The Arts at UMBC

Ruckus - UMBC The Department of Music presents RUCKUS, the faculty new music ensemble at UMBC, in a concert that highlights the work of pivotal American composer George Lewis.

Explore the music of George Lewis, Viet Cuong and David Lang performed by the RUCKUS ensemble! Wednesday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus... @umbc.edu

UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble - UMBC The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Faculty Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Matt Belzer, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Mark Merella.

Join us on Friday 3/6 for the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Matt Belzer, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Mark Merella! 7:30 pm in Linehan Concert Hall — reserve your seats now! umbc.edu/event/umbc-f... @umbc.edu

Susie Ibarra: Rhythm In Nature - UMBC The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Filipinx-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra,...

Join us on Saturday, March 7 for composer Susie Ibarra! She'll present a 6:30 pm spatial audio installation and a 7:30 pm concert of her works in Linehan Concert Hall, both free! umbc.edu/event/susie-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Creative Convergence: A Conversation With A Conductor And Curator - UMBC The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Creative Convergence: A Conversation with a Conductor and Curator. In this event, curator...

This Sat 2/28 @ 2pm, join us for a conversation between conductor Philip Mann and Maleke Glee, curator of the "absolute alternatives" exhibition at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Arrive early to enjoy the final day of the show! umbc.edu/event/creati... @umbc.edu

UMBC Jazz Ensemble With Vince Cherico - UMBC The UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Belzer performs with Grammy award-winning percussionist Vince Cherico in a concert celebrating Latin jazz.

Drummer Vince Cherico, five-time Grammy winner, performs with the UMBC Jazz Ensemble this Friday night, 2/27, at 7:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall! Reserve your seats now for what promises to be an amazing evening! umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... @umbc.edu

Nikki Ann Hartman — Stages Of Becoming: Putting Myself Together With Doll Parts… - UMBC The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity presents multi-disciplinary theatre artist Nikki Ann Hartman, who will discuss “Stages of Becoming:...

Join us tomorrow at UMBC, Thurs 2/26 at 4 pm, for a free dramatic reading of a new play by Nikki Hartman, "Doll Parts…," a one-[trans]-woman show about memory, remembering, and transitioning as an older woman! umbc.edu/event/nikki-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

We're entering the final week of "absolute alternatives," the 2026 UMBC faculty exhibition! Join us for works by more than 20 artists at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture through February 28 — umbc.edu/event/absolu... @umbc.edu

Liana Pailodze Harron, Piano - UMBC Explore breathtaking musical landscapes as pianist Liana Pailodze Harron presents an extraordinary program that celebrates both America's 250th birthday and...

Join us for the first concert of our spring music season this Wednesday, 2/4, 7:30 pm in Linehan Hall, when pianist Liana Pailodze Harron performs Copland's Appalachian Spring! The concert also features visual artist McCoy Chance — umbc.edu/event/liana-... @umbc.edu

"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

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 - 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...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

'Sweaty Eyeballs' festival showcases innovative animation in Baltimore YouTube video by WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore

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

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.

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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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

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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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...

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