NextNOW Fest: Illegal Art's Connect the Dots

For the project Connect the Dots, Illegal Art asks participants to use a colored pencil or marker, all starting from the same circle, marked “Me,” and make a continuous line through a number of choices, indicated by vertically organized circles, such as age, languages spoken, political leanings, dietary preferences or whether they like beverages with ice or at room temperature. This will create a multi-colored stream of lines that will all end up in the same circle, marked “Us.”

NextNOW Fest: Erasure Poetry

Create your own erasure poetry with members of the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House using provided magazines, books and other materials! Erasure poetry, also known as blackout poetry, involves marking out or erasing words in an existing text source to create new, original poems.

NextNOW Fest: Edward MacDowell: An American Composer's Legacy

The current exhibit at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library features Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), who was one of the first seven people to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and known as the first internationally recognized American composer. The artists' residency and workshop in New Hampshire (known now as MacDowell) is named after him. The exhibit showcases the life and works of this pianist and composer with scores, letters, and photographs from the Special Collections in Performing Arts (an archive housed in MSPAL).

NextNOW Fest: WMUC 90.5 FM DJ Sets

Enjoy Terp DJ sets courtesy of WMUC! WMUC is the official radio station of College Park and has moved frequency! WMUC now broadcasts at 90.5 FM in luscious stereo, with an increased broadcast power of 30 watts! So lock in 90.5 FM on your radio and on your portable listening device. "Turn on, tune in and let us groove."

NextNOW Fest: 2022 Marketplace

Support businesses run by students, alumni and members of our community!

The marketplace will be open Friday, September 9, 5-9PM and Saturday, September 10, 6-8PM.

This year’s vendors include:

NextNOW Fest: Driskell Center's Telling Our Story: Community Conversations with Our Artists • Opening Reception

The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, is proud to present its Fall 2022 exhibition, Telling Our Story: Community Conversation with Our Artists. The exhibition is the second in a series focused on telling the story of the David C. Driskell Center.

NextNOW Fest: Art Night at Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building

Explore arts venues and spaces at the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, including the UMD Art Gallery, the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture and much, much more! The evening will also feature music and comedy artists. Stay tuned for more information! 

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NextNOW Fest: UMD BookLab at Farmers' Market

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.

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