Create
Turn your ideas into action.
Creativity belongs to everyone on our campus and beyond.
Arts for All helps students, faculty and staff turn their ideas into action, providing resources and opportunities to infuse creativity into research, teaching and collaboration. Together, we’re shaping an arts-informed university fueled by imagination and defined by boundless creativity.
Opportunities
Explore grant funding, fellowships, residencies and additional creative support for students, faculty and the entire UMD community.
Resources
Find creative tools that can help you bring your vision to life.
Student Communities
Create connections across campus and find your artistic passion.
Arts snapshots
Learn how UMD faculty and staff embrace their creativity.
Meet 2025-26 Arts for All Faculty Fellow Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, a poet and associate professor of English.
This fall Bertram launched UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology through their fellowship funding. The studio focuses on the intersection of AI, language models and computational narratives, through campuswide programming that makes AI literacy accessible to the entire UMD community.
Learn more about Bertram
Did you know?
You can submit your original work in the categories of poetry, music composition, chamber music ensemble, visual art and film as part of the annual Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Competition. Housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the competition encourages students to explore themes of peace and reconciliation. In 2024, Arts for All began its partnership with the Anwar Sadat Chair for Justice and Peace.
Apply for the 2026 competition
Exploring AI in creative expression.
In Fall 2025, the “Future Frames” exhibition examined how the growing presence of AI in our lives affects social, cultural and environmental issues/resolutions and featured posters and videos submitted by UMD students and artists from around the world. An Arts for All ArtsAMP Faculty Collaborative Grant supported the exhibition curated by Alireza Vaziri, assistant professor in the Department of Art, and Jonathan David Martin, lecturer in the College of Information.
Watch the video
Arts+Quantum
Did you know that UMD is a hub for quantum research? We’re proud to support researchers from the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and the College of Arts and Humanities who are exploring new ways to think about quantum concepts. Check out our early workshop video featuring “Quantum Choreographies,” exploring how dance and the human body can serve as a visual metaphor to communicate quantum principles.
Watch the video
Meet Arts for All’s 2025-26 Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows.
Spanning poetry, education, dance, AI, anthropology, music, data science and more, these interdisciplinary researchers are leading the way in creating an arts-informed university.
Learn more about our fellows
Creating community through music.
In 2025, over 50 UMD students, faculty and staff gathered to perform together. The musicians possessed varying levels of skills—and that was exactly the point. The brainchild of cellist Wesley Hornpetrie D.M.A. ’24 and her collaborator, J. Clay Gonzalez, the Regenerate! Orchestra aims to illustrate that music making can be more fun than formal. The performance was presented by the Creative Placemaking minor in partnership with Arts for All, and funded by the J. Guy Lombardo, Jr. Memorial Fund.
Learn more about the experience
What is Arts for All?
Arts for All, a campuswide and presidential initiative at the University of Maryland, celebrates everyone’s creativity. We connect disciplines, create opportunities for arts-based research and activate artistic experiences at UMD and beyond.
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Join the community at the Indigenous Futures Lab.
A hub for Indigenous research, evaluation and relationship building, the Indigenous Futures Lab offers weekly opportunities, including numerous arts-based projects. Learn more about the lab from its director Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, who is a 2024–25 Arts for All Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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Someone is looking good.
This summer, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies students Katie Glenn M.F.A. ’27 and Bailey Hammett-Colwell M.F.A. ’25 teamed up with The Clarice’s Costume Shop to design and create four new outfits for UMD’s mascot, Testudo.
Check out the looks