Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.

Legendary American soprano and beloved Professor of Voice and Opera Carmen Balthrop ’71 passed away on September 5, 2021, at age 73 following a yearlong battle with cancer. She taught for the UMD School of Music for 36 years. Read the In Memoriam article on the UMD School of Music's website.

This seven-minute video summarizes a 90-minute performance during which Pinder provoked layers of surveillance by having black and brown performers drive slowly through Mount Greenwood, Chicago, where many Chicago police officers live. As the drivers observed the neighborhood, uniformed police surveilled the black and brown performers as they quietly circled the neighborhood in a caravan of twenty vehicles while the hostile community watched. Tensions rose as police and residents sought to gain control over the situation.

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Orlando Pinder

Organized by the UMD Art Gallery, this new program aims to bring art outside the walls of the gallery and activate an underutilized section of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building’s large atrium and gathering space. The first in the series will be The People That Is Missing (2019) by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas, a video work that underscores the most devastating effects and consequences of climate change.

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Organized by the UMD Art Gallery and culled from the exceptional modern and contemporary art collection of the Art Museum of the Americas, this exhibition highlights rare and seldom seen sculptural works by prominent Latin American artists.

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Erasable Inc. is the University of Maryland's only all improvisational performance group. Join us for an hour long comedy show where every person, place, and thing is made up on the spot with help from you, the audience!