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Baltimore Art News: Samuel Hoi, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Matisse, & Jonathon Heyward
This week’s news includes: Samuel Hoi to retire from MICA, Krystal C. Mack named VisArts’ 2022-2023 Art + Social Justice Fellow, Baltimore Jewelry Center awarded a grant, BMA to exhibit Matisse etchings, Smithsonian galleries reopen, BSO welcomes Jonathon Heyward, Chef Dae at Motor House, Artscape murals and fashion showcase, Common Ground to reopen as worker’s co-op, and more reporting from The Real News Network, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, and other local and independent news sources.
Kim Rice Finds Her Life’s Work in Baltimore
Kim Rice had been making artwork dealing with the white race for years before she realized that her father’s ancestors had been slavers. Two years into the Trump presidency, she was working on a piece that placed cut-outs of the antebellum Virginia Slave Codes over the mouths of the Founding Fathers.
How To Run At the End of the World
It is the height of marathon training season and if you’ve walked past R. House in Remington during a recent, steamy Monday twilight, you’ve probably noticed an enormous swell of runners pooling around the entrance. It might be a bit overwhelming, this cacophony of excited banter, glistening skin, ponytails, and brightly colored sneakers.
Baltimore Art News: Women Printmakers, New Indigenous Art Gallery, Derrick Adams
This week’s news includes: BMA announces new exhibition of women WPA printmakers, Baltimore Center Stage + Baltimore American Indian Center announce a new Indigenous Art Gallery, Derrick Adams and The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Baltimore in hip-hop, Honey Chile Fest’s love letter to Baltimore, updates to Artscape, Deep Sugar turns 20, Sam Barskey and his sweaters, an apology from the Smithsonian, Christopher Michael Jensen’s passing, and more reporting from Hyperallergic, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Banner, and other local and independent news sources.
New/Next Film Festival Afterparty with TT the Artist and Dapper Dan Midas
The New/Next Film Festival afterparty featured a performance by Baltimore Club headliners TT the Artist and Dapper Dan Midas Friday night at Metro Gallery. Both artists served a commanding presence on stage with rapid fire beats, thought provoking lyrics, and idiosyncratic points of view. Friday’s performance was both invigorating and...
And the 2023 Sondheim Award Winner is …
It’s hard to believe that the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize is now in its 18th year of existence. The first Sondheim Exhibition was hosted in MICA’s Meyerhoff galleries during Artscape in 2006; multidisciplinary sculpture and performance artist Laure Drogoul was the first winner of the then-$25,000 prize, which at the time seemed astronomical in size, the first of its kind in Baltimore. Fast forward eighteen years and there are many more fellowships, grants, and opportunities to exhibit in museums for regional living artists, a testament to the influence of this award.
Baltimore Art News: Black History and Museums, Artscape, Two New Film Festivals
This week’s news includes: Terri Lee Freeman and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Artscape interference, New/Next and Honey Chile bring two new film festivals to Baltimore, Fluid Movement explores government infrastructure, a review of What Happens When We Nurture at the Black Artist Research Space, The Walters reinstalls their Asian Art Collection, the BMA reopens at Lexington Market, 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the March on Washington in Annapolis, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Banner, and other local and independent news sources.
Baltimore’s New/Next Film Festival Offers an Eclectic Array of Screenings
“Baltimore is a city with an immensely diverse array of artists and musicians from different backgrounds, with different perspectives,” says Sam Sessa, Director of Community Events for WYPR and WTMD and co-founder of the New/Next Film Festival with Eric Allen Hatch. “What unites them is a willingness to experiment—to push and pull and break new ground. The first question is never how much, but how far.” On the cusp of Baltimore’s newest film festival, Sessa explains that he and Hatch want to honor that spirit with New/Next, a brand-new film festival which occurs August 18 – 20 at The Charles Theater and surrounding areas.
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