New “Pedagogy Study Hall” with Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans, April 8, 2025, 5:30-7 pm In-person event! Lion Brothers Building, Baltimore, MD

Join artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst/economic advocate Nia Evans for the next in a series of public conversations about support for the visual arts and humanities on April 8th at 5:30 pm. Spaces are limited and registration is required.

Organized by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC), this conversation focuses on structures of cultural support. Live guests will include Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson, with remote moderation from Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans. The panel discussion is a part of Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans's “Pedagogy Study Hall,” a research project featuring an intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities. For more information about this program, visit https://cadvc.umbc.edu/april-roundtables-for-pedagogy-study-hall/

To register for this program, visit https://shorturl.at/4uRFY

You will be contacted at the email you provide with information about the location of the program.

For more information about the residency program, visit https://cadvc.umbc.edu/programs-2/.

All events at CADVC 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. CADVC is committed to making all our exhibitions and programs, both online and in-person, accessible. If you need any specific accommodations for this event, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact CADVC at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

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Images: (from the top) Header: “Conflux: Variation” video still, 2025, Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio, courtesy of the artists. (A barren landscape with dark piles of rocks and soil under a blue sky with scattered clouds.) Top: Tomashi Jackson visits CADVC for a public program in Spring 2024, with an image of Nia Evans projected on a screen in the background. Photo: Tedd Henn

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On Thursday, October 26 at 5 p.m., the CADVC presents a conversation with the curator, Fitsum Shebeshe, and Jessica Bell Brown, curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The discussion, moderated by Rhea Beckett, founding director at Black Artist Research Space, will focus on curatorial approaches to African diasporic experience and migration.

Please visit here for additional information

Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Baltimore and Washington D.C., and curator of States of Becoming, touring with Independent Curators International. Before moving to the United States in 2016, he was Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Ethiopia. In 2012, Shebeshe co-founded the 1957 Initiative to annually celebrate the liberation of African countries from colonialism through the arts.

Jessica Bell Brown is the Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Prior to the BMA she was the Consulting Curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York, and also held roles at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Creative Time. She is curator of the touring exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, co-organized with the Mississippi Museum of Art.

Rhea Beckett is an artist, curator, and arts administrator with an extensive performing and visual arts background. She co-founded the Black Artist Research Space (BARS), a Baltimore-based creative collective and incubator. Beckett has served as a Legislative Affairs and Grants Specialist at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, where she played an integral role in supporting the creative community of Washington, D.C., through policy and grant-making. She has served as Registrar of the Howard University art collection and gallery manager of C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD). Rhea earned her BS in Art from Fisk University, where she sang soprano in the Grammy Award-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers. Rhea received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Rhea Beckett is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Header detail: Gabriel C. Amadi-Emina, Fade Catcher, 2021, Diptych photographic print on museo silver rag adhered flat on wooden panel. Courtesy of the artist. Pink and orange flowers on the left is separated by a yellow void from a floral textile with pink flowers in the center. On the right, handwritten text says, "Who will survive."

Logo: "Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture" in white text inside black rectangle


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Free and open to the public 

In conjunction with the exhibition Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a closing panel discussion, featuring the artist, the exhibition curator, and additional scholars:

Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art

Oletha DeVane, Artist, Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit

Christopher Kozjar, Artist, Andrew Harris Post-Doctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont

Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and former Senior Research Fellow, Robert Deutsch Foundation

Lowery Stokes Sims, Exhibition Curator, independent art historian and curator

More information:
https://umbc.edu/event/oletha-devane-spectrum-of-light-and-spirit-closing-panel-discussion/

Admission to the panel discussion and the exhibition is free.


UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, and visitors. If you need accessibility-related accommodations for a planned visit or special event, two weeks' notice is appreciated. Contact: abbotts@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

Free parking for this event is available in nearby Lot 8.

Photo by Marlayna Demond '11 for UMBC.

Image: A large white pedestal supports three colorful sculptures in the foreground of a large art gallery. A video projection onto the back wall glows beyond a collection of vivid paintings hung on the white gallery walls. An empty wooden bench rests in the center of the blond hard wood flooring.

 

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In conjunction with the exhibition Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a closing panel discussion, featuring the artist, the exhibition curator, and additional scholars:


Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art

Oletha DeVane, Artist, Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit

Christopher Kozjar, Artist, Andrew Harris Post-Doctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont

Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and former Senior Research Fellow, Robert Deutsch Foundation

Lowery Stokes Sims, Exhibition Curator, independent art historian and curator

Admission to the panel discussion and the exhibition is free.


UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, and visitors. If you need accessibility-related accommodations for a planned visit or special event, two weeks' notice is appreciated. Contact: abbotts@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

Free parking for this event is available in nearby Lot 8.

Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.


Image: A large white pedestal supports three colorful sculptures in the foreground of a large art gallery. A video projection onto the back wall glows beyond a collection of vivid paintings hung on the white gallery walls. An empty wooden bench rests in the center of the blond hard wood flooring.

 

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