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Adobe Create Now UMD 2025

Adobe + Graphic Design Event

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March 28, 2025 Art, Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise

Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise
December 11, 2024 Art, College of Arts and Humanities, English, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 ArtsAMP Student Grants Announced

Arts for All announces the recipients of the Fall 2024 ArtsAMP Student Grants.
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.

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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.
Maryland Today

Clarvit Studio and Courtyard Expands Artistic Possibilities at UMD

May 08, 2023 Art

New space and resources enhance university’s Arts for All initiative.
Maryland Today

Student Art Evokes Frustration, Sorrow and Hope in a Nation of Guns

March 29, 2023 Art

Seven works honored in Sadat Art for Justice and Peace Competition.

2023 Sadat Art for Justice and Peace competition winners announced

March 27, 2023 Art

Announcing the winners of the 2023 Sadat Art for Justice and Peace competition

Placing Art and Design Front and Center

March 15, 2023 Art

UMD’s Creative Placemaking Symposium highlights community-centered work, marks launch of new minor.