Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate, Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá/Zapotec and Maya Ch'orti'), discusses Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement. She offers readers an Indigenous, Global-South lens on the climate crisis, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes—and its costs.
In a Chamber Music Maryland first, Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, hailed as “the most dynamic duo of this generation,” joins forces with acclaimed Baltimore rapper and poet Wordsmith for an electrifying fusion of classical virtuosity and hip-hop storytelling.
Pianist Yang Gao presents a program featuring Fryderyk Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28, a selection from Isaac Albéniz's Iberia, and the Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 by Leoš Janáček.
View Full Event Details and Register for Yang Gao, piano, Sunday, March 29, 2026
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty Wind Quintet in a program of new works by UMBC student composers as well as La cheminée du roi René by Darius Milhaud, a staple of the woodwind quintet repertoire.
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The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Low Lecture, featuring Warren Milteer, Jr., associate professor of history at The George Washington University, who will speak on Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era.
The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master's Program presents despite // bất chấp: The 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from April 1 through 18 at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, the exhibition features work by graduating students Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen, and Lynn Nguyen.
UMBC Theatre presents The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, adapted by Jacqueline Lawton and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch. Life in modern day Baltimore has been a bit boring for Dorothy and her little dog Toto. Until one day, when a cyclone swoops in and takes them “over the rainbow” to the wonderful and magical land of Oz. With the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy sets off on the adventure of a lifetime down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. These new friends brave witches, flying monkeys, and a Haunted Forest all to meet the Wizard of Oz, who promises to make their dreams come true.
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In conjunction with the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through May 22, the Library Gallery presents a public program featuring Kaitlin Booher (William and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography, Columbus Museum of Art) and Holly Avella (assistant professor of media studies and data analytics, UMBC).
The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master's Program presents the Artist Reception for despite // bất chấp: The 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from April 1 through 18 at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, the exhibition features work by graduating students Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen, and Lynn Nguyen.
In celebration of a historic UMBC undergraduate publication and the university’s Arts+ initiative, the Bartleby 50+ exhibition presents a retrospective of works from the undergraduate creative arts journal, published since 1972. Bartleby remains a vital part of our campus community as a voice for undergraduate student creativity, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art.
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The Social Sciences Forum presents Amber Spry, assistant professor in the Departments of Politics and African + African American Studies at Brandeis University, who will speak on “The Technological Future: Shifting the Focus from What We Build to Who We Build It For.”
In this artist lecture, Amina Ross unearths the possibilities of a multi-media practice through an active engagement of turbulence. How might an art practice pull apart the complexities of our current conditions by offering transitory spaces of refuge? How might transformation of an unbearable reality become possible only through “staying with the trouble”?
Join us as the UMBC Wind Ensemble presents Profit and Peril, which explores through music the human cost of progress across American history and lived experience. The event features the UMBC Camerata (Lulu Mwangi, director) and guest vocal soloist Janice Jackson of UMBC. From the American Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, the program traces how systems of power—political, industrial, and technological—shape and challenge human lives. The performed works humanize industrial labor, the Great Migration, and the lasting impact of racial and economic injustice. Across wind ensemble, choral, and vocal works—including music from Hamilton—the program centers the individuals living within these systems, ultimately affirming dignity, resilience, and human connection as the true measure of progress.
Ruptures gathers short films by Amina Ross that linger at the edge of collapse. Moving between video, sound, and digital space, the works explore moments when systems strain, bodies speak, and structures begin to crack open. For Ross, rupture is not simply destruction. It is a threshold where the pressure of the present splits something apart and makes space for new forms of relation, perception, and possibility.
Transport yourself to the Rhine Valley for an evening of history and creativity! In conjunction with this year’s Meeting in the Middle undergraduate conference, UMBC's Medieval and Early Modern Studies program invites you to Klopp Castle in Bingen for an immersive dining experience.