Corrie Francis Parks brings life to the inanimate through frame-by-frame manipulation of physical materials. Animating with one hand under the camera and the other on the computer keyboard, her films and photography maintain an organic connection to traditional production methods while fully integrating digital technology. Her book "Fluid Frames: Experimental Animation with Sand, Clay, Paint and Pixels" explores the tactile nature of moving malleable materials directly under the camera, bringing together traditional and digital workflow through interviews with contemporary animators and workshop-style exercises.
Parks has been artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Fundación Valparaíso and Klondike Goldrush International Historic Park, a Fulbright Fellow to New Zealand, and a grant recipient from the Montana Film Office. Her award-winning animated shorts have screened at Annecy, Hiroshima, Ottawa, Zagreb, and at major festivals on every continent except Antarctica.
A free public lecture series featuring participating Visual Arts faculty will be held in the CADVC's gallery space (Fine Arts Bldg., Rm. 105). All lectures will start at 12 noon.
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is one Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building.
For directions and additional information, please refer to UMBC's Arts and Culture Calendar
Corrie Francis Parks, "Desires to Leave," 2017
Images courtesy of the artist
The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert under the direction of Matthew Belzer, featuring all of the UMBC jazz groups, large and small, and spotlighting student compositions.
Admission is free.
]]>Join Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council, in honoring three outstanding stewards of our state’s living cultural traditions in a public ceremony and concert.
The ceremony will feature this year’s recipients: in the category of Person, documentary story quilter Joan M.E. Gaither of Anne Arundel County; in the category of Place, the Baltimore American Indian Center; and in the category of Tradition, the Deal Island Skipjack Races and Festival.
The evening will conclude with a country blues concert by the Phil Wiggins Blues House Party. Bandleader and harmonica player Wiggins, of Takoma Park, was honored earlier this year with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Free tickets are available here.
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The performance will be followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
]]>UMBC’s Gamelan Ensemble, directed by Gina Beck, perform traditional Javanese music on the Department of Music’s Javanese gamelan.
Admission to this event is free.
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