The Department of Dance presents the annual Fall Dance Showcase. Students perform works by faculty, students and visiting artists, and the senior dance majors present their capstone choreographic projects. A different program each night features elaborate and exciting movement that explores the past, present, and future of human experience.

Tickets: $12 general admission, $7 students and seniors. Available online and at the box office.

“The Mark Rice Collection and the Homo-Erotics of Photography after Stonewall”
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Man, Image, Idea: Photographs of Men from the Mark Rice Collection (read more here), this talk by James Smalls considers the social, cultural, and aesthetic dynamics of the nude figure in gay male photography, along with the complications of its reception during the last decade of the twentieth century. It explores the aesthetics and reception of the Mark Rice Collection of photographs, on exhibit in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from August 30th to December 12th, whose subject matter engages the mostly nude male body. The Mark Rice Collection is comprised of more than 80 photographs constituting part of the history of gay male photography produced after the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, a significant historical event that fostered the visibility and optimistic development of a gay male subculture during the 1970s and early 1980s. Sadly, that carefree optimism turned to a melancholic introspection with the devastating onslaught of HIV/AIDS from the mid-to-late 1980s through the 1990s. Most of the photographs from the collection date to this latter decade and will be considered in this historical context.

James Smalls’ research and publications focus on the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality issues in nineteenth-century European art and in the art and culture of the black diaspora. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art (Parkstone Press, 2003), and The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts (Temple University Press, 2006). He is currently completing a book entitled Féral Benga: African Muse of Modernism.

Are you a leader looking to put your exemplary customer service skills to good use in a dynamic, fast pace, artistic environment? The Gordon Center for Performing Arts is seeking a part-time house manager to oversee all public areas of the theater during performances. Duties include leading and training other house managers and volunteers, enhancing the patron experience, assuring the theater is safe, managing all box office and concessions operations and working closely with Technical team to ensure a smooth and professional experience.

Port Discovery Children’s Museum is seeking a part-time Junior Designer to assist with graphics projects for a 3-month temporary assignment.

Position offers 24 hours per week; we are flexible on the schedule worked. All work must be completed on-site. Pay rate is $19 per hour.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• ALA accredited MLS or equivalent advanced degree.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in IT-related project management in one or more of the following in an academic library setting:
• Database development
• Network engineering
• Hardware and software upgrades to mission critical applications
• Application development
• Experience with library technologies and technology planning and demonstrated knowledge of current technology trends.
• Strong analytical and decision making skills.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Evidence of leadership and management ability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including ability to communicate clearly, knowledgeably and personably both orally and in writing.

Summary

The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert under the direction of Matthew Belzer, featuring all of the UMBC jazz groups, large and small, and spotlighting student compositions.

Admission is free.

Join Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council, in honoring three outstanding stewards of our state’s living cultural traditions in a public ceremony and concert.

The ceremony will feature this year’s recipients: in the category of Person, documentary story quilter Joan M.E. Gaither of Anne Arundel County; in the category of Place, the Baltimore American Indian Center; and in the category of Tradition, the Deal Island Skipjack Races and Festival.

The evening will conclude with a country blues concert by the Phil Wiggins Blues House Party. Bandleader and harmonica player Wiggins, of Takoma Park, was honored earlier this year with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

Free tickets are available here.

The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.

The performance will be followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 8 p.m.

Admission is free.