UMB-UMBC Catalyst with Dr. Bruce Jarrell and Lee Boot

Catalyst

Catalyst is an ongoing series promoting conversations around transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research that fuses the performing and visual arts with other fields of inquiry and scholarship. Catalyst is a long-standing program at UMBC which we now bring to UMB as the first in a series of Council for the Arts & Culture events showcasing the partnership between UMB and UMBC. 

Registration is required

Location: UMB Health Sciences and Human Services Library, Gladhill Boardroom, 5th Floor, 601 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

Parking: 646 West Pratt Street garage. Visitors may enter the UMB Campus Center inside the garage on the 3rd floor. Parking validation will be provided for UMBC faculty, staff and students. 

LEE BOOT, MFA

Lee Boot is an experimental media artist and researcher exploring new ways to represent knowledge in human environments, with a focus on digital domains. He serves as associate research professor and associate director at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Boot’s research has produced innovative film, video, and real-time interactive works to help audiences connect with and co-create knowledge in the humanities, sciences, and arts to stimulate new thinking on education, health, and social challenges. During the past two decades his work has been broadcast, screened, published online, and exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the National Academies of Science, the Johannesburg Biennial, and London’s Serpentine Galleries.

BRUCE JARRELL, MD, FACS

As the chief academic and research officer, Bruce Jarrell is the focal point for all such matters at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). When he’s away from UMB, however, aside from his family, his passion for metalsmithing takes center stage. In his shop at his home in Severna Park, Jarrell has turned out many impressive projects, some that currently beautify UMB and its ceremonial events. In 2012, Jarrell teamed up with Ukrainian blacksmith Anatoliy Rudik to create a metalwork art piece that fills two secondfloor windows of the University’s Southern Management Corporation Campus Center. The treelike piece is based upon the Davidge Elm, a majestic tree that before its death a  decade ago stood for nearly 200 years outside Davidge Hall.