Dear Students,
Please review the below information and attached flyer and consider applying. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank you.
Visual Arts Department
We are pleased to announce that the student application for CoLab 2023 is now open. The application deadline is Monday, March 13th. Students work on interdisciplinary project teams to develop narrative-based research products that support the mission of community partners. Students receive a $3000 stipend for successful completion of the program, as well as a tuition scholarship that covers the costs of the internship course.
We are very excited about the 5 projects for Summer 2023:
(Visit https://summer.umbc.edu/summer-at-umbc/beyond-the-classroom/colab/ for detailed project descriptions):
- A Narrative-Based Curriculum for Writing and Civic Engagement of Latinx Youth
Project Leader: Dr. Felipe Filomeno, Political Science and Global Studies - CERA: Conservation Marketing & Engagement
Project Leader: Dr. Jennifer Maher, English - Documenting Places of Resistance: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
Project Leader: Dr. Liz Patton, Media & Communication Studies - Jazz and Justice: An American Art Form as Civic Deliberation
Project Leader: Dr. Earl Brooks, English - UMBC Special Collections LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
Project Leader: Dr. Kate Drabinski, Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies