This is a call for potential student volunteers for the 2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, coming up October 18-20. Keep scrolling for more information:

2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
October 18-20, 2024
Venues: MICA Falvey Hall Theatre, Towson University Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre, and Area 405 Gallery
Festival Director: Phil Davis - phil@sweatyeyeballs.com 

The 2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival returns with the most cutting-edge animated short films from around the world. The fest will be taking place at multiple venues in Baltimore City and Towson from October 18-20, 2024. Including 4 international shorts competition screenings, a Baltimore showcase screening, a Young Audiences screening, Animator Retrospective and talk by Miguel Jiron (Los Angeles), and a live performance by Duo Kinetica. Along with the screenings of the festival there is also a corresponding exhibition of animation process art and expanded animation titled Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent at Area 405 Gallery. Adding to the film screenings and talks there will be free animation workshops run by students and after parties at the Area 405 gallery.

Sweaty Eyeballs is looking for enthusiastic lovers of animation to join our squad of volunteers. Here is what we are looking for:

VOLUNTEERS:

1. Must apply for volunteer position by filling out the following google form: https://forms.gle/RazwXHPgZcHSz7Qk9 

2. We will accept students or non-student volunteers who are interested in helping out with the festival.

3. All volunteers must dedicate a minimum of 6 hours during the week of the festival October 18-20, 2024.

4. Volunteer tasks may include the following: ticket check-in, ushering, staffing information tables, setup and breakdown of merchandise tables, setup and breakdown for events, photographing events, recording video of events.

Volunteers will have access to view screening programs of the festival for free, dependent on how many hours they volunteer/work.

For further information or questions please feel free to contact Phil Davis - phil@sweatyeyeballs.com.

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We only accept Retriever Dollars as payment. You can put cash on your card at the CIC (Commons Information Center) desk in the Lobby of The Commons or put money on your campus card via myUMBC 

Alternatively, you can use the mobile print kiosks to print. Instructions on how to use the kiosks may be of help. A few notes about the kiosk:

• The printers can only print in black and white
• 8.5 x 11" (letter size) is the only size it prints - any other size will cause the printer to lock up/not print so be sure to check your settings.

Be sure to give yourself enough time to have your prints completed, we will do our best to assist you in a timely manner. There will be lines and wait times the day before and the day of the Career Fair - consider printing early!

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 will be accompanied by the first in CADVC's public art projection series with a new video art gallery set into the open amphitheater of the UMBC Fine Arts Building. There is more information on the projection series at https://umbc.edu/stories/exploratory-artist-levester-williams-marble/.

The Opening Reception will include a public program featuring Levester Williams, Michelle Diane Wright, and Lisa Freiman.

The exhibition will open for regular hours on Friday, September 20, and will continue through December 14.

Visitor Information

Admission is free.

Parking for the Opening Reception is free, available in nearby Lot 8. Please visit here for directions and additional information.

Header: Detail of video still of Nia Hampton in the vignette “Nia’s Embrace” from “dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore,” filmed at Mount Vernon Park Place in November 2023. Photo by Levester Williams. (Coming from behind, a hand with dark brown skin tone reaches around to the front of a marble column in a park-like setting. In the background a black and white marble border runs between a parallel strip of grass and a reflecting pool.) Body: A drone image of the Texas Quarry in Cockeysville, Maryland, one of the locations where Cockeysville marble is mined. Photo courtesy of Levester Williams. (Birdseye view of a circular bright teal body of water at the center of a marble quarry.)