"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

UMBC's Department of Music presents the second Create Music Festival, reimagining music education festivals for equity & 21st century music learning, w/ collaboration of the BSO OrchKids & Maryland school large ensembles! Sat 3/1, 5:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall umbc.edu/event/umbc-c... #umbc

Venture into the world of renowned flutist Nicole Mitchell when she performs with the UMBC Jazz Ensemble on Friday, February 28! Linehan Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. — umbc.edu/event/umbc-j... #umbc #artsatumbc

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, for Artful Conversations: An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith! The noted writer and actor will be joined by UMBC's Kimberly Moffitt for a public conversation in Linehan Concert Hall at 6 pm. umbc.edu/event/artful... #umbc @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Kick off your weekend with the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble! Brent Madsen, Matt Belzer, Harry Appelman, Tom Baldwin, and drummer Mark Merella will take the stage tomorrow — Friday, February 21, 7:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/umbc-f... #umbc

Escape the miserable weather with chamber music in UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall! Join us Sunday, 2/16, at 3 pm, when the Voyager Ensemble will present works by Antonîn Dvořák, Jan Kučera, and Bedřich Smetana. umbc.edu/event/voyage... #umbc

Still looking for that perfect Valentine's Day outing? We've got just the thing at UMBC tonight — a flute trio new music concert, “Pareidolia Memories: Imagined faces in noises of sounds remembered”! Friday 2/14, 7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/pareid... #umbc

Snow? What snow?! We're on for tonight's concert by the Smithsonian Academy Orchestra! Join us Wednesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall for a rousing performance of works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. umbc.edu/event/smiths... #umbc

This afternoon, Tuesday, 2/11, join us online at 5 pm for Kei Ito: Beyond the Mushroom Cloud! Ito is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered around utilizing the conceptual framework of photography to visualize the invisible. umbc.edu/event/kei-it... #umbc

This Sunday 2/9, join us at UMBC for the Andrist-Stern-Honigberg Trio, featuring pianist Audrey Andrist, violinist James Stern, and cellist Steven Honigberg in a program of works by Rebecca Clarke, Kent Holliday, and Robert Schumann! umbc.edu/event/andris... #umbc @circa-umbc.bsky.social

A renowned composer for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Lucia Dlugoszewski spent a lifetime searching for radical new ways of making sound. Join us on Friday, Feb 7, 7:30pm in Linehan Concert Hall for a special concert presenting some of her notable works — umbc.edu/event/the-mu... #umbc

Tonight! Join us for Maryland Winds under guest conductor Michael Votta, Jr., for a program entitled Dances Around the World! Wednesday, 2/5, 7:30p.m., UMBC's Linehan Concert Hall! umbc.edu/event/maryla... #umbc

This Friday 2/7 at UMBC — Rediscovering the Music of Lucia Dlugoszewski: Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Dustin Donahue — explore the remarkable percussion music of the longtime composer for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company — umbc.edu/event/the-mu... #umbc #newmusic #baltimore

Next weekend! Join us for Baltimore Dance Project at UMBC on Fri & Sat, Feb 7 & 8! BDP presents new choreography by Ryan Bailey and Ann Sofie Clemmensen, the re-staging of Merce Cunningham's 50 Looks by UMBC's Jill Vasbinder, and guest artists Human Landscape Dance. umbc.edu/event/baltim... #umbc

We're thrilled that UMBC's Kelley Bell is the recipient of a Baker Artist Award! Tune in tonight (Friday, January 31) to Maryland Public Television for a special Artworks episode featuring Bell and others — youtu.be/-7uXRWj_394?... #umbc #bakerartist #marylandpublictelevision

circa.umbc.edu/spring-2025-... We've got a variety of events slated for the spring! Looking forward to seeing Baltimore Area and UMBC folks there! @artsatumbc.bsky.social

Maurice Berger served as chief curator at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture until his untimely death in 2020. His notable writings in The NY Times, Race Stories, have now been published in book form by the Times and Aperture — www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/b... #umbc