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The Open Voice: An Interview with Outcalls, Baltimore’s Electronic Opera Queens
How do you combine opera singing with pop music? What inspired you to make music like you do now?. Britt: I feel like in some sort of composing, whether it’s an assignment from class or an extracurricular thing, it’s kind of built into our music, and it was a natural journey for us. As I had mentioned, Melissa is still performing classical works? all over the country, and I’ve chosen not to take that path, which is totally fine. I don’t need to seek performing opportunities elsewhere; I did theater and I did other types of performing, but I don’t feel the need to go out and audition for a play anymore. Outcalls fulfills that need for me. So, in that sense, it was not totally separate. These things are connected and it makes sense for us to collaborate and explore this area together.
Baltimore News: BOPA, MLK Day Parade, Stephanie Ybarra
This week’s news includes: Evolving BOPA Controversy and Fallout, the MLK Day Parade is back on, Stephanie Ybarra leaving Center Stage, RIP Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., The Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, Current Spaces takes it to the streets, a visit to the new Woodberry Tavern, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Art, Freedom, Collectivism: Janet Sarbanes Talks “Letters on the Autonomy Project”
My whole point is that we should be attending to the social and political dimensions around art practices now, much more so than art practices themselves, because we must come up with new ways of instituting.
BmoreArt’s Picks: January 10-16
This Week: Katharina Cibulka lecture at NMWA, virtual screening of Titus Kaphar doc at the BMA, Islamic art lecture at the Walters, Akea Brionne in conversation at the BMA, ‘Baltimore Music on Film’ with Sam Sessa at Creative Alliance, Idle Times: Pop Disorder opening reception at Current, MLK Day celebration with Kondwani Fidel at the Walters, Ruri Yi solo opening reception at HEMPHILL, MLK Day Celebration at AVAM, and Baltimore Clayworks January opening receptions — PLUS deadline to apply for the Sondheim and more featured opportunities!
Little Donna’s Serves Polish and Yugoslavian Traditions with Intimate Hospitality
Little Donna’s offers the comfort of a neighborhood joint for foodies with high expectations. It is also a restaurant steeped in history and family tradition. Located at the former site of Henniger’s Tavern in Upper Fells, Chef Robbie Tutlewski christened it “Little Donna’s” after his Yugoslavian grandmother, who was reportedly short in stature but looms large in culinary influence.
BmoreArt’s Picks: January 3-9
This Week: Shanita Hubbard in conversation with D. Watkins at Enoch Pratt, Made in Baltimore Pop-Up closes, Baltimore Crankie Festival at Creative Alliance, artist talk with Micah E. Wood and Christopher J. Chester at Creative Alliance, A Feast In The Desert artist talk at The Peale, and the Howard Street Kiosk reception and artist talk at Current Space — PLUS Rapid Lemon Productions Variations Party and more featured opportunities!
Rooms That Grow: The Five Houses of Rawlings Conservatory
An oasis year-round, the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens have stood on the western border of Druid Hill Park for most of the park’s history. The conservatory opened to the public in August 1888, twenty-eight years after the park was established. To cater to the growing constituency...
The New Normal: Photos from a Year of Constant Transition
For the entire year after my son was born, I craved the unattainable: routine. Twenty-four hours a day, my life was filled with fugitive moments of joy and terror, of frustration and exhaustion, of feelings of familiarity coupled with utter confusion. I was looking for any sort of expected response...
BmoreArt’s Ten Best Baltimore Exhibits of 2022
While some may claim that 2022 has been a literal parade of never-ending shit shows, when it comes to the arts, the team at BmoreArt heartily disagrees. In Baltimore and surrounding areas, we have experienced a deluge of gleaming, magnificent, achingly good art in 2022. Often, there’s so much that we cannot cover it all, but whenever possible, we recognize the value of these artistic achievements–in our stories, print journals, photo essays, calendar, social media, and events.
Baltimore News: Best Photos, Food, and Lit of 2022, The Empanada Lady, Rhea Beckett
This week’s news includes: The best photos, food, and literary news of 2022, the BSO gives the gift of representation to one young fan, sign painter Sean Danaher, following up on Colin Williams, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Art AND: Laura Amussen
Laura Amussen is a material girl. Working with both natural and artificial elements that she buys, collects in nature, or receives as donations, Amussen is known for site-specific, indoor and outdoor installations as well as smaller meditative works that center an inventive use of material. Over the last fifteen years,...
BmoreArt’s Picks: December 27 – January 2
This Week: Yay museums! Baltimore has so many great ones. Get out of the house and have an indoor stroll around an exhibition, some of which will be closing early next year. Be sure to check hours as the holidays have affected open times. BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly...
From Jackson to Baltimore: “Great Migration” is a Bittersweet Homecoming
“America is a place of opportunity and upward mobility for some people, but not for everyone,” said Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) on April 9, 2022. “If we cannot solve these problems in the South, we cannot fix America.”
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 12/25
It is that time of year again. It is time for a list of lists. Surprisingly, however, end of year lists have not dominated the internet in recent weeks in comparison to years past. When I mentioned this to a friend that is very online she responded that it is because “nothing good has happened in a while. I seriously can’t remember anything memorable other than things going to shit. The only good things are people/s reactions to those things.” This year was mid.
A Photographer’s Take on Christmas Cards
As we age, the holidays get more and more complicated. And when you work with artists, our collective traditions become even more complex, because it is literally an artist’s job to change the way we think and feel, especially subjects loaded with meaning. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza,...
Baltimore News: BMA Renovation, Maryland Film Fest, AVAM Gift Shop
This week’s news includes: the BMA announces an update to the Joseph Education Center, Spike Gjerde interviewed by Rob Lee, Baltimore filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu’s “Nanny,” No Pix After Dark Holiday Food Podcast, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
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