Events Sponsored by the
UMBC Friends of the Library & Gallery

Upcoming Friends of the Library & Gallery Events:

Events in Planning: watch this space for news of additional Fall, 2009 and Spring, 2010 events which are in planning.

Runs January 25 – March 19, 2010
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—not only document industries, property and events related to the African-American experience, but allow us to perceive how African Americans were seen by others and how they wished to be seen over the past 160 years.
Check here for further information later in the Fall, 2009 semester.
This exhibit is free and open to the public.
For more information on the Library Gallery, see: the Library Gallery home page.

Michelle R. Scott, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UMBC, will lecture on her book, Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South. The book's immediate subject is Bessie Smith, but it is a social history which treats the consequences of the Civil War in Chattanooga which helped shape Smith's work.
Following the presentation, there will be a reception provided by the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Department of History and the Libby Kuhn Endowment.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Humanities Forum.
It is free and open to the public.
For more information on Dr. Scott's book, see: the reviews on Amazon.com.

Runs April 5 –June 11, 2010
Music has always been central to the creative life of photographer Jaromir Stephany, Emeritus Associate Professor of UMBC’s Visual Arts Department. 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.
Check here for further information early in the Spring, 2010 semester.
This exhibit is free and open to the public.
For more information on the Library Gallery, see: the Library Gallery home page.

In planning.
Expected for April, 2010.
Check here for further information at the beginning of the Spring 2010 semester.
This event will be free and open to the public.
For more information on Bartleby, see: the Bartleby home page.

The play will be The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, presented by the UMBC Department of Theatre and Directed by Eve Muson, with Set/Costume Design by Elena Zlotescu and Light/Sound Design by Terry Cobb. The UMBC Department of Theatre describes the play as follows: “Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that a Hollywood director is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.””
The event will begin with a reception at 5 p.m. on the 7th floor of the Library. Dinner will commence at 6 p.m., with remarks by Director Eve Muson after dinner, and the play was held in the UMBC Theatre at 8 p.m.
Tickets will be priced at $35 per person. Tickets included the reception, dinner and admission to the play.
This form was used for reservations for the previous Theatre with Dinner; the form for the upcoming play is in development.
Reservation Form

and sent with checks for payment, to this address (reservations were due to be received by April 17, 2010):

Friends Theatre with Dinner
UMBC Library
Baltimore, MD 21250