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The Public Art Chronicles, Vol. IV: Pat Alexander
Look straight ahead. Look down. Look up. Of these three options for viewing artwork, the first is most often in play, especially when the work appears where we most expect it—museums and galleries, but also hotels, restaurants, offices, or our own homes, where it’s typically mounted on walls, attracting our forward-facing gaze. Of course, there are plenty of examples of art around the globe and across millennia that appear on the ground/floor or on ceilings/rooftops. A local, contemporary example of the former is Graham Project’s numerous pavement murals throughout Baltimore. An example more distant in place and time (Spain, some 15,000 years ago) is the 500-foot-long depiction of bison, horses, and other animals engraved and painted on the ceiling of the Cave of Altamira.
BmoreArt News: Katie Pumphrey, CJay Philip, Local Emmy Award Winners
This week’s news includes: Katie Pumphrey’s Historic Swim, CJay Philip Wins a Tony Award, Leslie King Hammond, Local Emmy Award winners including Wendell Patrick and Kondwani Fidel, BOPA’s New Contract with the City, Nicholas Galanin and Laura Ortman at the BMA, MSAC grant awardees, a portrait mystery solved, Antiques Roadshow at the zoo, Fallon Goodman and the Young Vic, new hires at the BMA, and the Smithsonian returns Ancestor Rock Kānepō to Hawai’i — with reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
The Art of Leadership: Tonya Miller Hall
As the Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture to the Mayor, Tonya Miller Hall represents the interests of artists across the city, uniquely positioned to drive much-needed systemic change. To put her role into perspective, Baltimore hasn’t had an arts advisor at a cabinet level position in City Hall since the 1990s, but the newly recreated position exemplifies Mayor Brandon Scott’s intent to support Baltimore’s creative sector at a civic level.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 25 – July 1
This Week: TU + MAP closing reception for Invisible Architectures \ Social Contracts; Dierra Jones resident artist talk at Baltimore Jewelry Center; Kelly Walker opening reception at Lord Baltimore; the Banneker-Douglass Museum hosts a virtual conversation with Angela Carroll, Deyane Moses, and Webster Phillips III; opening reception at Bromo Arts Tower for Alexander D’Agostino, kolpeace, and Ali Mirsky; Stoop Storytelling ‘Queer Tales of Charm City’ at Creative Alliance, Market Center Street Fest, and artist Ed Istwan and Curator Kristen Hileman host cocktails at The Peale — PLUS apply for Blue Light Junction’s Ibura Art & Research Residency and more featured opportunities!
The In-Between Spaces: Elena Volkova on her Pride Portraits
By the time the last week of Pride Month rolls around I, for one, am usually a bit sick of rainbow everything. So photographer Elena Volkova’s latest series Pride Portraits is a welcome visual break from saccharine technicolor. Shot over the course of two days at Current Space earlier this month, Volkova’s black and white tintype portraits of the LGBTQ community offer a dignified, complex document of the city’s queer scene.
There’s A Reason Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
A few years ago, my husband and I were mindlessly channel surfing when we landed on an Amazon Prime little movie and thought, ‘this looks pretty good—let’s watch.’ That little movie was Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, and we both thoroughly enjoyed a delightful and unexpected evening’s entertainment that was as poignant as it was funny. This gem of a movie musical is now on stage, in the latest offering from Baltimore’s Iron Crow Theatre, our premier queer theater. And I’m here to tell you that this is why we need this company in this city right now.
Between, Through, Across: Exploring Migration at the DC Arts Center
The story of migration is a universal one, spanning millennia and transcending geographical boundaries. From ancient times to the present day, people have embarked on journeys driven by various influences and dynamics, be it willful movement or forced displacement.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 18-24
This Week: America’s Voices Against Apartheid at City Hall through August, MICA Grad Show IV -Studio Art reception, Soon Come group exhibition reception at 360 House, Mary Hallam Pearse artist talk at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Tae Hwang in conversation with Shae McCoy at Top of the World, Maryland Arts Summit at UMBC, Darlene R. Taylor book reading at Academy Art Museum, Landis Harry Larry / Glorian / Red Moon Green at Current, live Ellington tribute recording at Creative Alliance, and free admission to Joyce J. Scott’s solo exhibition at the BMA — PLUS applications for Artscape Literary Arts + Artist Prints Fair are open and more featured opportunities!
Seven Art Shows to See This Summer
Summer is the slowest season in the art world, a much-needed respite before fall blockbuster exhibitions. During our longest and most languid days, the art market contracts, patrons go on holiday and artists flock to their studios. However, there’s still a lot of great art to see in the region if you know where to look.
The Fruiting Tree: Reflect & Remix at the Walters
How have artists responded, over the centuries and across oceans, to each other’s work? What shapes can artistic inspiration and influence take—and can works that seem causally unrelated sometimes resonate, when considered in relation to each other?. Reflect & Remix: Art Inspiring Artists (at the Walters Art Museum...
Too Little Too Late: a Maximalist Wake for the American Nightmare
The exhibition draws heavily from a malaise for the unique cultural sphere of LA—a city that is equal parts glamour and grime, where socialite luxury and suburban decay are head to head—the ideal lens to explore the tension between superficial beauty and underlying rot.
BmoreArt News: 10 DC Exhibitions, James Beard Awards, Miss Maryland
This week’s news includes: D. Watkins awarded James Beard Media Award, AFRO profiles Rachel D. Graham, 10 DC exhibitions to see, Bailey Anne Kennedy becomes first trans woman to win Miss Maryland, Easton Chef Harley Peet wins a James Beard award, Sheila E. and the Original Wailers headline Artscape, B&O Railroad Museum courts visitors, Shaun Champion is the featured artist for Voyages 5 at the Aquarium, three solo shows at McLean Project for the Arts, HFStival returns, and the Arts & Drafts festival is back — with reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 11-17
This Week: Myrtis Bedolla in a panel discussion at NMWA, Pride Portraits at Current, Towson University’s ‘Summer at the Center,’ Station North Art Walk, opening reception for Bethesda Paiting Awards, Baltimore Clayworks Seconds Sale and Preview Party, Bria Sterling Wilson opening reception at Waller Gallery, opening reception for Se Jong Cho and Iris Hughey + Alex Ebstein at Current, Art After Hours at the BMA celebrates Joyce J. Scott, Pride Party at B&O Museum, and MiCasa SuCasa celebration at Tola’s Room — PLUS applications open for The David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence and more featured opportunties!
Gallery Roundup: Hoesy Corona at Enoch Pratt, False Relations at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Joyce J. Scott at Goya Contemporary
This June, there are a number of excellent Baltimore art exhibits that feature painting, glass, installation, and collaboration. Three standouts are Crossroads by the Enoch Pratt Library’s artist-in-residence Hoesy Corona, False Relations, a two-person show from Markus Baldegger and Heejo Kim at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Goya Contemporary’s Joyce J. Scott’s Bearing Witness and NOW, the latter featuring collaborations in glass with Tim Tate.
Issue 17: Transformation Hosted at good neighbor guest house and design shop
What is it about a good party that makes it so? And how does a perpetual host like BmoreArt ensure, as best as we can, that everyone leaves feeling a sense of pride and connection? It’s a high bar, but worth taking seriously. Since our first magazine release in...
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