This week at Arts Scholars...

Welcome!

The Arts Scholars Newsletter is sent out to all students in the program every Friday. It lists upcoming program events, gives reminders for colloquium, and provides lists of upcoming events on campus for Pentathlon credit. If you have something you would like to include, please let Kenna (kenna@umd.edu) know by Wednesday.

Scholars Block Party

Join us today for the Scholar Block Party! From 3:30 to 5 pm in the Cambridge Community Quad. Get to know some of your fellow students in Scholars while also learning about some of the opportunities we have to get involved. We'll have Rita's Italian Ice, Insomnia cookies and more!

Welcome event

All Freshmen are expected to attend our welcome event on Sunday, September 1 from 11 am to 4 pm. Lunch will be provided. Please meet in CCC1100.

Field Trip to Cirque du Soleil

Our first field trip of the semester is September 4! If you signed up for the Cirque du Soleil field trip meet Heather and the bus in the Cambridge Hall parking lot at 6pm. 

Colloquium Updates

Pentathlon Events

• Avengers: Endgame - August 31st @ 8:00pm
• Detective Pikachu - September 5th & 7th @ 8:00pm

Artistic Activism is the dynamic marriage of the creative power of the arts to move audiences emotionally and the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. With the allure and expressiveness of their words, community organizers and artists address political or social issues to reach a global audience.
In collaboration with Terps After Dark, join us for conversations of the intersections of art and activism. Audiences will hear from a student opener, a fellow UMD poet, Rudy Francisco, nationally renowned poetry slam artist and author, and Aja Monet, spoken word poet and co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio, a community collective dedicated to music, art, culture, and community organizing.

Opportunities

New Arts Leadership Minor
Enroll now to reserve your spot in this exciting new minor!
THE MINOR IN ARTS LEADERSHIP provides students with the opportunity to acquire the practical and strategic skills to become leaders in the arts, whether as artists, as entrepreneurs in the business of the arts, or as cultural leaders in government
and non-governmental agencies. The principal emphasis will be on arts leadership in not-for-profit environments. Although primarily intended for students majoring in the College of Arts and Humanities, the minor in Arts Leadership is designed to meet the needs of any student at the University of Maryland with an interest in arts entrepreneurship, arts administration and arts activism. Go to: go.umd.edu/artsleadership

New Humanities, Health, and Medicine Minor
This minor engages students in an interdisciplinary curriculum that applies the methods, perspectives, and insights, of the arts and humanities to health and medical education as well as practice. Through an exploration of human health and medicine using the interdisciplinary questions and research methods of literacy and cultural studies, as well as the arts, philosophy, communication, and history, the minor aims to develop and nurture skills such as empathy, ethical understanding, socio-cultural analysis, self-reflection, and an appreciation of diversity and inclusion that are essential for humane and effective medical care as well as sound health policy. This minor is open to all undergraduate students on campus, regardless or major. 
https://arhu.umd.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/minors