This week at Arts Scholars...

Get Involved!

Scholars in Action
Program Representatives are the bridge between Scholars in Action and each Scholars program, linking Scholars students to upcoming service events. There are only three of us on the Executive Board, so we need you to connect us with your program and perform the following duties:

Be available on Sundays from 5-6 PM for general body meetings. Our meetings will typically be every other week, however, we do ask for some flexibility when we are organizing multiple projects.
Communicate with your Scholars program peers about upcoming SIA service events through emails, announcement or other means.
Attend and assist us in some of the service projects we host.
Familiarize yourself with your Scholars program director and explore potential service projects specific to your program (especially programs with service requirements).

Being a Program Representative for SIA is a great leadership position that allows you to be more involved with Scholars, and it doesn't require a huge amount of time commitment. Apply here.

Colloquium Updates

CPSA100
Final Project Introduction
How can you further develop your artistic practice? How do you develop creative ideas? What frameworks can you use for brainstorming and evaluating creative ideas?

Meet in CCC1100 to discuss and brainstorm.

CPSA200
Capstone Workshop 2
This week you will participate in your second capstone workshop. You will learn concrete strategies for how to develop your capstone ideas and have the opportunity to receive feedback on your capstone from your peers. Be sure to bring a hard copy of "Capstone Study I: So What?" with you to class. Questions we will explore: How do I evaluate and choose the ideas that best meet my goals? What techniques can help me push my ideas towards the next stage of development?

Be sure to submit your Arts Journal: Idea Development (completed during class) to ELMS, and begin work on Capstone Study II: Annotated Bibliography. Citation Reviews are due Oct. 8, so sign up for an appointment if you have not yet done so.

Check out our new website!

Arts Scholars now has our very own website! Designed for current Arts Scholars students, the website is a great resource for seeing what events are coming up, learning more about the program, and viewing photos from past Arts Scholars events. Check out Arts Scholars today!

Pentathlon Events

Dance
Royal Scottish Country Dance
Wednesday, October 2
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Mathematics Building Rotunda
Cost: Free
We offer a Scottish country dancing class and practices. (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!
Contact: Howard Lasnik 301-405-4929 lasnik@umd.edu

Film
At the Hoff in Stamp Student Union:

Misommar - September 27th @ 8:00pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - September 28th @ 10:00pm
Toy Story 4 - October 3rd & 4th @ 8:00pm

DC Shorts International Film Festival
September 19-28
Various venues
https://festival.dcshorts.com/
The 2019 DC Shorts International Film Festival is one of the largest collections of short films in the United States! This year, out of more than 1200 entries from around the globe, our programmers have selected 156 unique films that will screen in 19 showcases that reflect the 38 nations they represent — bringing a world view to Washington, DC.

Rat Film
October 4
5:30pm
Room 1111, Architecture Building
Rat Film (2016) uses rats and infestation to examine race, classism, and the often misunderstood built environment in Baltimore City. Through a mix of documentary, history, sci-fi, music, and portraiture, Rat Film explores how segregation, redlining, and environmental racism have formed the city today. As one of the film's central voices declares early on, "There ain't never been a rat problem in Baltimore. It's always been a people problem."

Music
Faculty Artist Series: Joseph Grimmer, bassoon
Sunday, September 29
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Cost: Free
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/faculty-artist-series-joseph-grimmer-bassoon
Faculty member and Washington National Opera Principal Bassoonist Joseph Grimmer continues his exploration of contemporary bassoon music in the second installment of his recital series.

SEE Presents: Cautious Clay
Friday, October 4
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Grand Ballroom
Cost: Free for UMD Community with Valid ID
https://www.facebook.com/events/2105240523117630/
Cautious Clay will be performing at Stamp's All Niter! Originally from Cleveland, OH, Cautious began his artistic journey at the age of seven when he picked up classical flute. His studies led him deep into the worlds of blues and jazz, and by the time he hit college in Washington, D.C., he'd added a number of other instruments to his repertoire in addition to songwriting and production. Now based in Brooklyn, Cautious is consistently working on music for both his own project and for others.

Theater
The Visit
Saturday, September 28 - Saturday, October 5
7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre
Cost: Free
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2019/the-visit
Under what circumstances can a society skew their morality for comfort and personal gain? Set in the fictitious town of Gullen, experience the story of a woman's revenge on a community that cast her out when she was pregnant and impoverished. This play, an allegorical dark comedy, features a village of citizens - set into motion as a mob of dancing birds, whose sweeping murmurations turn ferocious. The play arcs from absurdist to barbarous in order to question what happens when civil ethics, personal morality, patriarchal rule, justice and democracy go amok.

Visual Art
Craft Night Series in the Student Involvement Suite: Create a Picture Frame
9pm-11pm (Stamp Student Union - Student Involvement Suite)
Craft Night Series Pt. 5 - Come out to our last craft night event and create a picture frame to help capture the moments you will create at Maryland!

Inspired! Jim Henson at Maryland
Thursday, August 8, 2019 - Tue , May 26, 2020 (all day)
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
https://www.lib.umd.edu/mspal/gallery
The exhibit provides a window into the profound impact Henson’s experiences on campus, both in the classroom and in his extra-curricular activities, had on his creative and professional development, laying the foundation for a remarkable career that included the creation of the Muppets and beyond. Featured are 25 pieces of original art created by Jim Henson (1936-1990), theatrical programs and ephemera, photographs, and an interactive digital archive of Henson’s sketchbooks, student projects, and press clippings from The Jim Henson Company Archives, Special Collections in Performing Arts, and UMD's University Archives. Video clips from the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate the breadth of Henson’s genius, already evident in his early work on local Washington television.

Lia Halloran: The Same Sky Overarches Us All
UMD Art Gallery
September 5 to November 22
Monday to Friday, 11 am to 4 pm
Art/Sociology Building
The exhibition explores the lesser-known history of early women astronomers and the central role they played in modern astronomy, including the discovery and documentation of major celestial bodies. Using large-scale cyanotypes -- a photographic printing process developed in the mid-nineteenth century, primarily for scientific use -- Halloran examines how perception, time, and scale informs the human desire to understand the world and our emotional and psychological place within it. The exhibition also features her first immersive, three-channel video installation, Double Horizon (2019), an aerial exploration of the space above Los Angeles.

Social Housing
Sept 13 - October 20, 2019
Kibel Gallery, Architecture Building
https://arch.umd.edu/mapp/event/municipality-building-vienna-residential-construction-1920-2020
The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's Kibel Gallery, in conjunction with the Austrian Cultural Forum and the City of Vienna present an exhibition and symposium on Social (Affordable) Housing. The exhibition, "The Municipality is Building. Vienna Residential Construction 1920 to 2020," begins on Friday, September 13th at 1:00 pm with an opening reception, followed at 2:00 pm, by the symposium, "The Vienna Model: Social Housing for the 21st Century."

Opportunities

Work at the Clarice
Need some extra money? See current employment opportunities here.

Publish Your Work
Stylus, UMD’s student-run literary arts journal, is looking for your work. Contact styluslit@gmail.com to find out more.

Winter study abroad opportunity

Business, Society and the Economy Program Director Mark Wellman will be leading a winter study abroad course in South East Asia, Jan. 10 – 25 (dates subject to change). Students will have the opportunity to study in Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore and engage in a series of cultural activities, company visits and adventure excursions. Apply by Oct. 1.

Follow Arts Scholars on Social Media

We have a new Instagram account! Follow us on Instagram @umd.artsscholars to stay up to date on events and connect with your peers.

You can also join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/526726647663819

Arts Scholars
1110 Bel Air Hall
301-405-0522
Or drop by and say hi!

This newsletter was sent on May 17, 2019.