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Art Events

Coffee & Crafts: Vision boarding
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Wednesday October 23rd 5:00-6:30PM
Bel Air Lounge
Hosts: Ashley Wagner & Kate DeBlasis
Come to Coffee and Crafts and make a vision board using collaging and hand lettering techniques! Help visualize your goals, so that they can start manifesting in your life! You can bring any pictures and quotes that you’d like to use! Others will be provided, though! Hope to see you there!

Colloquium Updates

CPSA100
Making Visual Art on Campus

Next week colloquium will be split. Half the group is going to the Makerspace in McKeldin and half the group is going to the Art & Learning Center (Studio A) in the basement of Stamp. We will swap on November 11. The Triangles, The Creamsicle, and half of Kate’s group (A-H) will go to the Makerspace. Kate’s Group (L-Z), The Bananas, and The Glue will go to the Art & Learning Center.

Due: Art Gallery Scavenger Hunt and Pentathlon Event 3

CPSA200
Professional Panel
How many people does it take to produce a work of art? Inspired by Howard S. Becker's classic work "Art as Collective Action" we will be exploring the many individuals that come together to compose multifaceted "art worlds." We will be joined by several guests who represent some of the many ways individuals can be involved professionally in the arts. You will learn about their trajectories, creative processes, and ways to get involved in the arts on campus.

Due: Pentathlon Event 3

Check out our new website!

Arts Scholars now has our very own website! Designed for current Arts Scholars students, the website is a great resource for seeing what events are coming up, learning more about the program, and viewing photos from past Arts Scholars events. Check out Arts Scholars today!

Pentathlon Events

Dance
Royal Scottish Country Dance
Wednesday, October 23
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Mathematics Building Rotunda
Cost: Free
We offer a Scottish country dancing class and practices. (An ancestor of square dancing and a cousin of the dancing you have seen in Jane Austen movies.) Taught by certificated Scottish Country Dance teacher Howard Lasnik (Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics). ANYONE can come! No experience required! No partner needed!
Contact: Howard Lasnik 301-405-4929 lasnik@umd.edu

Second Season: "I Have an Idea for a Play" and "Doubled Bodies"
October 18 & 20, 2019
In this Brechtian play about the ticking clock that is life, characters experience existential dread as they become aware of their own status as fictional. Distanced from the imaginary world of the play, the characters navigate themes of female empowerment, sexuality and student loans.

Doubled Bodies
Choreographed by Kristina Harris and Gabriel Mata

Doubled Bodies exposes narratives that are muted by heteronormative gender constructs. Harris and Mata upend expectations about female/male partnering, power dynamics and gendered aesthetics, drawing on in-depth research and their own individual and cultural identities.DCX New Dances
Wednesday, October 23
1:00 PM - Fri , October 25, 2019 1:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/dcx-new-dances-fall-2019
New Dances is an opportunity for students to present their creative work on stage, no matter how developed it is. New Dances is a fun, supportive and fulfilling experience for everyone!

Black Grace (New Zealand): Crying Men
Thursday, October 24, 2019 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Regular: $30; Student/Youth: $10
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/black-grace-new-zealand
Crying Men traces the journey of three generations of Pacific men living in New Zealand and the impact of the loss of a matriarch who brought balance to the traditional expectations of masculinity with compassion, tolerance and strength. A richly textured work that utilizes gesture, elements of traditional Pacific storytelling, song and dance, Crying Men is paired with three other mesmerizing works by some of the most dynamic dance companies on the international scene.

Music
UMD Wind Ensemble: Journeys
Friday, October 18
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/journeys-umd-wind-ensemble
Take a musical journey with the UMD Wind Ensemble starting with Roma by Valerie Coleman, founding member of the Grammy Award-winning quintet Imani Winds, and continuing with On the Mountains of Orphalese by DC-based composer Nebal Maysaud. The concert will also pay tribute to beloved composer David Maslanka who died in 2018 with a performance of his composition Traveler.

Masterful Strings: Peter Zazofsky Violin
Tuesday, October 22
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/masterful-strings-peter-zazofsky-violin
An esteemed violinist and professor of violin and chamber music at Boston University, Peter Zazofsky enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist and chamber musician. Zazofsky tours and records as the first violinist of the Muir Quartet and is the director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute String Quartet workshop. In a program that includes the stately Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, Zazofsky will be joined by the School of Music's Rita Sloan on piano to showcase his extensive ensemble versatility.

Concert Against Hate featuring the National Symphony Orchestra
Kennedy Center
November 4
Buses leave at 6:45pm
Free!
Public Leadership is excited to invite you to the Kennedy Center for the 25th Anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League's Concert Against Hate featuring the National Symphony Orchestra. The concert honors heroes in the fight against intolerance, extremism, and terrorism. Stories (narrated by renowned performers) are interwoven with music to make a powerful performance. You can learn more about ADL here: http://www.adl.org, and more about the concert here: https://www.adlconcert.org/ Tickets are available to College Park Scholars and Do Good Institute students. You can reserve your seat here: https://adlconcert19.eventbrite.com. Bus transportation will be provided to and from Cambridge hall. This is a formal affair, so please plan to wear business casual or formal attire (aka wear something nice). Please contact Kelly at kbrower@umd.edu with any questions. As always, if you sign up we expect you to participate.

Film
At the Hoff (https://www.facebook.com/events/2331059403823555/):

The Farewell - October 18th - 7:30pm
Blinded by the Light - October 23rd, 24th - 8:00pm
Spider-Man: Far From Home - October 25th, 28th - 8:00pm

Presentation
John Cage in the Summer of Love Musicology Lecture
Friday, October 18
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/musicology-lecture-sara-haefeli-ithaca-college
Associate professor at Ithaca College Sara Haefeli teaches music history, music of the American avant garde and philosophy of creativity courses. Her research focuses on the American experimental tradition and John Cage. She is author of John Cage: A Research and Information Guide and has presented her research at national and international conferences and festivals. Her talk is titled John Cage in the Summer of Love.

The Journey of Jim Henson
Friday, October 18
5:00 – 6:00 p.m
University Book Center, Adele H. Stamp Student Union

Acclaimed biographer Brian Jay Jones presents a lively, multi-media lecture on the life and work of Muppet creator Jim Henson (UMD '60), taking audiences through his College Park childhood and his college years at UMD—where as a freshman, he began performing his Muppets regularly on local TV—and on into his international fame in television and film. Through captivating stories and rare video footage, Jones explores the unique imagination and drive that made Jim Henson one of the world's most beloved creative icons.

ACTnow: Black Grace
Monday, October 21
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/actnow-black-grace
Neil Ieremia, founding artistic director of New Zealand-based dance company Black Grace, and William Ming Liu, chair of UMD's College of Education and editor of Psychology of Men and Masculinities have a conversation about the toxic masculinity represented in Ieremia's work, "Crying Men." This interactive Arts Citizenship Talk will provide a forum for questions and discussion about masculinity in Asian-American and Pacific Islander cultures, and will introduce participants to the creative process and inquiry that informs the work of Black Grace.

Visual Art
Inspired! Jim Henson at Maryland
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - Tue , May 26, 2020 (all day)
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
https://www.lib.umd.edu/mspal/gallery
The exhibit provides a window into the profound impact Henson’s experiences on campus, both in the classroom and in his extra-curricular activities, had on his creative and professional development, laying the foundation for a remarkable career that included the creation of the Muppets and beyond. Featured are 25 pieces of original art created by Jim Henson (1936-1990), theatrical programs and ephemera, photographs, and an interactive digital archive of Henson’s sketchbooks, student projects, and press clippings from The Jim Henson Company Archives, Special Collections in Performing Arts, and UMD's University Archives. Video clips from the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate the breadth of Henson’s genius, already evident in his early work on local Washington television.

Lia Halloran: The Same Sky Overarches Us All
UMD Art Gallery
September 5 to November 22
Monday to Friday, 11 am to 4 pm
Art/Sociology Building
The exhibition explores the lesser-known history of early women astronomers and the central role they played in modern astronomy, including the discovery and documentation of major celestial bodies. Using large-scale cyanotypes -- a photographic printing process developed in the mid-nineteenth century, primarily for scientific use -- Halloran examines how perception, time, and scale informs the human desire to understand the world and our emotional and psychological place within it. The exhibition also features her first immersive, three-channel video installation, Double Horizon (2019), an aerial exploration of the space above Los Angeles.

Social Housing
Sept 13 - October 20, 2019
Kibel Gallery, Architecture Building
https://arch.umd.edu/mapp/event/municipality-building-vienna-residential-construction-1920-2020
The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's Kibel Gallery, in conjunction with the Austrian Cultural Forum and the City of Vienna present an exhibition and symposium on Social (Affordable) Housing. The exhibition, "The Municipality is Building. Vienna Residential Construction 1920 to 2020," begins on Friday, September 13th at 1:00 pm with an opening reception, followed at 2:00 pm, by the symposium, "The Vienna Model: Social Housing for the 21st Century."

Opportunities

Artists Wanted!
Due: October 23
The University Health Center and Peer Leaders are working on creating a series of health promotion and wellness workbooks focusing on topics of mental health, sexual health, substance use, and the intersections of these topics and harm reduction. This is an excellent opportunity for students in the Arts Scholars program! Artists will receive compensation! If interested, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/XMNwJPoLRRLB3iXo8

Participate in Apple's Big Draw
See your everyday in a new way. In celebration of The Big Draw Festival, join free art sessions October 1–31 at every Apple Store. Get hands-on with iPad and take part in fun drawing activities that let your imagination play.

Join the Hate-Bias Response Team
Due: November 11 at 5pm
The Hate-Bias Response Team is recruiting students to serve on the team's student advisory group, which will launch in Spring 2020. The creation of the student advisory group establishes a formal mechanism to ensure student input is integrated into actionable goals of the Hate-Bias Response Team. The team is seeking students who are passionate about improving hate bias response on campus. Applications are available online HERE.

SNAG IT! — free classes for ages 17 to 22 years at Pyramid Atlantic
Snag It! is a program that gives extra spots in our workshops to young adults in our community. This program helps bring in students that might not otherwise be able to take our classes, and helps us to diversify our studios. It's a win-win. If you are between the ages of 17 and 22 years old and live in Prince George's County, you're eligible to participate in this program! Classes included in Snag It! involve any of the Pyramid studios: printmaking, papermaking, book arts, letterpress, screenprinting, and a variety of special topics. Sign up here!

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This newsletter was sent on May 17, 2019.