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03/01/2026

Thank you and for closing out “absolute alternatives” with a dynamic conversation and experience of the gallery with musical accompaniment. 🎵

We had a wonderful run of the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition, with thanks to all participants. The gallery is closed for installation but KaMag’s “I am Soil — My Tears Are Water” remains on view nightly in our Fine Arts Building amphitheater projection space, daily from sunset-2am.

02/11/2026

TOMORROW!

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Reception for “absolute alternatives: the 2026 Arts+ Faculty Exhibition,” curated by Maleke Glee.
Featuring Dream Feed, composed by Zosha Di Castri, performed by Lisa Cella and Airi Yoshioka. Opening remarks and performance will begin at 6:10pm.

Dream Feed takes its title from evening infant feeding practices, often occurring between 10pm and midnight, intended to support a baby’s peaceful rest through the night. The composition draws poetic resonance from this intimate, cyclical act of care. In the context of interdisciplinary work, Dream Feed brings forward roles that often remain invisible within creative and professional spheres, such as parenthood, inviting them into artistic discourse.

This event is offered as part of “absolute alternatives, the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition,” curated by Maleke Glee, on view through February 28. “absolute alternatives” presents faculty from across UMBC whose interdisciplinary research is a form of creative practice. Inspired by the boundary-pushing spirit of the Arts+ Initiative, the exhibition proposes alternatives to defining research through absolute disciplinary categories.

All events at CADVC are free and open to the public.If you need specific accommodations to attend our events or exhibitions, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or 410-455-3188.

Design: Jude Agboada

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02/07/2026

Earlier this week, CADVC welcomed Tahira Chloe Mahdi, community psychologist, consultant, and adjunct professor at UMBC, to kick off “absolute alternatives” with a presentation on “Adjuncts, Artists, and Other Innovators Engaging Community from the In-Between Spaces” introduced by Kate Drabinski. The presentation and workshop invited us to think about the ways that we create and affiliate with communities, and how creative work can express research in a variety of ways.

This presentation was part of the Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition, curated by Maleke Glee. We continue programming next week with our rescheduled reception and performance on February 12, 6-8pm. Free and open to the public!

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02/04/2026

WOW! Nearly 3 years after a meeting to envision signage for our , has its own sign! Thank you Jim Lord for the creative design and solution-finding, and to the expanded team of installers who made this happen in frigid temperatures.

Special thanks to , , and the Arts+ Initiative for the support to make this happen. What a wonderful welcome back to campus! ✨

01/28/2026

CADVC’s 2026 season opens next week!
From January 30-February 28, come visit “absolute alternatives,” the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition, curated by Maleke Glee.
Doors open at 10 am this Friday, Jan. 30th.

This exhibition presents faculty from across the university, along with student, staff, and outside collaborators, with offerings from Visual Arts, Music, Biology, the Individualized Study Program, and other disciplines. Inspired and supported by the boundary pushing Arts+ initiatives, the exhibition aims to define research through absolute disciplinary categories.

Participating Artists: Jude Agboada, Fiona Bell, Kelley Bell and Cheeky Magpie Collective, Lee Boot, Lynn Cazabon, Lisa Cella, Mayank Chugh, Cathy Cook, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Eva Grandoni, Tahira Chloe Mahdi, Phillip Mann, Steven McAlpine, Lisa Moren, Edgar Reyes, Julie Sayo, Sarah G. Sharp, Airi Yoshioka

This exhibition is supported by the UMBC Arts+ initiative

All events at CADVC are free and open to the public.If you need specific accommodations to attend our events or exhibitions, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or 410-455-3188.

Design: Jude Agboada

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01/28/2026

RESCHEDULED! Artists' Reception Event is now on Thursday, February 12, 2026!

It’s cold outside, but CADVC is heating things up on Thursday, February 12, with the opening of “absolute alternatives”: the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition!

“absolute alternatives” artists' reception and performance: February 12, 2026
6–8 PM (remarks & performance at 6:10)

Join us for an evening of live performance and interdisciplinary work by UMBC faculty artists that invites new ways of thinking, making, and caring.

Featuring “Dream Feed” by composer Zosha Di Castri, performed by Lisa Cella and Airi Yoshioka; a work reflecting care, creativity, and the often invisible labor woven into artistic and professional life.

The performance is supported by UMBC’s Division of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA)
Participating exhibition artists: Jude Agboada, Fiona Bell, Kelley Bell and Cheeky Magpie Collective, Lee Boot, Lynn Cazabon, Lisa Cella, Mayank Chugh, Cathy Cook, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Eva Grandoni, Tahira Chloe Mahdi, Phillip Mann, Steven McAlpine, Lisa Moren, Edgar Reyes, Julie Sayo, Sarah G. Sharp, Airi Yoshioka
“absolute alternatives” is curated by Maleke Glee and supported by the Arts+ Initiative.

All events at CADVC are free and open to the public.If you need specific accommodations to attend our events or exhibitions, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or 410-455-3188.

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01/26/2026

RESCHEDULED! Artists' Reception Event is now on Thursday, February 12, 2026!

It’s cold outside, but CADVC is heating things up on Thursday, February 12, with the opening of “absolute alternatives”: the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition!

“absolute alternatives” opening reception and performance: February 12, 2026
6–8 PM (remarks & performance at 6:10)

Join us for an evening of live performance and interdisciplinary work by UMBC faculty artists that invites new ways of thinking, making, and caring.

Featuring “Dream Feed” by composer Zosha Di Castri, performed by Lisa Cella and Airi Yoshioka; a work reflecting care, creativity, and the often invisible labor woven into artistic and professional life.

The performance is supported by UMBC’s Division of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA)
Participating exhibition artists: Jude Agboada, Fiona Bell, Kelley Bell and Cheeky Magpie Collective, Lee Boot, Lynn Cazabon, Lisa Cella, Mayank Chugh, Cathy Cook, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Eva Grandoni, Tahira Chloe Mahdi, Phillip Mann, Steven McAlpine, Lisa Moren, Edgar Reyes, Julie Sayo, Sarah G. Sharp, Airi Yoshioka
“absolute alternatives” is curated by Maleke Glee and supported by the Arts+ Initiative.

All events at CADVC are free and open to the public.If you need specific accommodations to attend our events or exhibitions, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or 410-455-3188.

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01/22/2026

CADVC’s 2026 season opens next week!
From January 30-February 28, come visit “absolute alternatives,” the 2026 Arts+ UMBC Faculty Exhibition, curated by Maleke Glee.

This exhibition presents faculty from across the university, along with student, staff, and outside collaborators, with offerings from Visual Arts, Music, Biology, the Individualized Study Program, and other disciplines. Inspired and supported by the boundary pushing Arts+ initiatives, the exhibition aims to define research through absolute disciplinary categories.

Participating Artists: Jude Agboada, Fiona Bell, Kelley Bell and Cheeky Magpie Collective, Lee Boot, Lynn Cazabon, Lisa Cella, Mayank Chugh, Cathy Cook, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Eva Grandoni, Tahira Chloe Mahdi, Phillip Mann, Steven McAlpine, Lisa Moren, Edgar Reyes, Julie Sayo, Sarah G. Sharp, Airi Yoshioka

This exhibition is supported by the UMBC Arts+ initiative

All events at CADVC are free and open to the public.If you need specific accommodations to attend our events or exhibitions, please contact us as soon as possible at [email protected] or 410-455-3188.

Design: Jude Agboada

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01/06/2026

✨ Happy New Year ✨
CADVC welcomes 2026 with the continuation of "I am Soil – My Tears Are Water" (2025), a powerful public projection by Kamaal Malak and María Magdalena Campos-Pons (KaMag), now illuminating the Fine Arts Building amphitheater.

Adapted for CADVC’s public projection program, this single-channel video transforms the amphitheater into a shared space for contemplation—bringing KaMag’s layered meditations on ancestry, land, and healing into collective view. Conceived for large-scale projection, the work invites passersby to pause, gather, and reflect.

🌙 On view nightly from sunset–2am
📍 Fine Arts Building amphitheater

KaMag’s practice bridges performance, sound, and moving image, and has been presented internationally at institutions including Tate Modern and the São Paulo Biennial, exploring Afro-diasporic spiritual, historical, and ecological inheritances.

Presented with the support of UMBC’s Arts+ initiative.

If you haven’t seen it yet, let this be your sign—stop by after dark and spend some time with the work. 🌑✨

11/22/2025

COME ON DOWN!
Get • BALTIMORE & ONLINE! OUR FINAL EVENT!

TALK/DRAW at PEDAGOGY STUDY HALL
📌SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22
1–4 pm EST/ 11am-2pm CST/ 10am-1pm PST

📌 In person at: gallery , 1st floor, Fine Arts Building &
on zoom at: https://bit.ly/PedagogyStudyHallTalkDraw

TALK/DRAW: They talk. We draw. Join us for drawing while listening. Supplies provided in the studio. Or draw and listen in from your device! 🔊

JOIN artist Eric N. Mack, Nia K. Evans, and Tomashi Jackson for discussion and drawing on personal and local arts and humanities education histories, from community organized space to anchor institutions.
With music from M’Balou Camara, DJ and Program Coordinator for the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program at UMBC.

Eric N. Mack (born 1987, Columbia, Maryland) is an American painter, multi-media installation artist, and sculptor, based in New York City. Institutional solo exhibitions include Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019); the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017); and Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017).

This program is presented in connection with “Pedagogy Study Hall,” a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems with emphasis on histories of access to facilitation in the visual arts and the humanities.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

Find more information at https://cadvc.umbc.edu/

11/18/2025

Can't make it to the gallery? UPDATE: Now we are online too! Join us at noon at https://bit.ly/pedagogystudyhall2.

Pedagogy Study Hall: Roundtable on Education History and Policy, Part II with Tomashi Jackson & Nia K. Evans (live), Davarian Baldwin, and Matt Cregor (remote)
November 19, 2025 12PM–1:30PM
Join us either at CADVC or ONLINE at:

Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor regroup for their second in a series of compelling discussions on education history and policy, hosted and moderated by Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans. The first conversation between this group, produced as a CADVC webinar, is accessible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFlxnpoUGRo.

This program is presented in connection with “Pedagogy Study Hall,” a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

CADVC exhibitions and events are free and open to the public for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, s*x, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Find more information is at cadvc.umbc.edu.

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