"Senior Capstone Exhibition 1" at McDaniel College
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.
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.
El Sueño Americano / The American Dream
February 4 – May 23
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Presented through an ongoing partnership between Howard County Public School System and the Arts Council, this year’s Youth Art Month exhibit features hundreds of works by HCPSS students in grades K-12, selected from public school art classes throughout the county. Inspired by the title theme, Defining Ourselves: I Am More Than What You See, students created artwork using a variety of media and styles.
Exhibit runs March 8 - April 19, with a free public reception on April 4 from 5-7pm. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm.
An exhibit featuring work by Howard County Public School System art faculty. During the summer, K-12 art teachers expanded their own artistic practice, and broadened their understanding of contemporary artists and teaching for big ideas, through in-depth research of contemporary artistic sources, and an exploration of new media and processes.
This exhibition is on view through March 2020. The MdHS museum is open Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm, and on Sundays, 12 pm-5 pm.
The exhibition features one-of-a-kind appliqué quilts created by Baltimore-native Mimi Dietrich. Ms. Dietrich is one of Maryland’s and the nation’s most accomplished quilters. In 2015 she was inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana. “Hometown Girl” tells Ms. Dietrich’s story as a life-long Marylander and Baltimore native, and draws inspiration from the many students she has taught over her 35-year career.
Beauty stops us in our tracks. It makes us pause, look, consider. Sometimes it overwhelms us. We are often told art should aspire to this standard and be proportionate, symmetrical, naturalistic, and orderly. But what of work that is designed to revolt and terrify? Across sub-Saharan Africa, artists working across a range of states, societies, and cultures deliberately created artwork that violated conceptions of beauty, symmetry, and grace—both ours and theirs. Subverting Beauty features approximately two dozen works from sub-Saharan African’s colonial period (c. 1880–c.
In 1968, nine Catholic peace activists protested the Vietnam War in a fiery blaze in Catonsville, Maryland. “Activism and Art: the Catonsville Nine, 50 Years Later” examines one of the most iconic and written-about acts of political protest in 20th century American history. Through art created by Catonsville Nine activist Tom Lewis and elements of the documentary “Hit & Stay: a history of faith and resistance,” this exhibit explores the motivations and considers the consequences of civil disobedience, and contextualizes this protest in our present turbulent political climate.
In the fall of 2018, the BMA’s oldest friends group, the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (PDPS), will celebrate its 50th anniversary by sponsoring an exhibition to highlight a selection of late 19th-century, modern, and contemporary works on paper that PDPS has helped the BMA acquire over the years. Installed in a gallery adjacent to the Cone Collection, this one-gallery exhibition will be organized in two six-month presentations, each including 20–30 prints, drawings, and artists’ books.
The Eminent Scholar Mentoring Program of the Faculty Development Center and the Department of English present a lecture by Virginia Jackson.
Don’t miss the final showcase of this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition! The top 8 participants will publicly present their business ideas, followed by the announcement of the winning teams. Pick your top idea and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award!
Don’t miss the final showcase of this year’s UP/Start Venture Competition! The top 8 participants will publicly present their business ideas, followed by the announcement of the winning teams. Pick your top idea and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award! micapreneurship.com
Utilizing mindfulness practices to enter fully into the present moment, we’ll engage with art as a way to respond to experiences of nature, music, poetry, imagery and memory. For curious people with or without experience in art and mindfulness. Activities include observing, listening, reflecting, expressing, drawing, painting, and more. Leave with a deeper connection and appreciation of beauty in the world.
Practice your Blue Steal, put on your piano necktie, write your best eugoogooly, sip drinks, and win stuff! We're making Zoolander into a Magnumificent interactive movie night!
"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."
Your Ridiculous Hosts:
Jennifer Marsh & Heather Keating
The Strata ensemble, featuring clarinetist Nathan Williams, violinist James Stern, and pianist Audrey Andrist, presents a program entitled Riddles and Mirages, including works by American composers Paul Schoenfield, Margaret Brouwer, Libby Larsen, and works composed for Strata by Robert Maggio(Riddle) and Jonathan Leshnoff (Seven Glances at a Mirage).
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presets a concert featuring sonic improvisations by Shelly Purdy ’10 and a performance of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate (1922-1932) by Bonnie Lander.
Considered by many to be the greatest play ever written, Hamlet is everything Shakespeare wrote distilled to a single play. Funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking, Hamlet is a tour de force. It has represented many things to many people, and stands as shorthand for “Theatre.” Strip away the pretense, though, and what’s left is still a masterpiece. We present it in original pronunciation, as audiences first heard it.
Hosted by Charm City Filmmakers
You are cordially invited to a free, private film screening! The show will include 9 short films, each produced by our group members. We are so excited to share our work with you!
SHOWINGS
(In no particular order)
Lana Adams - Politics as Usual
Micheal Perrin - The King of Games
Justin Lawson Isett - Let's Kill Doug Because He Sucks
Charlie Brown - Controlled Suicide
Colin Freas - Timey Wimey
Lauren Davis - How to Survive a Scary Movie
Award-winning artist and Baltimore resident Patrick O’Brien will discuss his striking paintings that depict the classic age of sail. He will show many of his paintings, and discuss his extensive nautical and historical research that ensures his paintings are definitively accurate renditions of battles at sea, historic waterfronts, and other aspects of maritime history. Light refreshments follow the lecture. The cost is $10 for MdHS members and $15 for non-members. Doors open at 5:30 pm. The lecture begins at 6 pm. Mr. O’Brien has been an artist and illustrator since the 1980s.
LIT's Sketch Night is every month on Wednesday, and it's an entire show devoted to sketch comedy in Adams Morgan. Brought to you by both of LIT's house teams, Separate Beds & The Employables, each month's show is a different theme with new material.
You save when you purchase $12 tickets online here. It's $15 CASH ONLY at the door.
DeRay Mckesson will discuss his recent book, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom. The discussion will be led by students participating in the Black Culture in the Digital Age course within the UMBC Department of English. This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, discourse, media, and communication systems while encouraging students to grapple with the impact of digital media on social movements, such as Black Lives Matter. Seating is limited and advance registration is required.