UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents its annual Imaging and Digital Arts Exhibition, featuring work by emerging artists who are candidates for the MFA in UMBC's Imaging and Digital Arts program. The free exhibition of work by Michael Baker, Meg Flynn and Eileen Ragsdale is on view April 26 through May 12. An opening reception will be held on April 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. A visiting critics talk by Adam Lerner, associate curator at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, will be held at 4 p.m. on May 9 and is also free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery.

The IMDA program at UMBC integrates computer art, video, filmmaking, photography, art theory and criticism. A limited number of applicants are accepted each year in this highly competitive program. Students develop both technical and intellectual flexibility, approaching current and emerging technologies with a foundation in critical thinking and are guided in considering technology as a cultural construct capable of being altered, enhanced, created or challenged by artists. The Imaging Research Center, an internationally recognized experimental computer visualization and animation research facility, is integral to the program.