This week's news includes: Frederick Douglass mural at the Lewis Museum, Outwin Boochever Portrait Artists, 'Creatively Black Baltimore' at Harborplace, National Aquarium's Voyages with Dan Deacon, Cecilia Wichmann is Department Head of Contemporary Art at the BMA, and more!
Surprises in the art scene are uncommon enough that discovering a brand-new gallery tucked away on the third floor of Maryland Art Place during a recent Bromo Arts Walk was a delight—made even better by the strength of the group show on display.
This week: String Theory artist talk at Motor House, Bishme Cromartie at Museum of Industry, contract workshop with MDVLA, Emerge Baltimore Vol. 3 opening reception at Bromo Arts Tower, Mai Sennaar book talk at Clifton House, A Night OUT with Iron Crow Theatre, Station North Art Walk, and more!
While I have more than 50 years of experience in and around theaters, I was ill-prepared for an evening of the most experiential musical performances I have ever heard or seen.
This weekend is the closing night for Bynum's "Arcana Flux" exhibit at Clovr Collective. Saturday, October 5, 6-10. Come check out new works including prints and short film, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough."
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Towson University's MFA in Studio Arts is a supportive environment that is affordable, nearby, and academically rigorous.
As today, September 20th, marks Mobtown Ballroom’s 13th anniversary, we thought it a perfect time to reconnect and catch up with owners, Sarah Sullivan and Michael Seguin.
The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration is a unique opportunity to see Wilson’s entire cycle, in historical order, in only three seasons.
Reframing Gordon Parks and James Baldwin
Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery Offer a New Conversation Between Two Iconic Artists and ActivistsKazim Ali Joins Baltimore Book Festival's Line Up of More Than 100 Authors
This Weekend Lit Lovers Celebrate Writers, Past and PresentFirst Lady Moore Announces Lady Brion as Maryland’s 11th Poet Laureate
As Poet Laureate, Lady Brion will serve in an honorary state position, providing public readings and programs for the citizens of Maryland.A Conversation with Maggie Villegas
How the Strategist, Organizer, and Advocate for a Just Creative Economy is Making Space for Her Own PracticeThe Heart Beating as One: An Interview with Yo La Tengo's James McNew
Ahead of Their September 22nd Show at Rams Head Live, McNew Reflects on a 40-Year Career
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Katherine Pon-Cooper’s "Circle in Circle: Compulsion" is a conceptually tight and handsomely executed show mounted in MICA’s Pinkard Gallery.
With 1,400 + attendees, 21 Visual Artists, 11 fashion designers, 10 featured restaurants & 11 awardees, the Baltimore Met Gala has done it again!
Ashworth emphasizes that while the space has technological origins, its primary mission is to serve as a venue for human creativity, allowing individuals to engage authentically and expressively in theater.
By working at such a large scale to cover not only walls, but at times the ground, ceiling, and pieces of furniture, Jessie and Katey are able to transform the surrounding environment, often gray and concrete, into an immersive chromatic experience.
Bruce Willen's "Ghost Rivers" is a Public Monument to Baltimore's Forgotten Waterways
Four Years in the Making, Celebrate the Completion of One of Baltimore's Geographically-Longest Artworks with Film Screenings in Wyman Park this Thursday, Aug 1BmoreArt News: BOPA, Devin Allen, Alonzo Davis at Pyramid Atlantic
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional mediaThat Unexpected Thing: Seph Rodney, Vlad Smolkin, and Cara Ober in Conversation at CPM
A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural ImplicationsForged Together: Collective Action at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
Reflecting on the History of the American Labor Movement while Looking Ahead into the New MilleniumGood Design is Timeless
An Interview with Betty Cooke
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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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Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.
These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.
Multiplicity is not a show about Black collage, it’s about Blackness in American collage which is entirely different.
The Washington Post is cutting their ongoing Galleries column, a loss to local readers, artists, and audiences.
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In Issue 17, we feature the region’s courageous cultural leaders, creative explorers, and groundbreaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.
Stories from Issue 17: Transformation
This weekend is the closing night for Bynum's "Arcana Flux" exhibit at Clovr Collective. Saturday, October 5, 6-10. Come check out new works including prints and short film, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough."
"Central to all the work that I’ve done, is how do we acknowledge the value that we have as creators, and demand the compensation, space, and honor that we deserve?"
Ashworth emphasizes that while the space has technological origins, its primary mission is to serve as a venue for human creativity, allowing individuals to engage authentically and expressively in theater.
By working at such a large scale to cover not only walls, but at times the ground, ceiling, and pieces of furniture, Jessie and Katey are able to transform the surrounding environment, often gray and concrete, into an immersive chromatic experience.