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The Dresher Center invites applications for new Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities. Faculty Working Groups are collaborative, interdisciplinary communities of scholars working on humanities projects, research concerns, or matters of public interest. The Dresher Center provides support for the formation and first-year activities of these groups in an effort to promote intellectual exchange and support research activities in the humanities among scholars across campus. Working groups meet regularly and may also use their funds to travel to sites or archives, host speakers, explore technologies, create new resources or materials, or other similar activities.

Faculty Working Groups can apply for up to $1,000 in annual support ($500 per semester) for their first-year activities. Priority will be given to groups with at least one member from a humanities department.

Deadlines for best consideration are November 1, 2015 for groups beginning in spring 2016 and April 1, 2016 for groups beginning in fall 2016. 

To download an application and to find out about current Faculty Working Groups, visit: http://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/scholarly-resources/faculty-working-groups-in-the-humanities/ 

Contact for questions: Jessica Berman (jberman@umbc.edu), Director, or Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc.edu), Assistant Director

For this episode of BMoreArt Conversations Gary Kachadourian is interviewed by Jack Livingston. Gary is an IMDA MFA Program alumnus - a visual artist and curator born in 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland. 

He makes pencil drawings of everyday places and objects – like giant dumpsters, chain link fences, and the interior of his own bathroom. Gary’s drawings are designed to be photo-copied and enlarged to the actual size of his subjects. These giant Xeroxes are exhibited, and also distributed as printed booklets, prints, posters, or 3D objects.

About the Organization: As Maryland’s only 501(c)3 non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the ceramic arts, Baltimore Clayworks provides essential programs and services to local, national and international artists, both from its campus in northwest Baltimore and in community sites throughout the metropolitan area. Currently it operates four essential program areas: education, exhibitions, community arts and artist residency program. Clayworks’ stated core values are artist-centeredness, inclusivity, excellence, integrity and joy.

WYPR’s one-hour news and culture show, Maryland Morning with Tom Hall, seeks a Senior Producer. The show is mix of live and taped interviews coverings news, politics, public policy, the arts and more. Maryland Morning currently airs M-W-F from 9:00-10:00am. It will eventually move to a five-day schedule.

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-Ms. White, Science and Technology Instructional Program Coordinator at Charles Herbert Flowers High School.

"This group represents some of the best and brightest companies from the region. Helping companies like these grow is central to making Baltimore a global destination for entrepreneurship."

-Jen Meyer, CEO of Betamore