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The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.

The Clarice presents programs that advance the learning and research of students and faculty at the University of Maryland while participating in developing our community’s arts ecosystem. By honoring artists and creative innovators who have broken barriers before us, we amplify people, partnership, process and performance. We aspire to reflect a narrative of equity, inclusion and representation of all voices.

Artistic Planning at The Clarice is guided by a shared leadership model. Programming is determined through a collaborative, multi-curatorial approach that aims to reflect the values of a diversity of voices, experiences, perspectives and passions. While the curators participate in developing partnerships with all artists, each has genres and programs they focus on for facilitating conversations.