Welcome! We are very excited to present the work of our IT team for this year! The limitations caused by quarantine were taken as basis for our gallery concept, hence the name – UMB Enclosed. This exhibit was developed by four students: Abhinav Bountra, Donna Kimmel, Eleanor Mouzafarov, and Sultan Samidinov in collaboration with IT specialists of UMass Boston. Each of us captured something uniquely personal in our photos. The images capture the role technologies play in our lives, especially now, while the cam-pus is on lockdown. The situation affected all of us in different ways, creating challenges. But the best part of it is that we have a chance to come up with solutions for them, becoming “Beacons” for ourselves and those who will find that experience useful!

—Eleanor M.

Student Curator,

April 2021