This is a paid position. Please contact us for compensation details. Auditions for Baltimore Ghost Tours are on Sunday July 30th at noon and Sunday August 6th at noon.

Baltimore Ghost Tours (www.baltimoreghosttours.com) has a fall opening for a tour guide for our two hour haunted pub walks and one hour haunted walking tours in Fell’s Point. Tours are on Friday and Saturdays, March - November, at 7:00pm (pub tours) and 8:00 pm (ghost tours), and group tours are scheduled for various dates/times.

UMBC’s Margaret Re will develop the exhibition and catalog for A Designed Life: American Textiles, Wallpapers, Containers and Packaging (1951-52) through support from a new $30,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Re, an associate professor of visual arts who teaches design, is both the exhibition curator and principal investigator of A Designed Life, which is based on three historically significant traveling exhibitions of contemporary mass-produced, American-designed consumer goods that were commissioned by the U.S. Department of State in the early 1950s. It recreates and interprets those early Cold War exhibitions—including American textiles, wallpapers, containers, and packaging—restating and interpreting part of each display as it might have appeared in the early 1950s.

The three historical exhibitions—Contemporary American Textiles designed by Florence Knoll; Contemporary American Wallpapers designed by Tom Lee, and Containers and Packaging designed by Will Burtin—were each developed as collections of industry-specific consumer goods, designed and manufactured in the spirit of American modernism. The Traveling Exhibition Service (TES), an organization later known as the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, organized these exhibitions for display in post-WWII Germany and France on behalf of the U.S. Department of State in order to help promote the grown of democratic governments within postwar Europe.

UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) will exhibit A Designed Life September 13 – December 8, 2018. Symmes Gardner, executive director of the CADVC, notes that the exhibition “will be a first for the CADVC investigating decorative arts. The exhibition will foster a unique and timely interdisciplinary dialogue encompassing design, history and political science that is in keeping with the CADVC’s mission to build connections between visual culture and the society at large.”

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This new NEA-supported exhibition project is the result of extensive research by Re, who first came across a drawing of the Knoll-designed textile exhibit at the Archives of American Art in Washington D.C., before rediscovering the other two design exhibits. Over several years she continued her research through the National Archives and Records Administration, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Carey Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Berlin’s Bauhaus Archives, and the Document Library in Kassel, Germany. Re received support from a $30,000 Coby Foundation grant, UMBC’s START fund for new directions in faculty research, the Dresher Center for the Humanities scholars program, a CIRCA Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, and a grant from the Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt to complete the work of developing the project.

The project includes several important partners. Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning will build the recreated traveling exhibition components, led by Adam Bridge. A team from The Johns Hopkins Graduate Program in Museum Studies led by Karen Wizevich and Deborah Howes will help develop visitor knowledge of, interest in, and reaction to the topics found within this exhibition, as well as public outreach.

Re is excited for the potential of the exhibit to help audiences explore the U.S. Department of State’s decision in the early 1950s “to connect consumer choice with political choice as well as the reception of European audiences to such cultural diplomacy in the post WWII years.”

Some scholarship exists chronicling the outcome of Department of State-sponsored art exhibits used in a similar capacity as soft power to promote American culture, such as exhibits of Abstract Expressionist painting. However, Re notes, “design exhibitions sent abroad that presented examples of consumer goods billed as readily available to American citizens are largely undocumented, especially those coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of State.”

A Designed Life, Re explains, “makes evident the political potential of design to connect people, their activities, experiences, needs and desires, and shape attitudes as it broadens insight into design’s relevance as a tool for diplomacy.”

Public programming, including lectures and the publication of a catalog, will accompany the exhibition at UMBC in the fall of 2018.

Images: Margaret Re; photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC. Concept drawings for the exhibition A Designed Life; courtesy of Margaret Re.

Maryland Citizens for the Arts (MCA) is a statewide arts advocacy organization committed to expanding the nonprofit arts sector through public investment and service; thereby enhancing lifelong learning, quality of life, and economic vitality for all Maryland citizens.

Dear Students,

We hope you're having a wonderful summer.  Below are Asian Studies courses that may be of interest to you:

ASIA 300-02 – Introduction to Indian Dance

M-W 1:00 – 2:15, Instructor: Professor Shobha Subramanian

ASIA 300-03 – Buddhism

TuTh 2:30 – 3:45, Instructor: Professor Balaji Hebbar

ASIA 300-04 – Drama Seminar: Japanese Performance

TuTh 11:30 – 12:45, Instructor:  Professor Alan Kreizenbeck

ASIA 318 City and Cinema in South Asia

W 4:30 – 7:00 Instructor: Preminda Jacob

My name is Mark Haft and I am the chief scribe for ScribeAmerica's Orthopedic Associates of Central Maryland locations. ScribeAmerica is a company that hires and trains “Scribes” for physicians. This email is to provide information about a truly unique employment opportunity for students interested in careers in medicine. Our company is currently looking to recruit students to work as Scribes in an outpatient orthopedic clinic in Catonsville, Columbia, and Eldersburg.  The scribe will work one on one with board certified orthopedic surgeons assisting with documentation for each patient evaluated by the doctor.  It is an exceptional opportunity for any student interested in medicine to gain first-hand experience following a physician in an outpatient clinic setting.

The role of a scribe is to closely collaborate with their assigned physician by documenting the history of each patient evaluated, the doctor’s physical examination, the results of laboratory/radiological studies ordered, and the eventual diagnosis and disposition.  Becoming a scribe provides the student with first rate exposure to medical terminology, disease processes, emergency procedures, medications, and the medical decision making process performed by physicians.

This job is not for everyone; the complexity of the material and fast-paced environment necessitate that only the sharpest and most motivated students succeed as a scribe.  We are looking for dependable and hard working employees that have a desire for an eventual career in medicine, or are interested in learning more about careers in medicine. We offer day shifts which consists of following a single physician, usually lasting 8-10 hours. It is expected that each scribe can commit to 2 shifts per week for at least 1-2 years.

Paid classroom & clinical training is provided. The training is extensive and intense. Each employee will have multiple training sessions both in the classroom and on the floor of clinic during which we teach the flow of the clinic, extensive medical terminology, and appropriate medical/legal documentation.

I would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to forward this email to any of your students that are interested in careers in medicine, or any students with an interest in learning more about medicine. This is a unique and exciting opportunity which has demonstrated itself to be excellent experience for students preparing for careers in medicine.  Our past employees that excelled as scribes have gone on to receive outstanding evaluations in their clinical trials and residencies. Candidates interested should email me their resume and can apply at www.scribeamerica.com/apply.

    Please contact me if you have any questions about our program.

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Congratulations to our second winner of the Take the Stairs competition for the April and May timeframe...Mallela Ralliford from Procurement! Mallela will be receiving a $25 campus card!

This is the second time Mallela has won and when asked about what motivates her to take the stairs, she commented: "It's the benefit that a continuous routine brings and knowing that our body needs it. I have incorporated taking the steps into my regular exercise routine and have been excited to not only FEEL but SEE the results!" Mallela has clearly made wellness part of her daily habits and is seeing the benefit. Sometimes small choices lead to big changes!

By encouraging staff, faculty, and students from all over campus, and especially those in our building, to take the stairs in the Admin Building, we accomplish several important goals, we:

• Free up elevators for those who need them;
• Increase heart health of our population; and
• Reduce Energy

If you are not taking the stairs or need an accommodation, please contact the ADA Coordinator at 5-5745. 

Check out our new set of posters in the stairwells and log your floors! There will be two more opportunities to win prizes in August and September!  Please visit the Wellness Initiative Website for more information and to record your floors! 

In the Bible, the laying on of hands signify a transfer of guilt to the sacrifice (Lev 16.21), blessing (Gen 48.13-20), authority (Num 27.23), healing (Matt 9.18) and impartation (Ac 8.17).

In Ac 4.30, the early church prayed, “Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” It is important to always realize that it is God who heals. God uses “those who minister, not the other way round. Though it can be misinterpreted as a magical act, laying on of hands should be seen rather as an expression both of compassionate identification with the sick person and also of faith that they prayers which accompany it are being heard by a trustworthy God.” (D.A. Stone, “Sacramental Healing,” New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology)

Let us not grow tired of praying for healing. Let’s pray with the early church, to stretch out our hands to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Jesus!

-JP