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BmoreArt’s Picks: June 13-19
This Week: Balanced (균형이 잡힌) opening reception at TU Asian Arts Gallery, Critical Indigenous Cinema at Academy Art Museum, Stephen Posen + Alexandra Posen + Zac Posen reception at The Peale, David and Tonya Thomas at The Walters, Dr. John Stauffer on One Life: Frederick Douglass at the Portrait Gallery, Akea Brionne opening reception at CPM, free admission to The Culture at the BMA, Barbara Dale reception at The Peale, gallery talk with Kristen Hileman at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and a Juneteenth Celebration at the Lewis Museum — PLUS last call for summer scholarships at Baltimore Jewelry Center and more featured opportunities!
Unconventional Skateboarding at Zeakness Festival
Since migrating to the States six years ago, Baltimore has always been giving me a sense of a state of flow, whether it be indie art or skateboarding. And the potential of a multi-purposed space is alternately reproduced, transferred, and practiced from generation to generation. Being a part of both skateboarding and music communities, throughout personal observation, DIY in Baltimore is a method of pushing back against spatial homogeneity and insatiable capitalism, and from which to practice spatial diversification independently.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 6/11/23 🔥
So many things happened on the internet that I didn’t know what to think of this week. Canada is on fire, Trump was indicted, and I learned just how many guns people in this country buy. Highlights: being queer in Florida, the Lady Vols, ‘The Ultimatum’, Cornel West, goggles, ‘The Age of Pleasure’, Charlie Wilson, Tea with Queen and J., Kelis and Bill Murrary (maybe?), and Zion Williamson.
The Protection of Lowly Gods: MJ Neuberger
MJ Neuberger’s installation-based exhibition at the Creative Alliance centers on healing intergenerational race and gender-based trauma. She is of Filipino heritage. Her relationship to ritual and healing is informed by indigenous cultures where the sacred arts are fully integrated into the communal. Her intent, she writes, is to “return to a body abandoned in childhood trauma and abuse” to renew and transform it.
Baltimore News: Raúl de Nieves, Baker Artist Awards Finalists, People of Pride
This week’s news includes: Raúl de Nieves receives BMA Meyerhoff-Becker commission, 2023 Baker Artist Awardees Announced, “People of Pride” interview series from John-John Williams IV, “spicy” BOPA budget hearings and Todd Yuhanick announced as BOPA interim director, the Honfest–Planned Parenthood controversy explained, new Baltimore Museum of Industry outdoor exhibition, fashion designer Justin Shaw, New Door Creative (gallery) participates in the Atlantic World Art Fair, Baltimore Center Stage announces their new Shared Spaces Initiative, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, The Afro Newspaper, Baltimore Beat, and other local and independent news sources.
Four Emerging Artists to Watch: Studio Visits with MICA MFA Graduates
One of the reasons for the high level of quality of visual art throughout the Baltimore region is an array of excellent MFA programs. At the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), there are thirteen major graduate programs, including Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Business, Master of Professional Studies, as well as programs with a graduate emphasis. All combined, MICA’s grad programs attract about three hundred students each year from almost every state and more than twenty countries.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 6-12
This Week: Sky Hopinka at Academy Art Museum, Hidden Palace Reading Series at Fadensonnen, UMBC hosts the Maryland Arts Summit, Baltimore Clayworks’ Seconds Sale + Preview Party, Jessy DeSantis opening reception at Davenport Imports, opening reception for Andrew Shenker’s collaborative works at Current Space, Rapid Lemon’s “Variations on the End” at BBOX, Baltimore Jewelry Center Garden Party, and Dan Deacon + Pressing Strings at WTMD / WYPR 20th Anniversary Bash — PLUS Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival submissions deadline and more featured opportunities!
Making Music as a Cultivation: An Interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai
..I belong nowhere, neither a native Taiwanese nor a true American, I will be an outsider all my life. So I don't have that kind of loyalty to a place... I used to feel sad because of the feeling of being an outsider. At that time, I didn't know why I was sad, and I didn't know what "diaspora" meant. It was an abstract, indescribable, and unspeakable feeling.
Baltimore News: Phaan Howng, Elizabeth Talford Scott, Open Works
This week’s news includes: Phaan Howng’s Dinner Gallery exhibition, BMA + MICA’s Elizabeth Talford Scott exhibition + community celebration, Adam Holofcener interviews on Beyond the Studio Podcast, MCHC’s Jim Henson exhibition, Catalyst Contemporary moving out of their space, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Beat, and other local and independent news sources.
Lu Zhang Named Executive Director of A Blade of Grass
Lu Zhang is a familiar, friendly face to many of us in the Baltimore art scene. Longtime BmoreArt subscribers might recognize Zhang as the artist on the cover of our first ever print issue back in 2015! Among many other feats as an artist, administrator, and organizer, Zhang helped nurture The Contemporary through its first hiatus comeback in her position as Deputy Director under the collaborative leadership of Deana Haggag.
BmoreArt’s Picks: May 30 – June 5
This Week: Tracie Taylor at Steven Scott Gallery, Hilton Carter book celebration at The Ivy Bookshop, Stoop Storytelling + Queer Jewish Arts Festival at Creative Alliance, First Thursdays in Bromo Arts District + Mount Vernon, Asia North Closing Event at Motor House + The Parlor, Muse & Metaphor opening reception at Gallery 1448, Jonathan Gilmore Project at the Lewis, Mind on Fire * Ami Dang * Laure Drogoul at Current Space, Henson Homecoming at MCHC, and Baltimore Center Stage’s Gala — PLUS Comcast RISE grant program and more featured opportunities!
Close Looking: Edward Duffield’s BMA Clock, in Context
The French poet and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine once complained that museums are cemeteries of the arts, and it’s not hard to see why—separated from their original contexts, the objects in a museum can feel lifeless and embalmed: static monuments to a distant past. But even cemeteries, in the right conditions, can be surprisingly powerful and moving places. And if we look closely and think creatively, the most inert and seemingly remote museum object can become surprisingly vivid.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 5/28/23
I learned some things on the internet this week. Highlights: Tina Turner, Janelle Monáe, pandemic intimacy, Dr. Money talks the WNBA, Brittney Griner, CitiBikes, Succession, Harlan Crow, trees, and Alyx Weiss. Legendary singer, dancer, and entertainer Tina Turner died on Wednesday. She was 83. Known as the ‘Queen of...
Baltimore News: Club Hippo, Baltimore’s New Film Festival, VisArts Announces Resident Artists
This week’s news includes: Half a century of memories from The Hippo, WTMD + WYPR team up for New/Next Film Festival, Hamiltonian Artists Announces New Studio Spaces in DC, BmoreArt’s Cara Ober interviewed by Tom Hall on WYPR’s Midday, Bethesda Painting Awards Finalists announced, the Queer Jewish Arts Festival returns to Baltimore for a third year, Creative Alliance announces leadership changes, Linda DePalma’s Redwood Arch is restored, Howie Lee Weiss at Goya Contemporary, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, East City Art, and other local and independent news sources.
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