CADVC hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC supports Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” as part of this program.
In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans, Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” will host an intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the visual arts and humanities. Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts and humanites education and support.
In Tomashi Jackson’s words:
The city of Baltimore has a rich, archived, and living history to be explored to help us understand a rubric for identifying the outcomes for funding public visual arts and humanities efforts. Our history is a social history, and we want to see what it looks like from the establishment of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities – federal level funding – to the state level, city level, and then what that means among community-based organizations. We’d like to record these stories, and facilitate private and public discussions with Baltimorians – both transplants and multi-generational – where they can share their reflections on what the public arts and humanities have meant in public space to them as participants in schools for the arts and programs that may no longer exist. It is important to document these histories so that we can turn that lens, this logic, this structure, onto other cities and communities. Because across the country, this experience of rapid divestment is having real impacts on educational and human outcomes for everyone.
Public programs associated with this residency:
February 25, 6–7pm: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans, Lion Brothers classroom, downtown Baltimore. Registration is required.
April 8, 5:30–7pm: Conversation about structures of cultural support with Denise Griffin Johnson, Nick Hartigan, and Ryan Patterson at the Lion Brothers classroom in downtown Baltimore. Registration is required.
April 15, 6–7pm: Webinar panel on education history and policy featuring Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor. Registration is required.
Find out more here.
Please note, some events have limited capacity and registration is required to secure your spot. Events with limited space will be noted in their descriptions.