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Baltimore News: Baltimore at the Grammys, Matthew Hyleck at Clayworks, Stolen Sculpture Returned
This week’s news includes: Joyce Scott’s Araminta with Rifle and Vévé stolen staff returned to Banneker-Douglass Museum, Matthew Hyleck named new director of Baltimore Clayworks, Rap Research Lab at UMBC, Lavett Ballard on the cover of Time, Walters workers closer to forming a union, New BMA Director wants to celebrate the diversity of Baltimore, Baltimore at the Grammy’s, Erin Fostel’s charcoal drawings, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
John Shields: Culinary Champion of the Chesapeake
My autographed copy of The New Chesapeake Kitchen is embellished with a loopy but earnest note: “Let’s cook the bay and body-friendly way. Best Fishes! John Shields.”. The author—a groundbreaking chef, serial restaurateur, and television host—is globally acknowledged as the authority on Chesapeake cuisine, as well as a leader for environmental causes pertaining to foodways, health, and economic justice. Many know him simply as John, a man with a contagious smile who cannot resist a corny joke or a conversation.
BmoreArt’s Picks: February 7-13
This Week: Tristan Cai opening reception + artist talk at TU Asian Art + Culture Center, Linling Lu artist talk + opening program at Phillips Collection, TU MFA Thesis Show, Food for Thought opens at Baltimore Museum of Industry featuring J.M. Giordano photography, exhibition openings for Ainsley Burrows and resident artists at Creative Alliance, UNFOLD opening reception at Stamp Gallery, Anthony Moll and Lisa Anderson-Zhu in conversation at The Walters, and Jackie Milad and Tom Boram closing reception + artist talk at Current Space — PLUS Arts & Drafts Festival call for exhibitors and more featured opportunities!
Art AND: Amanda Burnham
Amanda Burnham is fearless. I tell her so, looking at stacks of ink drawings piled up and pinned to the walls of her small home studio—cut-apart drawings, shadow-box-framed drawings, highly rendered and barely started drawings. By fearless, I don’t mean she’s planning a base-jumping trip any time soon (although...
Baltimore News: Single Carrot Theatre Closing, Neighborhood Fiber Co., Terri Lee Freeman
This week’s news includes: Single Carrot Theatre to close at end of fiscal year, Maryland Film Festival and Parkway Theatre ‘paused,’ Juliet Ames’ saltbox project gets national attention, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Aaron Dante: Flow State, Tux Edition
Aaron Dante, creator and host of the NoPixAfterDark Podcast, is starting out the new year fresh and ready for business. Dressed to the nines with a smart haircut and tux, he is ready to partner up and get work done. “The tux is how we’re kicking it off this year,” he says. “New Year’s, I’m going to look suave and smooth. Let’s bring it back to the roaring 20’s and get dressed up. I like sweats and hoodies, but let’s look good again. Let’s look fashionable. That’s my thing in 2023.”
Preserving Endangered Species at the Maryland Zoo
The Maryland Zoo, centrally located in Baltmore’s Druid Hill Park, has historically been a place for families to socialize, exercise, and learn firsthand about a vast array of animal life. Since its establishment in 1876, the shady, green campus functioned as an urban oasis for humans and animals as the zoo evolved from a menagerie into a renowned facility housing native animals and endangered species threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
BmoreArt’s Picks: January 31 – February 6
This Week: Tahir Hemphill at UMBC CIRCA, Larry Poncho Brown and CJay Phillip in conversation at Motor House, Greedy Reads and Fadensonnen host HIDDEN PLACE at Fadensonnen, Lee Boot virtual artist talk presented by The Peale, Blackscope Cinema Series: Hargrave at Creative Alliance, Emma Childs and Penn Eastburn opening at The Gallery at Manor Mill, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, Idle Times: Pop Disorder closing reception at Current Space, and Erin Raedeke, Neil Callander, and Nicole McCormick Santiago opening reception at Exeter Gallery — PLUS Baltimore Jewelry Center Residency call for applications and more featured opportunities!
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 1/29/23
The internet was increasingly difficult to be on this week, and I don’t think next week will be any better. Highlights: remembering Tyre Nichols, remembering Tortuguita, Olayemi Olurin on Cop City and the necessity of abolition, a farewell to Inner Hoe Uprising, Kraft macaroni and cheese, fixing violins, Derek Guy, Chloë’s ‘Pray It Away,’ Beyoncé in Dubai, and BuzzFeed leans into AI.
Baltimore Lunar New Year: Photo Essay
“Traditions are like a tapestry, woven with threads of memories, customs, and beliefs that make us who we are,” explains Yumin Gao, co-founder of F2 Entertainment. Organized with the Waterfront Partnership, Baltimore’s Lunar Night Cultural Festival took place January 21 and 22, as a free weekend-long cultural event designed to embrace the richness of Asian culture and traditions through food and art in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and Lake Shore Park.
Hal Boyd’s “Active Imagination” Runs Wild
Gallery Blue Door, located in a fine rowhome in Mount Vernon, is now strengthening its reputation by rotating three solo exhibitions at one time, staggering the openings. They focus on regional artists, emerging and established. Their latest exhibition, Active Imagination, features paintings by Hal Boyd. At age 88 Hal is...
Baltimore News: Asma Naeem is new BMA Director, James Beard Semifinalists, Remembering Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr.
This week’s news includes: Dr. Asma Naeem named new Director of the BMA, Flatspot Records founder Che Figueroa, remembering Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., Food for Thought exhibition opens at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
The 2023 Crankie Festival: Moving Stories and Jubilant Movement
Renowned Baltimore crankie and paper-cut artist Katherine Fahey saw her first unfurled at a house show in Philadelphia where artist Erik Ruin performed. Half-way through his shadow puppet show, the screen started moving. What was this? she wondered. Fahey was transfixed. Most people seem to have that reaction when they...
BmoreArt’s Picks: January 24-30
This Week: Baltimore Clayworks streams Adam Chau artist talk, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar opening reception at David Driskill Center, Mandy Morrison opening reception at The Peale, The Foundations of What opening reception at Catalyst Contemporary, Zöe Charlton opening reception at Maryland Art Place, Two Wings performs at the BMA, Spellbinder Salon at The Crown, and Linda Popp opening reception at Gallery Blue Door — PLUS MacDowell Fellowship applications due and more featured opportunities!
Inside Phylicia Ghee’s Story of Remembrance
Liminality, a psychological state of flux and shift of being, has weighed heavily on my mind since visiting the Nicholson Project earlier this month. In Phylicia Ghee’s installation of the same name, she channels the fragmented history of midwifery and herbalism into communion with the present. By her hand, a two-room, white-walled gallery became an altar for transfiguration, unencumbered by time.
Layered and Converging Histories: Lionel Frazier White III’s “Beyond the Frame” at Hamiltonian Artists
Lionel Frazier White III’s solo show Beyond the Frame is a subtle exploration of the lived experience within a gentrifying city through photography, video work, and found objects. White is one of five fellows for 2020-22 at Hamiltonian Artists, which provides a stimulating environment, guidance, and a stepping stone for emerging artists. Themes of fragmentation, remembrance, and celebration flow through White’s varied yet cohesive body of work. As I pass through the space, images and objects implode, change, and become re-assembled.
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