Learn about DIY printing techniques and listen to classic vinyl while designing and making your own poster with archivists from UMD's Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA). Using blocks and stamps hand-carved by SCPA staff, you will have the opportunity to design your own poster with exclusive designs from the archive for this year's festival.
Dreamer Isioma brings their incredible music to NextNOW Fest 2024!
NoSo brings their incredible music to NextNOW Fest 2024!
Portal #2, by video artist Trace Feed, is a projection-based work that opens a rift into a distorted alternate reality through camera feedback and modified electronics.
Photon Motion is an ongoing series of abstract photographic video loops. To create these moving images, Alyson Denny experiments with ways to bend light and mix its colors, and then mines the resulting photonic material for captivating and beguiling imagery. These works are made to spark each person's imagination in a different way. Whether you see rainbow-infused abstract paintings, or outer-space adventures, or mysterious creatures dancing on the wall, come together to discover where these moving abstractions take you.
A Container of Breath is a film projection and participatory performance dedicated to geoscientist, jazz musician, Tuskegee Airman and advocate for Black Studies, Randolph Bromery (1926-2003). The piece engages fleeting forms of commemoration and legacy maintenance. An experimental documentary film with a live sound score is the backdrop for oversized amplified cornhole boards which transform the space into one of recreational gathering.
Television Delivers People, produced with Carlota Schoolman, focuses on the political import of broadcasting as corporate monopoly and imperialism of the air. The content is presented ironically, for the message criticizes its medium while remaining within it. Muzak is playing while sentences that Serra has excerpted from television conferences roll down a blue background in white lettering.
Join the UMD Art Gallery for an exhibition preview and reception for their exhibits Faculty Exhibition 2024 and Up Close: Hana Ward.
Members of Crocheting for a Cause lead you in knitting and crocheting! You'll socialize and contribute to the baby hats and baby blankets the club regularly donates to local hospitals. If you’re new to crocheting or knitting, don’t pass on this opportunity to learn the basics and join a cause!
