Get Inspired
Discover how Arts for All ignites curiosity, connects disciplines and brings our community to life.
Arts + You
Find out how grantees and partners fuel their creativity and inspire others.
Arts + Tech
Learn how UMD faculty, students and staff integrate the arts and technology.
Arts + Community
Discover the impact of Arts for All across our community, both on-campus and off-campus.
Arts + Social Justice
Learn how we activate the arts for social impact.
Stories of creativity
Explore how creativity is transforming UMD.
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Arts snapshots
Discover all of the exciting ways to get inspired by the arts at UMD.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Did you know?
In 2024 and 2025, Arts for All commissioned two artists to lead murals at Maryland Day. Visual artist and LGBTQ+ activist Lisa Marie Thalhammer joined guests of all ages to paint a "Love for All" mural in 2024. Painter and ceramicist Hana Ward’s mural offered community members the opportunity to paint and write their intentions in 2025.
Watch a video featuring Ward
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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Did you know?
In 2024, Arts for All partnered with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, TerpsVote, the College of Arts and Humanities, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Maryland Democracy Initiative to create a voting booth display. The pop-up helped Terps make a voting plan ahead of the General Election.
Learn more about VOTE (Fearlessly)!