Celebrating Three Decades
Join us May 2-3, 2025 for a weekend of festivities celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Linehan Artist Scholars Program. Mark your calendars. Invitations will be sent out early winter. Update your contact information before Jan 15, 2025.
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The year 2025 marks a significant milestone in UMBC’s history as an institution for the arts. Thirty years ago, Earl and Darielle Linehan saw the importance of enabling young artists to pursue their craft and make a career out of their talents, and gave generously to create the experience that became UMBC’s Linehan Artist Scholars Program. For the past three decades, the program has blended critical study with creative expressions in an interdisciplinary environment where talented young artists find inspiration in each other, spark new thoughts, and are encouraged to reshape the arts, culture, and the world.
Looking ahead to 2025, it will be a year in which we loudly and proudly celebrate our program’s milestone anniversary and UMBC’s ongoing commitment to the arts and recognition of artists as leaders of transformation in our society. Our anniversary celebration will honor the interdisciplinary hallmarks of our program over a two-day event that will engage current scholars, alumni, and friends of the program.
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Friday | May 2 | Evening Program
The focus is on RECONNECTING, and we are hosting a reception where alums can connect with and across cohorts and faculty members from their departments. Following the reception, alumni will be able to attend either a theatre production, a music concert, or partake in a dance-for-all event.
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Saturday | May 3 | Day Program
The Linehan Concert Hall will provide the perfect backdrop for a vibrant interdisciplinary concert celebrating the tremendous achievements of the Linehan Artist Scholars Program. Following the concert, guests will be served lunch and can experience the Linehan Alumni Gallery, organized exclusively for this event.
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We Need Your Involvement
Linehan Alumni Gallery
We are calling on our alumni community to help us by sharing images from your time at UMBC that give insight into your Linehan Artist Scholar experience. The Alumni Gallery will be a central piece of our 30th Anniversary Celebration on May 2-3, 2025.
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What kinds of pictures are we looking for?
We’d love any pictures you have from your time at UMBC that speak to your artistic and personal growth – from projects you worked on, backstage, trips you participated in, classes, hallway lunch breaks, performances, shows, etc.
How will the images be displayed?
Sonia Pivovarov, current scholar and curator of the Linehan Scholar Gallery, will catalog all images and be responsible for planning and curating the submitted visual material/photos/videos. During the anniversary celebration, the gallery will be in the Dance Tech Studio in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building.
What image format can you submit?
All digital image files (JPG, PNG, HEIC/ HEIF) are acceptable. Videos are also welcome. Selected images will be printed in various sizes.
Before uploading/submitting your images:
1) Rename your image file using your last name_first graduationYEAR
2) If you submit multiple images, include a number at the end.
For example:
Kocerhan_Ally_2012_1
Kocerhan_Ally_2012_2
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Online Submission/Upload
Click here to upload your files to BOX. Submissions must be received by March 1, 2025.
Mailing Option
You can mail photos to the address below if you prefer. If you do so, kindly include a return address label so we can send them back to you after the event.
Linehan Artist Scholars Program, 1000 Hilltop Circle, PAHB 215, Baltimore, MD 21250