Arts + Tech
Where creativity drives innovation.
The arts + tech intersect
Arts for All partners with programs across campus to create courses and opportunities that integrate the arts with science and technology—inviting everyone in the UMD community to activate their creativity. From digital media and interactive design to creative coding, dance technology and immersive performance, Arts for All encourages all Terps to explore what is possible and how knowledge expands when the arts and technology intersect.
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Democratizing Design, Building Community
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Announcing Arts for All’s Fall 2025 ArtsAMP Grants
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Learn how UMD faculty, students and staff are integrating the arts and technology.
Beyond the tip of the iceberg.
University of Maryland researchers in art, computer science and earth science are collaborating on a project to produce AI-generated iceberg models. These 3D renderings will help sailors navigate Arctic waters.
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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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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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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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Find courses that connect the arts + tech
Learn, experiment and create at the intersection of art and technology.