INNOVATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INNOVATION IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES R ichard Scerbo, director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, was selected as a 2016 Musical America Innovator and featured in “Musical America’s Innovators: 30 Professionals of the Year.” The Michelle Smith Collaboratory and the UMD Art Gallery hosted the “Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon” to create and edit Wikipedia pages by underrepresented female artists, particularly those with work in UMD collections.
Students in “Code and Form” designed and built a video booth for the “Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community” program where anyone can record their stories on diversity and community. The booth will be placed in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union this fall.
Jared Mezzocchi, assistant professor of theatre design and production, won the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award and a 2016 Obie Award for his dynamic video and projection designs in Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” at Manhattan Theater Club.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & SERVICE TO THE STATE Perla Guerrero, assistant professor of American studies, received the 2016 Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award from the Baltimore Ravens, who donated $2,000 in her honor to Education Based Latino Outreach, a local nonprofit organization. In July, the National Foreign Language Center welcomed local third through fifth graders to learn French or Spanish at the first TerpsTalk Summer Camp. The STEM-themed camp helped students of all proficiency levels develop their language skills. The “Arte Vivo!” program at The Clarice partnered with community organizations to create programs both on and off campus for Latinx youth, including a field trip for Latin American Youth Center participants to hear the UMD Symphony Orchestra perform. “Home Stories” is a National Endowment for the Humanities Access grant-funded digital storytelling project that empowers local migrant youth to create and share their stories with each other and the wider public. The grant is designed to encourage fundraising and sustainability of ongoing programming.
>> LOOKING FORWARD School of Music graduate students Samantha Flores and Matthew Rynes will organize concerts and educational programs for Collington Life Plan Community residents as part of a new student artist-in-residence program.
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