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Gallery located in the student union dedicated to contemporary art from emerging and mid-career artists.

Academic museum space with around 2,500 works in its permanent collection and approximately six different exhibitions per year.

Room 1309 in the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, this student-run exhibition space shows undergraduate and graduate work.

Depicting Maryland-born abolitionist and scholar Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) as impassioned, young orator in Ireland. Designed by an English sculptor and cast in Wales. Situated in Frederick Douglass plaza. Funded by private gifts, UMD Foundation…

Student art is almost always on view in this space. This year, you might have spotted a gnarly shark jaw under the stairwell or a Ferris wheel catering to blue pigeons. Two-dimensional works hang semi-permanently in the first floor hallway and over…

Alumnus Jim Henson and his Muppets creation, Kermit, chat on a bench outside the Stamp Student Union. Gift of class of 1998. Surrounded by the Henson Memorial Garden by landscape architect Philip Cho. Garden was the gift of classes of 1994 and 1999.

Maryland Room Gallery in Hornbake Library features annual exhibits on historical topics, displaying books, manuscripts, ephemera, objects, and multi-media items. Special Collections and University Archives also curate online exhibitions.

The University of Maryland granted author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) an honorary degree in 1966. Porter gifted the university her papers and library, and a selection of memorabilia and historical furnishing from her D.C. home.

Created in honor of artist and art historian, former University of Maryland Professor David C. Driskell (b. 1931) to exhibit, collect, and preserve African-American art.

Given to the University of Maryland by George Snow, Professor of Physics from 1958 to 1992, and his wife Lila. A related work is Bradford with a Curl, Provincetown Art Association and Museum…