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Upturn: MICA’s 30th Annual Benefit Fashion Show
It has been 30 years since MICA’s Annual Benefit Fashion Show (ABFS) began as a Black Student Union program. According to MICA, the fashion show was created by Dr. Frankie Martin and initially designed to highlight students’ creativity and artistry of the African diaspora who were often overlooked. Since then, ABFS has encompassed larger diversity and inclusion initiatives and is one of the year’s most anticipated events on campus. Every year, the ABFS brings together a community of diverse majors, identities, and ethnicities into one dynamic event.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 16-22
This Week: Bill Schmidt and scholar Kristen Hileman in conversation at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts Senior Recitals, Work Matters lecture at BMI, Rent Party at Baltimore Museum of Art, Jami Attenberg at Greedy Reads Remington, Out of Order (OOO) and KidOOO at Maryland Art Place, Yeah No: A NOT Symposium on Arts and Regional Perspectives at MICA + Eubie Blake, Baltimore Old Time Festival at BMI, artist talk with Lavett Ballard at Galerie Myrtis, Joyce J. Scott and Tim Tate receptions at Goya, and 2024 Baker Artist Award Finalist Showcase + Miranda Javid and Brendan Sullivan opening receptions at Current — PLUS the Trawick Prize deadline and more featured opportunities!
21st Annual CityLit Festival Takes On “Dismantling the Culture of Silence”
Hearing the excitement in Carla Du Pree’s voice when she talks about the 2024 CityLit Festival—you just know it’s going to be incredible. “This is a love letter to Baltimore,” says Du Pree, executive director of the CityLit Project, describing the annual festival, now in its 21st year. The line-up of events began with a poetry reading featuring Mahogany L. Brown at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company on April 12; continues with a masterclass by Jami Attenberg at Greedy Reads (Remington location) this Friday, April 19; and culminates with a full-day festival at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 20th.
The Public Art Chronicles Vol III: Norman Kenneth Carlberg’s 1976 “Caterpillar”
That gritty surface, with its inexplicable warmth, even during the winter (it seemed), gave me the sensation that some of the grit stayed on the palm of my hand and my fingertips. Curiously, though, I would see nothing there as I peered at my hand after removing it from the artwork’s surface. It was as if the grit had disappeared, having seeped into and down through my hand’s and fingers’ epidermal layers to my innermost organisms, where it was providing some weird kind of nourishment.
BmoreArt News: Happy 85th to The Senator and The Charles, Natalia Ángeles Vieyra Named Curator of Latinx Art at The National Gallery, the BMA’s Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum
This week’s news includes: The Charles and The Senator celebrate 85 years, Natalia Ángeles Vieyra becomes the first Curator of Latinx Art at the National Gallery, the BMA launches Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum, John Waters reflects on 78 years, 25th Annual Maryland Film Festival lineup, José Luis Novo returns to Annapolis, Aubrey Plaza cast in Liarmouth, Zander’s employees claim Brendon Hudson owes them money, Lena Stringari appointed Chief of Conservation at the National Gallery, and a German art museum worker hangs his own painting and is fired — with reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
The Composition of Wendel Patrick
In 2023, hip-hop and Wendel Patrick both turned fifty. In honor of the synchronistic coming-of-age moment, he hosted The Hip Hop At 50 panel discussion at Johns Hopkins in November and co-hosted the 100th session of The Baltimore Boom Bap Society, an improvised hip-hop collective that began in 2011 which he co-curates with Erik Spangler, aka DJ Dubble8.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 9-15
This Week: Share Your Why artist talk at Motor House, free admission to Walk a Mile in My Dreams + panel discussion with Joyce J. Scott at the BMA, Revolution in our Lifetime roundtable discussion at The Peale, Station North Art Walk, Sprung reception at Waller Gallery, Margaret Atwood lectures at Goucher College, Brandon Woody, Asya Shaw, and Nia June perform to celebrate Elizabeth Talford Scott at the Lewis Museum, artist talk with Sheila Rider at New Door Creative, and Pauline Oliveros documentary screening at UMBC — PLUS Grit Fund application deadline approaches and more featured opportunities!
Baltimore Gallery: Nine April Exhibitions
Art galleries have always held a sort of mystique for me. While I adore being able to see some of the best (and worst) new art up close and free of charge, if I am being totally honest, these spaces can also be intimidating and confusing, with counterintuitive social cues and etiquette. So before I share with you my list of Baltimore art galleries to visit in April, I want to take a moment and unpack what an art gallery is and does, in the hope that it makes readers feel more comfortable visiting these kinds of spaces in the future.
A Carnival of Characters: Soaring Through David Barnett’s Circus
In David Barnett’s exhibition at Arting Gallery, now on view by appointment through June 2, faces, places, and times are topsy-turvied. Exquisitely designed, it’s a smart, tasteful, over-the-top show. Human/animal/mechanized misfits and backdrops are precisely bizarre, as the artist embraces grotesquery and oddity to be an integral part of beauty.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 2-8
This Week: MICA Grad Show, David MacDonald artist talk at Clayworks, Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick of LittlePuss Press at Red Emma’s, The Maryland Traditions Archives 10 year anniversary, IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition opening, Silas Munro at Stevenson University, Jiha Moon at Goucher College, Katie Kameen opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Theresa Robertson opening reception at Area 405, 2024 Capital Art Book Fair, and Phaan Howng and Andy Yoder opening reception at MONO Practice — PLUS Out of Order + KIDOOO installation and call for volunteers at MAP and more featured opportunties!
Standing Firm at Thirty: an Interview with Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino
The legendary New York dream-pop trio Blonde Redhead played Ottobar on February 24th as the kick-off of their most recent US tour. This year marks not only the 20th anniversary of the release of their significantly turning point album Misery Is A Butterfly but also the 30th anniversary of Blonde Redhead’s formation. I took this opportunity to catch up with vocalist Kazu Makino and reflect on the band’s journey.
Three Sondheim Finalists Announced for 2024
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) announces the three finalists for the 2024 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize, which is awarded by BOPA in partnership with the Walters Art Museum (WAM) and supported by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). Jurors — artist, scholar, and poet Noel W. Anderson; curator, educator, and historian Connie H. Choi; and curator, historian, and lecturer Aaron Levi Garvey — have selected weaver Hellen Ascoli, mixed-media artist Amy Boone-McCreesh, and ceramicist Sam Mack for the final review for the $30,000 prize. These three Baltimore-based artists will exhibit their work at WAM in the Sondheim Finalists’ Exhibition, July17–September 8, 2024.
BmoreArt’s Picks: March 26 – April 1
This Week: I don’t dream of labor exhibition ongoing at the Galleries at CCBC, Visiting Voices: Supporting Disabled Artist-Educators and Learners lecture at MICA’s Hurwitz Center, Womxn of the World Poetry Slam at the Baltimore War Memorial, Trans Day of Visibility Art Storm at Red Emma’s, A Celebration of Elizabeth Talford Scott with Mama Sallah Jenkins and Unique Robinson at the Peabody Library, OMELORA; A Night of Films in Service to Our People at Morgan State University, Elizabeth Talford Scott Story Quilt Workshop w/ Mrs. Wendy Blackwell at Coppin State University, and an opening reception for Lavett Ballard at Galerie Myrtis — PLUS applications due for the JJC Residency at MICA and more featured opportunities!
FOMOgraphy: Baltimore Jewelry Center’s Annual Ornamenta Benefit
Baltimore Jewelry Center is one of those local gems that attracts and retains talent to the city. The nonprofit makerspace offers workshops, residencies, studio space, and exhibitions to promote metalsmithing and all manner of wearable art—oft cited by some of our favorite artists as one of the reasons they’ve expanded their practice and skill sets.
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