Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC) announces its spring 2025 season
Baltimore Maryland
United States
Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC) proudly announces its spring 2025 programs. A research center, art gallery, publisher, and teaching and learning space in an R1 public university setting, CADVC hosts a research-based artist residency program, a new large-scale public video art projection gallery, UMBC student and faculty exhibitions, and rigorous interdisciplinary public programs.
All programs at CADVC are free and open to the public, though some require advance registration. Contact cadvc@umbc.edu or call +1 410 455 3188 with questions or to discuss accessibility accommodations. Directions to CADVC are available at this link.
Conflux: Variation: Collis Donadio
On view nightly, from sundown until 2am, between February 14–June 30, 2025.
Conflux: Variation (2025) is a public video art projection that explores the intersections of industry and the environment in Baltimore, where water meets land.
Between 2023 and 2024, collaborating artists Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio recorded video and audio documentation in sites where industry has reshaped local habitats, such as the Curtis Bay Water Tower and Baltimore City’s marine terminals. The artists think of this documentary research, and resulting installation on the Fine Arts Building facade, as a “speculative exploration of the future, using moving images to convey transformation and transition.”
March 4, 6–7pm: CADVC hosts a public talk featuring Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio, followed by a reception. Projections begin at 5:30. Free and open to the public.
Pedagogy Study Hall: Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans
CADVC hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC supports Tomashi Jackson’s Pedagogy Study Hall as part of this program.
In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans, artist Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” will host an intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the visual arts and humanities. Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts and humanites education and support.
February 25, 6–7pm: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans, Lion Brothers classroom, downtown Baltimore. Registration is required.
April 8, 5:30–7pm: Conversation about structures of cultural support with Denise Griffin Johnson, Nick Hartigan, and Ryan Patterson at the Lion Brothers classroom in downtown Baltimore. Registration is required.
April 15, 6–7pm: Webinar panel on education history and policy featuring Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor. Registration is required.
The Only Way Out is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA thesis exhibition
The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA thesis exhibition is on view between March 25–April 12, 2025. Featuring McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber, and Mariia Usova.
March 27, 5-7pm: Artists’ reception.
April 15, 12:30-1:30pm: RTKL Lecture featuring Alexi Scheiber. Audience members are respectfully requested to wear a mask during this event, so the speaker may remove her mask for optimal audibility and communication. CADVC realizes masking is a personal decision and ultimately lies with each individual.
Cockeysville to Baltimore: Levester Williams
CADVC artist resident Levester Williams was recently featured in all matters aside, a CADVC survey exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman. The exhibition featured a selection of works produced during Williams's artist residency research into the histories and mythologies of Cockeysville marble, a material used in both the Washington Monument in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and the iconic exterior steps of local rowhomes. The exhibition was accompanied by a number of public-facing activities, including the free and open access publication of Cockeysville to Baltimore.
April 1, 6-7pm: Webinar featuring Levester Williams in conversation with sound designer Dan Shields, moderated by Lisa D. Freiman. Registration is required.
CADVC spring 2025 hours: Tuesday–Wednesday, 12–5pm; Thursday–Saturday, 10am–5pm, when exhibitions are on view and the university is open. More information: cadvc.umbc.edu.
