Eric Millikin’s (Assistant Professor, Visual Arts) animated film The Dance of the Nain Rouge has been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Eastern Nigeria Film Festival, November 26 – 29 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Tim Nohe (Associate Dean, CAHSS and Professor, Visual Arts) and María Sanchéz (IMDA ‘27) will have work featured in Art and Spirituality: A Juried Exhibition in the Julio Art Gallery at Loyola University Maryland, on view October 15 – November 19 with an opening reception on Thursday, October 23, 6 – 8pm.
Josh Sinn (Visual Arts ‘13) currently has photographs in the exhibition World Builders at the Richman Gallery at the Park School.
Lynn Nguyen (IMDA ‘26) currently has work on view at the Arbutus Public Library in Arbutus, MD. She also has work in the exhibition (un)Alterego(ed) at Bogus Gallery, 1511 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, October 10 – November 8 with an opening reception on Friday, October 10, 5 – 9pm.
Courtney Culp (Visual Arts ‘20) has been awarded the 2025 Rising Star UMBC Alumni Award, given to an outstanding undergraduate alum of the last decade who has demonstrated professional achievement. The Awards Ceremony will take place on October 29 at 7pm in the Chesapeake Arena.
Hadieh Shafie (IMDA ’04) currently has a solo exhibition Hadieh Shafie: Beautiful Worlds at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, GA, on view through January 18, 2026.
Mollye Bendell (IMDA ‘18) recently had new work on view in the The Rise of the Care Machines III John Dorsey Prize Exhibition at the Herman Maril Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park.
Brea Souders (Visual Arts, ‘01) currently has a solo exhibition Blue Women on view through November 1 at Equinom Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
Shaness D. Kemp (Associate Professor, Dance) recently received tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Dance. Professor Kemp is the first and only Bahamian dancer and dance educator to receive tenure within the field of dance.
Alexi Scheiber (IMDA ‘25) MFA Thesis work The Dreaming World has been selected for inclusion in the Whittier Film Festival in Whittier, CA, the Jagran Film Festival in Kanpur, India, and will be screened at the SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore on October 4. Her work will also be featured in the exhibition New Here Now: Works by Recent MFA Graduates from the DMV at King Street Gallery at Montgomery College in Silver Spring, MD, September 29 – October 31.