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Souls Can Grow Deeper Still
The line of demarcation between “folk” and “fine” art in America is centuries old and extends far beyond the founding of our nation. The former, which includes practices like needlework, woodwork, basket weaving, and ceramics has long been considered the lesser of painting, sculpture, and other works that align with art world standards.
Baltimore News: Layoffs at MICA, Elizabeth Talford Scott at Goya, Jonathon Hayward and the BSO
This week’s news includes: MICA announces more layoffs, Casey McKeel’s exhibit of art by incarcerated women at Notre Dame of Maryland, BSA alum Rachel Hilson’s global career, Amit Peled’s Mt. Vernon Virtuosi, AVAM voted second best museum in the nation, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
BmoreArt’s Picks: February 28 – March 6
This Week: Motor House Discussion with Black Assets, Gen Fraser, Keyarra Johnson, and Rhea Beckett, The Amish Project at UMBC CIRCA, “20|02: A Story of Hope Buried in a Baltimore Attic” at Towson University and Morgan State University, SHAN Wallace at Enoch Pratt FREE Library, Jerron Herman at the BMA, the American Craft Council’s American Craft Made Baltimore at the Convention Center, and Baltimore Jewelry Center’s Ornamenta Signature Event — PLUS Columbia Festival of the Arts call for entry and more featured opportunities!
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 2/26/23
The internet was insightful, but also FUNNY this week. Highlights: the angels of the Nile, the importances of hanging out, the railroad industry, Chris Brown, rap’s carefree Black girls, Little Simz, Ariana DeBose, Janelle Monáe wins at basketball, and Fannita isn’t giving back that Pyrex. The Nubian...
Mystic Materiality in the Round: Zoë Charlton’s ‘Smokey Hallow’ and ‘The Foundations of What’
This month, two Baltimore exhibitions demonstrate the otherworldly storytelling power of objects: Zoë Charlton’s Smokey Hallow, a solo exhibit at Maryland Art Place which includes found and cast sculpture, prints, and monumental projected animation and The Foundations of What, a group show at Catalyst Contemporary, featuring works in marble, glass, and a variety of industrial and metaphorical materials by artists Jose M. Arellano, Alberto Cavalieri, Kei Ito, Gard Jones, Giulia Livi, Caryn Martin, Sebastian Martonara, James von Minor, and Geoff Robertson.
Baltimore News: Abdu Ali, National Museum of Women in the Arts to Reopen, 2023 Ruby Grants
This week’s news includes: Abdu Ali in conversation with Lawrence Burney about his USA Artist Grant for $50k, big news from two DC museums, changes to the Ruby Project Grants for Artist Program, Derrick Adams profiled in The New York Times, J.M. Giordano’s photo essay of the Baltimore jazz scene, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Remembering Tom Miller
“Anything is possible when you are true to your colors and true to yourself.”. If you’re ever at a red light at the intersection of E. North Avenue and Harford Road, take a moment to look around. Hopefully you’ll get a good view of two of my favorite murals in town, painted by Baltimorean Tom Miller. On one side of the road there is an expansive wall depicting “Children Playing”—a zooming bicyclist, a boy enjoying ice cream on the stoop, a toddler with beads in her hair, and white marble steps—a recurring detail in Miller’s paintings. On the other side of the street there is a big, black, and beautiful man sitting on a sandy beach. Perhaps he is on a tropical island, as a palm tree stretches up the wall and colorful birds look on nearby. He is relaxing with a book in hand. The open pages feature a Nigerian proverb: “However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.”
Where Do We Go From Here? Transforming Detritus into Works of Art
When future generations attempt to understand our present reality, the stuff we surround ourselves with will stand as hard evidence, explaining who we are and what we value. A high percentage of the objects we come into contact with on a daily basis ends up in the garbage, not just saturating landfills, but littering our streets and urban surroundings, and finding its way into natural landscapes and water systems.
a model, a map, a fiction: transmediale Festival Draws and Disseminates the Digital Art World
This year I had the opportunity to attend transmediale, an annual festival dedicated to explorations of media (or postdigital) artworks that takes place in and through Berlin primarily over five days. I say primarily because, when taken with its partner programs CTM Festival and Vorspiel.Berlin, it becomes over two weeks of installations, workshops, talks, performances, interventions, and club parties scattered throughout the city. This year’s principal location was at the Akademie der Künste, Hanseantenweg, with a satellite exhibition in Silent Green, Kulturequartier.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 2/19/23
This week was too much. Another mass shooting – this time in Michigan. Train derailments and chemical spills in Ohio and Detroit. Also, there were also SO MANY INTERVIEWS this week. Highlights: NYT Contributors’ Letter, Angela Bassett, Nia Long, Solange, Rihanna, Justina Miles, ‘Woke,’ “burnout,” our memory archives, and slime mold.
Ice from a Dying Creed: ‘This is Britain’ at the National Gallery of Art
What is Britain? Is it a collection of territories? A nation? A tattered imperial vision? Is it nothing more, at this point, than a clichéd dreamwork of fox hounds, stiff upper lips, and bangers and mash? Or it is maybe something dynamic and exciting: a cosmopolitan realm in which ancient histories and postcolonial realities strain against each other, and aristocrats, blokes, immigrants, and yobs craft varied lives?
Dancing With Trees: Wood Sculpture by Joe Haviland at the Rawlings Conservatory
Visiting an artist’s studio is a special, and often sacred, act. Visiting an artist’s studio after they are deceased feels even more precious and vital, as if the objects created during their lifetime are now activated, a lifeline to a creative individual that would be otherwise lost. This...
Art AND: Fitsum Shebeshe
Fitsum Shebeshe is keeping it personal. The artist and curator who moved to Baltimore from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2016 to attend MICA’s Curatorial Practice program has made his studio work and his curatorial projects about this shift, which exposed him to a wide spectrum of cultural and existential questions.
BmoreArt’s Picks: February 14-20
This Week: Tom Miller Week at University of Baltimore, reception for exhibition at Cade Center Gallery curated by Andrew Liang, Maryland Arts Day, Jonna McKone opening reception at Full Circle Gallery, reception for Kevin Hailey at Hotel Indigo, Cliff Banquet hosts a screening at Guilford Brewery, Katja Toporski: Meet Me opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, artist talk with Devin Allen, Wesley Clark, and Chrystal Seawood moderated by Myrtis Bedolla, Archive Liberia presented by Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest, and Samantha Master, Qiana Johnson, and Nicole Hanson-Mundell panel discussion at Gormley Gallery — PLUS Maryland State Arts Council Folklife Apprenticeship Call for Applications and more featured opportunities!
The Last Resort Artist Retreat
I feel welcomed by all of the extraordinary prints and textiles by famed and emerging artists including Amani Lewis, Faith Ringgold, Glenn Ligon, Brandon Donahue, Mickalene Thomas, Rosa Leff, Devin Morris, Romare Bearden, Zéh Palito, and Wangechi Mutu, among others, lining every free wall in the otherwise white-on-white estate.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles 2/12/23
The internet had me a little mad this week. Highlights: the only Black swim team, LeBron James breaks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record, U Conn loses, the Grammys messed up, documentaries, the reality of imposter syndrome, the killing business, the State of the Union, and an earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Celebrating the Saddest Day of the Year
As soon as I stepped into the foyer of the Saddest Day of the Year party, I understood that Ana Tantaros had built a whole world for her event. Blue twinkle lights hung from puffy cotton clouds along the ceiling to look like rain. Darkened hallways gave way to rooms full of people and warm pink and red lighting. Everyone wore a name tag labeled with a dark humor phrase from “I lie to my therapist” to “AI is taking over” or “What even is my comfort zone?”
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