NextNOW Fest
Day 5 of NextNOW Fest 2023 features two lively workshops at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. Registration for these events is required and will open on Monday, August 28, 2023.
Monday, September 11 Schedule:
NextNOW Fest: IMD New Works Incubator Showcase
Experience projects developed during the Immersive Media Design Program’s New Works Incubator, a six-week summer development program designed to support the creation of immersive media projects by students from across the UMD campus. The Incubator enables individual student creators and teams to explore new areas of immersive media and to create works based on their own interests and initiative.
NextNOW Fest: Printmaking with BookLab
Stop by UMD’s Farmers’ Market at Tawes Plaza and print a postcard with a socially relevant message on a traditional wooden printing press with hand set metal type—courtesy of the Department of English’s BookLab.
NextNOW Fest: Ari Melenciano's Symphosynthesis de Otzkö Kazo
Through sound, rhythm, and instrumentation, Ari Melenciano creates a portal into the world of Otzkö Kazo. The composition includes the bio-sonification of botanical quantum computers, an assemblage of spiritual harmonization methods across Earth and rhythmic structures that explore math and time in pursuit of sonically catalyzing entrance into the subconscious.
NextNOW Fest: Vital Signs Project Showcase
In an effort to support student voice and action related to the Black Lives Matter movement, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the UMD Office of Diversity and Inclusion and UMD Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy in partnership with Black Terps Matter award mini-grants to artists in the UMD community who are creating projects that affirm Black life and vitality and interrogate white supremacy and anti-Blackness.
NextNOW Fest: Meet the Artist–Alyssa Imes
Meet Alyssa Imes at the unveiling of her public sculpture, "Chill Bloom." This work was selected through an open call in Spring 2023 organized by undergraduate students enrolled in Abigail McEwen’s Public Art course. The class invited submissions that addressed the concerns and challenges facing college students today, seeking works that inspired play and joy. This initiative is supported by Arts for All, the UMD Department of Art History & Archaeology, the UMD Art Gallery and the Dedalus Foundation.
NextNOW Fest: Video in the Atrium (ViTA)–Natalia Chavarria's Conversation
"Humorous," "uneasy," "absurd." These are just a few words that may come to mind when viewing artist Natalia Chavarría's thought-provoking video Conversation (2019). The first time ever shown in large format, the work presents intricate narratives of femininity, identity and community.
The University of Maryland Art Gallery collects, displays and interprets art from diverse cultures. Its exceptional teaching collection—which ranges from antiquity to the present—allows students, faculty, and the surrounding community to learn about art from around the world in one building.
NextNOW Fest: Exhibition Preview & Reception–Coralina Rodriguez Meyer's Mother Molds
Embark on a chromatic journey through the work of Brooklyn-based artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, whose vibrant mother mold sculptures address themes related to birthing and reproductive justice.
The University of Maryland Art Gallery collects, displays and interprets art from diverse cultures. Its exceptional teaching collection—which ranges from antiquity to the present—allows students, faculty and the surrounding community to learn about art from around the world in one building.
NextNOW Fest: Exhibition Preview & Reception–African Art from the Dr. Gilbert and Jean Jackson Collection
Explore the rich diversity of sculptures, masks and other expressive works of African art that reflect the continent's cultural kaleidoscope. All of the objects on display were donated to the Art Gallery by collectors and UMD alumni Dr. Gilbert and Jean Jackson.
The University of Maryland Art Gallery collects, displays, and interprets art from diverse cultures. Its exceptional teaching collection—which ranges from antiquity to the present—allows students, faculty and the surrounding community to learn about art from around the world in one building.
NextNOW Fest: Human Loom Workshop with Alyssa Imes
Come enjoy the process of becoming part of a human loom! This will be an immersive and interactive 1.5-hour workshop in which the artist Alyssa Imes will use both of your arms as part of a loom ped. As the group sits in a circle, Alyssa will loom and knit a fabric from your arms. Slowly the network of knots will start to form a large, circular piece of fabric. The concept behind this performance is that we all are part of this network that weaves each other's lives; if one person were removed from the loom, the fabric would fall apart.
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