IMDA Welcome Event

Intermedia and Digital Arts Masters of Fine Art  Welcome Event
When: October 30th, 2024, 12-1:30pm
Where: CADVC

Please join the Visual Arts Department in welcoming our new Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) Graduate Students to UMBC. On Thursday, October 30th from 12:00-1:30 pm, we will host a fun and engaging round of micro-talks at the CADVC, with a mixer afterwards. Our new grads will give short presentations about their research and art practice. Stop by to say hello and meet the IMDA class of 2027! Refreshments will be provided!

Mary Ryan Budnitz is a 2D animator & illustrator born and based in Baltimore, MD. Mary uses the monstrous and fantasy in relation to body positivity, exploring romance and inclusion through digital animation and illustration.

Jaslyn Tabourne is a multimedia artist primarily creating animated and painted works. Jaslyn is passionate about storytelling and creating art that can be inspirational, relatable or shift the perspective of her audience. During her time in the IMDA program, Jaslyn hopes to create narrative pieces that explore her experiences and revelations as a Christian woman. 

Brittney Barbour is a filmmaker, film programmer, and video artist from Washington DC. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Intermedia Digital Arts to incorporate multimedia form into her filmmaking process and presentation. 

María Sánchez is a filmmaker, designer, and multimedia artist from Caracas, Venezuela. Using multiple mediums such as digital video, performance, and installation, she creates narratives about self, place, belonging, and transformation in conjunction with feminist film theory.

Rokhsareh Alvandi works in drawing, painting, illustration, and video animation to create contemporary stories of women, religion, and politics that reflect her Iranian Negargari ancestry.

The Intermedia and Digital Art (IMDA) MFA program provides participants with access to eminent faculty, visiting artists, critics, and curators, studio space and state-of-the-art facilities.

Recent graduate students have pursued issues of food justice, surveillance, place, language, economics, and technology, resulting in projects that use a range of traditional gallery-based art media as well as experimental modalities, like street interventions, distributed networks, physical computing, games, and community-based projects. Financial support, including tuition remission and stipends, is available.

IMDA is committed to making its events accessible to everyone. Please send your request for specific accommodations to imda@umbc.edu.