With over 150 culture events programmed on campus throughout the school year, there are always many enriching events to experience at UMBC. This Thursday promises to be an especially exciting artistic evening with three events scheduled!
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture hosts an opening reception from 5 - 7 p.m. with the artist and curator of Gun Show, an exhibition of more than 100 life-size replicas of assault rifles created by artist David Hess from "rescued" objects. Hess intends for this project to foster dialogue about one of the most volatile issues of our time -- gun violence. A short film by alum and award-winning filmmaker Richard Chisolm ’82, interdisciplinary studies, about this ongoing project premieres as part of the exhibition.
The exhibition Man, Image, Idea: Photographs of Men from the Mark Rice Collection, which opened August 30 and runs through December 12 at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, will be open until 8 p.m. this Thursday, and each Thursday for the duration of the exhibition. The exhibition presents the male form in 62 photographs by many photographers including two from Baltimore, Connie Imboden and Jose Villarrubia.
And at 8 p.m. the Department of Music presents the first of two exciting concerts featuring British cellist, bass-baritone, and actor Matthew Sharp in the acoustically superb concert hall on campus. Sharp will sing Schubert’s Der Erlkönig and Jacques Brel’s Chanson des Vieux Amants and be joined by UMBC string faculty for the celestial and unsurpassed chamber work, Schubert’s Cello Quintet. This concert as well as Death's Cabaret – A Love Story on Friday, September 8 are FREE for UMBC students (a treat, professional concert usually charge a fee for student tickets.)
Invited artists and speakers as well as faculty and students in the arts, humanities and social sciences will present more than 65 events this fall on campus, ranging from exhibitions to performances to lectures. These are all open to the campus community as well as the public. To stay up-to-date on all of these events in one list visit the Arts & Culture Calendar at artscalendar.umbc.edu.
Thursday, September 7, 5 -7 p.m.
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Thursday, September 7, open until 8 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Thursday, September 7: Doors 7:30 p.m., Show 8 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
