UMBC Visual Arts Department
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Mission
The Department of Visual Arts carries out UMBC’s mission as a dynamic public research university. Our diverse, internationally acclaimed faculty are committed to guiding future artists and design professionals to think independently, work imaginatively, and implement creative solutions to real world problems. By providing an environment of collaborative research and interdisciplinary learning, we enable experimentation across media. Our BA, BFA and MFA curricula equip students to push beyond disciplinary parameters as they move skillfully between technologies, processes, and modes of thinking.
Vision
The department seeks to become an international model for art and design programs within a public research university that stresses cross-disciplinary activities. We envision students as agile, flexible thinkers and civically engaged leaders in a rapidly changing world.
Recent Submissions
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The Space is a Body and You Are In It: a collaboration
(2023-01-01)The Space is a Body and You Are In It is a collaboration between Chlo� Engel and Anna Kroll exploring collaborative imagining. Consisting of The Game and Game Space, booklets of reflections and a silent video projection, ... -
THE CHAPEL OF IMAGINATION
(2023-01-01)The Chapel of Imagination is a multimedia installation and an artist?s self-portrait subverting and reimagining the layout of the traditional Eastern Orthodox Church and Russian folktales through a mix of animation, ... -
Dear Dhaka...
(2023-01-01)Dear Dhaka? is a multimedia installation consisting of two works, 'Under Construction' and 'Aborodhbashini,' emanating from the artist's experience living in Dhaka as an urban citizen and a woman using concrete, cotton ... -
Crazy in Louvre: How Beyoncé and Jay-Z Exploit Western Art History to Ask Who Controls Black Bodies
(Frieze, 2018-06-29)An art historian explains what the Carters’s takeover of the Paris museum says about art, race and power -
James Smalls on Here is a Strange and Bitter Crop
(Space Studios, 2018-09) -
"What is the Shape of Water" with CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence
(IMET, 2019-06-26) -
Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments
(The Guardian, 2019-08-01) -
Creative Challenges in AR \\ Urban Life
(2020-09-12) -
Artists panel What is the Shape of Water?
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Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality
(2022-01-01)In Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality, I explore linguistic experience and its effects through my art practice working with organic materials. My story started with a painful car accident. Later, ... -
Transgender Euphoria: Puerto Rico's Queer Exaltation
(2022-01-01)Transgender Euphoria: Puerto Rico's Queer Exaltation is a two-part installation that depicts the spiritual connection between the island of Puerto Rico and its Transgender inhabitants through the visualization of a ... -
ON BEING A CYBORG � CROSSING BORDERS AND NEGOTIATING PERSPECTIVES.
(2022-01-01)Cities are more than their visible attributes; they are a metaphor for living and change. A city consists of multiple internal and external structures creating underlying social, economic, and physical patterns that ... -
Sub Rosa: La Casa de Beatriz Cabrera
(2022-01-01)Sub Rosa: La Casa de Beatriz Cabrera is a multimedia room installation representing a conversation taking place between a mom and daughter exposing family lineage, the role of caretaker, and motherhood. The visitor enters ... -
Post US
(2022-01-01)At the beginning of most post-apocalyptic movies, there is a prologue�a quick cut to a series of newscasters talking in dismayed voices describing the events that led to the tragedy, flashing images of war, climate change, ... -
Creating Knowledge with the Public: Disrupting the Expert/Audience Hierarchy
(MIT Press, 2022-08-22)This essay provides both a philosophy and a case study to define, analyze, and explore community-centered public history practice. In its ideal form, communitycentered public history practice strives for equity and inclusion. ... -
UNDER THE BAY: An Augmented Reality Project
(2021)“Under the Bay” tells the story of a world beneath the surface of the Chesapeake Bay and really all estuaries and oceans. In this augmented reality project a user can point their cell phone at the water — or anywhere in ... -
don't look, don't look
(2020-01-01)don't look, don't look enacts and embodies the entwining communal, generational, and familial remnants and echoes of my family's rural farming community in Glen Gardner, NJ. I am crafting new iterations of land-based rituals ... -
American Boy: Immigration, Tutorials, a Loop of Play
(2020-01-01)American Boy is a three-piece installation about forging an American identity through play, technology, and Internet tutorials. Through interaction and touch, participants unearth the protagonist's sometimes comedic ... -
the eye sees in a million ways unable to comprehend what fervent destructions are wrought by its reach, or: the embattlement of personhood and privacy
(2020-01-01)Drones and other autonomous technologies may appear, at first glance, as elements in a science fiction plot. However, drones are not innocuous gadgets, but are instead tools for surveillance coupled with the capacity to ...
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