This week at Arts Scholars...
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Happy Thanksgiving from Harold, Heather, and Kenna!!
We wish you a restful and cheerful holiday!
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Website Features Our Student Leaders!
Find out more about the students who lead the Arts Scholars community in exciting new directions! Check out our new Meet Arts Scholars page.
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Music
Maryland Gospel Choir
Saturday, November 22
7:30pm
Dekelboum Concert Hall, Clarice
Since its founding in 1975, hundreds of voices have joined together to share joyous music through UMD’s very own gospel choir. The group is committed to encouraging fellowship and community service.
Gamer Symphony Orchestra Fall 2019 Concert
November 24
7PM
Dekelboum, Clarice
Join us for our Fall 2019 concerts! The Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegiate ensemble exclusively devoted to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music and using that music as an educational tool. All of our arrangements are created by GSO members and alumni. This semester, our selections include pieces from Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem and much more! We are eager for you to come and watch our talented members perform!
Korean Percussion at Maryland
Monday, November 25
7:30PM
Dekelbourm. Clarice
Experience the vibrant beat of samulnori. This modern incarnation of traditional Korean folk music celebrates harvest time and provides a lively soundtrack to dancing. The ensemble is comprised of four types of percussion instruments—an hourglass drum, a barrel drum, a small gong and a large gong—each representing a natural element: rain, clouds, lightning and wind, respectively.
Faculty Noon Recital
Tuesday, November 26
12:30PM
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice
School of Music faculty take the stage during this noon recital.
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.
Still Here: Art on HIV/AIDS
October 29th through December 7th
This fall the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, presents Still Here: Art on HIV/AIDS, an exhibition of contemporary artwork on HIV/AIDS in dialogue with panels from The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Memorial Quilt was last hosted in the STAMP Gallery 30 years ago. In the interceding years and despite many technological and medical advances, HIV/AIDS remains an epidemic that disproportionately impacts the dispossessed and marginalized: queer men, trans women, racial and ethnic minorities, intravenous drug users, and economically vulnerable sex workers. Political stagnation and apathy, failed policy, and insurmountable paywalls for preventative drugs remain major barriers to ending the epidemic. Much has changed since The Stamp Gallery last hosted The Quilt in the 1980s, but what political, social, and medical barriers to prevention and treatment remain?
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Dance
Monica Bill Barnes & Company (USA)
Happy Hour
November 22
8PM
MilkBoy Arthouse
A dance show turned into an after-work office party. Come for the free drink, stay for the hope of a life-changing experience. Monica Bill Barnes and company insert dance into unusual contexts, moving as fluidly on the world’s largest stages as in an art museum or at the fictional after-work party of “Happy Hour.” Dressed in a pair of everyday men’s suits, two women crash an after-work office party playing instantly familiar guys. It’s a subversive move, leading audiences to question expectations of women on stage with a free drink in their hands and microwave popcorn flying through the air. They dance through the feeling of not measuring up in a macho society—and then work even harder to mask their uncertainty. Each fist-pump, back slap, and gesticulation points to a lingering vulnerability, but the discomfort is cut by the duo’s goofy humor and the exaggerated absurdity of it all.
Theatre
Second Season: "Breath, boom"
November 22, 7:30pm
November 24, 2 and 7pm
Breath, Boom
Written by Kia Corthron
Directed by Jasmine Mitchell
This impressionistic, episodic play by UMD alumna Kia Corthron creates a voice for Black women in today’s society, portraying them as multidimensional, empowered and demanding of respect. Rather than seeing them thrive unrealistically against all odds, we see them crack and break, ultimately supporting each other to build agency and resistance.
Revolt: A Radical Play by Walker Green
Friday, November 22 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, November 24 @ 2pm and 7pm
Cafritz Theatre, Clarice
Ariodante
Maryland Opera Studio
November 21 - 25
Kay Theatre, Clarice
Handel’s Ariodante is a story of royalty, love, intrigue and deceit set in the medieval Scottish highlands. Needing a male successor to the throne, the King of Scotland searches for a husband for his daughter princess Ginevra. After falling in love, Ginevra and the knight Ariodante are granted permission to wed but their plans are quickly disrupted by the devious plot of Polinesso, Duke of Albany, who also aspires to the throne.
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Opportunities
Call for Student Artwork Submissions: Juried Winter Show at the Stamp Gallery
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, November 22, 2019
See: https://stamp.umd.edu/Stamp_Gallery
The Stamp Student Union Gallery announces a call for student artwork for a juried exhibition to be held during the Winter Session. Artwork in this exhibition will be displayed on the walls in front of the windows of our gallery during the winter session; all forms of media, including 2-D, 3-D and digital, are accepted. Proposals are open to all currently enrolled University of Maryland students. Any questions about the submission guidelines can be directed to stampgallery@umd.edu
Be a student curator at NextNOW 2020!
Deadline: November 24
Do you have a passion for bringing people together through art? Get involved in the performing arts at Maryland and join the NextNOW Fest team! The Clarice's Artist Partner Programs are looking for student curators that will collaborate with Clarice professional and student staff to design a student-focused festival experience and assist in the creation of a student-focused promotional strategy. Student curators must commit to the project from January 2020 through October 2020. Each curator will receive an honorarium of $1,000. The full job description and application can be found here: http://theclarice.umd.edu/nnf/student-curator-application
Become a Do Good Ambassador
Deadline: December 5
The Do Good Ambassadors will be a coalition of passionate undergraduate students who are engaged across campus and dedicated to doing good – whether it’s through volunteering with an organization, creating a social venture, or anything in between. Ambassadors will act as the student voices of the Do Good Institute, coming together to inspire fellow Terps to get involved on and off campus.
Ambassadors will be offered a semester stipend of $100 a month ($400 total) and Do Good swag; invited to exclusive events on campus; offered professional and leadership development support; and join a community of like-minded advocates, innovators and changemakers at UMD and beyond!
If you're interested in making a difference on campus, inspiring other students to do good, and learning and growing alongside like-minded students – this program is for you! Please apply at this link by December 5 at 11:59pm, and join the Do Good team!
Scholarship Opportunity
Deadline: December 31, 2019
The Phi Beta Kappy Society, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society, has launched a new undergraduate scholarship program to connect promising arts and sciences students with opportunities in public service. The Society invites online applications for the Key into Public Service Scholarship, which will award $5,000 undergraduate scholarships and a trip to DC for up to 20 rising sophomore, junior, and senior liberal arts and science students interested in public service careers. Characteristics of ideal recipients include intellectual curiosity, interdisciplinary breadth and depth of arts and sciences coursework, leadership propensity, and service to others.
Students can visit PBK.org/ServiceScholarsApp to learn more and apply . The application deadline is December 31, 2019.
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This newsletter was sent on May 17, 2019.
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