Social Sciences Forum
Anand Pandian, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
“‘The Wall’ and Other Walls in Contemporary American Life”
Wednesday, May 2, 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The idea of a southern border wall was in many ways the defining idea of Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign. What was so appealing about this idea to so many Americans, and how did this promise build on other walls and boundaries already at work in everyday American life? These questions are at the heart of a new book project that Anand Pandian is pursuing in far-flung corners of the United States, in the company of ordinary people from diverse walks of life. This talk shares stories and insights gleaned from Pandian’s anthropological examination of contemporary America.

Admission is free, and a reception will follow the talk.

Plan your visit
Visitor parking is available at the Walker Avenue Garage. Please click here for additional information.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Visual Arts, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Health Administration and Policy, and American Studies, and the Dresher Center for the Humanities.

Photo by Marshall Clarke.

Our current galleries studio fellow, Stephanie Mercedes, will be facilitating a workshop for artists who can learn about their rights and how to negotiate legal contracts. It will be taking place this Sunday, April 22, 1-3 PM. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.visartscenter.org/more/event/the-artists-contract/

The Artist's Contract | VisArts www.visartscenter.org Explore artist’s rights, negotiating legal contracts and artistic copyright with Stephanie Mercedes and John Wierzbicki. Emphasis will be placed on practically navigating legal artistic contracts and possible artistic interventions in the legal contract.

If you'd like to show student work in the hallway on the first floor, please fill out the google form listed below to be placed on the calendar: 

Please direct any questions to melico1@umbc.edu

On Thursday, September 29th at 5 pm, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC presents Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television.

Avant-garde art shaped the look and content of American television in its formative years from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, and in turn television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and design. Presenting more than 260 art objects and clips, Revolution of the Eye investigates how artists fascinated with this brash new medium and its technological possibilities contributed to network programs and design campaigns; appeared on television to promote modern art; and explored, critiqued, or absorbed the new medium in their work.

Revolution of the Eye is curated by Dr. Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC.

Exhibition Dates: September 29^th  -  December 10th, 2016

Public Lecture  - Thursday, November 17^th at 4 pm in Lecture Hall 132, PAHB

Dr. Lynn Spigel, Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures,

School of Communication at Northwestern University

 

CADVC Gallery Hours - Tuesday thru Sunday, 10 to 5 pm & Thursdays till 7 pm

                                        

For directions and additional information go to cadvc@umbc.edu

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television is organized by the Jewish Museum and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC. The exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Skirball Fund forAmerican Jewish Life Exhibitions,  the Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous donors.

Thursday, October 9 – Saturday, December 13

A free opening reception will be held for this exhibition in the CADVC on Thursday October 9 from 5 until 7 p.m.

Tom Scott’s career as an artist spanned more than 60 years, from the early 1950s through the first decade of this century. His output is remarkable not only for its temporal span but for its quantity and qualities, amounting to over 3,000 by his death at age 85 in March 2013. It is also remarkable for the particular span of time it covers: a unique time that saw the ascendancy of American art on the world stage for the first time and an extraordinarily fertile period of general artistic invention worldwide that included the creation and maturing of important sub-movements of modernism, and simultaneously the beginning of post modern tendencies in art.

But the welter of trends and movements largely left Scott unaffected after his work in abstract expressionism in the 1950s, as he resolutely marched to his own drummer, even while well aware of the flux around him. We sense in his work something apart from the mainstream and major movements, yet not at all reactionary or retrogressive. As an inveterate experimenter, his work has a complexity that defies easy categorization.

Over the span of his career he established a variegated practice incorporating the use of oil and acrylic painting, collage, assemblage, recycled materials, three dimensional works, and much more, including ground-breaking work with painted photographs and the use of aerosol spray paints. Finally all of Scott’s experimentation comes together in the work of the last 20 years of his career in a sustained burst of creative activity amounting to hundreds of works. These are a capstone for a long career, a distilled group of assured work the making process and organizing principles of which operate not only formally but psychologically.

This exhibition is therefore designed to fully demonstrate all these features in as comprehensive a way as possible, a dense and maximal presentation, and for the first time to allow the full range of works to be shown in one place at one time. Scott’s attitude towards his works was to be in an active dialogue with them. The exhibition is guest curated by Tex Andrews.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.