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Issue 09: Craft celebrates Baltimore’s incredible makers, visionary artists, and creative businesses
Each vignette is a high-wire act, teetering along the razor’s edge separating shame and desire, passion and violence, actualization and obliteration.
The internet was almost too much for me this week.
Family is about love and about seeking comfort across spaces, both physical and virtual
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Rosa Leff's self-taught paper-cutting practice began at her dining room table
Family is about love and about seeking comfort across spaces, both physical and virtual
COVID cancellations don’t just deprive filmmakers of a chance to show their movies to audiences, but it’s at festivals where movies end up being purchased for distribution.
Coronavirus updates from Baltimore Brew, Maryland Matters, Technical.ly Baltimore, Real News Network, Fishbowl, Baltimore Magazine, and a selection of relevant articles published by Baltimore-based journalists for a variety of publications
Where to Find Baltimore-Area MFA and BFA Exhibitions Online
Digital shows and presentations for area institutions' graduating classesBaltimore COVID-19 News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 5/14
10 Must-Read Stories from Baltimore-Based Writers and PublicationsQuarantine Diaries: Five Baltimore Artists Share Survival Tactics and Inspiration
Sangram Majumdar, Magnolia Laurie, Gaia, Erin Fostel, and Taha HeydariQuarantikis, Margarita Buckets, and Crushes To Go: 20 Creative Solutions for Boozing Through Quarantine
Support local bars, restaurants, and their loveable bartenders by ordering takeaway drinks in a variety of formatsBmoreArt's Picks: May 19-25
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.Featured
Buy a $50 print by a Baltimore-based artist and support the MD Food Bank
Baltimore-based musicianr Marino is inspired by 90s/2000s R&B, to trap music, to storyteller raps, and beyond
Look no further than these Baltimore- and DC-based galleries and artist-run spaces currently selling affordable art.
An assortment of Baltimore creatives wearing pajamas, evening gowns, vintage, and homemade facemasks
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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Perhaps as consumer spending decreases and as stores close and shipping slows, we are forced to think more about where the stuff we buy actually comes from and the many people involved in getting it to us.
Embracing COVID-19 hair and supporting local stylists and hair salons as businesses struggle under quarantine in Baltimore
Capitalism loves a holiday but I have never been a big fan of Mother’s day, not because I don’t love my mom, but because I am generally cynical about the constant pressure to buy shit we do not need or even want.
We are living through a major historical event and it's essential that we record our experiences.
MASTERS: Miguel Braceli
Social practice artist, advocate of alternative educational models, Mount Royal MFAAll the IRL Things We Miss: QuaranTV Keeps Baltimore Weird and Connected
Curated and programmed like a TV channel, QuaranTV showcases arthouse features, YouTube compilations, cartoons and moreFOLLOWING: @jamieleecurtistaete
Speaking the language of memes, real-world visual puns reveal the tragicomedy of contemporary lifeSchool’s Out Forever (?)
Searching for solid footing in a world without structure with some unlikely support from Alice Cooper, sewing, weaving, and walkingHave a Good Day and Wash Your Totes: Working in a Grocery Store During Covid-19
Kelly Xio is an artist and a grocery store worker on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemicFeatured
These four-layered bamboo/cotton, antimicrobial fabric masks are perfect for daily wear and extending the lifespan of N95 masks for healthcare professionals.
The US has known about COVID-19 since January. Why are there not enough tests?
It’s been three weeks since my ER doctor called to confirm that I tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3, a full 14 days after qualifying for a test that should have been available the first day I had a fever of 102—not eight days and a serious bout of pneumonia later.
If you are motivated to get some work done but don't know exactly how to channel that energy, we've compiled a list of ideas specifically for you.
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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?