This week at Arts Scholars...
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Volunteer with Terps Against Hunger!
Terps Against Hunger is seeking volunteers to join them in a food packing event this Saturday (2/23) from 1 to 3 pm. The event will take place in the Stamp Student Union Grand Ballroom Lounge. Scholars in Action is aiming to provide 10 student volunteers for the event. Each volunteer will earn $20 in Scholars Cuppoints for volunteering! If you're interested in giving time, please register here: ter.ps/SIATAH
Game of Life Coffeehouse
Thursday, February 28
6:30 - 8:30pm
CCC1205
Join Arts Advisory Board for an evening of games. Earn Pentathlon credit while you are playing! Bring your own video game controller if you have one!
Arts Scholars 2019 Official Logo Design Contest
Deadline: March 1st, 2019
The Art Scholars program is looking for an official logo that is designed by one of its own students in order to promote creativity and inclusivity within the community. The winning logo will be posted on Art Scholars social media accounts and hung up in Bel Air. If there is significant interest among students, the logo may be used to create stickers and/or t-shirts to be sold. Submit your designs, or any questions, by email to CPSACOFFEEHOUSE@GMAIL.COM with “Art Scholars Logo Design Contest” in the Subject.
Arts Advisory Board Leadership Positions Available
What is AAB?
We are a student-run organization to build community and to support the creative aspirations of our community first, the Scholars community as a whole second, and beyond. We promote community building within the UMD community by supporting students’ creative interests, establishing peer-to-peer connections beyond the classroom, and inspiring a culture of inclusion. Essentially, as I said above, we create opportunities for students to explore their creativity, meet new people, not just in the Arts Scholars program but beyond.
When do we meet?
Tuesdays after colloquium. We will be having a meeting this coming Tuesday in Bel Air Hall. Contact: Justyn for more details.
Positions we are currently looking for:
- Communications, Advertising, and Social Media Chair
- Social Media Coordinator
- Historian
- Graphic Designer
Become a Peer Mentor
As a Peer Mentor, you will serve as a resource for first-year Scholars as they navigate through the academic challenges associated with college experience. Peer Mentors check in with their mentees throughout the academic year and direct them to resources available on campus that can enrich their academic performance. Apply here.
Open House Panelists Needed
In just a few weeks we will be hosting the first of four spring open house events. If you've not participated in one of these in the past, fear not! They are an info session for incoming students who have already been admitted to UMD and are interested in joining Arts Scholars. Our main goal is to provide those incoming students (and their families) a sense of the Scholars experience from the one's who know best, you!! If you are interested in sharing your Arts Scholars experience, please sign up to attend an Open House!
Open House Dates:
March 1st & 8th
April 5th & 12th
* All open houses are Fridays from 1-1:50pm in Bel Air
Sign Up: https://goo.gl/forms/Ugo0y7zld2gLf8BB3
Host a Coffee & Crafts
Coffee & Crafts are a series of social, fun and relaxed activities where students can use creativity to de-stress while among friends, faculty and staff. If you have an idea for Coffee & Crafts, consider hosting a session! You need not be an expert, just willing to lead your peers in a creative activity. Past Coffee & Crafts have included: jam session, collaging, yoga, adult coloring, karaoke, friendship bracelets, and birth chart journaling. All ideas are welcome!
Sessions are 90 minutes long held in the Bel Air lounge. Materials provided by the Arts Scholars program. If you are interested in this leadership opportunity, please complete this interest form.
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CPSA101
- Sign-ups for a Citation Reviews before March 4th for those whose last names start G-R.
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CPSA201
- Sign-ups for Capstone Advising Meeting one are now live!
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Special Events
Black History & UMD Landmark Tours
Thursday, Feb. 28 - 12:30 PM
Front steps of the Rossborough Inn
Explore the history of black people at Maryland and their contributions to the campus community. Tour by Dr. Kim J. Nickerson and coordinated by MICA. Reserve your spot: orgsync.com/75780/forms/351178
Literature/Presentation
An Evening with Antoni Porowski
Tuesday, February 26
7pm
Grand Ballroom at Stamp
This event will be a moderated Q&A with Antoni Porowski from Queer Eye. He will talk about his work on the show, healthy college eating, and his life experiences. Following the moderated conversation, there will be a cooking demonstration and an audience Q&A. Antoni Porowski is the Queer Eye food & wine connoisseur. At a young age, Antoni was bitten by the culinary bug spending countless hours in the kitchen watching his mother joyously cooking and bringing a world of culinary delights to life.
Visual Art
Here and Now: Recent Acquisitions
UMD Art Gallery
Art-Soc Building
Jan 30 to Apr 5, 2019
Honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of the University of Maryland Art Gallery's permanent collection. Every five years the Gallery mounts an exhibition of notable recent acquisitions and gifts. Highlights from 2014-2019 include an entire gallery devoted to the work of Washington Color School artist Paul Reed from the Bill McGillicuddy collection and the Jean Reed Roberts collection, donations and promised gifts of significant African Art from the Dr. Stephen and Dr. Sharlene Weiss collection and the Dr. Gilbert and Jean Jackson collection, several Japanese hanging scrolls from the G. Lewis and Kyoko Edayoshi Schmidt collection, major works by Latinx artists Natalia Blanch, Dora De Larios, GeoVanna Gonzalez, and Analia Saban, among many others.
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
Driskell Center
Jan 31 to Apr 7, 2019
This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet. The exhibition explores contemporary understandings of beauty by framing the notion of aesthetics, race, class, and gender within art, popular culture, and political contexts.
Visualizing Narratives: Shaping Resistance
February 13th - March 30th
Stamp Gallery
Monday – Thursday 10am - 8pm, Friday 10am - 6pm, and Saturday 11am - 5pm
Visualizing Narratives: Shaping Resistance seeks to explore the role of visual production around protests and forms of resistance. It will consider such questions as: How does the mass media visually shape narratives? How does artwork respond to, reshape, interrogate, or blur these narratives? How does the visual response to protests and resistance movements by artists memorialize or historicize events? The exhibition presents works in a variety of media––including sculpture, photography, installation, and video––by Becci Davis, Malik M. Lloyd, Leah Modigliani, Susanne Slavick, and the TUG Collective.
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Film
At the Hoff:
- The Favourite: Friday, February 22 at 8pm
- If Beale Street Could Talk: Wednesday, February 27 & Friday, February 28 at 8pm
Hamlet Replayed: Student-Driven Play
Friday, February 22, 2019 7:30 PM - Sat , March 2, 2019 7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre
Cost: Student/Youth: $10 or free
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/hamlet-replayed
Hamlet is knee-deep in a personal and political quagmire. His father, the king, has been murdered by his uncle Claudius, who has hastily married his sister-in-law to assume the throne. Seeking to avenge his father's murder, Hamlet sets off a chain of events resulting in death, destruction and a notable absence of justice. But the politics and scandal in Shakespeare's classic tragedy are nothing compared to the political discord and global uncertainty of today. This student-driven devised theater piece, adapted from the Bard's tale, imagines a new cast of greedy, divisive leaders- and a new generation to challenge those leaders and liberate themselves.
Dance/Theatre
Royal Scottish Country Dance at Maryland
Wednesday, February 27
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Mathematics Building Rotunda
We offer a Scottish country dancing class and practice. (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).
Music
Bach Cantata
Thursday, February 21 - May 2
1:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Grand Pavilion
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2018/bach-cantata-1
Bach, the great master, wrote more than 200 cantatas, and UMD Choral Activities aims to sing them all in this series of informal performances by students, faculty, staff and community friends.
Men's Chorus Invitational
Saturday, February 23
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Memorial Chapel
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/mens-chorus-invitational
The UMD Men's Chorus hosts other DC-Metro Area tenor-bass ensembles for an evening of vibrant collaborations.
Kreativity Open Mic Night 2018
Friday, March 1 - Mon , May 13
7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Cafritz Foundation Theatre
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2018/kreativity-open-mic-night-2018
Join the Kreators of the Kreativity Diversity Troupe for an open mic night, full of music, dance and spoken word.
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Call for artists - Driskell Center Mural
Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019
The Driskell Center is accepting designs for a mural themed around the legacy of artist and scholar Professor David C. Driskell. The mural will be painted on a 28ft long and 8ft tall stretch of dedicated wall space outside of the Driskell Center’s gallery in Cole Student Activities Bldg. The selected artist will receive an honorarium of $600 upon completion of the mural. The artist is expected to paint the wall with a group of invited volunteer artists. Artist & Craftsman Supply will provide materials.
Summer Research Assistant Position
Deadline: March 3
Collaborate with Science, Technology and Society researchers from
University of Maryland College Park and Boise State University on a social science research
project. The position is based out of the Science, Technology and Society program at the
University of Maryland. Our project studies efforts to create a dialogue between the public and
technical experts at NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Energy. We want to understand how
public engagement influence federal agency decision-making. The project investigates whether
and how public engagement events have changed expert cultures at NASA, NOAA, and DOE. Stipend: $4000. Employment dates: June 24 to August 16. Let Kenna know if you are interested in applying.
Conference: Social Justice and Equity in Education
March 9
10am - 2:30pm
The Teacher Education Association of Maryland is hosting a free conference featuring keynote speaker Deepa Iyer, author of We Too Sing America. Lunch provided. Register at: go.umd.edu/teams19
Submissions wanted for VADE Magazine
Deadline: March 15
Second-year Arts Scholar, Balbina Yang has made a creative writing and arts magazine for Asian-Americans. The magazine is VADE Magazine, and you can find out more here: https://vademagazine.wordpress.com/. Submissions are currently open for any interested Asian-American students; students can submit any creative work: short stories, poems, fine art, lyrics, photography, diary entries, and more. Students can email magazinevade@gmail.com with their works. Also, students do not need to be humanities majors to submit.
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