"Some of UMBC’s most notable public art from its earliest days has vanished from view. Today, the courtyard tucked beside the Meyerhoff Chemistry Building is usually quiet and peaceful, but in the university first years, it was a place where students came together for various performances and protests. The court...

"One of the most poignant pieces of public art on campus is Mnemonic by artist Marc O’Carroll, which is situated at the rear of the campus’ Fine Arts Building. According to a September 13, 1976 story in The Retriever Weekly, the piece was made in UMBC’s art studio and was meant to commemorate 'a huge and anc...

"One of the earliest pieces of public art remaining on campus is Double Helix, a work in Tennessee Black Marble situated at a prominent spot in front of UMBC’s Administration Building. It was created by former UMBC student Robert DuBourg, and it was purchased by the university and installed circa 1978." Rea...

This bronze statue of True Grit was commissioned in in the late 1980s by then-President Michael Hooker, and created by alumna Paulette Raye '87, philosophy. Today, the statue lives between the RAC and the Administration Building. To read more about the Grit statue and other iconic pieces of public art on campus, head t...

"One of the key elements of UMBC’s history as a campus has been the institution’s search for a definition of its mission and purpose... As the university and its ambitions have grown, its architecture and campus aesthetics have become more ambitious... That vision is also articulated in Forum – a public artw...