NextNOW Fest: Human Library

A worldwide movement for social change, the Human Library is designed to build a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue. Sign up in the Grand Pavilion for a 20-minute conversation with human “books” from our campus and local community, and learn about their point of view. 

“Book” titles include:

  • Undocumented and Unafraid

  • Baltimore Cop

  • Russian Scientist in DC

NextNOW Fest: Soul & Ink

Soul & Ink will provide a fun screen printing activation that blurs the line between art and audiences. Participants can choose between four custom design art pieces specially created for NextNOW Fest!

NextNOW Fest: Unity Mural

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. 

NextNOW Fest: Submergence, an artwork by Squidsoup

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!

NextNOW Fest: Illegal Art's TO DO

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.

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).

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