The Arts at UMBC
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The Arts at UMBC: dance, music, theatre and the visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"A note-perfect ensemble" featuring "top flight solos" says Washington Classical Review of UMBC's new music ensemble, Ruckus, after a brilliant performance on Oct 16 at the Livewire festival! washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/10/17/u... @umbc.edu
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"A note-perfect ensemble" featuring "top flight solos" says Washington Classical Review of UMBC's new music ensemble, Ruckus, after a brilliant performance on Oct 16 at the Livewire festival! washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/10/17/u... @umbc.edu
Don't miss Pedagogy Study Hall, a fascinating exhibition/installation/inquiry by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans at UMBC's CADVC! Read about it here in a fabulous BmoreArt review — bmoreart.com/2025/10/crea... @umbc.edu
Creating the Learning Space We Need: Pedagogy Study Hall at CADVC - BmoreArt
Creating the Learning Space We Need: Pedagogy Study Hall By Theresa Sotto An iterative exhibition and a collective learning environment. … Continued
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October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Don't miss Pedagogy Study Hall, a fascinating exhibition/installation/inquiry by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans at UMBC's CADVC! Read about it here in a fabulous BmoreArt review — bmoreart.com/2025/10/crea... @umbc.edu
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On the Podcast: Gerrad Alex Taylor discusses his world premiere adaptation of SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, opening 10/30 @artsatumbc.bsky.social, which combines Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to canonize the Black experience. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
Shakespeare In Harlem - Reduced Shakespeare Company
A hundred years on from the Harlem Renaissance, Gerrad Alex Taylor has adapted Langston Hughes’s Shakespeare in Harlem, which is having its world premiere this month at the University of Maryland Balt...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
On the Podcast: Gerrad Alex Taylor discusses his world premiere adaptation of SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, opening 10/30 @artsatumbc.bsky.social, which combines Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to canonize the Black experience. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
Enjoy three days of new music at UMBC's annual Livewire festival, this week! Join us Oct 16–18 for concerts by Ruckus, Ensemble Bravura, music by Di Castri, Eastman, Gubaidulina, Gubaidulina, Léon, Tower, Stockhausen, Cage & more — umbc.edu/event/livewi... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Livewire 15: Blazing Trails - UMBC
The Department of Music presents the Livewire 15: Blazing Trails new music festival. Through concerts and other events, Livewire celebrates the innovators,...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Enjoy three days of new music at UMBC's annual Livewire festival, this week! Join us Oct 16–18 for concerts by Ruckus, Ensemble Bravura, music by Di Castri, Eastman, Gubaidulina, Gubaidulina, Léon, Tower, Stockhausen, Cage & more — umbc.edu/event/livewi... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Join us Tues 10/14, 5:30 pm at UMBC for Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation – a rare opportunity to hear from MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Mel Chin, whose groundbreaking, socially engaged work spans science, video games, ecology, and more — umbc.edu/event/mel-ch... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Join us Tues 10/14, 5:30 pm at UMBC for Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation – a rare opportunity to hear from MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Mel Chin, whose groundbreaking, socially engaged work spans science, video games, ecology, and more — umbc.edu/event/mel-ch... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
This week! Join us for the edgy dance duo Baye & Asa — two performances only, Thu & Fri, Oct 16 & 17, 7:30 pm in UMBC's Dance Cube! Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2022 — umbc.edu/event/baye-a... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Baye & Asa - UMBC
Join us for two evenings of cutting edge modern dance as the Department of Dance presents Baye & Asa, who have presented their work at The Joyce Theater,...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This week! Join us for the edgy dance duo Baye & Asa — two performances only, Thu & Fri, Oct 16 & 17, 7:30 pm in UMBC's Dance Cube! Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2022 — umbc.edu/event/baye-a... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
What does entrepreneurship look like in the arts and humanities? At UMBC, it looks like innovative research, bold teaching, and powerful social impact. Join us for a dynamic panel discussion on Wed, Oct 8, 12 pm (with a free lunch!) — umbc.edu/event/entrep... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What does entrepreneurship look like in the arts and humanities? At UMBC, it looks like innovative research, bold teaching, and powerful social impact. Join us for a dynamic panel discussion on Wed, Oct 8, 12 pm (with a free lunch!) — umbc.edu/event/entrep... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Join us this Sunday for Harmony Across Borders: UMBC Choirs Homecoming Concert, as the UMBC choirs celebrate their tour to Prague and Paris! October 5, 5 pm, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/umbc-c... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Harmony Across Borders: UMBC Choirs Homecoming Concert - UMBC
In June 2025, three UMBC choirs took part in an extraordinary summer performance tour through Europe. In this Choirs Homecoming Concert, the three choirs...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Join us this Sunday for Harmony Across Borders: UMBC Choirs Homecoming Concert, as the UMBC choirs celebrate their tour to Prague and Paris! October 5, 5 pm, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/umbc-c... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Thanks, BmoreArt, for highlighting Pedagogy Study Hall, opening on October 9 at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture! bmoreart.com/2025/10/bmor... @umbc.edu @bmoreart.bsky.social
BmoreArt News: Pedagogy Study Hall, Nick Cave, Kevin Brown - BmoreArt
UMBC ‘s Pedagogy Study Hall with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans, SAAM announces Nick Cave’s upcoming exhibition, SNAC-ing with … Continued
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October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thanks, BmoreArt, for highlighting Pedagogy Study Hall, opening on October 9 at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture! bmoreart.com/2025/10/bmor... @umbc.edu @bmoreart.bsky.social
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Monday in Baltimore! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... @ishotbaltimore.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @artsatumbc.bsky.social @baltimoremagazine.com @baltfishbowl.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social @cbsnewsbaltimore.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks, Washington Classical Review, for joining us yesterday afternoon, when Hui-Chuan Chen gave a spectacular performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata in Linehan Concert Hall! Read the review by Steve Silverman — washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/09/29/p... @umbc.edu
September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thanks, Washington Classical Review, for joining us yesterday afternoon, when Hui-Chuan Chen gave a spectacular performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata in Linehan Concert Hall! Read the review by Steve Silverman — washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/09/29/p... @umbc.edu
Beethoven Reimagined! Join us Sunday 9/28, 3 pm, in Linehan Concert Hall, when pianist Hui-Chuan Chen performs Beethoven's epic Hammerklavier sonata and a new piece by Daniel Pesca, "Impromptu #2 (after Beethoven)" — umbc.edu/event/beetho... @umbc.edu
Beethoven Reimagined - UMBC
When Ludwig van Beethoven published the 29th of his 32 piano sonatas, nicknamed “the Hammerklavier,” he is said to have quipped to his publisher in 1819...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Beethoven Reimagined! Join us Sunday 9/28, 3 pm, in Linehan Concert Hall, when pianist Hui-Chuan Chen performs Beethoven's epic Hammerklavier sonata and a new piece by Daniel Pesca, "Impromptu #2 (after Beethoven)" — umbc.edu/event/beetho... @umbc.edu
Thanks, BmoreArt, for featuring today's lecture by Johanna Toruño and our Friday Queer Futures event in your picks of the week! bmoreart.com/2025/09/bmor... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social @bmoreart.bsky.social
BmoreArt's Picks: September 23-29 - BmoreArt
BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thanks, BmoreArt, for featuring today's lecture by Johanna Toruño and our Friday Queer Futures event in your picks of the week! bmoreart.com/2025/09/bmor... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social @bmoreart.bsky.social
Join us on Friday 9/26 for a roundtable gathering of visionary queer artists, thinkers, and culture-makers designed to explore the evolving possibilities of queer life, art, and community — umbc.edu/event/queer-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
Queer Futures: A Roundtable Conversation - UMBC
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Queer Futures, a roundtable gathering of visionary queer artists, thinkers, and culture-makers designed to explore the ...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us on Friday 9/26 for a roundtable gathering of visionary queer artists, thinkers, and culture-makers designed to explore the evolving possibilities of queer life, art, and community — umbc.edu/event/queer-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social
In today's Baltimore Banner, a list of 6 must-see fall exhibitions includes UMBC's Picturing Mobility at the Library Gallery! Don't miss this extraordinary show — www.thebanner.com/culture/arts... @umbc.edu @thebaltimorebanner.com @bmoreart.bsky.social
BmoreArt’s recommendations for 6 free, must-see art exhibits this fall
From a Galerie Myrtis group show to Katie Pumphrey’s “Swimming Pool,” here are BmoreArt’s favorite free art exhibits to visit this fall.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In today's Baltimore Banner, a list of 6 must-see fall exhibitions includes UMBC's Picturing Mobility at the Library Gallery! Don't miss this extraordinary show — www.thebanner.com/culture/arts... @umbc.edu @thebaltimorebanner.com @bmoreart.bsky.social
Next Wednesday 9/17, Jonathon Heyward and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Haydn, Mayer, and Mozart at UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall! This event has been sold out, but a small number of seats were just released! @umbc.edu umbc.edu/event/baltim...
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - UMBC
Join us for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and music director Jonathon Heyward in a performance Haydn's Symphony No. 100, Emelie Mayer's Faust Overture, and Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2, with soloi...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Next Wednesday 9/17, Jonathon Heyward and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Haydn, Mayer, and Mozart at UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall! This event has been sold out, but a small number of seats were just released! @umbc.edu umbc.edu/event/baltim...
Thanks, @wbaltv11.bsky.social, for covering the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, which features lots of @umbc.edu artists! Enjoy this clip featuring Phil Davis ’07, IMDA, and adjunct professor Alexi Scheiber — youtu.be/iFb1Tbg0wL8?...
'Sweaty Eyeballs' festival showcases innovative animation in Baltimore
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September 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thanks, @wbaltv11.bsky.social, for covering the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, which features lots of @umbc.edu artists! Enjoy this clip featuring Phil Davis ’07, IMDA, and adjunct professor Alexi Scheiber — youtu.be/iFb1Tbg0wL8?...
The Baltimore Banner profiles Lafayette Gilchrist '92, Africana studies, and his remarkable musical career! @umbc.edu
The influence of Baltimore’s preeminent jazz pianist extends well beyond the city
The influence of Baltimore’s preeminent jazz pianist extends well beyond the city
Lafayette Gilchrist, Baltimore’s preeminent jazz pianist, has released a new album with the New Volcanoes and joined the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Baltimore Banner profiles Lafayette Gilchrist '92, Africana studies, and his remarkable musical career! @umbc.edu
Thanks, Baltimore Fishbowl, for sharing news about our upcoming exhibition, Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, opening September 2 at UMBC's Library Gallery! baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/blac...
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A glimpse into Black Americans' leisure and travel during Jim Crow
A new exhibition at UMBC's Library Gallery gives viewers insight into how Black Americans experienced leisure and travel during Jim Crow.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thanks, Baltimore Fishbowl, for sharing news about our upcoming exhibition, Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, opening September 2 at UMBC's Library Gallery! baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/blac...
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Visual arts' Kelley Bell, M.F.A. ’06, was a 2024 recipient of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artist Award. The BMA exhibit featured 20 works from five recent Baker Artist Award recipients, including Bell’s “Fantastic Village.”
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Kelley Bell, M.F.A ’06, Brings A Sense Of Play To The BMA With “Fantastic Village” - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
When associate professor of visual arts Kelley Bell thinks back to her childhood growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., she recalls fond
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August 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Visual arts' Kelley Bell, M.F.A. ’06, was a 2024 recipient of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artist Award. The BMA exhibit featured 20 works from five recent Baker Artist Award recipients, including Bell’s “Fantastic Village.”
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All four performances of this weekend's theatre production, "in the darkest forest," are now sold out! Congrats to Nigel Semaj and the entire team in the UMBC Department of Theatre! umbc.edu/event/in-the... #umbc
In The Darkest Forest - UMBC
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 f...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
All four performances of this weekend's theatre production, "in the darkest forest," are now sold out! Congrats to Nigel Semaj and the entire team in the UMBC Department of Theatre! umbc.edu/event/in-the... #umbc
The UMBC Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir take the stage this Saturday, May 3, at 5 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall! Free admission — more at umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... #umbc #artsatumbc
UMBC Jubilee Singers And Gospel Choir - UMBC
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The UMBC Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir take the stage this Saturday, May 3, at 5 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall! Free admission — more at umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... #umbc #artsatumbc
Join us as pianist Joel Sachs celebrates Charles Ives at 150! He'll perform the First Piano Sonata along with The Alcotts and Thoreau — Wed 4/23, 7:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/celebr... #umbc
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 p...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Join us as pianist Joel Sachs celebrates Charles Ives at 150! He'll perform the First Piano Sonata along with The Alcotts and Thoreau — Wed 4/23, 7:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/celebr... #umbc
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7 things to do in Baltimore County includes masterworks at UMBC, nature walks
7 things to do in Baltimore County includes masterworks at UMBC, nature walks
Things to do in Baltimore County including masterworks at UMBC, hiking at Oregon Ridge, dancing in Catonsville and more.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
7 things to do in Baltimore County includes masterworks at UMBC, nature walks
RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray! Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus/ #umbc
Ruckus
The Department of Music presents RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. With a mission to champion new and innovative works, RUCKUS is dedicated to supporting innovative artists...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray! Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus/ #umbc