Baltimore Field School Spring Showcase

Come share food and drinks with UMBC's Orser Center for Public Humanities as we celebrate the new BFS 3.0 Community Fellows for our summer 2026 program Collaborative Teaching in Public Humanities.

We will also have materials on community archives at UMBC:

Maryland Tradition Archives (1974 - present): Housed in UMBC's Special Collections since 2014, the Maryland Traditions Archives (MTA) is a partnership with Maryland Traditions, the state folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council. The collections are administered using a “shared stewardship” model, in which MTA staff collaborate with members of the communities represented within the collections (“source communities”) to share curatorial authority.

To Say Their Own Word (1979-2023): To Say Their Own Word was a university-style political education project led by political prisioner Eddie Conway (1946-2023) and librarian Brenda Vogel in 1979-1980 within the Maryland penitentiary to integrate prisoners with the community. Through partnerships between the Real News network, UMBC Special Collections, and BFS 2.0, a team developed public programming around this archive by conducting oral history interviews and a short film.

Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition (2014 - present): Founded in 2014, Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition is a collaborative public humanities project that brings together UMBC classes from a variety of disciplines to create media and cultural documentation focused on Baltimore residents and neighborhoods. The central question of the project is: How do city neighborhoods change, and more centrally, how do the people who live and work in those neighborhoods feel about those changes?

For more infomation see: https://baltimorefieldschool.org/

This event is supported by the Orser Center for Public Humanities with support of the Maryland State Art Council’s Maryland Folklife Network.

This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

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