This week at Arts Scholars...
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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
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. Coffee & Crafts for the Spring semester are now underway! Please come join your peers (and earn Pentathlon credit!) at one of the Spring sessions. More details in the C&C flier.
The next Coffee & Crafts is Coloring led by Merissa, Thursday March 14, 5-6:30pm
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. 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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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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Freshmen
- Sign-ups for a Citation Reviews before March 15th! This is your week to complete this assignment.
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Sophomores
- Do you need participants for your Capstone project? Let Heather know and we can help you recruit survey participants, artists, contributors, etc!
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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.
We Are All Terps Installation
March 4 - 22 (opening March 4 12-1:30pm)
Patterson Hall Atrium
We're all from somewhere and our roads have led us here. Share your journey and reflect on the possibilities. We are All Terps is an installation created by graduate students in the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture program, you are invited to participate in an activity and share your on twitter your journey to UMD.
New exhibitions at UMUC. See: https://issuu.com/umucachiever/docs/spring_2019_art_umuc_f?e=5712148/68088134
Dance
Royal Scottish Country Dance at Maryland
Wednesday, March 13
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).
Vertigo Dance Company: One. One & One
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre
Student/Youth: $10
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/vertigo-dance-company
In our modern era, to exist is to feel fragmented, our attentions splintered by a dozen different devices and our politics bifurcated by the need to balance a conscience with convenience. Are we part of the earth or powerful over it? Do we need spirituality and society more than they need us? These are some of the questions at the anxiously beating heart of One. One & One, the 25th-anniversary production of esteemed Israeli dance company Vertigo. With a stage covered in rich, dark soil and music that pivots among moments of classical mannerism, electronic bombast, and folk simplicity, One. One & One explores the fundamental tension between humanity's desire for solidarity and the separation that comes with tending to one's own needs, from the mundane to the messianic.
Theatre
NextLOOK: Monique Walker: Amma's Chasm
Friday, March 8, 2019 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Joe's Movement Emporium 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
Pay what you wish, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2018/nextlook-monique-walker-ammas-chasm
Amma is a victim of domestic abuse and faces a life or death decision: let go of life or fight for survival. She represents those who are, were, or on the way to experience domestic violence. Amma's Chasm is a call to the community compelling them to speak out, lift each other up, and mend wounds, bringing light to the darkness of domestic violence. Collaborating with community activists and artists, southern Maryland-based dance artist Monique Newton Walker explores perspectives, outcomes, and healing around domestic violence in her mixed-media dance residency.
Fearless New Play Festival - Final Day
Saturday, March 9
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Theatre
Students: Free
https://tdps.umd.edu/event/2018-2019/fearless-new-play-festival-0
The Fearless New Play Festival by UMD's School of Theatre Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS) is a three-day celebration of new scripts in development.
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Film
Defiant Lives: The Disability Movement Screening
Monday, March 11, 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
South Campus Commons, 1102 Building 1
https://www.facebook.com/events/263283241254608/
Defiant Lives introduces the world to the most impressive activists you've never heard of and tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States, Britain and Australia. The film weaves together never-before-seen archival footage with the often-confronting personal stories of disabled men and women as they moved from being warehoused in institutions to fighting for independence and control over their lives. They chained themselves to public transport around the world and demanded access "to boldly go where everyone else has gone before;" and they lobbied for support to live ordinary lives in the community with family, lovers and friends. Defiant Lives is a triumphant film full of extraordinary characters who put their lives on the line to create a better and very different world where everyone regardless of impairment is valued and can participate.
At the Hoff:
- Aquaman - March 13 & 14, 8pm (https://www.facebook.com/events/350194035827421/?event_time_id=350194049160753)
- “Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, the city of Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people -- and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Aquaman, Orm's half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne. With help from royal counselor Vulko, Aquaman must retrieve the legendary Trident of Atlan and embrace his destiny as protector of the deep” (Google).
Music
The Immigrants 3: UMD Wind Orchestra and UMD Wind Ensemble
Friday, March 8
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/the-immigrants-3
A leading voice among collegiate ensembles in premiering new works for winds, the 10th anniversary season of the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra (UMWO), led by Dr. Michael Votta, will feature faculty soloists, world-premiere performances and masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Women's Voices: UMD Treble Choir
Saturday, March 9
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Memorial Chapel
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/womens-voices-umd-treble-choir
UMD Treble Choir and guest University Singers from the University of Delaware join together to mark the beginning of Women's History month.
Spotlight: School of Music Showcase
Sunday, March 10
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Free, tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/spotlight-school-of-music-showcase
This annual celebration showcases the range and diversity of exceptional talent across the School of Music. Don't miss an opportunity to hear student performers shine with repertoire ranging from jazz standards to operatic duets to virtuosic solos.
The Battle of the Bands
March 12
7-9:30pm
Stamp
Join us on March 5 and 12 in the Baltimore Room of Stamp for the Live Battle rounds, where we will hear the top six acts perform for the grand prize of opening at Art Attack 36! For further questions or concerns please reach out to seemusicalarts@umd.edu
Broadway Songs "Backwards"
Wednesday, March 13
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Cafritz Foundation Theatre
Free, no tickets required.
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/utas-tdps-backwards
Is there a song you've been dying to perform that traditionally wouldn't be sung by someone who looks like you? TDPS Backwards is here to shatter those gender norms and give students a space to sing ANY broadway song they want regardless of gender identity, race, age, etc. Inspired by Broadway Backwards, UTAS felt a need to have a fun night where students could sing songs from their favorite musicals regardless of how it is/was originally performed. Voluntary donations received the night of the performance will go to Broadway Cares' initiative to finding a cure for AIDS. Come out and have a blast with us as TDPS students and friends sing their heart out!
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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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
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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