Charlotte - NextNOW Fest

On Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 14, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center held its annual NextNOW Fest. The festival showcases art, music and theater at the University of Maryland.

Freshman education major Jackie Flam and freshman architecture major Lauren Welch shop for vintage clothes at the festival's marketplace on Friday, Sept. 13.

The Etsy shop, Rambling Rose Arts, sells its jewelry and artwork in the marketplace outside the Clarice on Friday, Sept. 13.

Sophomore engineering student MaKayla Etheredge looks at Rambling Rose Arts' jewelry, while the shop's owner, Ann Tralka, chats with a co-worker. 

Piano performance major Nathan Vandergeest, computer science major Haedn Rho, and neurobiology and physiology major Abby Sun grab their free T-shirts from the NextNOW staff on Friday, Sept. 13.

Jazmine Olwalia, a graduate student at the Maryland Opera Studio, looks through costumes from previous Clarice performances at the Costume Sale on Saturday, Sept. 14.

Michele Currenti, a graduate student at the Maryland Opera Studio who is working the festival, organizes the costumes for customers on Saturday, Sept. 14.

Senior theatre and English double-major Abigail Olshin helps fit junior theatre and French double-major Beth Rendely in a costume at the Costume Sale on Saturday, Sept. 14.

A group of juniors, including, English major Sam Cohen and information science students Andrew Knox and Jonathan Obenland read articles in the new Clarice exhibit, "Inspired! Jim Henson at Maryland" on Saturday, Sept. 14.

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