Visual Art
Continuing through February 12
Offsides! Young Artists Tackle Sports

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents an educational outreach exhibition, Offsides! Young Artists Tackle Sports, on display from December 10th to February 12th.

Each semester the CADVC partners with several K-12 schools and/or after school programs from Baltimore City and area counties. Through its Educational Outreach Program, interns provide instruction in arts curriculum based on CADVC's exhibition program. For the fall 2009 program, CADVC interns taught video and photography classes at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore City, and George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Lansdowne High School Academy: Arts & Communications in Baltimore County.

The participating classes from each school began the program with a visit to UMBC to tour CADVC's exhibition Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports. During several weeks of studio work back in their classrooms, participating students created artwork in response to the Mixed Signals exhibition. Their artwork in photography and video resulted in their own exhibition, Offsides! Young Artists Tackle Sports, which will be exhibited in the Fine Arts Hallway Gallery, located on the ground floor of the Fine Arts Building.

CADVC invites all high school participants, their parents, teachers and administrators to kick-off the exhibition with an opening reception and screening on Thursday, December 10th in the CADVC gallery from 5 to 7 pm. An award ceremony will commence at 5:30 pm.

Admission to the exhibition is free. For more information call 410-455-3188.

Visual Art
January 25 - March 19
Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive, on display from January 25th through March 19th.

Since the early years of photography, African Americans appeared in front of and behind the camera. The images in Shadow and Substance, including portraits, snapshots and photographs, allow us to perceive how African Americans were seen by others and how they wished to be seen over the past 160 years.

Dozens of rarely seen photographs of men, women and children reveal the span of emotions of the African American experience. Shadow and Substance celebrates the strengths and accomplishments of African Americans in the face of oppression, subjugation and political disenfranchisement. From early images of slaves and Civil War soldiers to new voters and political activists, the exhibit is filled with shocking evidence of intolerance and remarkable illustrations of achievement.

The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-2270.

Image: "Aunt Leah" and Nora McDowell, Kirk, Newark, New Jersey, Cabinet Card.

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Visual Art
February 4 - March 20
Dana Hoey: Experiments in Primitive Living

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Dana Hoey: Experiments in Primitive Living, curated by Dr. Maurice Berger, and organized by the CADVC.

This exhibition and catalog will focus on a recent cycle of 50 color photographs by New York artist Dana Hoey—Experiments in Primitive Living. Insects, old women, tools, and instruments of survival, such as the emergency radio, the flashlight, or the compass, inhabit these images—a vividly imagined world withering under five different weather conditions: ash, freeze, thaw, flood and drought. Hoey employs various photographic styles to shift the mood and intensity of these photographs: commercial product shot, scientific photo, portrait and epic narrative all interrelate on the walls of the exhibition. Because the subjects in the pictures are also on equal ground and of equal detail—for example, the spore and the face merit the same size and resolution—Experiments in Primitive Living exemplifies the camera's ability to inform, to sell, to explain, or to tell a story.

As Hoey writes of the series, "in this possible world, there is a power vacuum, an absence of infrastructure, and now the overlooked have stepped in. Old women may rule, silently. The small detail may outlast the large story. The icicle may outlive the guitar player." In the end, Experiments in Primitive Living serves as a powerful commentary on a fragile world changed by recent events, including the tragedy of September 11th, the perils of global warming, and the global economic meltdown. A supplementary exhibition featuring examples from several of Hoey’s other recent projects will complete the project, including Profane Waste and One Pro, Two Amateurs.

An Opening Reception will be held on February 4th from 5 to 7 pm, and the exhibition will open for regular hours on February 5th.

On Tuesday, February 23rd at 4:30, Dana Hoey will present a lecture on her work at the gallery.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.

Photo: Dana Hoey, ASH - Double Check, 2007, Archival inkjet, 60.25 x 40.25 inches, 153 x 102.2 cm (unframed), 64.75 x 44.75 inches, 164.5 x 113.7 cm (framed), Edition1/7, 2, DH 08/005, Courtesy of the Artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.

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Visual Art
Tuesday, February 23
Lecture by Dana Hoey

Dana Hoey will speak in conjuction with the exhibition of her work, Dana Hoey: Experiments in Primitive Living. Dana Hoey lives and works in upstate New York. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

4:30 pm, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Admission to the lecture and the exhibition is free.

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.

Photo: Dana Hoey, ASH - Double Check, 2007, Archival inkjet, 60.25 x 40.25 inches, 153 x 102.2 cm (unframed), 64.75 x 44.75 inches, 164.5 x 113.7 cm (framed), Edition1/7, 2, DH 08/005, Courtesy of the Artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Visual Art
April 1 – April 24
MFA Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the MFA Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition, which annually features works by graduates of UMBC’s MFA programs in Visual Arts. This annual exhibition is presented every April and has included installation, performance, film, video, photography, animation, interactive art, sculpture, and audio works, as well as painting, drawing, and print media.

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 1st from 5 to 7 pm.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Music of the Mind: Photographs and Digital Images by Jaromir Stephany, on display from April 5th through June 11th.

Music has always been central to the creative life of photographer Jaromir Stephany, emeritus associate professor of UMBC's Department of Visual Arts. Throughout his long career as a productive working artist, Stephany has made clichés verre (cameraless photographs), representational photographs, and, most recently, digital images which are multi-layered and multi-faceted personal statements. A key influence in the making of all of his work has been music by such diverse composers as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Bruckner. The emotional qualities of the music influence the emotional load of the images. His most recent body of work is titled Dark Music. The exhibition and catalog will survey Stephany's work from the early years to the present.

The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-2270.

Visual Art
May 20 – June 19
Senior Exit Exhibition

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the Senior Exit Exhibition. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the university.

An opening reception will be held on May 20th from 5 to 7 pm.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.