CADVC Presents "Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit"
Opening September 22
Featuring nearly 100 artworks, this first retrospective of celebrated Maryland artist Oletha DeVane traces DeVane's extensive career, from her early paintings and works on paper to more recent video artworks and interactive sculpture.
A prolific artist, wayfinder and storyteller, DeVane has spent decades learning and making art about the most profound phenomena of our human condition: spirituality, mythology, and transformative experience, including experiences of hardship. Over the last five decades, as she traveled in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, she became inspired by the stories and characters she encountered. Her artwork brings the unexpected to light, while finding new nuances in the old and familiar, and surprising intersections among those cultures.
A highlight of the exhibition is a large-scale carved sculpture, "Nkisi Woman-Universal Nkisi" (2021-22), which will be activated over the course of the exhibition by visitors who are invited to add beads to its surface. The nkisi is a Kongo cultural figure invested with sacred energy, and this sculpture will catalyze communion and community-building. The work reflects DeVane's fascination with how materials convey meaning and reemerge as myths and memories.
The exhibition also celebrates Oletha DeVane's collaborative activities. Her long-standing collaboration with poet and media personality Tadia Rice, Beyond Bars: Prison Women Speak, will be updated for the exhibition in the form of new video works.
"Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit" is organized by curator Lowery Stokes Sims and is supported by the Maryland State Arts Council and Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences.
See our website for details about the exhibition and related programs.
Image: Oletha DeVane, "Garden of the Heart," 2021, mixed media, 47 x 36 in. Photo: Mitro Hood
Plan a Visit Free parking is available in Lot 8 during evening and weekend events. The gallery and all our events are free and open to the public.
UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, and visitors. If you have difficulty accessing content through any of our channels, please contact us at cadvc@umbc.edu.
If you would like to request disability-related accommodation on-site or have questions about an event or its location, please contact us at cadvc@umbc.edu two weeks in advance.
1000 Hilltop Circle, Fine Arts Building 105, Baltimore, MD 21250
Gallery Hours: Tues. thru Sat, 10 am to 5 pm
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1st floor, Fine Arts Bldg.
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 30th
Time: 1-2:30 pmHost: CADVC
Come by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, 1st floor, Fine Arts Bldg. for cookies, drinks, free art book giveaways, and more (while supplies last) as we kick off the new school year!
We'll be playing music in the outdoor amphitheater to celebrate our dynamic arts and culture programming, free and open to UMBC students all year long.
Don't miss this opportunity to make new friends or reconnect with old ones while learning about UMBC's unique research center and gallery dedicated to art and cultural production.
We look forward to meeting you!
EVENT UPDATE
Due to weather the Livewire event at the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park was cut short on Saturday. It is now rescheduled for Sunday, 10/24 at 4 pm.
UMBC's Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership 20th Anniversary Celebration and
Arboretum, by Robert Morris, Performed by UMBC's RUCKUS & Music Department,
A UMBC Livewire Event
On Sunday, October 24th the campus will host UMBC's annual new music festival, Livewire. At 4 pm, RUCKUS, the new music ensemble-in-residence, will be joined by additional faculty and student performers to present a special performance of Robert Morris’s Arboretum.
Arboretum is a concert-length work designed as an immersive experience. Performers move around the Sculpture Park as they play, and audience members are encouraged to move as well, changing their perspective on the work over its duration. The composer describes this work as “slowly unfolding... the experience of this music is like watching sunsets, clouds passing, or sea changes.”
The event also marks the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership at UMBC and in Baltimore.
A limited number of grass mats will be provided. Feel free to bring your own blanket, lawn chairs, and picnic to enjoy among the crunch of the fall leaves. This event is free and open to the public.
Find maps, directions, and learn more at cadvc.umbc.edu/beuys.
This event is curated by Sandra Abbott and Daniel Pesca and presented through a partnership between UMBC’s Music Department, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, and the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. The Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park is supported in part through the generosity of Nature Sacred (naturesacred.org). CADVC’s programs are supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences.
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UMBC is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and is dedicated to ensuring the health and safety of the university community. For complete information, visit our COVID-19 website. Please note:
- We encourage you and/or your social pod to maintain at least three feet distance from others.
- Help us all stay healthy and don’t visit campus if you aren’t feeling well.
- Masks are not required outdoors unless you are participating in an event that requires them or you are part of a group with children under 12 who cannot physically distance or receive the vaccine.
- Students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campus must wear a mask in indoor public spaces. Masks must cover your nose and mouth.
For free parking during the event, park immediately adjacent to the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park. Find links to campus maps and directions to campus when you click on the link below.
https://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/
Photos: Marlayna Demond
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RESCHEDULED! UMBC Livewire Music Event, now Sun. 10/24
"Arboretum" to be performed in the "rock garden"
EVENT UPDATE
Due to weather the Livewire event at the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park was cut short on Saturday. It is now rescheduled for Sunday, 10/24 at 4 pm.
UMBC's Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership 20th Anniversary Celebration and
Arboretum, by Robert Morris, Performed by UMBC's RUCKUS & Music Department, A UMBC Livewire Event
On Saturday, October 23rd the campus will host UMBC's annual new music festival, Livewire. At 3:30 pm, RUCKUS, the new music ensemble-in-residence, will be joined by additional faculty and student performers to present a special performance of Robert Morris’s Arboretum.
Arboretum is a concert-length work designed as an immersive experience. Performers move around the Sculpture Park as they play, and audience members are encouraged to move as well, changing their perspective on the work over its duration. The composer describes this work as “slowly unfolding... the experience of this music is like watching sunsets, clouds passing, or sea changes.”
The event also marks the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership.
A limited number of grass mats will be provided. Feel free to bring your own blanket, lawn chairs, and picnic to enjoy among the crunch of the fall leaves. This event is free and open to the public.
Find maps, directions, and learn more at cadvc.umbc.edu/beuys.
This event is curated by Sandra Abbott and Daniel Pesca and presented through a partnership between UMBC’s Music Department, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, and the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership.
The Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park is supported in part through the generosity of Nature Sacred (naturesacred.org). CADVC’s programs are supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences.
__________________________________
UMBC is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and is dedicated to ensuring the health and safety of the university community. For complete information, please visit our COVID-19 website. Please note:
- We encourage you and/or your social pod to maintain at least three feet distance from others.
- Help us all stay healthy and don’t visit campus if you aren’t feeling well.
- Masks are not required outdoors unless you are participating in an event that requires them or you are part of a group with children under 12 who cannot physically distance or receive the vaccine.
- Students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campus must wear a mask in indoor public spaces. Masks must cover your nose and mouth.
For free parking during the event, park immediately adjacent to the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park. Find links to campus maps and directions to campus when you click on the link below.
https://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/
Photo: Marlayna Demond
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UMBC's IMDA 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibit
Now Open to Public - Ticket Link & Details
Home Bodies is the graduate thesis exhibition for the seven artists of the 2021 UMBC Intermedia + Digital Art MFA class: Amelia Voos, Danielle Damico, Elijah Davis, Lindsay D’Andelet, Maks Prykhodko, Rahne Alexander, and Safiyah Cheatam.
The exhibit runs from April 13 – May 7, 2021 at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) on the UMBC campus. The CADVC is open to the public via free, ticketed admission: Tues. - Sat. 10 am - 5pm.
Register for your tickets today!
The show title, Home Bodies, speaks to the challenges of artmaking in the throes of a global pandemic, and addresses themes common to the artists, including nature and embodiment, surveillance and medical intervention, and connections and displacement.
More information on the artists and their exhibit: homebodies.work.
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Win $20 on Amazon this Fri. 3/26 12-1pm
Gallery needs YOUR opinion
CADVC Gallery's Student Focus Group INVITATION
The CADVC would like to invite you to our first listening session via WebEx on Friday, March 26th from 12 pm to 1 pm.
Why should you attend?
- CADVC is sincerely interested in learning more about YOU.
- You get to talk about YOUR goals and interests.
- There is a chance to win a $20 Amazon spending spree!*
Register here: http://bitly.ws/bUcG
*some limitations apply
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