Arts Alliance (SMCM)

02/21/2025

Wed., Feb. 26 - Sat., Mar. 1, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Sun., March 2, 2025 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Enjoy a double-feature in the Bruce Davis Theater. Both performances are written, directed, designed and performed by SMCM students! Reserve your FREE tickets by emailing [email protected]. https://inside.smcm.edu/events/performing-arts-department-senior-capstone-theater-projects-arcana-and-orpheus-through

"Arcana": A severe drought endangers a commune on the outskirts of society. To find the next steps, they decide to perform a ritual, but the misaligned intentions create an all-powerful goddess. They have to come up with an offering, or she will make the situation much worse. Audiences will be invited to make active choices that affect the outcome of the story as they become part of the performance community.

"Orpheus Through Movement": a non-verbal, dance-based reimagining of the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The second show of our Performing Arts/Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 2024-25 Main Stage Season is all written, directed, designed, and performed by SMCM students! ARCANA, written by Basil Vallone with contributions from the inaugural Ensemble Performance Capstone class and directed by Mark...

11/12/2024

Musician-in-Residence Brian Ganz will continue his popular free PianoTalk concert series on Thursday, November 14 at 11:20am in the Recital Hall of the Dodge Performing Arts Center. Ganz will discuss and perform Fryderyk Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, the work Chopin considered his finest. For more information call (240) 895-4498 or visit bit.ly/3C69OnR.

07/12/2024

Due to inclement weather, the River Concert scheduled for tonight, July 12, 2024 is canceled. We will see you next week!

04/25/2024

Come see the spring play at the Bruce Davis Theater in Montgomery Hall! Reserve your tickets at [email protected]. General Admission tickets are $10
Wed., Apr. 24-Sat., Apr. 27, 8 - 9:30pm
and Sun, Apr. 28, 2 - 3:30pm

Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has re-imagined the medieval morality play "Everyman," titled "Everybody." Everybody is summoned by Death and must take a journey. Assigned characters by lottery at the beginning of the play, all the other Somebodies have to decide whether or not they’ll accompany Everybody. Who will be Everybody’s companion on this most profound – and hilarious – reflection on the meaning of life and morality?

04/16/2024

On Saturday, Apr. 20 and Wednesday, Apr. 24, the Art Capstone2 Pop Up Shop will be selling stickers, postcards, commissioned works, photographs, and so much more! All items being sold are made by the students, so come and support your local artists!

04/08/2024

On Wednesday, Apr. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo will join us in Cole Cinema for a screening of Künü (2023). The one-hour documentary captures the efforts to reclaim ancestral lands from a transnational forestry company in Chile. After the screening, there will be a Q&A conversation.
On Thursday, Apr. 11 at 11:15 a.m., Huichaqueo will deliver a presentation on non-Western approaches to museum curatorial practices in the Blackistone Room of Anne Arundel Hall.
Read more here: https://inside.smcm.edu/announcements/2024-03-27/kunu-space-dialogue-film-screening-wednesday-april-10-730-pm-cole-cinema?utm_source=email&utm_medium=staff&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=internal

04/03/2024

Thursday, Apr. 4, 4:30 p.m.
Please join the VOICES Reading Series upstairs in Montgomery Hall tomorrow for a reading from our very own Adjunct Professor of English Jason Ferris, fiction and nonfiction writer extraordinaire. Help us celebrate his work with q***r literature before he leaves SMCM for a PhD program next year.

04/02/2024

Wednesday, Apr. 3, 4:45 p.m. in the Glendening Annex
In her Artist Talk, Merrill Mason will discuss her creative work that merges photography, textiles and poetry and is situated at the intersection of art and science. While in residence at the Artist House at SMCM for the month of April, she will be working on a large-scale quilt that uses Charles Darwin's manuscripts of On the Origin of Species as subject and source material.

She graduated cm laude from Yale in the first undergraduate class to include women (1971) and received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2007 Mason moved to the American Philosophical Society as Director where she oversaw the Society’s renowned collection of over 13 million manuscripts plus rare books and paintings. Throughout her years as a museum administrator, Mason continued to produce artwork and to exhibit.

Wed, Apr 3 2024, 4:45 - 5:45pm + Google Calendar Glendening Annex - Lecture Room Intended Audience Faculty Staff Students Admitted Students Alumni Merrill Mason Artist Talk: Wed. April 3, 4:45-5:45pm, Glendening Annex In her lecture, Mason will discuss her creative work that merges photography, text...

03/26/2024

Thursday, Mar. 28, 7:30 p.m.
Please the VOICES Reading Series and the International Languages and Cultures Department for a performance from José Torres-Tama on Thursday, March 28 in the auditorium of the Dodge Performing Arts Center.

Torres-Tama is an Ecuadorian-born interdisciplinary troublemaker. He is an award-winning performance and visual artist, published playwright and poet, photographer and journalist, and arts educator.

03/26/2024

On Wednesday, Mar. 27, the Center for the Study of Democracy, in collaboration with the African and African Diaspora Studies program and International Languages and Cultures, is pleased to sponsor a free lecture and Q&A with Esther Mujawayo, Rwandan author, psychotherapist and survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

There will be a reception with heavy hors d'oeuvres from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. and Ms. Mujawayo's talk will begin at 7:30 p.m.