On April 30 and May 1, Orange Grove Dance will perform *outside* on the UMBC campus, traveling in space! Reserve tickets now — four performances only! umbc.edu/event/orange... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Join us for UMBC’s annual Brass Bash on Tues 4/21, 7:30 pm in Linehan Concert Hall! Featuring Brass for Uncommon Times, tuba soloist Velvet Brown, percussionist Fran Vielma, Latin Grammy-winning drummer Daniel Prim, and composer Greg Nicolett! umbc.edu/event/brass-... @umbc

Journey with the acclaimed Inscape Chamber Orchestra as they explore Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring soloist Airi Yoshioka! Sun 4/19, 4pm, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/inscap... @umbc.edu

Join us Sun 4/12 at 3 pm in Linehan Concert Hall! Pianist Audrey Andrist, violist Renate Falkner, and oboist Fatma Daglar present an afternoon of chamber music by Debussy, Clarke, Chaminade, and Loeffler. umbc.edu/event/andris... @umbc.edu

If you haven't had a chance to visit the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 (subject of a big review in last week's BmoreArt), join us at the Library Gallery on Thurs April 2, from 5 to 7 pm for a discussion followed by a reception — all free! umbc.edu/event/mary-e... @umbc.edu

It's time to travel down the yellow brick road! Join us April 2–12 for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a family friendly production on UMBC's Proscenium Stage, adapted by Jacqueline Lawton and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch! umbc.edu/event/the-wo... @umbc.edu

Thanks, BmoreArt and Jack Livingston, for the fantastic review of Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, an exhibition on display at UMBC's Library Gallery through May 22 — bmoreart.com/2026/03/ward... @umbc.edu @bmoreart.bsky.social

Join us for "despite // bất chấp," our 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition, Apr 1–18 (reception 4/2) at the CADVC with works by Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen & Lynn Nguyen! umbc.edu/event/despit... @umbc.edu

Join us this weekend for a free concert by pianist Yang Gao, who will perform Chopin’s Preludes, Op. 28, a selection from Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia, and the Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 by Leoš Janáček! Sunday 3/29, 3pm, UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/yang-g... @umbc.edu

Explore the music of George Lewis, Viet Cuong and David Lang performed by the RUCKUS ensemble! Wednesday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus... @umbc.edu

Join us on Friday 3/6 for the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Matt Belzer, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Mark Merella! 7:30 pm in Linehan Concert Hall — reserve your seats now! umbc.edu/event/umbc-f... @umbc.edu

Join us on Saturday, March 7 for composer Susie Ibarra! She'll present a 6:30 pm spatial audio installation and a 7:30 pm concert of her works in Linehan Concert Hall, both free! umbc.edu/event/susie-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

This Sat 2/28 @ 2pm, join us for a conversation between conductor Philip Mann and Maleke Glee, curator of the "absolute alternatives" exhibition at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Arrive early to enjoy the final day of the show! umbc.edu/event/creati... @umbc.edu

Drummer Vince Cherico, five-time Grammy winner, performs with the UMBC Jazz Ensemble this Friday night, 2/27, at 7:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall! Reserve your seats now for what promises to be an amazing evening! umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... @umbc.edu

Join us tomorrow at UMBC, Thurs 2/26 at 4 pm, for a free dramatic reading of a new play by Nikki Hartman, "Doll Parts…," a one-[trans]-woman show about memory, remembering, and transitioning as an older woman! umbc.edu/event/nikki-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

We're entering the final week of "absolute alternatives," the 2026 UMBC faculty exhibition! Join us for works by more than 20 artists at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture through February 28 — umbc.edu/event/absolu... @umbc.edu

Join us for the first concert of our spring music season this Wednesday, 2/4, 7:30 pm in Linehan Hall, when pianist Liana Pailodze Harron performs Copland's Appalachian Spring! The concert also features visual artist McCoy Chance — umbc.edu/event/liana-... @umbc.edu

"A note-perfect ensemble" featuring "top flight solos" says Washington Classical Review of UMBC's new music ensemble, Ruckus, after a brilliant performance on Oct 16 at the Livewire festival! washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/10/17/u... @umbc.edu

Don't miss Pedagogy Study Hall, a fascinating exhibition/installation/inquiry by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans at UMBC's CADVC! Read about it here in a fabulous BmoreArt review — bmoreart.com/2025/10/crea... @umbc.edu

On the Podcast: Gerrad Alex Taylor discusses his world premiere adaptation of SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, opening 10/30 @artsatumbc.bsky.social, which combines Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to canonize the Black experience. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

Enjoy three days of new music at UMBC's annual Livewire festival, this week! Join us Oct 16–18 for concerts by Ruckus, Ensemble Bravura, music by Di Castri, Eastman, Gubaidulina, Gubaidulina, Léon, Tower, Stockhausen, Cage & more — umbc.edu/event/livewi... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Join us Tues 10/14, 5:30 pm at UMBC for Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation – a rare opportunity to hear from MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Mel Chin, whose groundbreaking, socially engaged work spans science, video games, ecology, and more — umbc.edu/event/mel-ch... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

This week! Join us for the edgy dance duo Baye & Asa — two performances only, Thu & Fri, Oct 16 & 17, 7:30 pm in UMBC's Dance Cube! Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2022 — umbc.edu/event/baye-a... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

What does entrepreneurship look like in the arts and humanities? At UMBC, it looks like innovative research, bold teaching, and powerful social impact. Join us for a dynamic panel discussion on Wed, Oct 8, 12 pm (with a free lunch!) — umbc.edu/event/entrep... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Join us this Sunday for Harmony Across Borders: UMBC Choirs Homecoming Concert, as the UMBC choirs celebrate their tour to Prague and Paris! October 5, 5 pm, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/umbc-c... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Thanks, BmoreArt, for highlighting Pedagogy Study Hall, opening on October 9 at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture! bmoreart.com/2025/10/bmor... @umbc.edu @bmoreart.bsky.social

Monday in Baltimore! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... @ishotbaltimore.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @artsatumbc.bsky.social @baltimoremagazine.com @baltfishbowl.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social @cbsnewsbaltimore.bsky.social

Thanks, Washington Classical Review, for joining us yesterday afternoon, when Hui-Chuan Chen gave a spectacular performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata in Linehan Concert Hall! Read the review by Steve Silverman — washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/09/29/p... @umbc.edu

Beethoven Reimagined! Join us Sunday 9/28, 3 pm, in Linehan Concert Hall, when pianist Hui-Chuan Chen performs Beethoven's epic Hammerklavier sonata and a new piece by Daniel Pesca, "Impromptu #2 (after Beethoven)" — umbc.edu/event/beetho... @umbc.edu

Thanks, BmoreArt, for featuring today's lecture by Johanna Toruño and our Friday Queer Futures event in your picks of the week! bmoreart.com/2025/09/bmor... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social @bmoreart.bsky.social

Join us on Friday 9/26 for a roundtable gathering of visionary queer artists, thinkers, and culture-makers designed to explore the evolving possibilities of queer life, art, and community — umbc.edu/event/queer-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

In today's Baltimore Banner, a list of 6 must-see fall exhibitions includes UMBC's Picturing Mobility at the Library Gallery! Don't miss this extraordinary show — www.thebanner.com/culture/arts... @umbc.edu @thebaltimorebanner.com @bmoreart.bsky.social

Next Wednesday 9/17, Jonathon Heyward and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Haydn, Mayer, and Mozart at UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall! This event has been sold out, but a small number of seats were just released! @umbc.edu umbc.edu/event/baltim...

Thanks, @wbaltv11.bsky.social, for covering the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, which features lots of @umbc.edu artists! Enjoy this clip featuring Phil Davis ’07, IMDA, and adjunct professor Alexi Scheiber — youtu.be/iFb1Tbg0wL8?...

The Baltimore Banner profiles Lafayette Gilchrist '92, Africana studies, and his remarkable musical career! @umbc.edu

Thanks, Baltimore Fishbowl, for sharing news about our upcoming exhibition, Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, opening September 2 at UMBC's Library Gallery! baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/blac... ‪ @umbc.edu @baltfishbowl.bsky.social

Visual arts' Kelley Bell, M.F.A. ’06, was a 2024 recipient of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artist Award. The BMA exhibit featured 20 works from five recent Baker Artist Award recipients, including Bell’s “Fantastic Village.” umbc.edu/stories/kell...

All four performances of this weekend's theatre production, "in the darkest forest," are now sold out! Congrats to Nigel Semaj and the entire team in the UMBC Department of Theatre! umbc.edu/event/in-the... #umbc

The UMBC Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir take the stage this Saturday, May 3, at 5 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall! Free admission — more at umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... #umbc #artsatumbc

Join us as pianist Joel Sachs celebrates Charles Ives at 150! He'll perform the First Piano Sonata along with The Alcotts and Thoreau — Wed 4/23, 7:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/celebr... #umbc

7 things to do in Baltimore County includes masterworks at UMBC, nature walks

RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray! Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus/ #umbc

Join us Thurs evening, 4/17, when acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Rob Flax teams up w/the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman! Also featuring the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra directed by Philip Mann — 7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall #umbc

Congratulations 🍾 to Visual Arts Professors Cathy Cook (film/video) & Lynn Cazabon (interdisciplinary) who are finalists for the 2025 Baker Artist Awards! @artsatumbc.bsky.social

In collaboration with the Maryland State Arts Council, UMBC is delighted to host artist Marc Archambault, who has been commissioned to create a new public artwork for Sherman Hall. Learn more about his work Wed & Thu this week —https://umbc.edu/event/marc-archambault-meet-the-artist/

Opening tomorrow, March 25! The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition at UMBC's CADVC through April 11, with McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber & Mariia Usova. umbc.edu/event/2025-i... #umbc @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Join us for the INTERFERENCE: New Music Collective! William Brent and Nancy Jo Snider partner with artist/dancer Miřenka Čechová for works of their own and Steve Antosca's MA. Wednesday, March 12, 7:30 pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/interf... #umbc

Learn more about the fabulous work of artist Kelley Bell this Wednesday at UMBC! March 12, 12 pm, 216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building — lunch included! umbc.edu/event/kelley... Presented by @circa-umbc.bsky.social #umbc

Today at 3 pm, join us for a concert by renowned percussionist Aiyun Huang, with video and live electronics! Sunday, March 9, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/aiyun-... #umbc

Gigantic signs to highlight history are coming to Catonsville