Final Week of Pedagogy Study Hall at CADVC

Events: November 19–22, 2025

CADVC at UMBC, 1st floor Fine Arts Building
Free parking, info below

As we approach the closing week of Pedagogy Study Hall,we invite you to join us for a final slate of public programs with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans, featuring guest scholars, civic advocates, and artists. All events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 19, 12-1:30 p.m.
Roundtable on Education History and Policy, Part II
With Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans (live in the gallery), and Davarian Baldwin & Matt Cregor (joining on Zoom)*

Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor regroup for the second in a series of compelling discussions on education history and policy, hosted and moderated by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans. The first roundtable in the series, produced as a CADVC webinar, is accessible here.

Photo: Opening event with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans interviewed by Baltimore Beat's Teri Henderson. Photo by Tedd Henn, Courtesy of CADVC

Thursday, November 20, 6–8 p.m.
Community Advocates in conversation with Nia K. Evans of the Boston Ujima Project

Dr. Meleny Thomas, South Baltimore Community Land Trust, and Lawrence Grandpre,  Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, in conversation with  Nia K. Evans, Boston Ujima Project. The Boston Ujima Project is a democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem, with the mission of returning wealth to working-class communities of color.

Saturday, November 22, 1–4 p.m. 
"Talk/Draw" drawing and discussion session with Nia K. Evans, Tomashi Jackson, and Eric N. Mack. DJ: M'Balou Camara

Join a discussion on investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures with invited guests. Participants will be invited to draw in response to the conversation, and leave their drawings on exhibit in the gallery.

This program is presented in connection with "Pedagogy Study Hall," a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

More info at https://cadvc.umbc.edu/

About the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC)

CADVC is a College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences research center and art gallery that produces scholarship, publications, and experimental engagements in the fields of art, design, and visual culture.

All CADVC programs are free and open to the public for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Visitor Information

The CADVC is located on the first floor of UMBC's Fine Arts Building. Admission to the gallery and public programs is free. Daytime metered parking is available in several nearby visitor parking areas. Please visit here for additional information.

Please contact cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 and specify the nature of your request as soon as possible if you need specific accommodations for this event or to experience any of our gallery exhibitions or online programs.

Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC

1000 Hilltop Circle, Fine Arts Building 105, Baltimore, MD 21250

Gallery Hours:

Sun-Mon, closed

Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm

cadvc@umbc.edu | (410) 455-3188

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025
2PM-4PM

Baltimore Cultural Organizer and National Cultural Agent, Denise Griffin Johnson, introduces audience members to her distinctive style of participatory storytelling, leading participants in a meaningful story-sharing circle event grounded in best practices for community-building communication and inspired by the themes of the Pedagogy Study Hall exhibition.

This program is free, but registration is recommended to reserve your seat at this link.

Denise Griffin Johnson is a Baltimore native and a leader in cultural organizing. She co-founded CultureWorks in 2008, spearheading a major community-led initiative in West Baltimore. As a National Cultural Agent with USDAC, she has led national and regional discussions on justice, belonging, and storytelling. She has collaborated with UMBC and Lafayette College on cultural and economic initiatives and has helped secure over $4 million for West Baltimore's cultural projects. Denise holds a Master of Science from Coppin State University with postgraduate training in Clinical Counseling. She has co-authored academic publications and contributed to major media discussions on community transformation.

This program is presented in connection with "Pedagogy Study Hall," a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

CADVC exhibitions and events are free and open to the public for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Find more information is at cadvc.umbc.edu.

Visitor Information

The CADVC is located on the first floor of UMBC's Fine Arts Building. Admission to the gallery and public programs is free as is nearby visitor parking in Lot 8 on weekends. Please visit this link for additional information.

Links to directions, parking, and maps may be found at cadvc.umbc.edu/visit-us.

Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle, Fine Arts Building 105, Baltimore, MD 21250

Gallery Hours:
Sun-Mon, closed
Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm

cadvc@umbc.edu | (410) 455-3188

In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity.

Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts education and community development through the arts. It also provides an important model for exploring informal cultural economies that support local art education and production in the interstitials between, and in the absence of, major financial investment.

Public programs associated with this residency:

February 25, 6-7pm: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans, Lion Brothers classroom, downtown Baltimore.

Sign up for limited spaces will be available via this hyper-link.

April 8 evening: conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson, at the Lion Brothers classroom in downtown Baltimore.

Registration details will be announced.

April 15, live online, evening: Panel on public funding in arts and education.

Registration details will be announced.

All events are free and open to the public.

If you need any specific accommodations to experience an exhibition or one of our events, either online or in person, please contact CADVC at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 as soon as possible.

Tomashi Jackson visits CADVC for a public program in Spring 2024, with an image of Nia Evans projected on screen in the background. Photo: Tedd Henn. Courtesy CADVC.