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Visual Arts Department

Calling all OOO Artists! We’re BACK!!!

OUT OF ORDER INSTALL: Friday, April 8 | 7 am to Midnight 

KIDOOO INSTALL: Saturday, April 9 | 11 am to 4 pm 

OOO EVENT & SILENT AUCTION: Friday, April 22 | 6 pm - 10 pm

AFTER PARTY: Friday, April 22 | 10 pm to 1 am 

Maryland Art Place (MAP) eagerly anticipates the return of its Annual Spring Benefit Exhibition & Silent Auction, Out of Order (OOO) on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 6’oclock in the evening. This year Out of Order turns 25!! The auction will be both a virtual and physical exhibition and will be held in the MAP building located at 218 West Saratoga Street, just within the Bromo Arts District.

Any artist is welcome to hang one original work of art on the first-come, first-served installation day, taking place on Friday, April 8, 2022,  from 7 am-midnight. No need to sign up in advance, just come by MAP's first-floor gallery space @ 218 West Saratoga Street in the Bromo Arts District! You must be able to install your work on April 8th to participate in the exhibition.

• All work must come framed and ready to hang.  (size requirement is 40" x 40" or less)

• Artists must install their own work on Artist Install day, Friday, April 8 between the hours of 7 am and midnight

• NO Application fee to apply! 

• The work you include in Out of Order must be for sale. The proceeds from the silent auction are split 50/50 between the artist and MAP. All works will be silently auctioned Friday, April 22, 2022, from 6 -10 pm

• Participating artists receive free admission to OOO!

Questions? Come to the Artist Information Workshop on Saturday, April 2nd from 1 - 3 pm. Or email MAP’s exhibition manager at Caitlin@mdartplace.org

The five Research Centers in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are collaborating to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations among faculty, staff, and students to build intellectual community within and beyond individual research interests and curricula offerings. Each year the Center Directors will select a theme as the focus for a year-long colloquium series. The topic for AY 2022-2023 is resilience.

Resilience is the ability of an entity – a person, an institution, a technology, a community, a natural environment – to anticipate, respond to, and recover from adverse conditions. The concept of resilience generally has a positive connotation, but it has also been criticized for placing on individuals and communities the burden to adapt to adverse and potentially unjust contexts. Adapting to adverse conditions may not necessarily improve them, so what is the relationship between resilience, resistance and social change?

The Center Directors will organize an interdisciplinary panel discussion to mark the opening of the colloquium. We invite departments, programs, and faculty to host additional events about resilience in AY 2022-2023, such as guest lectures, research seminars, workshops, or field trips. Events might explore several questions, including the analytical value of the concept of resilience to specific fields of study, different conceptualizations of resilience, critiques to conventional thinking on resilience, and the pedagogy of resilience. Faculty should also consider exploring the theme of resilience in their fall classes and encourage students to participate in colloquium events.

We recommend that events be intentionally interdisciplinary. Departments and programs are encouraged to co-organize events with opportunities for scholars from different disciplines to compare their perspectives and envision potential collaboration. To discuss or submit an idea for the colloquium program, please use this form. The Centers will provide funds for the partial support of a limited number of proposals.

This spring semester we are excited to announce that we are selling our AIChE T-shirts!

If you are interested in having some of your own AIChE swag we have two options for you to purchase this semester. We'll have our classic teal t-shirt design, and we'll also be hosting a tie-dying event on April 15th for us all to tie-dye our own shirts together!

If you are interested in purchasing one (or both!) please fill out this google form by Wednesday March 23rd so that we have enough time to gather materials. Thank you!

This is an election year for all the positions on the BFSA Executive Board (President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary) and we need volunteers to be on the Election Committee. The Election Committee will handle all aspects of the election process from accepting nominations to counting votes and posting the results.

If you would like to help and be a part of the Election Committee please email President Wanda Soares Nottingham at wsoares@umbc.edu or VP Derrick Johns at derrickj@umbc.edu.

More information pertaining to the election will be forthcoming.

Tomorrow, on March 19th at 4pm, his piece Walk with me, my joy for flute, cello, piano, and percussion will be premiered at a Constellations Chamber Concerts event in downtown DC. For more information and tickets go to their website.