We hope you had a restful and fun Winter Break! Before we get too far into the school year, Arts at UMBC would like to let you know about the exciting art events happening soon on campus:
Opening Reception: Lab: Empirical Evidence: John Ruppert
Thursday, January 31, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
The CADVC is holding an opening reception for Lab: Empirical Evidence: John Ruppert, a solo exhibition of award-winning artist John Ruppert’s work This exhibition focuses on the blending of science and art to create different forms in installation, sculpture and photography. This work will show Ruppert's overarching investigation in developing a heightened consciousness of human existence.
Please join us for an intriguing experience, and free refreshments. For more information click here.
Tuesday, February, 5 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
In association with the Library Gallery’s presentation of the exhibition El Sueño Americano / The American Dream exhibition, Arizona-based artist Tom Kiefer will speak about his series of 59 photographs of everyday objects carried by migrants across the United States border with Mexico. Subsequently confiscated or forfeited at a Customs and Border Control facility in southern Arizona, these personal belongings — from gloves to rosaries and wallets to water bottles — were valued by their owners for their utilitarian, personal, or sentimental value.
Reception to follow talk. For more information click here.
CIRCA Catalyst: Joy Davis and Phil Davis
Wednesday, February 6, 4 p.m.
Room 216, Performing Arts and Humanities Building
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents curators Joy Davis ’11 and Phil Davis ’07 M.F.A, in a CIRCA Catalyst event, an ongoing series promoting conversations around trans-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research that fuses the performing and visual arts with other fields of inquiry and scholarship. Joy Davis, will discuss the process timeline of starting Waller Gallery, a new multidisciplinary gallery focused on presenting work by people of color. Phil Davis will talk about his work curating the animation programming of of Sweaty Eyeballs Animation along with successes and failures in helping establish a vibrant animation community in Baltimore.
Reception will follow talks. For more information click here.
Baltimore Dance Project
Thursday, February 7- Saturday, February 9, 8 p.m.
Proscenium Theatre
Baltimore Dance Project presents Ann Sofie Clemmensen and Tim Bendernagel’s new duet, Under the Arch, which premiered in 2018 in Odense, Denmark; Sandra Lacy’s Giving Up the Ghost, selected for this year’s Maryland Choreographers Showcase; Carol Hess’ Shooting Gallery; and premieres by BDP co-directors Hess and Doug Hamby.
Tickets: $20 general admission, $10 students and seniors, $7 UMBC students. For tickets click here.
