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Leroy Merrit Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard
UMUC is expanding its Arts Program and Adelphi campus to include this impressive new facility designed by well-known Baltimore architect Jim Grieves. It is intended to be a center for lifelong learning and an enduring tribute to the accomplished painter and sculptor, Joseph Sheppard.
Mind, Body and Spirit
Upcoming Exhibit
With These Hands
The Sculptures of Sy Gresser and Bill Taylor
Reception:
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Exhibit Dates:
September 15–December 15, 2009
Autobiography/Performance/Identity:
A Symposium on African American and
African Diasporan Women in the Visual Arts
March 5–6, 2010
Events Archives
UMUC Academic Speaker Series — Mary Robinson
"Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"
Join UMUC faculty, students, staff, and friends to hear Mary Robinson, the first woman president of Ireland, founder of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, and lifelong human rights advocate, discuss Human Rights and Ethical Globalization.
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KEYNOTE LECTURE, 7:00 p.m. Reception to follow in the Ballroom. RSVP ONLINE, or call 301-985-7937. |
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and formerly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate and is a world leader who puts her humanity very much at the forefront of her politics. She now chairs the Council of Women World Leaders and is President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She has been named a "Hero and Icon" as one of Time Magazine's 2005 top 100 men and women whose "power, talent or moral example is transforming the world."