Thursday, February 29, 2024, 6-8 pm

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) inaugurates the "demo" of a new public video art projection gallery with work by artist Levester Williams, featuring his work "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024). The event will include a conversation between Williams and curator Lisa Freiman. Hot refreshments will be served. Showings of the work will continue on select evenings in late February and early March.

Images - 1. Levester Williams, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024); 4K color video/video installation still (In a park-like setting, a person with dark brown skin tone sits embracing a white marble column from behind. Their hands touch the stone. Their face, obscured. They wear a light pink sweatsuit and brown boots. In the background, a nude fountain sculpture spouts water from the center of a pool of water. White marble also forms the border around the pool.)

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Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle
Fine Arts Building, 105
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3188

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Images: 1. Header: Chunky golden text of exhibition logo. 2. At the center of a colorful graphic design is a white circle with the text "Artistic Methods." A star diagram encircles the central title. Wooden disks, with individual researchers' names hand-printed on them, rest on the points of the star. Colorful overlapping circles surround the star at the perimeter of this square-cropped image.

"Spectrum of Process" presents a range of UMBC faculty approaches to art and culture through rigorous, experimental processes. The exhibition is interdisciplinary, including works of fine art, design, pedagogy, and the visual culture of research.

The 2024 UMBC Faculty exhibition is presented in two parts:

New Faculty and Staff Exhibition

• Eva Grandoni
• Dave Greber
• Eric Millikin
• Julie Sayo
• Kelley Yang

February 8, 6pm: Opening reception!

Join the faculty, staff, and students involved in "Spectrum of Process" for a celebratory reception.

February 14, noon: Research and Process, featuring faculty and students involved in the "Can You Catch a Deep Fake?" and "Artifacts" research projects

Join researchers Lee Boot, Christine Mallinson, and their research teams for intimate discussions about two critical research activities at UMBC, focused on the topics of climate science and Deep Fake audio technologies. Both of these interdisciplinary research activities use visualization strategies to interpret and understand important changes in our environment and culture. The format of the conversation will be a gallery tour followed by Q+A.

February 21, noon: Julie Sayo, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, presents Babayin Writing Workshop!

Julie Sayo is a Filipino-American graphic designer and educator. Her studio practice explores identity and the role of graphic design in decoloniality through the study and type design of Baybayin, a Tagalog writing system of the Philippines.

Join Julie Sayo in an interactive workshop to learn Baybayin writing and her research.

Space is limited. Sign up here.

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

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle
Fine Arts Building, 105
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3188

Plan your visit

Images1. Chunky golden text of exhibition logo 2. Header: Detail, Gabriel C. Amadi-Emina, "Face Catcher," 2021, diptych photographic print on museo silver rag adhered flat on wooden panel. Courtesy of the artist. (On the left side is a close-up of brightly colored pink and orange flowers. To the right is a textile with bright pink flowers. The two are separated by a yellow void. Text on the far right says, "Who will survive.")

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) at UMBC announces its Spring 2024 open hours. The gallery will reopen to the public beginning Friday, February 9th with our first show of the year, "Spectrum of Process: 2024 UMBC Faculty Exhibition." "Spectrum of Process" will be inaugurated by a festive reception free and open to all on February 8. 6-8pm. More information about the exhibition, its associating events, and our broader season of programs will be announced at cadvc.umbc.edu.

In Spring 2024, exhibitions on view at CADVC may be visited free of charge at the following times, when the University is open:

Images - 1. Photo: David Lee (A crowd of people in dark silhouette against a white gallery wall on the right view a sculpture on the left. The sculpture, a large silver sphere, is suspended just above a blond hardwood floor on the left. 2. Header: (only visible on MyUMBC Groups) Detail, Gabriel C. Amadi-Emina, "Face Catcher," 2021, diptych photographic print on museo silver rag adhered flat on wooden panel. Courtesy of the artist. (On the left side is a close-up of brightly colored pink and orange flowers. To the right is a textile with bright pink flowers. The two are separated by a yellow void. Text on the far right says, "Who will survive.") 3. Logo: "Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture," in white text against a black background.)

Where?

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) & (weather permitting) in the Fine Arts Amphitheater, 1st Floor Fine Arts Building

When? 12 Noon - 2 pm, Tues, 8/29/2023

What?

Free Food & Art Book Give-aways

Music, Friends, & Fun

Welcome back the school year with us & learn about all the cool happenings we have planned this year.

The five research centers in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC present this panel discussion to kick off the 2022-23 CAHSS Colloquium series, designed to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations among faculty, staff, and students to build intellectual community within and beyond individual research interests and curricula offerings. The topic for 2022-23 is resilience. Resilience is the ability of an entity, a person, an institution, a technology, a community, a natural environment, to anticipate, respond to, and recover from adverse conditions. The concept of resilience generally has a positive connotation, but it has also been criticized for placing on individuals and communities the burden to adapt to adverse and potentially unjust contexts. Adapting to adverse conditions may not necessarily improve them, so what is the relationship between resilience, resistance and social change? This panel will explore resilience from a variety of different perspectives. An open gallery and reception will follow the discussion.

This event is co-hosted by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3), the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) and is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Ann Brodsky - facilitator
Anne Brodsky is Professor and Chair of Psychology. Her work focuses on resilience, psychological sense of community, immigration and displacement, and the role of communities in creating and resisting societal risks and oppressions, including violence, war, poverty, sexism, and racism.

Panelists:

Earl Brooks
Earl H. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English, and his research interests include music, African-American rhetorical traditions, and composition. His forthcoming book, Resonance of Resistance, explores the rhetoric of Black music through the work of Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, and Mahalia Jackson.
 
Marcela Mellinger
Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work where she teaches policy courses as well as an intimate partner violence elective. Her research interests include advocacy, intimate partner violence, and social work education.
 
Oletha DeVane
Oletha DeVane is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist who explores diverse political, social identities and cultural interpretations. Her work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in the United Arab Emirates and is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Born in Baltimore, DeVane received a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her solo exhibition Oletha Devane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit will be on view in the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture September 22 - December 17, 2022.

Dominic Nell
Dominic Nell is a photographer, activist, and farmer-chef focused on healing communities through various mediums. Nell is the founder of CityWeeds, a trauma-informed food business that strives to eliminate food deserts and improve the health, wellness, and independence of Baltimore City residents through the growing and selling of microgreens and cold-pressed juices. Nell's vision for CityWeeds is to feed and heal the community by growing food out of vacant lots.

Registration is required.

UMBC is committed to making its events accessible to everyone. Please send an email to abbotts@umbc.edu to request any specific accommodations. Two weeks' notice is appreciated, but we will do our best to accommodate needs at any point.

This event will be recorded and available on CADVC's YouTube channel and CS3's YouTube channel.