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Art, Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise

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October 01, 2024 Art, University of Maryland Art Gallery

3D Printing, Animation, Underwater Cameras: New Methods Inform Faculty Art Exhibition

Works in triennial exhibition tackle climate change, identity, misogyny and more.
March 27, 2024 Art

International Placemaking Week

International Placemaking Week
March 25, 2024 Art

The Design & Democracy

Can a Giant Turtle Shell Full of Games Lure Young Voters?
January 25, 2024 Art, College of Arts and Humanities

2024 Clarvit Research Fellowships Announced

Announcing the 2024 Clarvit Research Fellowship recipients.
December 18, 2022 Art

2023 Clarvit Research Fellowships Announced

Announcing the 2023 Clarvit Research Fellowship Recipients
March 11, 2022 Art, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Inaugural David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence

We welcome submissions from emerging scholars and artists who will create new artistic or scholarly work that furthers the Driskell Center’s mission.

November 16, 2021 Art

Family’s $2.5M Gifts to Provide Resources for Art and Education, New Outdoor Exhibition Space

Clarvits’ gifts will fund innovation in the arts, support College of Education students.
February 09, 2021 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Art

HBO Documentary Explores Impact of ‘a Trailblazer for All of Us’

Film premieres tonight about late UMD professor David C. Driskell’s groundbreaking exhibition of Black artists.
December 22, 2020 Art

Studio Art Senior Exhibition | Winter 2020

View the artwork of our graduating seniors for Winter, 2020

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The Design & Democracy

March 25, 2024 Art

Can a Giant Turtle Shell Full of Games Lure Young Voters?

Arts for All Welcomes Inaugural Artists-in-Residence

February 05, 2024 Art

Hannah Smotrich and Ari Melenciano ’14 will focus on voting, AI, while at UMD this semester.

Inaugural ‘Harmony Fellows’ Blend Disciplines, Forge New Directions for ARHU and UMD

January 31, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, History, Art History and Archaeology, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Art, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Classics, American Studies

Seven pairs of fellows, from ARHU and beyond, are working on a range of projects to innovate curricula, research and programming.

2024 Clarvit Research Fellowships Announced

January 25, 2024 Art, College of Arts and Humanities

Announcing the 2024 Clarvit Research Fellowship recipients.
The Diamondback

UMD Professor Exhibits Large-Scale Sculptures in New DC Exhibition

November 20, 2023 Art

The Diamondback features Art Professor Foon Sham and his new DC exhibition.

David Obajemu ’25 Aspires to Bring Social Change Through Storytelling

November 13, 2023 Art

The immersive media designer says technologies like AR and VR have the potential to create empathy, understanding.

Maryland Today

A Dramatic Step Forward in Robotics

November 09, 2023 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Art

Human body becomes robot playground in project funded by Arts for All initiative.
Maryland Today

Summ-AR Immersion

July 26, 2023 Art, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Using emerging tech, students create innovative art, interactive games in incubator program.

The David C. Driskell Center Archives Research Fellowship Program

July 10, 2023 African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities, Art, Art History and Archaeology, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, History

Now accepting proposals from emerging scholars to participate in a fellowship program conducting research in previously undiscovered collections.
Maryland Today

Basketball-Art Project Leaves Mark on Baltimore Community Center

May 08, 2023 Art

Collaboration brings together neighborhood children, art professor, student-athletes to create paintings.