Created by University of Maryland (UMD) and Bowie State University (BSU) students and faculty following the murder of Lt. Richard Collins III, the Unity Mural was conceived to take a stand against racism and violence, reflecting upon themes of unity, peace and justice.
Submergence is a large, immersive, walkthrough experience that uses many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space. As you enter the piece, you are walking into a space occupied by both real and virtual components, and you can affect both!
From the refrigerator to the computer screen, from the purse to the bedroom door, to-do lists, commands, reminders, mantras and more have graced these tiny 3×3 inch squares all over the globe. To Do was first installed in May of 2006 on Crosby Street in New York City and has since been installed across the United States, and around the world.
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.”
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.
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).
The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library is giving away surplus donations of not just books, but also CDs & vinyl LPs! It’s all FREE … while supplies last.
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."
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:
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.
