Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryThe Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women, featuring works by Sara Angelucci, Claudia Fáhrenkemper, Jennifer Garza Cuen, Sage Lewis, Claire A. Warden, and others. This exhibition presents a selection of objects from Archive 192, an independent archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating abstractionist works by women photographers. The prints on view survey the array of photographic processes and diverse techniques of abstraction employed by photographers over the past century. Related ephemera, including publications, artist books, and posters document the evolution of abstractionism in photography and political movements that impact women working within the medium.
Conflux: Variation
Fine Arts Building AmphitheatreThe Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture launches its 2025 program with Conflux: Variation (2025) by Baltimore-region artist collective Collis Donadio. This public video art projection, showing nightly in the Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre, explores the intersections of industry and the environment in Baltimore, where water meets land.
Humanities Forum — Jason Loviglio
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryPodcasts are the latest in a long list of media formats hailed as "empathy machines," technologies that will, by dint of their reach and affective force, compel us to care about one another. Radio, films, novels, and telegrams have all been previously designated as such. In the United States, public radio has, over the last 60 years, staked out a special claim for its capacity for empathy. This talk will explore the migration of the public radio structure of feeling as it migrated into narrative podcasting over the last two decades.
Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesPianist Joel Sachs performs masterworks by Charles Ives, one of America’s greatest composers and one of the greatest modernists of the early 20th century. His rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1 will be preceded by “The Alcotts” and “Thoreau,” the third and fourth movements of his more famous second Sonata, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” a tribute to the literary giants of that little town. Taken together, these compositions offer an unforgettable view of Ives’s unique vision of music that is both universal and deeply American.
UMBC Collegium Musicum
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson. The Collegium Musicum explores and performs vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.
The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe U.S. Army Blues, a component of the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” will perform a free concert at UMBC in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. This special event will feature the 2023 Collegiate and High School solo competition winners from the Army Blues Young Artist Competition, alongside Naptown Jazz Kids, the premier jazz organization for young people in Annapolis.
Juan Sebastián Delgado, cello, and Kristhyan Benitez, piano
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesCellist Juan Sebastián Delgado teams up with pianist Kristhyan Benitez in a program of original music for cello and piano from Latin America, featuring works by Astor Piazzolla, Mario Lavista, Francisco Mignone, Carlos Chavez, and Manuel Ponce. First-prize winner at the 2008 Latin-American Cello Festival, Delgado is active in the creation and dissemination of new works that explore the cello in innovative ways. Grammy award winning pianist Kristhyan Benitez is exciting audiences worldwide with his vivid and passionate concerts, presenting both Classical and Latin American repertoire with depth, passion and charisma.
AI and Artistic Practice: Sam Pluta, Brea Souders, and Eryk Salvaggio
Albin O. Kuhn Library GalleryIn a discussion presented by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), composer and sound artist Sam Pluta, visual artist Brea Souders, and video artist and writer Eryk Salvaggio each use and interact with AI in their artistic practice. They will introduce us to their work, reflecting on their experiences, doubts, and breakthroughs creating works using these technologies. This will be followed by a discussion moderated by UMBC assistant professor of art Eric Millikin.
UMBC Chamber Players
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.
in the darkest forest
Black Box TheatreUMBC Theatre presents in the darkest forest, directed by Nigel Semaj. Inspired by the aesthetics of horror films, Semaj and company go on a journey into Shakespeare’s “forest” plays where characters find adventure, terror, and transformation. This new work combines elements from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth to explore how the wildness of the psyche is mirrored in the wildness of the natural world.
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
UMBC Jazz in Concert
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.
UMBC Camerata
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United StatesThe Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Lulu Mwangi. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.
UMBC New Music Ensemble
The Music BoxThe Department of Music presents the UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Patrick Crossland.
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Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women, featuring works by Sara Angelucci, Claudia Fáhrenkemper, Jennifer Garza Cuen, Sage Lewis, Claire A. Warden, and others. This exhibition presents a selection of objects from Archive 192, an independent archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating abstractionist works by women photographers. The prints on view survey the array of photographic processes and diverse techniques of abstraction employed by photographers over the past century. Related ephemera, including publications, artist books, and posters document the evolution of abstractionism in photography and political movements that impact women working within the medium.
Conflux: Variation
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture launches its 2025 program with Conflux: Variation (2025) by Baltimore-region artist collective Collis Donadio. This public video art projection, showing nightly in the Fine Arts Building Amphitheatre, explores the intersections of industry and the environment in Baltimore, where water meets land.
The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master’s Program presents The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from March 25 through April 12, the exhibition features work by graduating students McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber, and Mariia Usova.
Guitar Fusions
Guitar Fusions
Join us for the grand finale of UMBC’s 2025 Guitar Fest, a one-of-a-kind concert presenting guitar artistry across eras, geographies, and traditions. Featuring works ranging from J. S. Bach to Pat Metheny, this concert brings guitarist Felipe Garibaldi performing highlights of the classical and popular repertoires, along with original compositions. He is later joined by jazz guitarist Tom Lagana and classical guitarist Andres Palacios, creating an extraordinary fusion of guitar worlds, promising an unforgettable evening of music.
4 events,
Cockeysville to Baltimore: Levester Williams
Cockeysville to Baltimore: Levester Williams
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture artist resident Levester Williams was recently featured in all matters aside, a survey exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman. The exhibition featured a selection of works produced during Williams’s artist residency research into the histories and mythologies of Cockeysville marble, a material used in both the Washington Monument in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and the iconic exterior steps of local rowhomes. On April 1, the CADVC presents a webinar featuring Levester Williams in conversation with sound designer Dan Shields, moderated by Lisa D. Freiman.
4 events,
Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form
Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Melissa Hyatt Foss, an instrument-maker, musician, composer-performer, researcher, and teaching artist who develops artistic and educational projects that explore pre-Colonial sound artifacts of the Americas and their applications in contemporary art and music. Foss is the Maryland Traditions Artist-in-Residence at UMBC where she shared her tradition and practice with Linehan Artist Scholars students and is guiding them to develop teaching materials that will enable public school teachers to introduce the practice, history, and cultural significance of clay instrument making to their students.
5 events,
John Proctor is the Villain
UMBC Theatre presents John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, directed by Susan Stroupe. In a high school English class, a group of lively teens are studying “The Crucible” while navigating young love, sex education, and the founding of a feminist club. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, the kids uncover more than one school scandal and discover their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy runs on pop music, fury, and the audacity of a new generation coming-of-age.
Social Sciences Forum — Distinguished Lecture in Psychology — Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
Social Sciences Forum — Distinguished Lecture in Psychology — Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
The mental health needs of people of color are largely invisible because they underutilize mental health services and are not the focus of research. Neuroscience data suggest that pragmatic, problem-solving approaches are the most personally relevant for Asian Americans, the least likely ethnic group to use mental health services. In this talk, Gordon Hall will discuss the development of the Mind Boba app to make psychotherapy more personally relevant and accessible to Asian Americans.
5 events,
David Russell, classical guitar
David Russell, classical guitar
The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents classical guitarist David Russell, who is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. Russell appears regularly at prestigious halls in main cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto, and Rome. Russell received a Grammy award for his CD “Aire Latino” in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.
6 events,
Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Structures of cultural support
Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Structures of cultural support
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, 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. The event will be a conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The Center for Ethics and Values presents a discussion, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, featuring three panelists — Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce; David Danks, Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, & Policy, UC San Diego; and Gabriella Waters, Director of Operations and Director of the Cognitive and Neurodiversity AI Lab (CoNA) at the Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems, Morgan State University. The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis.
5 events,
Humanities Forum — Tommy Orange — Canceled
Humanities Forum — Tommy Orange — Canceled
In this Humanities Forum talk, award-winning author Tommy Orange will converse with community-based visual artist and folklorist Ashley Minner Jones (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) about his recent novel, Wandering Stars. A follow-up to his bestselling debut, There There, Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.
5 events,
Humanities Forum — Nicole R. Fleetwood
Humanities Forum — Nicole R. Fleetwood
In this Humanities Forum talk, Nicole R. Fleetwood emerges from her current book project, Between the River and the Railroad Tracks, part memoir and part cultural history of growing up in Hamilton, Ohio. Her exploration of her hometown is a lens to meditate on the cultural life and labor of the Black Midwest through its music, art, and community practices.
5 events,
Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene
Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene
The Department of Visual Arts presents a talk by multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene, inspired by musical selections including Triptych by Max Roach.
4 events,
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Inscape, praised by The New York Times as “brilliant,” performs a program featuring works by Steven Stucky’s Ad Parnassum, Joan Tower’s Into the Night, and other works. Originally commissioned by the group Eighth Blackbird, Tower says Into the Night commemorates the treasured final months she and her late husband had together.
3 events,
Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Education history and policy
Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Education history and policy
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, 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. The event will be a conversation on education history and policy with Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor.
3 events,
Social Sciences Forum — Low Lecture — Amber N. Mitchell
Social Sciences Forum — Low Lecture — Amber N. Mitchell
Amber N. Mitchell will discuss the unique intersections of Black history, preservation, and memory that have presented opportunities and challenges in her career as a public historian and museum worker and look toward the future of African American storytelling in American public spaces.
3 events,
UMBC Wind Ensemble
UMBC Wind Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman in Love Notes, a program of music inspired by love. The event will feature critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist improviser Rob Flax and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra directed by Philip Mann.
3 events,
4 events,
Humanities Forum — Jason Loviglio
Humanities Forum — Jason Loviglio
Podcasts are the latest in a long list of media formats hailed as “empathy machines,” technologies that will, by dint of their reach and affective force, compel us to care about one another. Radio, films, novels, and telegrams have all been previously designated as such. In the United States, public radio has, over the last 60 years, staked out a special claim for its capacity for empathy. This talk will explore the migration of the public radio structure of feeling as it migrated into narrative podcasting over the last two decades.
Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist
Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist
Pianist Joel Sachs performs masterworks by Charles Ives, one of America’s greatest composers and one of the greatest modernists of the early 20th century. His rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1 will be preceded by “The Alcotts” and “Thoreau,” the third and fourth movements of his more famous second Sonata, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” a tribute to the literary giants of that little town. Taken together, these compositions offer an unforgettable view of Ives’s unique vision of music that is both universal and deeply American.
3 events,
UMBC Collegium Musicum
UMBC Collegium Musicum
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson. The Collegium Musicum explores and performs vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750.
3 events,
The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!
The U.S. Army Blues and All That Jazz!
The U.S. Army Blues, a component of the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” will perform a free concert at UMBC in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. This special event will feature the 2023 Collegiate and High School solo competition winners from the Army Blues Young Artist Competition, alongside Naptown Jazz Kids, the premier jazz organization for young people in Annapolis.
3 events,
Juan Sebastián Delgado, cello, and Kristhyan Benitez, piano
Juan Sebastián Delgado, cello, and Kristhyan Benitez, piano
Cellist Juan Sebastián Delgado teams up with pianist Kristhyan Benitez in a program of original music for cello and piano from Latin America, featuring works by Astor Piazzolla, Mario Lavista, Francisco Mignone, Carlos Chavez, and Manuel Ponce. First-prize winner at the 2008 Latin-American Cello Festival, Delgado is active in the creation and dissemination of new works that explore the cello in innovative ways. Grammy award winning pianist Kristhyan Benitez is exciting audiences worldwide with his vivid and passionate concerts, presenting both Classical and Latin American repertoire with depth, passion and charisma.
3 events,
AI and Artistic Practice: Sam Pluta, Brea Souders, and Eryk Salvaggio
AI and Artistic Practice: Sam Pluta, Brea Souders, and Eryk Salvaggio
In a discussion presented by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), composer and sound artist Sam Pluta, visual artist Brea Souders, and video artist and writer Eryk Salvaggio each use and interact with AI in their artistic practice. They will introduce us to their work, reflecting on their experiences, doubts, and breakthroughs creating works using these technologies. This will be followed by a discussion moderated by UMBC assistant professor of art Eric Millikin.
3 events,
UMBC Chamber Players
UMBC Chamber Players
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka.
4 events,
in the darkest forest
UMBC Theatre presents in the darkest forest, directed by Nigel Semaj. Inspired by the aesthetics of horror films, Semaj and company go on a journey into Shakespeare’s “forest” plays where characters find adventure, terror, and transformation. This new work combines elements from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth to explore how the wildness of the psyche is mirrored in the wildness of the natural world.
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
UMBC Gamelan Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).
4 events,
UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir
UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
