This week at Arts Scholars...

Scholars in Action Event Tomorrow!

Have a conflict with Arts Fest? 

Arts Fest is April 26 and 27th. All Arts Scholars are required to attend and will need to complete an assignment during the festival. Please let Heather (hbremens@umd.edu) know as soon as possible if you have prior commitments and are unable to attend.
 

Save the Dates: Academic Showcase and Scholars Kickball Tournament

Academic Showcase is May 3 4 - 5:30pm - All Scholars are required to attend. The annual Scholars Kickball Tournament is May 4 at 10am. Let's help Arts win for the first time!
 

Help us redesign the Bel Air Lounge 

Would you like more comfy seating or space to practice your instrument in the Bel Air Lounge? Contribute your ideas here:

https://forms.gle/Uky2Qu6xUgBSwd9e9

Contribute to a Capstone!

CPSA101

CPSA201

Earn credit while learning valuable teaching skills and helping your peers! If you are interested in applying please see the Arts TA application in Assignments on ELMS. Deadline April 19. 
 

Pentathlon Opportunities

Dance

Royal Scottish Country Dance

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 
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). ANYONE can come! No experience required! No partner needed! No Scottish heritage required!

Film

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
H.J. Patterson Hall, Global Crossroads Space (Lobby)
Film Screening of The Year my Parents went on Vacation and discussion about dictatorship in Brazil. About the movie: A 12-year-old Brazilian boy who longs to see his team win out over Italy in the 1970 World Cup match finds his entire world turned upside down as his left-wing parents are forced into hiding and he is sent to live with his grandfather in São Paulo's Bom Retiro district. Though his country is being held in the grip of a military dictatorship and the war in Vietnam is raging abroad, young Mauro can't seem to think about anything else but the upcoming World Cup match between Brazil and Italy.

At the Hoff: 

• The Intruder (Advance screening) - 4/15 at 8pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/310773269853711/

Visual Art
Driskell Center Presents: Posing Beauty in African American Culture

Wednesday, February 27 to April 27
9:00AM - 5:00 PM
The David C. Driskell Center
http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/Posing%20Beauty/index.php
Posing Beauty in African American Culture 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.

Symposium and Exhibition: Work of Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez
Saturday, April 13, 2019 
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Phillips Collection 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20009
https://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2019-04-13-symposium
In conjunction with the first museum retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana), the Phillips Collection is holding a symposium to discuss the artist’s prolific yet largely unknown 70-year career, in which she produced more than 60 works including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, sculptural pieces and more. The first part of the symposium, In Context, features presentations by prominent art historians that frame Sánchez’s work within the trans-national development of modernism in Cuba, the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. The second part, Curatorial and Scholarly Perspectives, discusses the positioning of Sánchez’s work in museum collections and scholarly research. The third part, Legacy, introduces Sánchez’s former students (and now accomplished artists), sheds light on the preservation and conservation of the artist's stretched canvases, and touches on current issues in the field of Latin American art.

New exhibitions at UMUC. See: https://issuu.com/umucachiever/docs/spring_2019_art_umuc_f?e=5712148/68088134
 

Music

FCA's Philippine Culture Night
Saturday, April 13
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union | Sponsored by the Filipino Cultural Association
Fee: $10

The Filipino Cultural Association (FCA) would like to extend an invitation to our University of Maryland community to their annual Philippines Cultural Night (PCN). This year’s PCN will be a romantic-comedy that focuses on toxic masculinity within Filipino culture, and follows a young couple as they transition out of college, and take in all the family dynamics of a relationship while balancing career expectations.

Contact: Aiko Mendoza - public.relations@fcaatumd.com