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Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Revisions: Celebrating Fifty Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, featuring highlights and lesser-known gems from UMBC’s considerable photography holdings. Looking back at a half-century of collecting, the exhibition offers thematic groupings and visual juxtapositions of photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. The display asks viewers to approach the history of photography with fresh eyes. Among the artists featured are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Cary Beth Cryor, Darryl Curran, Judy Dater, Robert Frank, Roland Freeman, Ralph Gibson, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, and Alfred Stieglitz.

Levester Williams: all matters aside

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade, including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation.

UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

The Music Box

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).

UMBC Collegium Musicum

The Music Box

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson in a program entitled Phat Phancies and other English Ditties. The ensemble will perform a variety of short works in small consort groupings, using viola da gamba, recorder, and drum.

UMBC Camerata

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Lulu Mwangi. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.

Student Composers Recital

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents a concert featuring premieres of works by student composers.

UMBC Wind Ensemble

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman, in a program of works inspired by the wonders of outer space. Peabody saxophone faculty Doug O’Connor will give the Baltimore premiere of Alexandra Gardner’s new saxophone concerto Time Unfolding. Additional works by Jennifer Jolley, Jim Colonna, Wataru Hokoyama, and Chandler L. Wilson take us on a journey of exploration beyond the “surly bonds of earth.”

Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger

Fine Arts Recital Hall MD

Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger celebrates the life and legacy of Maurice Berger, who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) until his death in 2020. The event will include the launch of the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of award-winning essays by Maurice Berger, the relaunch of the CADVC’s Issues in Cultural Theory publication series, the publication of Cockeysville to Baltimore (accompanying the exhibition Levester Williams: all matters aside), and remarks from noted speakers.

Fall Dance Showcase

Proscenium Theatre

The Department of Dance presents the Fall Dance Showcase, featuring capstone work by senior students and independent student research.

Down With Love: An Actor Showcase

Black Box Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents Down With Love: An Actor Showcase, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, with musical direction by Andrew Hann. Join our acting majors for an evening of songs, scenes, and speeches exploring love’s highs, lows, and everything in between!

UMBC Percussion Ensemble

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dustin Donahue.

UMBC Jubilee Singers and Gospel Choir

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.

UMBC Jazz in Concert

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.

UMBC Opera Workshop

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Opera Workshop under the direction of Sammy Huh.

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Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections

Levester Williams: all matters aside

3 events,

Humanities Forum — Dagmawi Woubshet

4 events,

Stupid F*cking Bird

Special Collections Open House — A haunting Halloween afternoon!

3 events,

4 events,

Humanities Forum — Adrian De Leon

4 events,

Juan Sebastián Delgado: Imaginary Tangos

4 events,

4 events,

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

3 events,

46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture — Nikki M. Taylor

3 events,

CANCELED — A Conversation with Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today

4 events,

New Bartók Quartet

3 events,

UMBC Chamber Players

4 events,

UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

UMBC Collegium Musicum

3 events,

UMBC Camerata

4 events,

UMBC Wind Ensemble