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Studio Visit with Tamara Payne
In the fall of 2018, I attended Baltimore City Community College and took an art class instructed by Tamara Payne called Art & The Culture. I loved the class especially because it highlighted many Baltimore artists I’d already admired such as Larry Poncho Brown and Ernest Shaw. Payne knew I was pursuing fashion and reached out to me one day during my semester at BCCC saying she had something for me. That “something” was my first mannequin form.
BmoreArt’s Picks: May 14-20
This Week: Baltimore Clayworks studio tour with Wayman Scott; reception for Schroeder Cherry, Se Jong Cho, and Oletha DeVane at Connect + Collect; Baltimore Story Fest; artist Jason Patterson and guest curator Thomas James in conversation at Banneker-Douglass Museum; opening reception for Heejo Kim and Markus Baldegger at C. Grimaldis Gallery; Bromo Art Walk + After Party; Andrew Thorp opening reception at Hotel Indigo; Creative Alliance screens Eroding History, and BROS’ A Computer that Loves opens — PLUS deadline approaching for Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) Artist Travel Prize and more featured opportunities!
Get the Picture: Bianca Bosker’s Best-Selling “Art World” Exposé
As a follow-up to her successful book chronicling the wine high life (Cork Dork, 2017) writer Bianca Bosker chose fine art, capital A as the subject. Get the Picture (February 2024 Viking) is the result. Long vexed by the contemporary art world after loving art wholeheartedly as a child, Bosker decided to embed herself in the New York City scene to learn directly from those in the know, working as a gallery assistant, museum guard, artist studio assistant, and more. Five years later, she delivers a good-humored high-wire act of a book that informs and entertains based on her experiences.
Forged Together: Collective Action at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
You hear, 'You should just be grateful that you're working at an institution this prestigious. What you do is not a job, it is a calling.' Well, my landlord is calling and I can't pay him in prestige. Martin Yepes Trujillo, Graduate Worker, JHU, Teachers & Researchers United. A timely...
BmoreArt News: Walters Interim Leadership, Amy Sherald, Jaz Erenberg
This week’s news includes: The Walters announces interim leadership, Duke Ellington’s lasting Baltimore legacy, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces Amy Sherald exhibition, Jaz Erenberg creates a Pikesville mural, Baltimore Brew + Baltimore Fishbowl + Baltimore Banner win journalism honors, Darin Atwater named artistic director of Monterey Jazz Festival, Baltimore bakeries, a review of ‘Cindy of Arc,’ MICA and Peabody announce commencement speakers, Joyce J. Scott featured in Artblog, Baltimore Screenwriters Competition winners announced, John Waters recovering after car accident, and the Kinetic Sculpture Race rides on — with reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
The Eurovision of the Artworld: the 60th Venice Biennale and the Crisis of Nationalism
The night before I left for Venice, I was having dinner with a group of friends of friends who aren’t really in the “Artworld” art world. They’re activists, mostly from Latin America, who run a cultural center that assists migrants in Barcelona and were helping my partner and I with some immigration paperwork. “What exactly is the Venice Biennale?” one of them asked.
BmoreArt’s Picks: May 7-13
This Week: Perspectives hosted by JustRo, The Importance of Being Earnest at Center Stage, Invisible Architectures | Social Contracts opening reception at MAP, MICA ArtWalk + Exhibition, JHU CVA Student Exhibition reception, Station North Art Walk, Crosscurrence at Current, Fashion Prose 1 opening reception at Creative Alliance, Megan Lewis solo exhibition reception at Galerie Myrtis, and Alpha Female Fest and Crust by Mack presents: Taste and Turntables: My Mother’s Recipe Edition, — PLUS Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival call for submissions early bird deadline and more featured opportunities!
Meaning and Material: Four May Art Exhibits
Materials are underrated in the art world. While gallery wall text tends to focus on an artist’s bio, politics, aesthetics, or style, the reality is these can all alienate viewers – but materials offer kinship, beckoning with near universal appeal. We all possess fond memories of finger painting,...
Sleight of Hand: Magical Marquee Ball Costumes
On Saturday April 27, the Creative Alliance hosted their signature gala event: The Marquee Ball. It’s Baltimore’s costume party to end all costume parties, where artists often spend weeks creating looks that are beautiful, bizarre, and clever. It’s a massive fundraiser that includes live music, dancing, and all kinds of interactive performances. This year’s theme was Illusion, harkening back to the “Golden Age of Magic at the turn of the 20th Century, when the artistry of stage performers, magicians, and illusionists filled us with shock and awe!”
Spellbinding Yet Unnerving: A Theatrical Performance Created With AI
After leaving the theater and returning home a few blocks away, I found myself sitting on my couch in the dark, trying to comprehend what it was I had just seen. What had I experienced? I felt torn. Whatever it was, it was equal parts captivating and disquieting. Spellbinding yet unnerving. Like a drug trip, the experience was at times aesthetically pleasing; at others, anxiety-producing.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 30 – May 6
This Week: MICA Rinehart Graduate Show, Jen White-Johnson lecture at UMBC, 25th Maryland Film Fest, Passion and Poetry performance at MCHC, Cindy of Arc at Baltimore Theatre Project, Sherry Insley opening reception at Cotyledon Arts, Asia North opening event, Highlandtown First Friday guided tours, Baltimore Crankie Festival at Creative Alliance, and the Kinetic Sculpture Race at AVAM — PLUS SOLOS 2025 call for proposals at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and more featured opportunities!
Eventizing the 25th Annual Maryland Film Festival: What To See This Weekend
After a year’s hiatus, the Maryland Film Festival will achieve a historic milestone: its 25th anniversary. From May 2-5, the festival will center around the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Theatre in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District and offer a diverse array of feature films, shorts, panels, and talks, as well as events: receptions, after-parties, and CineTech, a curated exploration of cinema and emerging technologies.
Foreigners Everywhere: A Triumphant, Anthemic Venice Biennale for the Stateless Queers in All of Us
The global biennial mandate to 'center the margins' begins to fold the works’ map of relations into one of those origami fortune-tellers, leading to a seemingly infinite combination of answers—sometimes maddeningly mismatched to the questions the viewer might be asking.
Art I’d Buy: Highlights from the 2024 Creative Alliance Marquee Ball Auction
On Saturday night, the Creative Alliance will once again host their signature gala event: The Marquee Ball. It’s Baltimore’s costume party to end all costume parties, where artists often spend weeks creating looks that are beautiful, bizarre, and clever. It’s a massive fundraiser that includes live music, dancing, and all kinds of interactive performances. This year’s theme is Illusion, harkening back to the “Golden Age of Magic at the turn of the 20th Century, when the artistry of stage performers, magicians, and illusionists filled us with shock and awe!”
Hot Wing King is a Spicy and Tender Theatrical Experience
With The Hot Wing King, Baltimore Center Stage serves up a lively spread of rapid-fire one-liners, spicy moves, and tender camaraderie that serves as an entree to a discussion of contemporary Black manhood. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Katori Hall brings four gay Black men together at Dwayne’s house for the...
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