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VisArts Eric Dyer in The Huffington Post

A Modern Master of the Zoetrope

Remember zoetropes? They may be a bit before your time. The zoetrope, derived from the Greek root words for "life" and "turning," is an optical toy invented before the days of film and cinema. The...

Posted: February 26, 2015, 12:17 PM

A video highlighting Eric Dyer's solo exhibit in NYC

Making 19th Century technology come to new life

Creative Capital Video Profile: Eric Dyer Makes Moving Images Without Using a Camera Remember those zoetropes you had as a kid showing the silhouette of a galloping race horse? Baltimore...

Posted: January 16, 2015, 12:40 PM

Drawing the ubiquitous

Freeway walls may be overlooked, but not by Kachadourian

IMDA MFA Program Alumnus and Visual Arts Department Adjunct faculty person Gary Kachadourian "cut-and-fold" drawings highlighted in November 30th issue of MEDIUM magazine in an article written by...

Posted: December 2, 2014, 2:44 PM

Documentary videos by Vin Grabill at the Gugenheim Museum

"Group Zero" seen through the lens of UMBC Art Professor

Three documentary videos produced by Visual Arts Department Chair Vin Grabill will be screened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the "Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s Film...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 9:56 AM

Spotlight: Irene Chan, Ch’An Press

A terrific interview and pictures - Women's Studio Workshop

UMBC Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Asian Studies Irene Chan first came to Women's Studio Workshop in 1996 as a studio intern, then returned two years later as an Artist’s Book Resident to...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 5:38 PM

Ellen Handler Spitz in The New York Times Sunday Book Review

Poetry is an inexhaustible gift for children

In her article in the Sunday Book Review titled “That Amherst Belle,” Ellen Handler Spitz reviews two new children’s books: Eileen Spinelli’s “Another Day as Emily,” illustrated by Joanne...

Posted: May 20, 2014, 8:14 PM

UMBC Undergrad Emily Eaglin on Channel 4 NBC Washington

I am not a pie chart, racial micro-aggressions film

UMBC Visual Arts undergraduate filmmaker Emily Eaglin won awards from the Campus Movie Fest for her short film comedy/documentary "Future Children," a wry look at micro-aggression toward people...

Posted: May 13, 2014, 1:46 PM