It’s hard to reconcile my rich memories of the place with what now reads as a limited and parochial landscape.
The internet seems to be forgetting that we are in the middle of an uprising, and people are actively ignoring that we are in the middle of a pandemic!
Now the textures of the art I have collected are more real, more tangible, than the textures of human faces.
Updates from local media and Baltimore-based journalists
This year marks the 15th for Artscape's $25,000 Sondheim Prize
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NMWA’s recent acquisitions include 166 photos by Mary Ellen Mark, a mixed-media portrait by Delita Martin, three large-scale photos by Rania Matar, and a six-foot-long chandelier by Joana Vasconcelos
Abdu Ali's nomadic curatorial platform as they lay includes sound and performance art, poetry, and more.
This edition of Quarantine Diaries focuses on five writers, editors, and literary advocates, and their strategies for surviving quarantine.
On any given day, curatorial assistant Emily Bach could be restoring a quilt from the collection, writing object condition reports, or conducting research on a new donation.
BOPA Announces Six 2020 Sondheim Finalists
The six 2020 Sondheim Finalists include five interdisciplinary and visual artists and one three-person artist collective.Essential Virtual Programming from Baltimore Area Museums
A Report from AVAM, BMA, BMI, MHS, NMWA, Peale Center, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and The WaltersWhat They're Wearing: Baltimore Quarantine Style
Home fashion is all about comfort and entertainmentThe Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/5
Community accountability, the politics of storytelling, capitalizing the B in Black, Vanessa Guillen, COVID-19 parties, and moreJuneteenth and MAWU
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Issue 09: Craft celebrates Baltimore’s incredible makers, visionary artists, and creative businesses
Ethics and expression through photos of protest
FAIR was designed for the internet and functions with a profit-sharing model with percentages going directly to artists and their galleries, a cooperative gallery sales pool, and a cooperative artists sales pool, with a smaller percentage going back to NADA.
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The Baltimore Arts & Culture Guide
Search: Museums, Galleries, Performance, Film, Organizations & Advocacy, Literary Organizations, Media, Bookshops, Maker, Mixed Use & Studios, Education, Grants & Awards, Residencies, Artist Housing, and Supplies. This guide is for Baltimore area artists, makers, creatives, and anyone who wants to get involved in the arts in the region.
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Two movies that make sense right now amid endless terror-scrolling Twitter.
Now the textures of the art I have collected are more real, more tangible, than the textures of human faces.
The art of the DJ is sorely missed while music venues are closed. Find out how five local DJs have adjusted to quarantine life and how to support them.
For Cheng, the environment of the interdisciplinary studio, simulated in art school by classroom work time and interaction with the students, is the most important.
Streaming Protest, Scanning Police: Jerry Lewis Gone ACAB and Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21
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Following Gemini's restless intellectual curiosityMASTERS: Safiyah Cheatam
A studio visit with Safiyah Cheatam, Afrofuturist, conceptual and social practice artist, UMBC Intermedia & Digital Arts MFA CandidateVirtual Graduation Speech for the Class of 2020
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The Delaware Contemporary will celebrate Stepping Out to Step In, Chromati’s Platform Gallery commission with a public “drive-thru” opening from 5 to 8 pm on Friday, June 19.
Family is about love and about seeking comfort across spaces, both physical and virtual
These four-layered bamboo/cotton, antimicrobial fabric masks are perfect for daily wear and extending the lifespan of N95 masks for healthcare professionals.
With all of us ostensibly inside, talking less or at least talking to less people, the appeal of hearing voices that aren’t our own for extended periods of time has taken on a certain restorative luster.
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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 08: Archive
Proprietary technologies and planned obsolescence collide to make data harder to extract once a file format is no longer supported, leading to a growing concern about the impact of this current “digital dark age.”
For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.
Libraries as places of possibility regardless of social class enabled Daniel to experience a larger world outside the one she lived in and imagine a variety of prospects that life might hold for her. That capacity drives her vision for the Pratt.
What new connections might emerge by inviting thinkers and makers with diverse educational backgrounds and practices into the archives?