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Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure During the Jim Crow Era
The Jim Crow era was marked by strict racial segregation, severely limiting Black individuals’ mobility and dignity. Public leisure spaces were often segregated, making travel dangerous and...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 3:58 PM
Building on years in archeological trenches in Greece, Robert Barry ’25 will keep digging at the University of Oxford
Robert Barry spent his undergraduate years thinking about the past, not the recent past, but the Minoan Bronze Age civilization of ancient Greece, which existed approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. This...
Posted: August 25, 2025, 1:51 PM
Sweat equity—UMBC’s arts, humanities, and social science interns use campus connections and resources to find ideal summer placements
Used to working in beautiful sunny weather, Giovanna Orfali, a visual arts senior from São Paulo, Brazil, spent this summer behind the camera as a digital content intern at the Maryland Center for...
Posted: August 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
Internationally minded excellence: Faculty and staff across all three UMBC colleges receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards to teach and research abroad
Four UMBC faculty and staff members have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards to teach, conduct research, and forge cross-cultural connections around the world in the coming...
Posted: July 31, 2025, 2:51 PM
James Smalls’ efforts to restore Féral Benga’s place in 20th-century performing arts just might preserve his grave site as well
Art historian James Smalls, a professor of visual arts, researches the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in both 19th-century art and the broader visual culture of the Black...
Posted: May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM
Kelley Bell, M.F.A ’06, brings a sense of play to the BMA with “Fantastic Village”
When associate professor of visual arts Kelley Bell thinks back to her childhood growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., she recalls fond memories of playing in her neighborhood...
Posted: April 25, 2025, 2:21 PM
Baltimore-based international animation festival Sweaty Eyeballs returns with a visual feast
“Sweaty Eyeballs” was born out of a Baltimore summer. The humid words hung in the air when animator Phil Davis, M.F.A. ’07, imaging and digital arts, was putting his plans into place in summer...
Posted: October 10, 2024, 10:59 AM
Luna Siesko ’25 builds career skills at the Baltimore County Arts Guild
With plans to become a professional photographer, Luna Siesko, a rising senior in visual arts, has already generated an impressive portfolio of work, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to...
Posted: August 16, 2024, 11:57 AM
UMBC’s exploratory artist in residence Levester Williams examines history of Cockeysville marble in film project
Since 2014, multimedia artist Levester Williams has developed a personal connection and exploration with a natural material that is a historic staple of Baltimore life—Cockeysville, Maryland,...
Posted: July 15, 2024, 2:48 PM
Office Hours with President Sheares Ashby and URCAD student artist
During her office hours, President Valerie Sheares Ashby makes it a point to meet weekly with students and hear about their UMBC experiences and their aspirations for life after UMBC. Today, Jenna...
Posted: May 21, 2024, 2:32 PM
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