Meet fellow students, department staff and faculty, and learn more about our student organizations and academic programs at our Welcome Week Open House! Wednesday, September 4th from 12-1 p.m. in the Public Policy Building Atrium. Bring a friend!
CIRCA Presents: April Danielle Lewis, Artist’s Lecture
Date: September 16th, Noon – 1:30 PM
Location Dresher Center Conference Room PAHB 216
Free: catered event
April Danielle Lewis’ recent interventions, performances, installations and experiences have situated Baltimore at the center of dialogs around history, place, and identity sharpened with a social justice and community building lens.
Bio: April Danielle Lewis is an artist, visionary, and community cultivator.
Derived from a printmaking background, her performances and interventions often involve working in multiples, repetitive actions and building a framework that allows for works and performances to naturally evolve. Her work collaborates and invites her audience to be participants in engaging and building community.
Lewis earned a degree in art and design with a concentration in printmaking from Towson University and an Associate of Arts degree in visual art from Anne Arundel Community College. She serves as the Membership Manager at Open Works, a non-profit makerspace that makes tools, technology and the knowledge to use them accessible to all, volunteers as librarian at the Station North Tool Library and serves on the board of directors at Neighborhood Housing Services Baltimore. April lives and works in Baltimore.
]]>Monday, September 9th, Noon – 1:00 PM
Location: PAHB 216, Dresher Center Conference
Room
Free: catered event
Kristen Hileman is an Independent Curator based in Baltimore. She served as Head of The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Department of Contemporary Art from 2009 through 2019, where she oversaw the reinstallation of the museum’s renovated contemporary wing in 2012, initiated numerous acquisitions to diversify the collection, and presented exhibitions featuring an array of artists, among them the Guerrilla Girls, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Sarah Oppenheimer, Dario Robleto, Anri Sala, and Tomas Saraceno. Her most recent BMA projects included Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, DIS: A Good Crisis and John Waters: Indecent Exposure, a large-scale retrospective of that influential cultural figure’s visual arts career. Throughout her time at the BMA, Hileman foreground artists with ties to Baltimore including Seth Adelsberger, Maren Hassinger, Sharon Hayes, Jimmy Joe Roche, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek. Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wing, her survey of the career of the distinguished painter and Maryland Institute College of Art professor, will open at the BMA in spring 2020.
The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Fall semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to apply. (Search for TSC Student Consultant.) The application will be open until September 6th.
Technology Support Center (TSC) student consultants are the first points of technical contact for the UMBC community and those who do well often go on to work in other areas of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). Minimally, consultants are expected to provide initial triage and support for a wide range of information technologies including accounts, hardware, instructional technologies, networking, software, telecommunications, and basic web development.
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Baltimore Organizations Form Unique Partnership to Create the FISH (Feeding Individuals to Support Health) Project
Scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) are conducting aquaculture research at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) to develop the next generation of environmentally sustainable methods for farming marine fish of commercial importance.
In a unique collaboration between IMET, United Way of Central Maryland, McCormick, and JJ McDonnell, the FISH Project was developed to positively impact the health of the central Maryland community. The project aims to provide residents living in underserved communities with access to healthy and nutritious meal options, like fresh-cooked fish.
The initial harvest of fish is a Mediterranean bronzini, which has been grown in pristine saltwater in the IMET Aquaculture Research Center. As part of its commitment to supporting sustainable seafood sourcing, the local seafood distributor JJ McDonnell, will process and deliver the fish to local meal programs as well as to the Maryland Food Bank. The goal is to not only deliver high-quality, locally produced fish to improve people’s health, but also to educate families and individuals on how to prepare fish using low cost, healthy, flavorful ingredients.
The FISH Project was officially launched at the Franciscan Center on June 25, where patrons were served a healthy bronzini lunch.
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