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.

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.

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

Thinking about graduate or professional school but not sure where to start?

Whether you’re just beginning to explore your options or already planning to apply, Grad School 101 will help you better understand the process, ask the right questions, and put a plan in motion.

Agenda Includes:

• Is Grad School / Professional School for Me?
  Explore whether graduate or professional school aligns with your career goals. Through guided questions and reflection, you’ll gain greater clarity about if, when, and why advanced study makes sense for you.
• Ask Me Anything: Real Talk with Program Directors and Professionals
  Get candid answers from graduate program directors and advisors. Bring your questions about choosing programs, applications, funding, career fit, and more—and hear advice and perspectives you may not find online.
• The Application Process: Strategically Telling Your Story
  Learn how to go beyond grades and test scores to create an application that stands out. We’ll discuss how to highlight your strengths and experiences, communicate your goals, and connect your story to the programs you’re pursuing.

Light Fare Provided

Space is limited, and registration is required through Handshake. Reserve your spot early!

Please note: 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 policy.

UMBC is also committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors.  If you would like to request accommodations (e.g., ASL interpreters, captioning, wheelchair access, etc.) for this event, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make arrangements for program access. Please contact the event host (careers@umbc.edu) with your specific request and be sure to include the event title, date, and time.

Line dance is a form of dance in which memory and execution come together. Dancers learn basic steps, rhythms and routines choreographed to music, thereby improving memory and balance. Music styles include: pop, rock, blues, country, R&B, Latin, salsa, contemporary, swing and ballad.

View the full schedule on our website

A class focused on strength, stretching, and toning to music inspired by a combination of pilates, yoga, and ballet. In this class you will use light weights and bodyweight to build strength, flexibility, and endurance.

Starting at 5:30 pm get a ticket from the front desk to reserve your space. 

View the full schedule on our website

What does it really mean to be confident?

Join Kingdom Christian Fellowship for a conversation on self-confidence, identity, and seeing yourself through God’s eyes.

Come ready to learn, reflect, and be encouraged as we explore how to walk boldly in your God-given identity and purpose.

Food will be provided, and everyone is welcome! We hope to see you there!

warmmm up those vocal cords! (seb) is bringing the Filipino videoke experience to UMBC with a night of karaoke, prizes, drinks, and desserts. Whether you're belting power ballads or just hyping up your friends from the crowd, everyone's welcome on the mic :) join us at sportszone for a night that's very pinoy, very Philippines, and very, very loud. Best performances take home prizes!!

Just a reminder that Living Water is happening THURSDAY in FLAT TUESDAY'S!

This week, we’ll be having a Q&A Night! Students will have the opportunity to ask a panel of pastors questions about Christianity, faith, the Bible, and what it looks like to follow Jesus in everyday life. Come with your questions, whether they’re big, small, serious, or something you’ve always wondered about!

We’re excited to have an open conversation and learn together.

See you Thursday in FLAT TUESDAY'S! :D

Join us as we go through Jesus's Parables in the book of Matthew!

Every Thursday at 7:30 PM in The Commons Room 332!

INSTEAD OF BRINGING THE COMPANIES TO CAMPUS, WE’RE TAKING YOU TO THE COMPANY!

Join us for a unique student experience at MilliporeSigma’s Rockville site, where you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the biotechnology industry. This visit will include an organizational overview, site tour, networking lunch, and a panel session with staff representing a variety of roles and backgrounds. You’ll gain exposure to different areas across the company — from lab work to quality assurance, operations, and more — all designed to introduce you to the exciting possibilities in biotech and contract testing services.

Registration Is Open - Register Now!

Free transportation will be provided, but an RSVP in Handshake will be required.

• Summer Internships at MilliporeSigma Rockville offer diverse opportunities across areas such as project management, employee engagement, lab operations, data engineering, quality, and supply chain, and more! Join us for 10 weeks of hands-on experience where you can #WorkYourMagic! Beyond valuable work experience, you'll build new friendships and take advantage of numerous professional development opportunities.
• Requirements: Must be 18 years of age by the start of the internship and enrolled in a post-high school program.
  
• For full-time employment, we have entry-level positions on a rolling basis, such as Lab Technician, Associate Scientist, and Quality Assurance, most of which just require a degree in the life sciences and any prior in-person lab experience is a plus.

Students from all life sciences majors and all school years are encouraged to attend. International students are eligible for Internships!

About MilliporeSigma

Are you looking for a challenge that’s both rewarding and fulfilling? Start your career with us and join a global team with a passion to pioneer. ​​​​​​Whether you’re looking for first-time practical experience or a foot in the door to the science and technology world, our company is a great place to start an ongoing journey of discovery.We care passionately about our colleagues, customers, patients, and the planet. That’s why we support and nurture our employees’ ideas, talents, and enthusiasm to advance human progress.

Careers at MilliporeSigma

Tentative Agenda (TBD)

9:15 AM - Bus Departs UMBC
10:00 AM - Bus Arrives at MilliporeSigma
10:05 AM - Company/Organizational Overview
10:50 AM - Tour of Facilities
11:30 AM - Lunch Break
12:15 PM - Panel Session with Employees
1:00 pm - Bus Departs MilliporeSigma
1:45 pm - Bus Arrives Back at UMBC

We encourage students to come prepared with questions for our employees during the panel session - about career paths, professional backgrounds, day-to-day roles, or anything else they're curious about. Our team loves sharing their experiences and answering questions candidly.

Closed-toe shoes are required, since students will be touring the labs, and a valid ID is needed for check-in.

MilliporeSigma - Work Areas
Internship opportunities are open to students of all class years, and full-time roles are available to graduating seniors. Milliporesigma is excited to connect with life sciences majors from all academic years who are interested in lab experience and learning more about biotechnology and contract testing services. Also welcoming students from other disciplines such as operations, project management, quality assurance, and supply chain.

Attendees
Please bring a reusable water bottle - sustainable practices are used on site.
There’s no formal dress code; we suggest casual or business casual attire, whichever feels comfortable.

Please note
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 policy. UMBC is also committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. If you would like to request accommodations (e.g., ASL interpreters, captioning, wheelchair access, etc.) for this event, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make arrangements for program access. Please contact the event host (careers@umbc.edu) with your specific request and be sure to include the event title, date, and time.

Your insight and teaching experience are critical as we re-envision general education at UMBC. Join colleagues across disciplines for the 10th Annual Provost’s Teaching and Learning Symposium, hosted by the Hrabowski Innovation Fund initiative.

This year’s theme, Re-Envisioning General Education: Developing a Unique Foundation to Support Students’ Life-Long Learning, is all about collaboratively imagining and building a transformative, future-focused curriculum—and your voice belongs in the conversation.

What to expect:

• 9:00 a.m.– Check-in, breakfast & UMBC Gen Ed Primer: Start the day connected and informed. [REGISTRATION REQUIRED, REGISTER FOR BREAKFAST & BACKGROUND HERE]

• 10:00 a.m. – Keynote Presentation: Fresh perspectives from a renowned expert on modern general education.

• 11:30 a.m.– Lunch and Facilitated Idea-Sharing Session: Reconnect with colleagues across campus while sharing your vision for the future of Gen Ed at UMBC. [REGISTRATION REQUIRED, REGISTER FOR LUNCH & IDEATION HERE]

• 2:00 p.m. – Poster & Teaching Tool Showcase: Discover practical strategies and tools you can take straight to your classroom. 

DOWNLOAD THE 2026 PT&LS AGENDA

DOWNLOAD THE 2026 PT&LS POSTER ABSTRACTS

This year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Paul Gaston, Distinguished Fellow in the Office of Curricular, Pedagogical, and Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), will set the stage for our conversations around gen ed transformation through his talk: 

Essential Education for Interesting Times

The keynote challenges the assumption that general education is "general" by considering how a strong core or foundational program that supports all majors can createa distinct competitive advantage for the university. We will explore the essential elements of a highly intentional, coherent educational experience — from integrating high-impact practices (like learning communities, capstones, and undergraduate research) to building seamless continuity between gen ed and the major. By examining innovative models in the light of the priorities and needs of today’s students, attendees will discuss alternative approaches that address clearly defined competencies while fostering a deeper sense of community.

Paul L. Gaston, Trustees Professor Emeritus and former Provost at Kent State University, has pursued a focus on general education throughout his career. He is a former board member of AAC&U and served on the faculty of its Institution for General Education and Assessment for nearly 20 years. He is the author of three AAC&U monographs on general education reform, including General Education Transformed: How We Can, Why We Must (AAC&U, 2015) and Revising General Education And Avoiding the Potholes (AAC&U, 2009), and co-author of Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile. As a consultant on general education, he has made presentations and led discussions on more than 60 campuses. He is the author of US Higher Education Accreditation: How It’s Changing, Why It Must (2013), Credentials with Michelle Van Noy (2022), and Rebuilding Support for US Higher Education (2024), all published by Routledge. In the spring of 2026, he was elected as a member of the board of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).

While the majority of the program this year is devoted to faculty and staff only, graduate students are invited to attend the afternoon poster session.

Please note that attendance at the morning activities (9 a.m. through 2 p.m.) and/or the poster and teaching tool showcase (2 p.m. through 3:30 p.m.) counts toward the ALIT (√) or INNOVATE (§) certificates. Attending the entire event (9 a.m. through 3:30 p.m.) counts as two programs for the certificate requirements.

UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all. To request accommodations (e.g., ASL interpreters, captioning, wheelchair access, etc.) or to inquire about event accessibility, please contact fdc@umbc.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make arrangements for program access.

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.

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.

Executive functions are things we do daily that help us get things done, like making lists, managing a schedule, and setting reminders.  Workshop attendees will work on developing skills to overcome barriers to success, including time management, task prioritization/implementation, motivation, and self-accountability.

Session 1 focuses on metacognition, time management, and flexibility.

Please use this passcode for the link above when prompted by Webex to join the session: 

NZdeQWqK333

This is a non-clinical series provided by the Office of Health Promotion, so no appointments or consultations are required, and any UMBC community member can join this virtual session!  If you can only make 1 or 2 of the workshops, that's ok too.

If you have any questions, please email ohp@umbc.edu

If you need accommodations for a disability, please contact Tiffani McGronan (tmcgron1@umbc.edu) at least one week before the start of the workshop and OHP will arrange for services.

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 policy.

Are you interested in helping out with the greenhouse project or just want to learn more? Come join us on Friday October 2nd from 12-1pm to hear updates, share your ideas, and help plan the next steps for the project! 

We hope to see you there!