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ARTS FOR ALL INITIATIVE
—DARRYLL J. PINES President, University of Maryland
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UMD President Darryll J. Pines has made a bold commitment to the arts at the University of Maryland. In his April inauguration address, Pines announced a new initiative to expand arts programming across campus and bolster interdisciplinary offerings. Arts for All creates new opportunities for students to fuse the arts, technology and social justice to collaboratively address grand challenges.
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The new immersive media design major exemplifies how the Arts for All Initiative links together the arts and STEM fields. A joint offering from the Department of Art and the Department of Computer Science, the major, which launches in Fall 2021, teaches students to use technologies like virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics, coding for new ways of displaying art virtually, 3D modeling and more.
The Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, housed in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, will advance the school’s role as an innovator in design and performance, and prepare graduates to launch careers in emerging media formats such as webcasts, immersive design technology and virtual reality performance. This fall, a newly hired assistant professor of lighting, a visiting assistant professor of digital humanities in performing arts and a multimedia technologist join the institute. The Brin Institute’s fall production is playwright Lauren Yee’s “Hookman,” directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad ’04 in November.
An expanded NextNOW Fest, presented by The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, will occur in venues across campus as well as in the College Park community in September.
As part of NextNOW Fest, Music for All Terps, a series of pop-up music performances presented by the School of Music across campus, will launch and continue throughout the semester.
