Overview

Administrative/Biographical Note

The Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) program at UMBC was founded in 1976. It combined the previously existing departments of Theatre, Art, Dance, Music, and Screen Arts. Of these, only Theatre had previously offered a degree program. Students in these fields received degrees in Visual and Performing Arts with a concentration in Art, Dance, Film/Video, Music, or Theatre (the Theatre Department also continued to offer an independent degree in Theatre). The Art and Film/Video concentrations were combined to form the Visual Arts concentration in 1979. The program also offered an interdisciplinary major in Visual and Performing Arts. The InterArts program, the Imaging Research Center Fellows, and the Linehan Artist Scholar Program were part of the VPA program. The Visual Arts department established an independent major in Visual Arts in 1999, and the Dance and Music departments followed suit in 2001. The Visual and Performing Arts program was suspended in 2008 and discontinued in 2010.

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Provenance Information

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Received via transfer from Department of Dance in 1998. Accessions: UARC 1998-14. No future transfers to this collection are expected from this department.

Processing Note

Collection unprocessed. University publications relating to Visual and Performing Arts are available under the call number UPUB V1. Records from the Ethnomusicology and Theatre departments were transferred seperately and are not located in this collection.

Descriptive Rules Used

Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)

Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms, including PastPerfect.

Access & Use

Finding Aids

Inventory list available.

Finding Aid: http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll066.php

Access Conditions

This collection requires review by Special Collections staff prior to use by researchers. Users should submit their request to view this collection at speccoll@umbc.edu or 410-455-2353.

Conditions Governing Reproductions and Use

Reproductions allowed for research purposes. UMBC is the copyright owner; permission to reproduce is required.

Subject Headings

Creators

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Department of Dance

University of Maryland. Baltimore County. Visual Arts Department

University of Maryland. Baltimore County. Visual and Performing Arts

University of Maryland. Baltimore County. Department of Music

University of Maryland. Baltimore County. Theatre

Subjects

Art in universities and colleges

University of Maryland, Baltimore County -- Departments

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Fine Arts Gallery -- Archives

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery -- Archives

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Department of Music -- Archives

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Theatre -- Archives

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Visual Arts Department -- Archives

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Visual and Performing Arts -- Archives

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Department of Dance -- Archives

Series Description & Container List

1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
   Videotape: Dance competition 1987	1987	1
   Videotape: 3 faculty exhibition Jan. - March 1991	1991	1
   Videotape: 1 Fine Arts Gallery exhibition 1992	1992	1
   Videotape: 4 MD public television special 1994, 1996	1994, 1996	1
   Videotape: 15 lecture - Fine Arts Gallery 1992 (Nature & Society)	1992	1
   Videotape: Interviews 1990	1990	1
   Videotape: 3 Jim Palmer Lecture 1990 Images Baltimore to Cooperstown	1990	1
   Videotape: 3 unmarked tapes	undated	1
   Videotape: Dance for Prospective Students	undated	1
   Videotape: 2 Channel 13 News 1987, 1994	1987, 1994	1
   Videotape: Alan Price	undated	1
   Videotape: UMBC Othello	undated	1
   Videotape: Becky Jung footage	undated	1
   Audio tape: WBAL radio 1990	1990	1
   Audio tape: WBJC symphony 1985	1985	1
   Audio tape: 5 Interviews Capitol Conversations 1989, 1990, 1991	1989, 1990, 1991	1
   Audio tape: UMBC Madrigals	undated	1
   Audio tape: 4 plays Tempest, Macbeth etc.	undated	1
   Audio tape: 1 unmarked tape	undated	1
   Photographs: Dancers	undated	2
   Photographs: Dance Showcases, competitions 1989, 1990	1989, 1990	2
   Photographs: Phoenix concert 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992	1983, 1985-1988, 1991-1992	2
   Photographs: A view from Baltimore Exhibit 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996	1991-1993, 1996	2
   Photographs: Musician photos 1992	1992	2
   Photographs: Indian music Comp. 1992-93	1992-1993	2
   Photographs: Music concerts 1985-86	1985-1986	2
   Photographs: Dance shows 1996	1996	2
   Photographs: Library Exhibitions 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996	1988-1991, 1994, 1996	2
   Press clippings 1985-1986	1985-1986	2
   Press clippings 1987 - 1990	1987-1990	3
   Event file 1994	1994	3
   US MFA computer art	undated	3
   Press clips 1985	1985	3
   Events file 1993	1993	3
   Shakespeare On Wheels 1984-85	1984-1985	3
   Background files; faculty and alumni, musicians	undated	3
   Background files on musicians	undated	4
   Event files 1991-92, 1993	1991-1993	4
   UMBC 25th anniversary	1991	4
   Press Clips 1994-95	1994-1995	4
   Visual Arts 1991-92, 1993	1991-1993	4
   Press clips 1985, 86, 87, 1989-1990	1985-1987, 1989-1990	4
   Environmental Terror	undated	4
   Play poster	undated	4
   Phoenix folders	undated	4
   News Article	undated	4
   Arts files calendars, galleries, music	undated	4
   UMBC arts calendar 1995-1996	1995-1996	4
   UMBC arts calendar fall 1997	1997	4
   Press clips arts general 1993-1995	1993-1995	4
   Alumni clips 1995	1995	4
   AOK gallery 1990-1994	1990-1994	4
   AOK Gallery press clips 1986, 1989-1990	1986, 1989-1990	5
   Dance Showcase clips 1992-1993	1992-1993	5
   Dance files 1985-1993	1985-1993	5
   Fine Arts Gallery files 1984-1994	1984-1994	5
   Music Dept. files 1991-1993	1991-1993	5
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1988-1989	1988-1989	5
   34 unmarked video tapes	undated	6
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1990	1990	6
   Critics Choice UMBC Theatre 1985-1986	1985-1986	6
   2 joe moss	undated	6
   3 Digital Imagining 1993	1993	6
   Dynamo Theatre	undated	6
   2 Dance (Phoenix & Dendy)	undated	6
   WZTV program	undated	6
   Lecture: Nature & Society, 1992	1992	6
   Presidents Council video.	undated	6
   Ralph Gibson	undated	6
   Ping Chong & Fiji Company 1986	1986	6
   Ethnomusicology progress reports, 1983-1984	1983-1984	6
   Press clips Opera/Music 1984-1990	1984-1990	7
   Symphony/Madrigals	undated	7
   Progressions 1985-1988	1985-1988	7
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1996-1997	1996-1997	7
   Theatre Dept. clips 1993-1994	1993-1994	7
   Theatre Dept. press clips 1991-1993	1991-1993	8
   Progressions 1986 - 1988	1986-1988	8
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1993	1993	8
   Dance Newsletter Harmonia - JHU Humanities	undated	8
   UMBC Arts press releases 1986-1989	1986-1989	8
   Music slides; Camerata, Ethnomusicology, Indian music, Opera, Symphony	undated	8
   The Arts II 1983-1984	1983-1984	8
   UMBC Office of Arts Management Report; Spring/Summer 1990, Fall 1990, Spring/Summer 1991	1990-1991	8
   Fine Arts publicity Fall 1988	1988	8
   UMBC Office of Arts Management Report; Spring/Summer 1990, Fall 1990, Spring/Summer 1991	1990-1991	9
   UMBC Arts press releases 1989-1993	1989-1993	9
   Shakespeare on Wheels	undated	9
   Fine Arts publicity 1989	1989	9
   Background info. Musicians, symphony, theatre, alumni, faculty	undated	9
   Background UMBC AOK Gallery, Dance, Visual Arts Faculty	undated	9
   Phoenix Co..	undated	9
   Event files Music Dept. 1984-1985	1984-1985	10
   Calendars 1993-1995	1993-1995	10
   Visual Arts files 1994	1994	10
   Shakespeare on Wheels slides 1986-1993	1986-1993	10
   Background Dance Alumni and Faculty	undated	10
   Photo files, Theatre 1993-1995	1993-1995	10
   Shakespeare on Wheels photos 1986-1987, 1989-1993	1986-1987, 1989-1993	10
   Background Musicians and Ethnomusicology	undated	10
   Nature and Society files	undated	10
   Background: Visual Artists, Fine Arts Gallery	undated	10
   Photos: Visual Arts - Theatre 1984-1992	1984-1992	11
   Dance background, faculty	undated	11
   Background; Exhibits AOK Gallery. African American Studies faculty	undated	11
   Mission statements on events	undated	11
   Visual Arts photos	undated	11
   Progressions photos 1985-1995	1985-1995	11
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1991 - 1993, 1996	1991-1993, 1996	11
   Shakespeare on Wheels 1985-1988, 1990-1991	1985-1988, 1990-1991	12
   Press clippings 1987, 1990 - 1995	1987, 1990-1995	12
   Office of Arts Management disks 1980-1990	1980-1990	12
   Posters - held in map cases	undated	12