This week at Arts Scholars...
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Happy Spring Break!
Harold, Heather, and Kenna hope you all have relaxing Spring breaks!
Arts Fest Poster/T-shirt Competition
Let your design be the face of Arts Fest! The Arts Scholars Program is looking for a poster/T-shirt design for the annual Arts Fest which will be held on April 26/27th, 2019. The event is mandatory for all Arts Scholars students so an inclusive, creative design will be seen and admired by your peers! The winning logo will be printed on t-shirts and promotional posters, posted on social media, and hung in Bel Air. If you would like to submit a logo design for the contest, please adhere to these rules and submission guidelines. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at cpsacoffeehouse@gmail.com. Good luck and happy creating! Deadline March 31 at midnight.
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?
Positions we are currently looking for:
- Social Media Coordinator
- Graphic Designer
- Vice President
- President
Enjoying the Arts Scholars Program?
Nominations are now being accepted for Scholars Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards
During your time at College Park Scholars, has a program faculty or staff member had a significant impact on you? Has a Scholars graduate assistant pushed you to excel? The Scholars Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards give you the chance to recognize these people. Nominate any Scholars faculty or staff member for any of the following awards: Outstanding Mentor, Most Engaging in Class, The Face of their Field, Unsung Hero, or a “Create Your Own” category. Students can submit a nomination form until April 11.
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Contribute to a Capstone!
The following Arts Scholars would like your contributions for their capstone projects. Please consider contributing to one or more of the projects below.
Submissions wanted for VADE Magazine
Deadline: March 25
Balbina Yang is launching a creative writing and arts magazine for Asian-Americans. VADE Magazine is dedicated to serving the Asian-American community through fiction, poetry, photography, fine arts, and music. VADE is currently accepting submissions for the spring semester! Please email magazinevade@gmail.com with your work and check out the website at vademagazine.wordpress.com. For best consideration, please submit my March 25 at midnight. Hope to hear from you soon!
Survey on Americanization and African Culture
Chidinma Opaigbeogu & Adwoa Andoh are conducting a survey to better understand the African students at UMDs perspective on Americanization and African culture. They will use the information to help inform their capstone project which will be a poetry and painting exhibition to showcase the beauty of Africa and provide a safe space for other Africans who have felt their identity has been affected by being in the States. You can complete the survey by following this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/114HNJYzc5wjv6WWYkH2Dy9IIqnvd5IcZ_S6T_Np1UTc/viewform?edit_requested=true
Survey on Popular Comics
Justyn Alexander is conducting a study about what elements of comics (storyline, inking style, coloring, layout, etc.) students find most appealing. Fill out this survey about what makes engaging and popular comics (in general) for a chance to win $50!
https://goo.gl/forms/jLEVYxNmSO26hutf2
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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.
New exhibitions at UMUC. See: https://issuu.com/umucachiever/docs/spring_2019_art_umuc_f?e=5712148/68088134
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Music
Noura Mint Seymali Quartet Performance
Friday, March 15
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
MilkBoy ArtHouse 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park, Maryland 20740
Cost: Student/Youth: $10
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/noura-mint-seymali
Noura Mint Seymali's quartet is built around a deliberate return to Moorish roots, led by the raw music of the azawan, a word in Hassaniya that refers to the ensemble of traditional instruments in Moorish culture; the ardine, tidinit, guitar, t'beul. With a sound described as a molten form of Moorish psychedelic rock, Saharan funk and even "future pop", this band has been gaining international critical attention with its chart-topping albums and electrifying live performances.
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.
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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Me Too Monologues submissions
Deadline March 15 (but late submissions are being accepted)
Scholars will be hosting its 4th Annual Me Too Monologues on April 18 (not affiliated with the #MeToo movement). Scholars is now welcoming anonymous, original students stories. They can take any form: personal reflection, poetry, song lyrics, journal entry, etc. Selected entries, which remain anonymous, will then be performed by our very own students on April 18th. Submit your monologue by March 15 at: https:go.umd.edu/metooscholars. If you are interested in reciting a monologue, please email meetooscholars@gmail.com.
Call for artists
Deadline is March 17th at 11:59pm
UMD's chapter of Youth Art for Healing brings together student artists from the campus community to paint works of art that will be put in hospitals and healthcare environments (including our very own UMD counseling center!), providing a sense of comfort and healing for patients and their loved ones.
We’re interested in getting artists and or those who just enjoy painting for the spring semester. Studio times will be on Mondays at La Plata and Wednesdays at South Campus Commons 4 in the afternoons. At least 6 hours of paint time is required a month. If you are interested, please email 3 sample pieces (at least 2 paintings) to youthart.umd@gmail.com and include your name, year, and a sentence or two about your artistic history.
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