Don't just read it, FEEL it through our newly edited wrap-up video, celebrating all the people who made The Art Life happen.

The question is something like, "how do we build bridges between people who are different from one another?" How do we build a harmonious culture of giving, openness, and learning? A safe space shielded from the incessant and persistent urge to do something, to be something, to live a phantom life, living in dreams of tomorrow but not acting in the now? It's weird, I'm describing opposites: don't do everything, but do something right now. Imagination is vital to make something happen, but it can be a misleading force. If we focus on a distant point, working and working, it becomes a routine and a fragile husk of a life if it loses the essence of why we do it. We need to build the life-force, the spontaneous communities IN PERSON so we can get at the things that really matter - finding other people, and finding ourselves. Following our personal legends.

If we need this so much, why should we wait to create it? Hence, The Art Life is that space exactly, and it keeps expanding.

The Art Life put together a series of concerts on campus this semester in Lecture Hall 1 to the FA Amphitheatre to Flat Tuesdays showcasing UMBC arts: live music, poetry, and the visual arts. We raised close to five hundred dollars for charities supporting the unhoused in DC, Gritty Kitties, and Catonsville Emergency Services.

Seventy people attended the last couple of shows, almost two hundred followers on the Gram', and there are a million ways to get involved in Spring 2026… murals on campus (which yearns for color in these bleak times,) an Involvement Fest for Arts orgs and initiatives on campus featuring live performances and flea markets in collaboration with the (seb), and artists who'd like to bring their art to a show.

Our website has all the ways you can get involved, regardless of what you can currently do. Art is a way of life, and it is for everyone. Why wait?