Latinx Film Festival

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department, UMBC Library, Albin O. Kuhn and Office of Community and Culture present, The Latinx Film Festival.

On Sept. 21 Unleash the drama of  three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US, in “From Nowhere”

📍 Where: ENG 027

 ⏰ When: 4:30PM-6:30PM 

On Sept. 29 Grab your dinner and come to Library Gallery to watch an inspiring truth story of a cross-country team from a mainly Latino High School in California. “McFarland USA” is a powerful story about culture, community, and the true meaning of team. Watch how a small town transformed a coach, and how a coach helped a team make history.

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

On Oct. 8  Dive into theworld of “las Tres Sisters”, a powerful film of sisterhood, identity and resilience of  three Mexican-Americansisters that take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationships.  

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

Latinx Film Festival

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department presents, Latinx Film Festival. 

On Sept. 21 Unleash the drama of  three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US, in “From Nowhere”

📍 Where: ENG 027

 ⏰ When: 4:30PM-6:30PM 

On Sept. 29 Grab your dinner and come to Library Gallery to watch an inspiring truth story of a cross-country team from a mainly Latino High School in California. “McFarland USA” is a powerful story about culture, community, and the true meaning of team. Watch how a small town transformed a coach, and how a coach helped a team make history.

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

On Oct. 8  Dive into theworld of “las Tres Sisters”, a powerful film of sisterhood, identity and resilience of  three Mexican-Americansisters that take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationships.  

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

Latinx Film Festival

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department presents, Latinx Film Festival. 

On Sept. 21 Unleash the drama of  three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US, in “From Nowhere”

📍 Where: ENG 027

 ⏰ When: 4:30PM-6:30PM 

On Sept. 29 Grab your dinner and come to Library Gallery to watch an inspiring truth story of a cross-country team from a mainly Latino High School in California. “McFarland USA” is a powerful story about culture, community, and the true meaning of team. Watch how a small town transformed a coach, and how a coach helped a team make history.

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

On Oct. 8  Dive into theworld of “las Tres Sisters”, a powerful film of sisterhood, identity and resilience of  three Mexican-Americansisters that take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationships.  

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

The Clothesline Project at UMBC is displayed in October for Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month. 
The Clothesline Project is an opportunity for survivors of power based violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt to give voice to their experience. These shirts are then hung on a clothesline as a public testimony to the problem of sexual and gendered violence.
Shirt-making supplies are going to be available for survivors to create a shirt for the Clothesline Project as part of their healing process from October 1st-21st during WGEC hours (Mon-Thurs, 9:30-5pm, Fri 10-3). 
Display will be on October 22nd. 
*Please note: The Clothesline Project is intended to make visible the experiences of people impacted by sexual assault and relationship violence. We ask that only those who identify as survivors or who are close to someone who is a survivor make t-shirts to be displayed in the Project*
If you have any questions, concerns, or want to know more about the event, email us at womenscenter@umbc.edu.

Critical Social Justice is a campus-wide initiative dedicated to deepening our collective understanding of equity, inclusion, and community care. Through panels, workshops, and creative programming, we invite students, staff, and faculty to engage in meaningful conversations about how they can see themselves in both the problems and in the solutions of our unjust society.

Program Schedule

October 1st- Critical Catch up: Educational Policy Landscape

October 5th- When the Personal is Political: How Identity and Politics Collide

October 20th - Politics Over Dinner: How to Talk About Issues That Matter

October 21st - Who Gets to Belong: When Equity Language Meets Accountability

October 26th - Grounding and Release Yoga

October 28th - Culture Conversation: Civic Engagement Beyond Voting

This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination

Your new favorite plushie is waiting! Kick off your weekend at (seb) Build-a-Bear Craft Night, where you'll stuff, dress, and personalize your very own bear to take home. Join us at Skylight for a cozy night of crafting :) supplies are limited, so come early! 

Join us for a fall-themed movie night!

Vote in our Discord for which of these four movies to watch!

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Over the Garden Wall
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Hoodwinked

7pm - 10pm in Engineering Lecture Hall 027!

Join us for Drone Day!! An all day event where you can build a drone or plane with a team and get a chance to take it to the skies, meet with our experienced members and learn about the ins-and-outs of AIAA!

ZERO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED, as you will be provided necessary guidance and materials to make the most of your ideas!

Free food and drinks will be provided!

RSVP FORM HERE!!!

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll. On view from August 25 through November 24, the exhibition features artists based in or connected to Baltimore, exploring the city’s cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary practices. The exhibition title is inspired by the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly includes work by Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and the presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Through serial compositions, photographic triptychs, floating installations, and cinema, the participating artists examine themes of home, memory, and community. The exhibition aims to offer perspective on these themes through the lens of Baltimore’s creative community.

Public Programs

Thursday, September 3, 6–8 p.m.
Opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with with Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, and Shan Wallace.

Thursday, October 15, 6–8 p.m.
Free outdoor concert by Brandon Woody alongside public projection of The Unveiling of God / a love letter to my forefathers by NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Thursday, November 5, 6–8 p.m.
Artist roundtable on experimental praxis, moderated by Ernest Shaw.

November 19, 6–8 p.m.
Artist talk on memory, communal and familial photographipc archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington.

About the Curator

In her curatorial work, Angela N. Carroll has organized exhibitions that examine and celebrate Black identity and community memory, elevating artists and historical narratives in the Upper South. Her latest effort, Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade at the Brandywine Museum of Art is accompanied by a monograph published by Rizzoli New York. As a scholar, Carroll has contributed critical writing to exhibition catalogs published by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Des Moines Art Center, The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Nerman MOCA, and the CueArt Foundation, among many others. These writings evidence her significant contribution to contemporary art historical discourse. Carroll intermittently teaches at American University, MICA and UMBC.

Visitor Information

Admission is free.

The CADVC is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 to 5 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Please visit here for directions and parking information.

Visitors who need specific accommodations to attend the exhibition or events should contact the CADVC at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

All events at CADVC are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University’s nondiscrimination policy.

Photo by Tedd Henn for UMBC.

Yoga on the ball is based on the foundation of Hatha yoga, using the ball to support and enhance each pose. By moving the ball in harmony with your breathing, students can create a deeper connection between mind and body. This practice helps support the joints and spine, improve balance, build core strength, and deepen yoga poses.

The class begins with a 15 minutes warm-up, followed by a progression toward the peak pose. The session concludes with cool-down and a relaxing Savasana. The class is suitable for beginners as well as students of all experience levels.

For safety, it is important to choose the correct ball size based on student height. To determine the proper size, sit on the ball with your feet flat on the floor, your knees should be bent at a 90-degree angle. Please plan arrive before the class begins, instructor will assist you in selecting the appropriate ball size.

Get off campus and into the city! Join (seb) at the 60th annual Fell's Point Fun Festival, one of Baltimore's biggest celebrations. The festival has more than 150 local vendors selling food, drinks, art, crafts, and clothes, plus live music all afternoon. Explore the historic waterfront, support local businesses, and make a day of it with friends! Grab a ticket!!

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso.

From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.

In July 1909, Hine visited Maryland, photographing child workers at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, this exhibition explores the places and people behind these photographs. A selection of Hine’s most iconic and enduring images situates his Maryland work within the broader context of his documentary project. The exhibition also examines how Hine’s photographs functioned as tools of visual persuasion, working in tandem with captions, pamphlets, slogans, and posters to shape public opinion — and ultimately legislation — regarding the changing role of children in the workforce and in American society.

This exhibition commemorates MD250 and the U.S. Semiquincentennial, exploring themes foundational to the nation’s history, including immigration and migration, the power of documentary photographs, and social justice.

Public Programs

Curatorial tour and opening reception
Thursday September 17, 5 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Food and Labor in Maryland
Thursday October 22, 6 p.m., followed by a reception
This event is co-organized with Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC.

Closing reception
Thursday December 3, 6 p.m.

All public program are free and open to the public.

Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso

Lewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers.

In 2023, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions, annotations, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York, New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. Oppenheim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2016). In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Image: Lisa Oppenheim, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Visitor Information

Admission is free. For driving directions and parking information, please visit here.

Library Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Top image: Lewis Wickes Hine, Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many such machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1909. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), P858.

We will be canvassing with the MD Dems in Towson on saturday. We will be meeting in the parking lot of the PAHB and departing and 12:30. Please use the following mobilize link. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/1020079/ to sign up

Please join RGPN McNair at our October Saturday Academy Workshop on Evaluating Peer-Reviewed Sources!

Erika Bucciantini is a doctoral student in The School of Public Policy at UMBC with a
specialization in Urban Policy. She holds a Bachelors in Humanities & Social Sciences from
Western Washington University and a Masters in Classical Studies from the University of
Kentucky with additional certification from the Institute for Latin Studies. Her research
interests include the impact of neoclassical monuments and architecture in the American
landscape, land use, and displacement.

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UMBC Swimming & Diving kicks off the 2026-27 season with the Family Weekend Tri-Meet vs. American and VMI on Saturday, October 3. 

The first 150 fans in attendance will receive a FREE Pink Retriever t-shirt!

Please join RGPN McNair at our October Saturday Academy Workshop on Evaluating Datasets for Academic Research!

Dr. Michael Rosenblum is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is interested in developing innovative clinical trial designs and open-source software to efficiently learn which treatments work best for which populations. He also works in causal inference applications and model robustness misspecification (i.e. quantitative methodology), and applies his work in forensics.

Please indicate your mode of attendance by clicking the sign up button!

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso.

From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.

In July 1909, Hine visited Maryland, photographing child workers at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, this exhibition explores the places and people behind these photographs. A selection of Hine’s most iconic and enduring images situates his Maryland work within the broader context of his documentary project. The exhibition also examines how Hine’s photographs functioned as tools of visual persuasion, working in tandem with captions, pamphlets, slogans, and posters to shape public opinion — and ultimately legislation — regarding the changing role of children in the workforce and in American society.

This exhibition commemorates MD250 and the U.S. Semiquincentennial, exploring themes foundational to the nation’s history, including immigration and migration, the power of documentary photographs, and social justice.

Public Programs

Curatorial tour and opening reception
Thursday September 17, 5 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Food and Labor in Maryland
Thursday October 22, 6 p.m., followed by a reception
This event is co-organized with Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC.

Closing reception
Thursday December 3, 6 p.m.

All public program are free and open to the public.

Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso

Lewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers.

In 2023, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions, annotations, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York, New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. Oppenheim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2016). In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Image: Lisa Oppenheim, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Visitor Information

Admission is free. For driving directions and parking information, please visit here.

Library Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Top image: Lewis Wickes Hine, Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many such machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1909. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), P858.

UMBC women's soccer hosts UAlbany in an America East Conference match on Sunday, October 4 at 1 p.m. 

UMBC Volleyball returns home for an America East Conference matchup versus NJIT on Sunday, October 4 at 3 p.m. 

Sunday is the Retrievers' Alumni Game!

Showcasing two premieres and a narrative song cycle for soprano and clarinet, the Whistling Hens duo shares stories about women, by women. Haiku Journey (Jenni Brandon) encourages loving stewardship of our planet, while Lingerie (Victoria Bond) bemoans frustrating aspects of women’s undergarments. The 17th Letter of the Living (Mojgan Misaghi) tells the story of Táhirih, executed for unveiling herself in front of a council of men, alongside Cradle Song and The Journals of Katherine Campbell, chronicling the lives of women who changed the world through activism as artists, healers, and politicians.

Whistling Hens® was founded by soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick (Queens University of Charlotte) and clarinetist Natalie Groom (UMBC, Towson University) to perform and commission music by women composers to create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. The duo’s name was plucked from a quote by a male music critic who wrote in the New York Times in 1918, “women composers are at best whistling hens.”

Whistling Hens has premiered 41 pieces and commissioned 16 compositions, 10 transcriptions, the Whistling Hens Women Composer Coloring Book, and inspired 26 dedicated works. Whistling Hens has released two albums, Big Crass Monster (2025) and Reacting to the Landscape (2022), presenting numerous world premiere recordings featuring many of their commissioned works.

This event is sponsored by UMBC’s Department of Music.

$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students.

Photo of Whistling Hens by Patrick Lill.