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Anna Fine Foer on Natural History, Genetics, and the Anthropocene
When I moved to Baltimore from Kentucky, one of the things that struck me about the city is that we are surrounded by not just history, but the structure and evidence of that history. Whether it’s the Shot Tower, Greenmount Cemetery, or the continuing impacts of redlining, Baltimore is a town where your everyday life is within reach of a textbook artifact.
Meet the Maker: Syndicate Screen Print Co.
I believe it to be an art form that brings people’s ideas to life. Apparel is an element of self-expression, it conveys a message and is an important part of culture. Plus, I love seeing the look on a client’s face when they see the finished product and are truly satisfied with the result.
Baltimore News: BMA Lexington Market, Bria Sterling-Wilson, Woodberry Kitchen
This week’s news includes: BMA redesign for Lexington Market, a review of the renovated and updated Woodberry Kitchen, still life at Harborplace, Record Store Day, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources. Header Image: The Savory Pie....
MICA Experimental Fashion Show Offers Streetwear, Couture, Conceptual Art, and In-Between
Earlier this month, on April 7th and 8th, the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Office of Culture and Identity hosted the school’s 29th annual Benefit Fashion Show. Established in 1994, the beloved event brings together local alumni and current students in partnership with the Black Student Union to raise money for the school’s Dr. Frankie Martin Diversity and Inclusion Grant—named for the event’s founder and MICA’s first Diversity Officer—which provides scholarships to students who create identity-based work.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 25 – May 1
This Week: Shawn Holmes curator talk at Motor House, Ada Pinkston, Will Pappenheimer, and Mollye Bendell at UMBC CIRCA, Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett exhibition opens at the BMA, The Walters’ Across Asia College Takeover, Reframing Futures II opening reception at Goucher’s Silber Gallery, the Waverly Book Festival, Alx Velozo, Saar Shemesh, RA Walden reception at Current Space, Ami Brabson’s Resilience & Joy at Baltimore Theatre Project, and the annual Ford Lecture at The Walters with Robert D. Mowry — PLUS call for nominations for the Poet Laureate of Maryland and other featured opportunities.
A Continent, a Kaleidoscope: Across Asia at the Walters
Across Asia, the ambitious reinstallation of the Walters Art Museum’s Asian and Islamic collections, opened over the weekend—and it turns out to be a stunner. Filling the fourth floor of the Centre Street Building and featuring more than 500 objects, it offers a rich and polyphonic account of the largest continent’s remarkably varied artistic traditions. It also disrupts, with a calm confidence, the implicitly Eurocentric tilt of the museum’s longstanding layout. Wondering what lay beyond, say, the borders of the ancient Roman Empire or the reach of colonial France? Give this show some time, and your impression of both the Walters and the history of art may be challenged in refreshing ways.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles 4/23/23
I really liked the internet this week! Highlights: Megan Thee Stallion, rural girls, the prince, food waste, a Goop cruise, Love is Blind, BuzzFeed News, Fox News, Jonathan Majors, and Tiffany Haddish. On July 12, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot by rapper Tory Lanez. Many people—even after Lanez was...
The Library is Open: Baltimore Ballroom at Peabody
Unlike about half of America in 2023, the culture wars are being won by LGBTQ communities of color in Baltimore–and we are all the better for it. Specifically, within ballroom culture, this historically marginalized group knows that beauty, art, and style is a love language and super power that transcends all barriers.
BOPA Announces Three 2023 Sondheim Finalists
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) announced the finalists for the 18th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize. The 2023 finalists are Abigail Lucien, Kyrae Dawaun, and Nekisha Durrett. This year’s finalists were selected by a panel of jurors that include scholar and curator Kelly Baum,...
Alyssa Dennis: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Bodies
The cultivation of an artist’s career can be a winding journey, and in some ways Alyssa Dennis’ path has come full circle. The Baltimore-born artist first established her palette as a painter and architectural illustrator with an interest in permaculture and sustainable building while still an undergrad at MICA. After graduating with a BFA in General Fine Arts, she traveled. From New Orleans, then to Mali, New York, and Peru, she discovered a through line to herbalism, and established a practice of “restoring the human soul in its integral presence with the vital powers of the earth.”
Baltimore News: Guarding the Art, Amy Sherald, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and more
This week’s news includes: Dereck Stafford Mangus unpacks the BMA’s Guarding the Art exhibition, Baltimore pop-culture is having a moment, the Kinetic Sculpture Race is back (and so is Artscape?), Banneker-Douglass Museum featured in Annapolis’s Up.St.Art Magazine, a review of Elizabeth Talford Scott at Goya Contemporary, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 18-24
This Week: 2023 AACC Student Art Exhibition opening + juror talk at Cade Center Gallery, opening receptions for Caleb Kortokrax and Dimitra Lazaridou at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Maryland Art Place presents OUT OF ORDER: Carnivàle + KIDOOO, A Painter’s Paradise: Raoul Middleman’s Seascapes opening at The Raoul Middleman Studio Museum, Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World opening night at The Walters, Brandon Woody’s UPENDO at Current Space, and Creative Alliance’s 2023 Marquee Ball: Creature Feature — PLUS Bethany Arts Community’s Fall 2023 Multidisciplinary Residency and more featured opportunities!
Opening at One of Baltimore’s Newest Galleries: A Two-Person Show Decades in the Making
This labor of love is ridiculously impractical. You’re not likely to see it hanging over a couch. It probably won’t make the artist tons of money or get him a good seat on a fashionable bandwagon. Rather, it’s a bold, noble—dare I say, Heroic—idea that only has to do with creating the art that this disciplined person passionately was (is) driven to create...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 4/15/23
I don’t know if it was me or the internet this week, but something felt frantic. Highlights: Logan Roy, handguns, wolves v. ranchers, Southern politics and mutual aid, therapy-speak, beating roulette, COVID-19, and AI covers. Last Sunday Logan Roy, “the embattled chief executive of media conglomerate Waystar Royco,” died....
Welcome to 25th Street Fashion Show Celebrates Baltimore in Style
On April 1st, the Voxel Theater flooded with guests dripped out in true Baltimore fashion. The Welcome to 25th Spring Fashion Show was a celebration of the street’s Black owned clothing brands. It featured designers Republic, Strut, Ouftur Couture, Waaah, Huey Brand, L.R.L. Clothing, and special guest Stock Market.
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