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Yelé Oladeinde Finds Home in Her Designs
Yelé Oladeinde lives by the motto: Fortune favors the prepared. “You have to be prepared. In the fashion industry, most times it’s just by chance,” explains the Baltimore-based fashion designer. “Now, if that chance hits you and you’re not prepared, it is going to pass you by and help someone else that is actually prepared for it.”
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/16/2023🔥
The internet was hectic this week. We need a moment to collectively touch grass. Highlights: Jonah Hill and therapy speak, over theorizing love, Keke Palmer, Affirmative Action, conservatives are coming for corporations, the history of crackheads, Tracy Chapman, twitter continues to flounder, loan forgiveness, and the impact of the actors strike on television.
Rubys Grantees and Program Changes in 2023
The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation has officially announced the 2023 Rubys Artist Grants, which will support individual artists and the creation of eighteen new, innovative, and experimental projects that have significant impact across the Performing Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts, and Literary Arts. Initially launched in 2013, the Rubys supports artists in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. In this cycle, the grant will provide over $250,000 to 18 new projects across the four disciplines, as well as introducing new areas of funding, including alumni and microgrants.
Merle Davison’s Colors of Grief and Healing
I first encountered Merle Davison’s artwork at Highlandtown Gallery last month, where her most recent show, Reaching from The Shadows, was on view. Shortly after, I experienced a personal loss and I found myself ruminating more and more about her colorful visions. I found solace in its imagery and the intricate ways in which her paintings communicate a spectrum of feelings.
Baltimore News: MICA Layoffs, Akea Brionne, Hip Hop Archives, Baltimore Clayworks Resident Artists
This week’s news includes: More layoffs possible at MICA, Akea Brionne at CPM in review, Baltimore Clayworks announces their new resident artists, the BMA and SLAM announce the donation of a digital interactive Hip Hop archive, Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces leadership of Chair Dr. Edwin T. Johnson and Vice Chair Maya Davis, Ernest Shaw’s portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall will hang in Baltimore’s City Hall, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) in Washington, DC announces the appointment of Travis Chamberlain as its next Director, a new Arts Every Day mural project at Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School, the challenges of finding space as a small theater, an arepa cookbook from Alma Cocina’s Irena Stein, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Beat, and other local and independent news sources.
Revolutionary Love: The Art and Life of Jessy DeSantis
The phrase, “the Latino community is not a monolith,” gets thrown around with some frequency. We hear it every election cycle, as politicians realize that people who trace their ancestry to the countries of Latin America have a range of different concerns and priorities–healthcare, jobs, education–and are not only interested in immigration issues. But maybe nothing encapsulates the anti-monolith of Latino identity so much as Jessy DeSantis’ formative years in Miami. Here, a personal and political history lesson is necessary.
BmoreArt’s Picks: July 11-17
This Week: Michael D. Harris virtual exhibition at the Driskell Center, Station North SIPS, closing reception for Alyssa Dennis and TLaloC at Connect + Collect, Young Blood opening reception at MAP, Summer ’23 opening reception at C. Grimaldis Gallery, the BSO plays the music of Whitney Houston, The Big Show opening reception + The Big Show On Stage at Creative Alliance, Scott Patterson Trio at An Die Musik, and The Culture closes at the BMA — PLUS Free Fall Baltimore Grant and more featured opportunities!
Baltimore News: BMA Acquisitions, Bishme Cromartie, and Single Carrot Theatre’s Impact Report
This week’s news includes: Single Carrot Theatre releases comprehensive Impact Report, the BMA adds more that 100 objects to their collection, Bishme Cromartie returns to the runway, MCAAHC’s statement on the Supreme Court decision to overturn Affirmative Action, MPT’s Hazel Dickens’ documentary featuring crankies from Katherine Fahey, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Four Emerging Artists to Watch: MICA MFA Graduates II
Throughout the Baltimore region, there is a consistent abundance of high quality visual art. One main reason that international art careers are started in Baltimore is an array of excellent MFA programs. At the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), there are thirteen major graduate programs, including Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Business, Master of Professional Studies, as well as programs with a graduate emphasis. All combined, MICA’s grad programs attract about three hundred students each year from almost every state and more than twenty countries.
BmoreArt’s Picks: July 4-10
This Week: AVAM’s 4th of July Pet Parade, Cherry Hill Arts & Music Waterfront Festival, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, Baltimore Jewelry Center Potluck + Birthday Party, B-Fly performs at the Lewis Museum’s First Fridays, Jan Eveland + Sarah Magida opening reception at Creative Alliance, reception at Black Research Artist Space for What Happens When We Nurture, Morel Doucet artist talk at Galerie Myrtis, and Baltimore Clayworks Summer Exhibitions opening receptions featuring Patrick Bell + Kiran Joan — PLUS Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington call for residencies and more featured opportunities!
BMA Midsummer Night’s Gala: Photos
For those of us who love a balmy summer evening, the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Midsummer Night’s Gala was inspired by this locally acquired taste. Luckily for the museum and guests, on Sunday June 25, the rain held off and this festive garden party celebrating newly appointed Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Asma Naeem offered a moment of spirited congregation surrounded by outdoor sculpture and teeming green foliage.
Arcadia Futura: Idealistic Architecture, Futuristic Visions, and Nostalgic Design
In Arcadia Futura, an exhibit at BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery, two artists both incorporate the language of architecture into futuristic, nostalgic, and ecologically driven visions, in drawings, prints, and sculpture. We hosted a small, private salon-style talk on Thursday, May 25 with the artists, Alyssa Dennis and TLaloC, in collaboration...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/2/2023 🔥
Welp, the Supreme Court said “fuck it” this week. This time of year SCOTUS usually hands out decisions on some of its biggest cases and this week was no exception. Released on Thursday, the decision that had the most people talking this week was the court’s 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina to end affirmative action—something the court, and specifically Justice Thomas, has been trying to do for years. All 6 of the justices in the majority opinion were appointed by Republican Presidents.
News: GBCA Announces 2023 Baker Artist Awardees
Press Release: The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund are thrilled to announce the 2023 Baker Artist Awardees. Abdu Ali (Music), Oletha DeVane, (Interdisciplinary Arts), Elizabeth Dickinson (Literary Arts), Colette Krogol (Performance), Margaret Rorison (Film/ Video), and M. Jordan Tierney (Visual Arts) were selected as this year’s awardees following a six-week adjudication process.
The Maryland State Arts Council Triennial: An Immersive Conversation at MAP
The life of cities entails shifting spatial identities. Everything was once something else, especially where art spaces are concerned. The Maryland Art Place building on Saratoga Street has had many different lives in my time in Baltimore. I specifically remember a short-lived stint as Gallery 788 in which the interior was covered in half pipes for skateboarding and BMX riding. In a previous artistic life, the upstairs floors, including the now-closed Terrault Contemporary, were part of the Rooms Fall Apart, an immersive participatory art experience facilitated by the Copycat Theater Collective.
Baltimore News: Judith Scott, LGBTQ+ Protection in Baltimore, Fourth of July Festivities
This week’s news includes: AVAM announces solo exhibition of Judith Scott, a prolific, deaf artist with Down Syndrome, all the Fourth of July Fireworks and Festivities in Baltimore, the Cherry Hill Festival returns, Ghost Signs, Toki Ramen Billboards Challenge the Crabcake, the BMA acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier’s More Than Conquerors, Mayor Brandon Scott signs new LGBtQIA+ Protections at Pride, LGBTQIA+ Hip Hop, Afrofuturism with Myrtis and Terri Lee Freeman, Vee Vee Majesty’s Storytime, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
A Case for Action: CPM’s New Edition Project with Luba Drozd
Stepping up to the third floor of Critical Path Method (CPM) Gallery in Bolton Hill, I felt like I was witnessing an underground deal of some kind. Eleven black weatherproof cases sat on simple wooden tables. Most were unlocked, open-casket style, allowing one to browse the available wares. However, the cases did not contain plundered artifacts, illicit substances, or high-powered weaponry; these cases held hunks of granite, looped piano string, and meticulous instructions for assembly.
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