatest Show: Stories, inspired by the true story of the historic Hartford Circus Fire of 1944, which killed 168 people; and House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City, named a finalist in memoir for the Connecticut Book Award. He lives in Baltimore and is a professor of English at Towson University.
UMBC Humanities Forum — Joan S. Korenman Lecture
“Complaint as Diversity Work”
Sara Ahmed, independent feminist scholar and writer
Tuesday, February 19, 7 p.m.
Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building