CADVC will host a public talk featuring Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio of Baltimore-region artist collective, Collis Donadio, on March 4 at 6 pm. Their work, “Conflux: Variation” will be on view nightly from sundown until 2 am between February 14 and June 30, 2025 at the Fine Arts Building at UMBC.

“Conflux: Variation” (2025) is a public video art projection that explores the intersections of industry and the environment in Baltimore, where water meets land.

Between 2023 and 2024, collaborating artists Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio recorded video and audio documentation in sites where industry has reshaped local habitats, such as the Curtis Bay Water Tower and Baltimore City’s marine terminals. The artists think of this documentary research and resulting installation as a “speculative exploration of the future, using moving images to convey transformation and transition.”

Learn more at cadvc.umbc.edu/collis-donadio.

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From top: Collis Donadio, Conflux Video still, 2025 Courtesy of the artists (A barren landscape with dark piles of rocks and soil under a blue sky with scattered clouds) Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio, Courtesy of the artists (Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio face forward. Collis, on the left, wears a black shirt and has long brown to blond hair. On the right, Donadio wears beige and has short dark hair. Both have light skin tones and stand in front of blooming foliage.)