This week at Arts Scholars...

Harold, Heather, and Kenna hope you had a cheerful holiday and are having a restful break!!

If you are registering for Spring classes...

Freshmen: Register for CPSA101. Workshop schedules will be announced in January. If you have a class that conflicts with the CPSA101 slot, you will be able to sign up for a Workshop on a Tuesday. Email Heather to have the conflict approved. The Arts supporting course list is available on ELMS under files.
Sophomores: Register for CPSA201 and your corresponding Capstone course (CPSA240 for service learning projects; CPSA250 for individual projects; CPSA260 for workshop leaders). Workshop schedules will be announced in January. If you have a class that conflicts with the CPSA201 slot, you will be able to sign up for a Workshop on a Monday. Email Heather to have the conflict approved. The Arts supporting course list is available on ELMS under files.

Colloquium Updates

CPSA100
Final Project Presentations, Part 1

5:00-6:00pm - exhibition set up
6:00pm - announcements and reminders
6:05pm - Presentations by The Glue, Kate's Group, and The Triangles (up to 15 minutes each)
6:50pm - Exhibition viewing time in TA groups
7:15pm - end and exhibition take down

CPSA200
Capstone Presentations and Last Day of Class!
Final Proposals are due before class on ELMS, and we will have in-class presentations for individual and service learning projects. It will be an opportunity to share your ideas and exchange meaningful feedback with your peers.

Due: Final Capstone Proposals

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.

Pentathlon Events

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.

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?

Dance

Royal Scottish Country Dance

Wednesday, December 4
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).

Film
At the Hoff:

Hustler: December 4 @ 8pm

Sunnyside Screening and Q&A with Kal Penn
Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Edward St. John Learning & Teaching Center, Room 0224
See: go.umd.edu/sunnyside
Exclusive screening of a DACA-focused episode of the NBC/Hulu TV show Sunnyside, followed by a Q&A with co-creator and actor Kal Penn. Moderated by Dr. Terry K Park (AAST). Free and open to the public.

Presentation
Arts & Humanities Dean's Lecture: Cecile Richards, Activist & Progressive Leader
Thursday, December 5
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, tickets required
https://arhu.umd.edu/events/arts-humanities-deans-lecture-series-featuring-cecile-richards
UMD's Civic Maryland, a campus-wide initiative encouraging students to engage with issues of public concern, brings Cecile Richards, renowned activist and progressive leader, to campus to talk about her mission to inspire people to political action. Richards, who for more than a decade was president of Planned Parenthood, recently helped launch Supermajority, a group working to train and mobilize women to become organizers, activists and leaders in advance of the 2020 elections. Richards will discuss her journey into activism, highlighted in her New York Times Best selling 2018 memoir: "Make Trouble: Stand Up, Speak Out and Find the Courage to Lead". The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.

Opportunities

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.