"Our abilities are not proprietary and should not be hoarded. If someone needs assistance producing a mural, I try to make myself available."
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Ultimately, what I love about this book is that Blakeney makes me feel like I could jump right in and start sprucing up my own house tomorrow.
A career or hobby in circus is not an escape but rather a way of life.
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Moyer’s calm demeanor that has weathered the art world and beyond gave me solace during a time when having a studio practice can feel monumental and frivolous all at once.
For the past three years, the five-person team has been hustling to return and rebuild, announcing this week that the Remington storefront is now back open to the public once more.
This column is not legal advice, but I hope it energizes you to go get some for your own specific situation.
This week was hard. The internet was unbearable.
2021 Baker Artist Awardees Announced
This year, 36 artists across 6 categories get $2,500 eachHow Mining the Museum Changed the Art World
The influence of Fred Wilson’s seminal 1992 intervention at the Maryland Historical Society is at once easily summarized and remarkably complexPreserving Baltimore Stories and Amplifying Storytellers at the Peale
This round of renovations will make the museum a safer, more accessible place for Baltimore residents and visitors to learn the stories of the city.Grids Are Not Neutral: A Year on Zoom
On Lee Walton’s “Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom” and the online platform's subtle social ticksSee West Baltimore Right with Shae McCoy
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The stock icon has yielded to something darker and more ominous.
Musician and MDVLA executive director Adam G. Holofcener’s new album GEE-ZA-WHIZ begins with a deep breath and a deeper exhalation
Some of these records inevitably confront themes that are pertinent to our present circumstances and upheavals, some take the listener to places subterranean or extraterrestrial, and many others pull off an inventive combination of all the above.
I tend to pair images together to complicate things, to show that my life is not one thing or another, that there is always a subtext or a tangent or a side story and nothing is simple.
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She’s had a reverence for the confection since a fateful day in 2012 when, while working an event as a nutrition consultant, she stepped on a postcard advertising chocolate-making classes.
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
"What communities are asking for is to be heard and to determine their own futures."
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
Five 2021 Sondheim Finalists Announced
The five individual artists selected as this year’s finalists are Hoesy Corona, Tsedaye Makonnen, Jonathan Monaghan, Lavar Munroe, and Hae Won Sohn.Danielle Evans' The Office of Historical Corrections Gives Readers More Questions to Sit With
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Studying Bourgeois next to Maghazehe, the theme of rupture emerges again and again
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In discussing his work, App likes to allude to his lifelong attempt to find what he calls authentic ways of making a painting.
I don’t fully register when the anxieties of one reality morph into ten other kinds in this new reality, but April is where it is, in my head.
ICA Baltimore is a volunteer-run art space that looks to promote the professional development of Baltimore and regional visual artists through our programs.
Many of his most popular works are the clothing that he draws on, unique works of art that travel with the wearer to bars, concerts, and gatherings.
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The BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas is released twice a year—each fall and spring—and offers a thematic and image-dense account of art and cultural offerings in the region. All of the writing, photos, art, and design are created locally, offering a unique, authentic, and diverse perspective on Baltimore as a creative muse and environment. The print publication covers visual arts, fashion, design, architecture, food, film, performance, and politics viewed through the lens of creative cultural production.
Stories from Issue 10: Power
"Our abilities are not proprietary and should not be hoarded. If someone needs assistance producing a mural, I try to make myself available."
A career or hobby in circus is not an escape but rather a way of life.
Museum Director Julia Marciari-Alexander and Board President Guy Flynn on creating a sustainable future at the Walters Art Museum
"What communities are asking for is to be heard and to determine their own futures."