Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart, on display from August 31 through December 17.
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart, on display from August 31 through December 17.
UMBC's Humanities Forum presents a conversation between Yarimar Bonilla, one of the foremost scholars on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and UMBC’s Fernando Tormos-Aponte, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy.
UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles, on display from September 30 through December 11. The exhibition presents an overview of ten years of cultural research, digital experimentation, and finished artifacts by Couwenberg, who uses lace as a primary material. Through her creations, the artist asks how traditional textile construction can be modified or transformed by adapting it to digital fabrication processes.
UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents the Opening Reception for Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles, an exhibition on display from September 30 through December 11. The exhibition presents an overview of ten years of cultural research, digital experimentation, and finished artifacts by Couwenberg, who uses lace as a primary material.
UMBC's Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Pioneer Winter, who will speak about his work as the artistic director of the Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice, community, queer visibility, and beauty beyond the mainstream. Pioneer Winter’s work democratizes performance in public spaces, museums and galleries, stage, and film.
UMBC's Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Pioneer Winter, who will speak about his work as the artistic director of the Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice, community, queer visibility, and beauty beyond the mainstream. Pioneer Winter’s work democratizes performance in public spaces, museums and galleries, stage, and film.
In conjunction with the exhibition Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Cleft: An Art & Engineering Collaboration.
Are we becoming an extension of the machine or the other way around?
UMBC's annual Ancient Studies Week Lecture, presented by the Humanities Forum, features Duane W. Roller, who will speak on Cleopatra: The Most Famous Woman of Classical Antiquity.
UMBC's Department of Music presents tenor Andrew Sauvageau and pianist Hui-Chuan Chen in a performance of Franz Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin. Widely considered to be one of Schubert’s masterpieces, and one of the most important song cycles in Western music, the 1823 evening-length work consists of twenty songs with text by Schubert’s contemporary Wilhelm Müller.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, hosted annually by the Department of Music, opens with the Ruckus faculty new music ensemble.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, hosted by the Department of Music, presents an immersive installation, entitled Raaz, by UMBC music faculty Linda Dusman and Alan Wonneberger, with Information Systems faculty Foad Hamidi, and Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility director Tagide deCarvalho. According to the artists, “Raaz, which means secret in Farsi, is a multimedia bioart installation that centers on the concept of poetry-infused transgenic wine created using genetically modified yeast.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, presented annually by the Department of Music, continues with a performance of works curated by student composers.
Admission is free, but seating is limited. Please reserve tickets through the website.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, presented by the Department of Music, continues with a concert by Cantata Profana.
On Friday evening, Cantata Profana will present an avant-garde multimedia salon show that will gradually deconstruct a small instrumental chamber ensemble back into its fundamental theatrical and material components. Along the way, Cantata Profana’s core performers will be joined by UMBC faculty Airi Yoshioka and Lisa Cella. The program features work by Claude Vivier, Victoria Cheah, Gleb Kanasevich, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, presented by the Department of Music, features a special event at the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park.
UMBC's Livewire 11: Rewired new music festival, presented by the Department of Music, concludes on Saturday night with a performance by the dynamic piano-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire in a mind-bending program of works by Klaus Langand Misato Mochizuki. In Lang’s gorgeous work, time seems to stand still; while in Mochizuki’s explosive work, the theatricality of chamber music once more bursts to the fore.