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BmoreArt’s Picks: August 15-21
This Week: Poetry contest finals with Little Patuxent Review at Enoch Pratt, Fashion Meets Art show at Motor House, Sondheim Finalists award ceremony at The Walters, New/Next Film Fest at The Charles, artist panel featuring Morel Doucet, M. Scott Johnson, Arvie Smith, Felandus Thames, and Dr. Myrtis Bedolla at the Lewis Museum, and a Mounted Fern Workshop at good neighbor — PLUS Center Stage’s Locally Grown Festival call for entries and more featured opportunities!
Glitch x Glitch: Painter Taha Heydari
Standing in a flood of azure blue, a figure wearing a yellow t-shirt holds their arms aloft as if conducting an orchestra. Though one might expect the background figures to play instruments, they instead labor to lift objects from the flood, engaged in what might be disaster relief. Like many of Taha Heydari’s paintings, this canvas in his Federal Hill studio towers above my head. If a disaster persists across his work, it seems a fissure of orientation.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 8/13/23 🔥
A lot happened on the internet this week. Highlights: The Sweet Tea Party, Noname, Tory Lanez, Liz Cambage, medical racism, Hawaii, Lil Tay, Montana, and Clarence Thomas. Last Saturday, August 5, 2023, became a great moment in American history when a fight broke out between white boaters and Black bystanders in Alabama. The viral brawl “took place at Montgomery’s Riverfront Park on Saturday, started after a pontoon boat blocked the Harriott II riverboat from docking for nearly 45 minutes, authorities said. In the video, you can see the riverboat’s co-captain, Damien Pickett, explaining to several men that they needed to move their boat.”
Life Aquatic: Nicoletta Darita de la Brown and Voyages at the National Aquarium
What happens when our cultural and civic organizations collaborate with Baltimore-based artists? The results are compelling, unusual, educational–and, an increase in local audience engagement. At the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Voyages Chapter 3 was an art installation and performance by artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown exploring the healing...
Baltimore Art News: Joyce J. Scott, Grit Fund Awardees, Artscape
This week’s news includes: An upcoming Joyce J. Scott retrospective at the BMA, the 2023 Grit Fund Awardees, the Scape must go on, take a look / it’s in a (Baltimore) book (store), Baltimore’s Billie Holiday at Center Stage Baltimore, Dionne Joyner-Weems named a CLLCTIVLY 2023 Changemaker, Bloomberg Philanthropies to fund Baltimore’s new “Inviting Light” project with Derrick Adams, Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined at the Lewis Museum, an interview with musician and composer John Tyler, and the National Gallery apologizes for enforcing their packback policy, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Magazine, Hyperallergic, and other local and independent news sources.
BmoreArt’s Picks: August 8-14
This Week: Kim Rice + Paul Rucker opening at Connect + Collect, Members Only Party at Current Space (become a member!), Katie O’Keefe virtual artist talk presented by Baltimore Jewelry Center, Kindred FX Film Screening featuring Courtney Lee-Mitchell at the Lewis Museum, Youth-in-Business Fashion Show at Jubilee Arts, Truepenny Projects Presents: Lyra and the Ferocious Beast at The Voxel, The Peale’s Birthday Bash, and Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall — PLUS Artscape call for volunteers + food vendors and more featured opportunities!
Liberty or Death: We Went to the Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition
From wall-hanging sculptures forged in steel, ceramic vessels, and hand-cut magnolia leaves, to traditional oil paintings, the artworks traverse mediums and genres. The three finalists consider the problems that stem from colonialism, capitalism, and racialization—systems designed to be inhospitable—and seek forward-looking, inviting solutions where solace is found in community and shared experiences. While each artist creates unique work within their chosen media, lived experiences and historical research are common, crucial parts of their respective practices. Viewed all together, but also as three distinct exhibitions, Lucien, Durrett, and Dawaun elevate voices of liberation as a larger social force within the backdrop of an America propped up by exploitation.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 8/06/23 🔥
The internet was yet again a mess this week. Highlights: Lizzo, O’Shae Sibley, Henrietta Lacks, the Shakurs, country music, Halle, Doja Cat, Cardi B, Hoochie Daddies, and competitive eating. By far Lizzo was the biggest story this week. Known as being an advocate to all and “embracing body positivity...
Taste of Summer: Baltimore’s Downtown Farmers Market
It’s sunny and breezy when we arrive at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market on Sunday morning just before eight. The crowds are still sparse in the market’s first hour, but I spot a group gathered around their car enjoying something delicious enough to suspend them in hushed delight. I feel my face stretch into a grin of anticipation as we cross the temporary threshold and enter the market.
Baltimore Art News: Fluid Movement, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Ja Rule
This week’s news includes: It’s all about the infrastructure with Fluid Movement, Smithsonian American Art Fellowship Program receives funding from Frankenthaler Foundation, BOPA rules against Ja Rule, East City Art reviews two DC shows, The Peale’s receives a grant for it’s apprenticeship program, the Poe must go on, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, East City Art, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Landscapes, Horizons, and Memory: Jonna McKone
Over the last decade, Baltimore filmmaker and photographer Jonna McKone has developed an extensive body of visual art that has exhibited across the country, spanning portraiture, experimental documentary, music video, and interdisciplinary genres. McKone’s vision, coupled with a strong drive for collaboration and a desire to explore the “legacies of...
BmoreArt’s Picks: August 1-7
This Week: Alberto Cavalieri artist talk with AIA Baltimore + Catalyst Contemporary, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, First Fridays performance at the Lewis with Maimouna Youssef + WhoCamille, Jan Eveland and Sarah Magida artist talk at Creative Alliance, Plein Air with Beth-Ann Wilson at Crystal Moll Gallery, Crosscurrence curated by Andrew Shenker at Current, and Idra Novey with Jordan Tierney + Jenenne Whitfield at The Ivy Bookshop — PLUS MAP Cyberwire call-for-entry and more featured opportunities!
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/30/23 🔥
The internet was messy this week! Miss Tina filed for divorce. Jaime Foxx released a video. Carlee Russell was charged. Highlights: Sinéad O’Connor, Wanda Coleman, Amy Winehouse, Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Cardi B and Offset, Jason Aldean, snow monkeys in Texas, aliens are real, and X. Irish singer...
Mera Kitchen Collective is a Culinary Esperanto
“How do you say this in Spanish?” I ask Inocencio, or Chef Ino, as I hold up a zucchini toward his reticent face while we huddle over a cutting board in the restaurant’s small kitchen. “Calabacín,” he says, softening with an appreciative smile. He shows me how he...
Clay Hands and Copper Eyes: Cindy Cheng
Cindy Cheng is fascinated by conspiracy theories. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver and Hawaii as a child, the Baltimore-based artist says her study of conspiracism helps her to better understand American culture. With equal parts worry and wonder, Cheng describes conspiracy theories’ growing pervasiveness in mainstream American society and beyond, noting recent scholarly studies that identify the United States a top exporter of conspiracy theories to the rest of world.
BmoreArt’s Picks: July 25-31
This Week: Baltimore Clayworks’ Wesley Brown virtual artist talk, closing reception for Mike McConnell at Hotel Indigo, Station North SIPS, Kyrae Dawaun, Nekisha Durrett, + Abigail Lucien Sondheim Finalists artist talks at The Walters, Cindy Cheng, Jay Sanborn, John Bohl, + Torrance Hall opening reception at Current Space, Liz Lawson at Gallery 220, and “Voices of a Black Butterfly” screening + town hall at Creative Alliance — PLUS Artist/Scholar in Residence at the Library of Congress and more featured opportunities!
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/23/23 🔥
The internet had me exhausted this week. Highlights: Carlee Russell, Drake, Aliyah Boston, Tupac, Pinkydoll, selling the Commanders, the Ivory-billed woodpecker, and Obama’s playlist. Thankfully, Carlee Russell, a Black woman who reportedly was missing in Alabama, made it home safely. Initially, it was reported that Russell was “kidnapped from...
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