Arts & Culture

Tiger Voices: A Faculty and Staff Speech Showcase

Tiger Voices: A Faculty and Staff Speech Showcase is an opportunity for faculty and staff to step outside their usual professional roles and let their personalities shine. This showcase celebrates authentic voice, storytelling, humor, insight, and individuality. Whether reflective, funny, heartfelt, or thought-provoking, speeches are meant to highlight who you are, not just what you do.

October 1 at 2 p.m.  |  University Union, UU 329

Panel Discussion ǀ Billy Friebele, Fanni Somogyi, Mollye Bendell

Join guest curators Lynn Tomlinson and Danielle d’Amico and artists Billy Friebele, Fanni Somogyi, and Mollye Bendell in a lively discussion on the intersection of art, nature, technology, and human relationships.

October 1 at 6:30 p.m.  |  Center for the Arts Gallery, CA 3040

Eternal Love: An evening of Songs and Piano Works

Join faculty members Phillip Collister, baritone, & Christopher Dillon, piano, for an immersive evening of Lieder and solo piano works by Clara & Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Readings from personal letters of the three composers will serve to illuminate their passionate relationships as husband and wife and as life-long devoted friends. Selected Lieder and readings are curated to create a song/piano cycle that brings these artists' eternal love for each other alive again today.

October 2 at 7 p.m.  |  Recital Hall, CA 3066

Tiger Voices: A Student Speech Showcase

Tiger Voices: A Student Speech Showcase is an opportunity for students to step into the spotlight and showcase their personality, voice, and lived experience. Tiger Voices creates a supportive, affirming space for students to be heard, connect with one another, and build confidence through public expression.

October 7 at 4 p.m.  |  University Union Ballroom B

A Conversation with Graphic Design Alumni

TU alumni and graphic designers, return to TU to share their insights and experiences. Kate Bateman Gazzillo ’10 has a deep love of storytelling which they bring to every creative masterpiece. Drew Bonsu ’20 has a mission to “develop creative solutions to large problems… building cohesive brands that amplify their voice”.

October 8 at 6:30 p.m.  |  Art Lecture Hall, CA 2032

Towson University Bands

The Towson University Bands invite you to a captivating evening showcasing the power and artistry of wind band music. The vibrant TU Symphonic Band opens the concert, followed, after intermission, by the acclaimed TU Wind Ensemble. From bold, sweeping works to intimate and expressive moments, this concert promises a memorable night of exceptional musicianship.

October 8 at 7:30 p.m.  |  Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, CA 3042

Natalie Groom Faculty Recital: Flex Music for Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon

Explore a mix of classical works for clarinet, horn, and bassoon about protecting teeny tiny animals, the intersection of funk and fugues, finding inner calm in uncertain times, and showcasing joy as a form of resistance. Performers include Towson University clarinet professor Natalie Groom and guest collaborators Kat Robinson (horn) and Qun Ren (bassoon). Hear world premieres and commissions for this unique instrumentation, designed as “flex” chamber music. 

October 11 at 3 p.m.  |  Recital Hall, CA 3066

Let's Collaborate!

The Department of Film, Audio, Media Arts invites you to our Fall 2026 “Let’s Collaborate!” event, where students can crew up and find collaborators for class and personal projects! Join us for music, networking, student organizations and external vendors, free food, and swag on October 14th from 12-1pm on the Chapman Quad (just outside the Media Center). Our rain location will be the EMF TV Studio (MC102). Everyone is welcome, but especially collaborators from across the College of Fine Arts and Communication.

October 14 at 12 p.m.  |  Chapman Quad (rain location will be the EMF TV Studio, MC 102)

Michael Hersch | Guest Composer Lecture

The New Music Ensemble and the TU Department of Music are pleased to welcome renowned composer Michael Hersch for a special guest lecture. In this public presentation, Hersch will share insights into his compositional practice and discuss selected works, offering audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with his artistic process. The event will include discussion, critical listening, and open dialogue, inviting students, faculty, and the broader community into a dynamic exchange centered on creativity, expression, and contemporary music.

October 14 at 6:30 p.m.  |  Recital Hall, CA 3066

Lecture | Artist Cindy Cheng

Cindy Cheng explores the relationship between drawings and objects through installation and complex constructions. Cheng likes thinking about how both natural and built structures may act as an incubator for narrative, memory and reflections on the physical and abstract self. She writes: “Everything that I do is based around failure... with sculpture, I’m functioning at the edge of my ability and the edge of my understanding of material.” Enjoy the exhibitions and reception following the lecture.

October 15 at 6:30 p.m.  |  Art Lecture Hall, CA 2032

TU Orchestra Mid-Semester Concert

The Towson University Symphony Orchestra presents two evenings of magnificent music during its mid-semester and end-of-semester concerts.

October 15 at 8 p.m.  |  Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, CA 3042

Senior Seminar: Dances in Progress

This student-choreographed and performed concert is part of the senior capstone class. Movement styles are diverse and creative with students applying the many techniques studied at TU. There are two distinct programs, each performing twice.

October 15 – 17  |  Dance Studio Theatre, CA 1003

Big Love

 by Charles L. Mee | directed by Christopher Carcione

In this high-energy reimagining of Aeschylus’s The Danaids, one of the oldest plays in the Western world, fifty sisters flee their grooms and seek refuge in an Italian villa. When the grooms catch up with the brides, the villa becomes a battleground, and the ensuing fight a fierce exploration of gender, autonomy, and love. As the wedding bells loom, pop music blares, and wedding cake flies, the sisters must decide how far they are willing to go to secure their freedom...and perhaps even find true love. Recommended for ages 16 and up.

October 16 – 22  |  Mainstage Theatre, CA 3043

The Ugly Duckling

TU's Opera Outreach Ensemble presents this classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale in a delightful operatic version for children, youth and adults. The opera uses humor and audience interaction with several plot twists taken from other famous fairy tales. Hint - there's even a Big Bad Wolf! Composed by Andrew Duncan with libretto by Stephen Malone. The student show is presented fully staged with piano and is led by Professors Jessica Harika, Phillip Collister, and Ka Nyoung Yoo.

October 17 at 9:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.  |  Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, CA 3042

TU Jazz Orchestra Mid-Semester Concert

The TU Jazz Orchestra presents an evening of music from swing to modern jazz sounds.

October 22 at 8 p.m.  |  Recital Hall, CA 3066

Conversations in Time and Color

The faculty of TU's Department of Music join together in a concert of chamber works.

October 27 at 6 p.m.  |  Recital Hall, CA 3066

Exhibition: Even Our Oddkin

This exhibition brings together artists who are curious about the lives unfolding all around us: not just those of humans, but the many beings, materials, and systems with whom we share the world. The phrase “more-than-human” reminds us that we are part of a vast web of animals, plants, microbes, machines, weather, chemicals and infrastructure. These artists imagine what it might mean to meet those presences halfway and to consider inner worlds we can’t fully know.

September 4 – December 5  |  Center for the Arts Gallery, CA 3040

Exhibition: Encounter 해후(邂逅)

 Myungsook Ryu Kim reveals a world of harmonious connections across cultures, art, and life. She brilliantly merges classical East Asian art and philosophy with media techniques of the West. Through a profusion of colors, textures, and dimensions, the works explore change and impermanence, illuminate the interdependence of heaven and earth and humans and nature, interpret experience and spirituality, embrace the juxtaposition of poetry and painting, and celebrate Korean history.

Opening Reception & Artist Talk September 9 at 7 p.m.

September 9 – December 12  |  Asian Arts Gallery, CA 2037

MFA Candidate Erin Barry-Dutro: Sacred Wonder

Barry-Dutro generates a vibrant, psychedelic, playfully nostalgic universe populated by everyday saints, cat ladies, and small joys. Inspired by somatic healing and her Burning Man community, her often-collaborative projects offer temporary soft spaces in which to confront hard things.

October 16 – November 20  |  Holtzman MFA Gallery, CA 2040

Memento Amare, Memento Mori, Memento Manducare

Tamini blends the beautiful and the grotesque nature of consumption, emphasizing the feedback loop between the consumed and the consumer. Through her paintings and installations, she decontextualizes brains, veins, neurons, and organs into captivating conglomerations. Her work is a love letter to we who eat, and the rituals which satiate our minds and bodies.

October 16 – November 20  |  Holtzman MFA Gallery, CA 2040