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Arts for All Announces Spring 2026 ArtsAMP Grants

Learn more about the 17 arts-based, interdisciplinary projects developed by faculty, students and student organizations.

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April 21, 2026 Art, Arts for All, English, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

Sadat Winners 'Celebrate Our Differences and Strengthen Community'

Student arts competition focused this year on democracy, civic responsibility.
February 23, 2026 Art, Arts for All

Democratizing Design, Building Community

MFA student expands community 3D sculpture and printing workshops.

January 15, 2026 Art, Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

The Art of the City

Art professor depicts different sides of Baltimore in new audiovisual installation.
December 18, 2025 Art, Art History and Archaeology, Arts Leadership and Entrepreneurship, College Park Scholars-Arts

Prof. Donahue-Shipp led Paint on Site Project

Prof. Donahue-Shipp led Paint on Site project with his ARTT 426 class

October 08, 2025 American Studies, Art, Arts for All, Communication, English, Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.
April 01, 2025 Art

Adobe Create Now UMD 2025

Adobe + Graphic Design Event

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 19, 2024 Art, Arts for All, 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, Arts for All, 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.

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David Obajemu ’25 Aspires to Bring Social Change Through Storytelling

November 13, 2023 Art, Arts for All

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 Art, Arts for All, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

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

Summ-AR Immersion

July 26, 2023 Art, Arts for All, 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, Arts for All

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, Arts for All

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, Arts for All

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

Melting Guns and Bullet Casings, This Artist Turns Weapons into Bells

February 14, 2023 Art, Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities

Stephanie Mercedes, an M.F.A student in the Department of Art, featured on NPR's "Morning Edition."