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Immerse yourself in the arts at UMD.
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.
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Meet artist and UMD alum Korey Richardson ’16.
As a student, Richardson majored in studio art and even had the opportunity to create a print inspired by legendary artist and UMD art professor David Driskell, whose collection is housed at the campus center bearing his name. Today Richardson works at the Driskell Center and the UMD Art Gallery as their preparator, a role in which he installs and cares for the collections, while building on the inspiration he found as a student.
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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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Meet theatre and music major Terry Bartlebaugh ’27, who reflects on his experience at The Clarice.
“What makes The Clarice special to me is I always describe it as like a TV show. I show up, and I see all of these people all of the time—and it’s just the community and the people that are here. They love what they do, and they put on incredible pieces of art.”
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