Schedule: Flexible schedule with mandatory availability during afterschool programming Monday-Thursday, 4:30pm-7:30pm. Expected to work some weekends.

Compensation: Minimum $37-40,000 + health insurance and optional retirement plan

How to apply: Send resume and cover letter addressing why you are a good fit for the position to info@jubileeartsbaltimore.org by Thursday 2/20/2020

Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts are seeking a Gallery/Sales Assistant for our Baltimore gallery.

To be successful in our busy, high end art gallery, you must be detail oriented and self motivated with great organizational skills. We expect you to charismatically interact with our clientele while assisting our gallery director and sales staff. An art background is not required. We will educate you about the artists & artwork in our collection and custom framing.

Starting Feb 15th, we have an unfurnished room with closet in a single family home. It is within walking to UMBC, driving to downtown Baltimore (there are also buses), UMB, and JHU. Access to the rest of the house (kitchen, laundry, sunroom), wifi, and a shared bathroom (or another, mostly private one if you want to go downstairs). There is a good sized yard and patio and we're super close to the forest. The room is $600/mo plus shared utilities, the security deposit is 1 mo rent. We do have a full sized mattress if you need.

We are looking for a roommate who wants to live in a peaceful and professional environment! Very close to campus -- clean and quiet -- safe neighborhood

We are located 1.2 mile away from UMBC and a mile from I-95 for very convenient travel by car. There is also a UMBC shuttle stop directly by the house.  

The room is a great size and it is very bright with two large windows. There are two closets for lots of storage space. The room does not share walls with any other bedrooms, so it is very nice and private.  Additionally, the carpet is new since the whole house has recently been refinished. It is located on the second level of the house and the bathroom is shared with one other person. There are two people total in the house and we are very quiet, respectful, and clean.

The main floor is a common space that includes a half bath, the kitchen, washer/dryer, and the living room. We try to be respectful and organized so these spaces are always kept tidy. The kitchen is equipped with dishes, stove, oven, microwave, dishwasher, laundry, etc. 

For groceries and shopping, there is a Walmart, Giants, and Costco nearby. Arundel Mills Mall is just ten minutes away.  

We are focused on our studies and are very easy to live with.  We are looking for a person who also wants to live in a clean, quiet place. We ask that there is no smoking, pets, or parties. UMBC students preferred. 

Rent is $600 + evenly shared cost of utilities.  

Send me a text or email if you are interested!  

240-565-2535 or esisay1@umbc.edu

UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is pleased to announce the launch of a fourteen-month initiative to promote diversity, inclusion, and social justice in the public humanities, supported by a $125,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project, Strengthening UMBC’s Public Humanities Infrastructure: The Baltimore Field School, will create a framework for faculty to collaborate with community organizations in building ethical and sustainable research and teaching projects focused on public humanities. 

A new view of public humanities

The Baltimore Field School is coordinated by UMBC’s Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture and led by Nicole King, associate professor of American Studies and director of the Orser Center, and CAHSS Dean Scott Casper. It aims to advance UMBC’s humanistic scholarship and teaching, rooted in deep and meaningful engagement with communities and neighborhoods. 

“We want to think differently about how public humanities work can be done by reflecting on what ethical community-university partnerships look like,” says King. 

“This collaborative process takes a great deal of time, listening, and building trust,” King explains. “The people living and working in city neighborhoods and building grassroots organizations should be centered in the process of defining challenges and ways to address them in Baltimore and cities like it.”

The field school’s three pillars

This new initiative is rooted in three pillars. First, it seeks to enhance the understanding and visibility of communities in South and Southwest Baltimore, including their cultures and the challenges they face, from a variety of humanities-centered methods. Second, it will cultivate a national model of effective ethical humanities research, teaching, and learning about Baltimore and cities like it. Finally, it will expand UMBC’s infrastructure of engagement for public humanities research and teaching based in Baltimore. 

This project builds on previous innovative humanities work at UMBC, supported by The Mellon Foundation. In 2017, The Mellon Foundation provided a five-year, $750,000 grant for UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities and CAHSS to create the Inclusion Imperative. The project was designed to grow a regional community of scholars committed to diversity in the humanities. It has also sought to expand community-engaged humanities research and teaching around issues of race, equity, inclusion, and justice.

“Faculty, staff, and students in the humanities have for many years been at the forefront of UMBC’s engagement with communities in and around Baltimore,” says Casper. “Thanks to this support from The Mellon Foundation, we look forward to deepening our work and strengthening its foundations across disciplines and beyond individual projects.”

To meet these goals, the Orser Center’s advisory committee and graduate students will convene, listen to, and plan with community organizations on an ongoing basis. They will also work with community partners to develop ethical principles for public humanities research and teaching. This information will be used to develop and execute a planning pilot of the Field School in summer 2020 and a Community Fellows Program in public humanities in fall 2020. 

“The Baltimore Field School is a powerful standard for our community-focused work across campus and part of UMBC’s vision to Extend Beyond,” shared President Freeman Hrabowski, in voicing his support for the project. “It is rooted in UMBC’s proud history of diversity, inclusion, and social justice, and it helps us put those commitments into action in our local communities.”

Banner image: Discover Baltimore group tour of historic Lexington Market, UMBC summer session 2017, by Marylana Demond ’11 for UMBC. All other photos are courtesy of Bill Shewbridge, media and communications studies, from the Baltimore Traces project, unless otherwise noted.