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From Punk House Aesthetics to Art House Cinema: Filmmakers Sean Prince Williams and Nick Pinkerton
The first weekend of December is a homecoming of sorts for cinematographer-turned-director Sean Price Williams. His first feature, the Cannes-premiering The Sweet East, will make its local debut with a brief run at The Senator Theater from the 7-9th. The Delaware-born filmmaker grew up in rural Maryland before making his...
BmoreArt News: Artscape Returns to Summer, City of Artist on WYPR’s Midday, Black Butterfly Farm
This week’s news includes: Cara Ober and Ed Berlin interviewed about ‘City of Artists’ on WYPR’s Midday, Denzel Mitchell Jr. and Myeasha Taylor of Black Butterfly Farm, Artscape returning to August, BOPA requests additional Artscape funding, George Ciscle and Christine Sciacca featured on Rob Lee’s “The Truth in This Art” podcast, Morton Street Dance Theater celebrates inclusivity, the work of Simone Leigh, announcements from Iron Crow Theatre, Dan Deacon, North Avenue Holiday Market, Middle Branch Park pop-up ice skating rink, and more reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, The Baltimore Banner, and other local and independent news sources.
“Lapsed”: Heidi Neff on Process, Time, Burning her Paintings, and Donald Trump
I met Heidi Neff in 2013 when I started working as an adjunct professor in the art department at Harford Community College. I had just graduated with an MFA from MICA’s MFAST program the previous year. It was a time of great personal change, some positive and some not so positive, but this article is not about me so I won’t go into all of that. I only mention this because somehow over the course of ten years she morphed from boss to friend. She has always been there to support me, both in my teaching and my studio practice. Last semester was my last semester at HCC and I feel this interview is a fitting way for our friendship to move on to whatever comes next.
The Speed of Time: Seven Experimental Pioneers in Film and Video
By 1960, movie cameras and, later, video recorders became relatively inexpensive and easy to use. With this new medium, artists could engage with ordinary events and, experimenting with the passage of time, movement, and sound, give them fresh meanings. In Vito Acconci’s film Zone (1971), for example, we see, at cat’s-eye level, a man walking around a cat in smaller circles, hemming in the animal as well as the viewer’s attention.
Skip Norman: Here and Now at the National Gallery
The National Gallery of Art’s retrospective Skip Norman: Here and Now on December 9-10, 2023, is a long overdue homecoming for a talented Black filmmaker with strong connections to the region, whose small but compelling filmography and unique life story merit a fresh look. Born in Baltimore and raised...
BmoreArt’s Picks: December 5-11
This Week: “All Good Things Must Begin” at Creative Alliance, Scott Shane, Sheri Booker, and Lane Harlan in conversation with Cara Ober at Pratt Library, curator Christina Delgado’s Pa Mi Gente closing reception + artist talk at Motor House, Black Artist Research Space’s Picturing Baltimore at Full Circle Gallery, Mt. Vernon + Bromo District First Thursdays + Monument Lighting, Waller Gallery artist talk with Divinagracia, Dominic Green, and Shae McCoy, Reception for Theresa Robertson at Area 405, Gallery CA Holiday Market, Station North Holiday Market, and City of Artists book talk at Greedy Reads Remington — PLUS deadline for IT’S A SNAP! 2023 applications with BNHA and more featured opportunties!
Pa’ Mi Gente: an Embassy of Boricua Culture on North Avenue
Pa’ Mi Gente is a love letter to the Puerto Rican diaspora in Baltimore and beyond. It is an oasis in which we can rest and reconnect with our culture, engage with new artists and fellow Puerto Ricans we weren’t familiar with, and tap back into our roots.
BmoreArt News: City of Artists, New BMA Exhibitions, Landis Expandis
Header Image: Multimedia artist, performer and musician Raul de Nieves sits next to one of his artworks in a new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Baltimore Museum of Art. Inside the Gorgeous New Coffeetable Book, “City of Artists, Baltimore”. by Marion Winik. Published November...
CityLit Project Celebrates Black Poets at Motor House
When poet Reggie Harris speaks of the upcoming CityLit poetry showcase, his voice softens and takes on the sort of warmth and fondness reserved for someone you consider to be a beloved relative or your oldest and dearest friend. This is because he is speaking about his friends. He is speaking of the poets he handpicked to perform at CityLit’s first in-person Cave Canem gathering in Baltimore since the pandemic. A Home for the Heart to Live In is CityLit Project’s annual event recognizing the work of regional Black poets. Harris puts it very plainly: “It’s like a family reunion.”
Octavia Butler Inspires Climate Change Action in Baltimore and Beyond
“All good things must begin.” Many years after these words were scribbled in the journal of the late afro-futurist writer Octavia Butler, they have rekindled optimism for a more climate-conscious world. Since the United Nations Paris Agreement—a breakthrough international treaty on climate change signed in 2015, every two years Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) has commissioned fifty professional playwrights globally to create five-minute plays related to the crisis based on a quote or question. Butler’s journal entry, All good things must begin, inspired this year’s prompt.
BmoreArt’s Picks: November 28 – December 4
This Week: Christiana Caro in conversation at Saul Zaentz Screening Room, Alonzo Davis virtual exhibition and discussion at the Driskell Center, Acme Corp Theatre’s The Lights Went Out Because of a Problem at The Voxel, Michael Burns leads a street museum workshop at The Peale, This Must Be the Place opening reception + holiday sale at Baltimore Jewelry Center, MICA Art Market, Ruth Channing reception at Raoul Middleman Studio Museum, the BMA’s Joseph Education Center opening celebration, CityLit presents a Cave Canem reading at Motor House, and Healing Through Our Histories virtual discussion with Hope and Faith — PLUS Artscape Logo Design Request for Proposals and more featured opportunities!
Dim Lighting, Bright Minds: Hidden Palace at Fadensonnen
Illuminated by candlelight and warm overhead fixtures, Fadensonnen’s upstairs tavern generates the kind of setting where time moves at an idiosyncratic pace and where the murmur of conversations don’t echo. On a packed evening, the pitter patter of talk is nourished by the room’s wooden tables and seats. It gets rather dark by nightfall, dim enough that reading from the menu sometimes requires the aid of phone light. Even with this obstacle in the cards, it is no wonder that Ashleigh Bryant Phillips and Joseph Grantham started Hidden Palace—a reading series for poetry and fiction—in this locale.
BmoreArt News: Elizabeth Talford Scott at the BMA, City Hall Call for Artists, Honoring Valerie Maynard
This week’s news includes: BMA exhibits Elizabeth Talford Scott’s work, City Hall needs a few good portrait artists, paid internship honoring Valerie Maynard at the BMA, Acme Corporation at The Voxel, Joe Squared is closing, Dan Rodricks’ play, Holiday Market at Hotel Revival, MICA Art Market, Frederick Arts Council magazine, VisArts + Rockville win Asphalt Art Initiative grant, climate protestors at National Gallery, and more reporting from The AFRO, Baltimore Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
BmoreArt Issue 16 Magazine Party Photos
On Thursday, November 16, we hosted a magazine release party for Issue 16, The Collaboration Issue, at the iconic George Peabody Library. Invitees included all featured artists, contributors, and media partners, as well as subscribers to the publication at the Artist or Premium level. Our event was generously sponsored by...
Color-Filled Collaborations: Jaz Erenberg
If you’re lucky, you’ll spot one or two while strolling through Baltimore’s brick-lined streets. A flash of color, a burst of movement. The bright tapestries stand out from afar, rainbows wrapped around unassuming buildings. Perhaps you’ve already seen them, peered up at a fortuitous moment and found your eyes frozen, wandering up and down, left and right, circling the intricate marks and luscious hues.
BmoreArt’s Picks: November 21-26
This Week: Cerebro: Noche (Brain Eaters v Mowgli Gallery Takeover) at Night Owl Gallery, ArtCentric’s Cinderella returns to Baltimore Center Stage, Black Arts District ‘s documentary viewing, panel discussion, and storytelling circle at The Arch Social Club, Mill Centre Open Studios, Flora Night Market and Lighting of the 34th Street Miracle, Nerd Art Market at No Land Beyond – and more for your Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
All Objects Great and Small: Making Her Mark at the Baltimore Museum of Art
I must admit that when I first heard about the show, I thought, Didn’t Linda Nochlin already do this in the 1970s? Indeed, the curators acknowledge in the exhibition catalog that Making Her Mark is a response to Anne Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin’s pivotal Women Artists, 1550-1950, which was first installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1976.
BmoreArt News: JHU Invests in Baltimore Artists, Mobtown Ballroom’s New Home, Black Supper Clubs
This week’s news includes: JHU’s Baltimore art initiative, Mobtown Ballroom moves to Station North, Baltimore’s Black Supper Clubs, Vital Matters Climate Change Theater at Creative Alliance, Chesapeake Theater Company striving for diversity and inclusion, Jinji Chocolate, NEA’s ArtsHERE to provide grant support, artists withdraw work from Smithsonian and call for a ceasefire, a fond farewell to The Local Oyster, sacred places in Baltimore and beyond, DC’s new feminist monument, and more reporting from The AFRO, Baltimore Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
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