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This Week: We are featuring online events that you can participate in from the comfort of your own couch plus a few ways to get involved locally and nationally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.

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Youth in Business | Call for Applications
sponsored by Jubilee Arts

Youth in Business (YiB) is a program at Jubilee Arts that cultivates the entrepreneurial leadership skills of high school aged youth by providing hands on experience operating an art-based business. Through the Youth in Business design collective, youth learn how to run a successful business as a team, selling high quality art products achieving cooperative financial sustainability for youth business owners. Youth are supported in leadership development within the program in addition to career and higher education planning support to provide youth long term economic independence.

**ACCEPTING new youth**

Youth in Business is a free program that offers classes in design, business, and ceramics, and, most importantly, all youth gain hands-on experience running a business!

Youth will:

Learn: Business Skills, Ceramics, Graphic Design, Screen Printing
Earn: $ from products and monthly stipend
Grow: as a leader
Receive: College and career mentorship

Fall programming will be virtual Tuesday-Thursday evenings.

Participating youth must live within 2miles of Jubilee Arts (1947 Pennsylvania Avenue).

Please call or email with questions or to schedule an interview before Wednesday, September 30

 

 

The Sensational Royal Lights, who received a 2018 Heritage Award, are the multigenerational gospel ministry of the Elliott family. Photo by Edwin Remsberg Photographs.

2021 Heritage Awards | Call for Panelists
deadline October 22
sponsored by Maryland State Arts Council

The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) is seeking panelists to review to review 2021 Heritage Award nominations. Heritage Awards recognize long-term achievement in traditional arts, or community-based living cultural traditions handed down by example or word of mouth. Awards annually recognize one recipient in each of three categories: Person/People, Place, and Tradition.

Serving as a panelist is a great opportunity to support the traditional arts while also learning about MSAC granting processes.

What does a panelist do?

Panelists play a vital role in the MSAC grants process. Heritage Award panelists will:

Attend an orientation in-person or virtually to learn about the Heritage Awards program

Review written grant nominations online

Attend an in-person or virtual panel meeting to collaboratively evaluate nominations with other panelists

Who can be a panelist?

MSAC relies on a wide array of arts experts and enthusiasts from across the state to serve as panelists. Heritage Award panelists are selected with a focus on diversity of experiences, diversity of location, and expertise in traditional arts. Regardless of your connection to the arts, we encourage you to apply. Panelists must be Maryland residents.

How do I apply to be a panelist?

Submit your application via MSAC’s online grants management system SmartSimple.

Under Funding Opportunities, select “Public Call.”

Select “Panelist” from the dropdown options and click “Save Draft” to populate the application.

Select “Heritage Awards” as the Grant Program.

Panelists receive modest compensation for their services and must have access to an Internet-connected computer to complete reviews.

For questions, contact State Folklorist Chad Buterbaugh at [email protected].

Each Heritage Award supports the vitality of the traditional arts in Maryland. Download Heritage Award nomination guidelines and see a list of past awardees at the arts council website.

 

 

Michaela Japec, 2019 Post-Grad Resident.

2021 Post-Graduation Residency Program
deadline October 30
sponsored by The Torpedo Factory

The Torpedo Factory Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term solo studio space. This residency is open to recently-graduated students who earned a bachelor’s or master’s art degree from an accredited university. The program is unique for addressing the critical post-graduation juncture in an emerging artist’s career, offering an opportunity for professional development, and a chance to define their independent work process outside of the academic context. Submissions are open for both recently graduated art school students in the region and nationwide, provided artists submit proof of their residence in the D.C. metropolitan area.

Residents receive studio space and public presentation opportunities, including an artist talk and participation in a culminating curated exhibition in the Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Residents are active and equal participants in the Art Center’s unique creative community. Residents benefit from engagement with local, national, and international artists.

Residency Terms: January – March, April – June, July – September, October – December

Eligibility:
• Completion of BFA or MFA from an accredited University within the past 1-3 years.
• As this residency does not provide accommodations, artists must live in the D.C. metropolitan region and must provide proof of residency before official acceptance into the program. D.C. metropolitan region for this purpose is defined as living within 40 miles or less than one hour’s commute distance from the Art Center as you will be expected to be in the studio for public studio hours at least 24 hours a week at minimum. You must also have a reliable means of transportation

See guidelines and review application for residency requirements and other information.

 

 

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
deadline January 29
sponsored by The National Portrait Gallery

Established in 2006, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition focuses on broadening the definition of portraiture while highlighting the genre’s wider relevance to society and within the field of contemporary art. It aims to bring together works that attend to the country’s diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other conditions that shape the individual and collective identities of artists and sitters. Artists living and working in the US can find qualifications and instructions to apply at portraitcompetition.si.edu

All artworks by the Competition’s finalists will comprise an exhibition “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” which will be displayed at the Portrait Gallery from April 30, 2022, through Feb. 26, 2023 before traveling.  The most recent edition, “The Outwin 2019” has now hit the road and will open this weekend at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts (Oct. 3–April 4, 2021) and then travels onto Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis (Sept. 10–Jan. 23, 2022).

More on the 2022 jury

Taína Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and history, is the director of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Guest jurors for this competition are Kathleen Ash-Milby, curator of Native American art, Portland Art Museum; Catherine Opie, artist and professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles; Ebony G. Patterson, artist, Chicago; and John Yau, critic and professor of critical studies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Members of the jury from the National Portrait Gallery include co-curators of “The Outwin 2022” exhibition Caragol and Leslie Ureña, associate curator of photographs, and Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture and coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.

Free Fall Baltimore
Ongoing through October 31
presented by BOPA

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) announces that Free Fall Baltimore, presented by BGE and Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), begins tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, 2020. The annual celebration features free arts & cultural events from participating venues and organizations throughout Baltimore City. Free Fall Baltimore is held each October, in conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, and showcases the importance of the arts with free concerts, dance and theater performances, festivals, lectures, workshops, art exhibitions, and special events. This year, Free Fall Baltimore occurs as a hybrid of virtual and small in-person events. The celebration lasts all month through Saturday, October 31, 2020. Produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Free Fall Baltimore is presented by BGE and Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC).

Additional Free Fall Baltimore event highlights this month include: behind-the-scenes virtual access to the studios of Baltimore-based artists during the 32nd annual Baltimore Open Studio Tour; art exhibitions from the Hot Sauce Artist Collective; the second annual Baltimore Jazz Conference by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance; virtual performances from the Strand Theater Company and Rapid Lemon Productions; the Black Film Festival and Youth Art Exhibit, hosted by Catherine’s Family and Youth Services; and many more arts and cultural programs.

Free Fall Baltimore’s month-long calendar of free events provides the public equitable access to arts and cultural programs and institutions that may otherwise be inaccessible to many during other times of the year. By providing a schedule of mostly virtual programming, Free Fall Baltimore maintains public health and safety while expanding its virtual reach beyond Baltimore City. The participating organizations are included below.

 

Participating Organizations (Subject to Change)

American Visionary Art Museum Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center
Bach in Baltimore (d/b/a); Bach Concert Series, Inc. Greater Mondawmin Community
Baltimore Architecture Foundation Handel Choir of Baltimore
Baltimore Children’s Choir Hot Sauce
Baltimore Jazz Alliance Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore Musicales Make Studio Art Program, Inc.
Baltimore Theatre Project, Inc. Misto di Voci Ensemble Quint Essential Winds
Black Cherry Puppet Theater Muse 360 Arts
Bonneau Caprece LLC Phil Ravita Jazz Group
Catherine’s Family and Youth Services Rapid Lemon Productions, Inc.
CityLit Project Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Community Concerts at Second Roland Park Community Center 501(c)3
Contemporary Arts Inc. SOGAA Inc.
Corner Community Center Strand Theater Company
Current Space

Visit www.freefallbaltimore.org to see the schedule of events and participating organizations. Follow BOPA at FacebookTwitterand Instagram to stay up to date all month long.

 

 

Art to Dine For
Ongoing through November 14
presented by Creative Alliance

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Creative Alliance’s Art To Dine For series! That’s two decades of gathering people of all backgrounds together to celebrate art, culture, and delicious food!

When we began planning this year’s series, we had no idea that the world as we knew it would soon be turned upside down. In response to the shift, our committee has worked hard to forge a plan for this year’s Art To Dine For series. This year, we will offer a small series of online or socially-distanced events that are in the spirit of Art To Dine For.

 

 

Something Wonderful is About to Happen
Ongoing through October 31
presented by Exeter Gallery

A three-person exhibition featuring the work of Marybeth Chew, Ilenia Madelaire, and Virginia Fleming.

On view through October 31st by appointment only. Message through Instagram, exetergallery, or email [email protected] to schedule your visit.

When this show was conceived in late 2019 the title was originally a joke about a self-help mantra.

The events of the last eight months have dramatically shifted so many things. This title, however, seems more apropos than ever. As anxieties have mounted, and a large part of our population is calling for change, this phrase has shifted too from sardonic humor to both an ardent hope and a desperate cry.

The ‘uneasy narratives’ painted by Marybeth Chew, Ilenia Madelaire, and Virginia Fleming are also ways of containing, finding humor, catharsis, confronting, and asserting new ways of viewing disquieting subjects, emotions, and experience.

These women are painters of uneasy narratives, power dynamics, and voyeurism. Figuration and representation are the mediators to the alternate worlds occupying the paintings. The figures are victims and transgressors, lovers and villains, participating unselfconsciously in their worlds, to be exposed, looked at, and interpreted. Humor buffers the vulnerabilities and the antipathy present in the disturbing narratives.

Culling from B movies’ film imagery, Marybeth Chew paints the apex of private moments charged with exaggerated, artificial drama – leaving us as spectators and participants of an impending eruption. The tension resides in the figures’ malleable expressions, brimming with possibilities.

Ilenia Madelaire’s bright colors and cartoony approach subvert their cheerful allusions and confront the viewer with psychological discomfort. Satire, myth, and symbolism bring forth a judgment without accusation, of both our external world in which we exist, and the world in the painting. She asks how we too have become complicit in transgressive acts.

Virginia Fleming’s deceptively simple and lighthearted figurations depict a joyfully dark world. A disorientation surfaces, and we no longer have bearings to ground us to what we thought we knew.

Suddenly we are transported into her voyeuristic fascinations, evasive and unsafe.

Unobskey Visiting Artist Talk – Ajay Kurian | Zoom 
Tuesday, October 6 • 7pm
presented by Silber Gallery

Ajay Kurian is a Baltimore-born, New York-based, conceptual artist working in sculpture, painting, and installation. His invitation to Goucher as the Nancy G. Unobskey ’60 Visiting Artist in Modern and Contemporary Art occasioned his solo exhibition of new work envisioned for and presented in the college’s Silber Gallery.

Kurian is the seventh artist invited to present a public lecture as the annual Nancy G. Unobskey Visiting Artist in Modern and Contemporary Art. This annual series brings internationally renowned artists to Goucher’s campus to work with students in studio visits, in-class workshops, and a public lecture. Kurian is known for his interdisciplinary practice and work that challenges our acceptance of norms, systems of belief, and aspirational mythologies. His work has been exhibited around the world, notably in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, 47 Canal, White Flag, Sies + Hoke, JOAN and Rowhouse Project, and Von Ammon Co. Goucher is thrilled to host the artist’s virtual, public artist talk in early October.

 

 

“Birthright” by Maren Hassinger, video, color, sound, (12:12 mins), 2005. Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC

IDENTIFY: Maren Hassinger with Charlotte Ickes | Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, October 7 • 5:30pm
presented by The National Portrait Gallery

Join New York-based artist Maren Hassinger for an online screening of her video “Birthright” (2005), sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. “Birthright” unfolds around a central encounter between the artist and her uncle, whom she meets for the first time. The twelve-minute video documents Hassinger learning about her father’s family history–what the artist describes as a “history of a Black family in the aftermath of slavery.” During the virtual event, Hassinger will teach attendees how to twist newspaper, a meditative ritual she performs throughout the course of the video. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own newspaper to the screening and conversation. This event anticipates Hassinger’s related performance next spring, commissioned by National Portrait Gallery as part of its IDENTIFY series dedicated to performance art and portraiture. Free—Registration required.

 

 

Lucha Rodriguez, Knife Drawing (closeup)

Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 | Exhibition Opens
Thursday, October 8 • Ongoing through January 18
presented by The National Museum of Women in the Arts

Paper Routes, the sixth installment in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, showcases contemporary artists working in paper. The exhibition series is presented every two to three years and is a dynamic collaboration between the museum and participating outreach committees. The 22 committees participating in this exhibition worked with curators in their respective regions to create shortlists of artists working with paper. From this list, NMWA curators selected the artists whose work is on view in Paper Routes.

Featured artists in Paper Routes respond to the many uses and cultural associations of paper—from protest signs to packaging, lottery tickets, and wallpaper—approaching the medium in varied ways. Some highlight the delicate properties of paper through meticulous cuts, resulting in elaborate forms, patterns, and designs. Others compact and consolidate the material, forming surprisingly dense and monumental sculptures. Artists rely on traditional as well as innovative techniques. Paper Routes highlights and celebrates this diversity of approaches and the transformation of this ubiquitous and eclectic material into complex works of art.

The exhibition features works by Jen Aitken (representing the museum’s committee in Canada), Elizabeth Alexander (Massachusetts), Natasha Bowdoin (Texas), Mira Burack (New Mexico), Elisabetta Di Maggio (Italy), Oasa DuVerney (New York), Mary Evans (United Kingdom), Rachel Farbiarz (Mid-Atlantic Region), Dolores Furtado (Argentina), Angela Glajcar (Germany), Dalila Gonçalves (Portugal), Julia Goodman (Northern California), Joli Livaudais (Arkansas), Annie Lopez (Arizona), Paola Podestá Martí (Chile), Echiko Ohira (Southern California), Luisa Pastor (Spain), Sa’dia Rehman (Ohio), Natalia Revilla (Peru), Lucha Rodríguez (Georgia), Georgia Russell (France), and Hyeyoung Shin (Greater Kansas City).

 

 

Live Artist Talk: Nakeya Brown
Thursday, October 8 • 5:30pm
presented by The Walters Art Museum

Nakeya Brown is a California born, Baltimore-based artist who uses photography to unpack the Black hair industry, Caribbean identity, and modern still lifes of the African diaspora. In conversation with Joy Davis, Manager of Adult and Community Programs, Nakeya will discuss complementary objects from the Walters collection in concert with her art series “Mass Production Comes Home” and “X-pressions: Black Beauty Still Lifes.”

About the Artist:
Nakeya Brown was born in Santa Maria, California in 1988. She received her BA from Rutgers University and her MFA from The George Washington University. Her work has been featured nationally in recent solo exhibitions at the Catherine Eldman Gallery, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, the Hamiltonian Gallery, and The McKenna Museum of African American Art, and in group exhibitions at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center and the Prince George’s African American Museum & Cultural Center, among several others. Brown’s work has been featured in Time, New York Magazine, Dazed & Confused, The Fader, The New Yorker, and Vice. Her work has been included in photography books Babe and Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. She lives and works in Maryland with her daughters Mia and Ella.

Thursday programs are sponsored by BGE.

 

 

The Science and Mystery of Sleep | Exhibition Premiere
Saturday, October 10 | Ongoing through August 2022
presented by The AVAM

Sleep. We all do it. Be it blissful and faithful escape, or tortuously intermittent toss and turn—we humans spend, on average, one-third of our entire lives sleeping. The American Visionary Art Museum proudly presents its scientifically-sound, philosophically playful, grandly communal, “romp in the hay” in its latest, all-new exhibition, “The Science and Mystery of Sleep.” It premieres Saturday, October 10, in AVAM’s third floor gallery of the Zanvyl Kreiger Main Building. Anchored by three fantastical, handmade bedrooms created by visionary artists as personal refuge, the exhibition explores the latest scientific research behind sleep as both force majeur to our total wellbeing and hypnagogic portal, enabling fresh revelations in science, art, and creative innovation of all sort. “We hope visitors leave this exhibition far more devoted to, and knowledgeable about, their own personal sleep practice and its betterment,” says museum founder, director, and show curator, Rebecca Hoffberger.

The sleep research punctuating this exhibition covers a multitude of topics: the impact of sleep on obesity and diabetes, traffic and workplace accidents, test scores and crankiness among adolescents, and the influence of sleep on hormones and the size of testicles (!).

Ever true to uncovering just where and how human beings gain their most visionary insights, the exhibition also presents a powerful film on the creative geniuses who consciously use the Hypnagogic state—the experience between wakefulness and sleep. The films include an interview with famed geneticist/virologist and narcoleptic Dr. George Church, and Baltimore’s own artist/performer, Landis Expandis. Both are in good company of purposeful sleep-inspired creatives from Leonardo DaVinci to Mary Shelly. The latter is the author of Frankenstein, a work inspired by the unbridled dream phase. Visitors will be encouraged to learn the power of this sleep state to problem solve and as gateway to unfettered wonder!

 

 

“Augustine”, 2020, wood, acrylic, latex, spray paint, 30 x 10 x 18 in “Acropalypse”, 2019, cement, drywall, paint, resin, found minerals and debris from Vermont

Sarah Tortora: Tomorrow | Opening Reception
Saturday, October 10 • 11am-5pm | Ongoing through November 14
presented by C. Grimaldis Gallery

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Tomorrow, a solo exhibition of works by Sarah Tortora.  Inspired by canonical statues, urban infrastructure, and museological displays, Tortora creates mixed media sculptures which reimagine allegorical motifs from a contemporary lens.

Tortora’s work references ancient mythologies, building on a lineage of Art and Archive.  Yet her sculptures present the viewer with a sort of warped anachronism, building works with what looks to be remnants of antiquity, but is rather 21st century detritus. She ornaments her pieces with self-referential signage and facsimiles of archetypal objects. The awkwardness of this contradiction between the Classical and the DIY inspires a psychic displacement necessary to comprehend the cultural displacement that the sculptures induce.

Tomorrow gives space for questions about anthropocentric privilege, thinking about objects as artifacts within the vast scale of geological time. Textured surfaces and pastel colors give way for a more playful understanding of legacy.  Geometric forms and Cubist facades create cartoonish recreations of iconography.  Tortora accepts the premise that “every equestrian monument is a Trojan horse,” and that Art is meant to operate in unison with language and communication.

 

 

CHERYL GOLDSLEGER, Coalescence, 2019, mixed media on linen, 60 x 60 inches

Cheryl Goldsleger: Places of Origin, Points of Departure | Opening Reception
Saturday, October 10 • 11am-5pm | Ongoing through November 14
presented by C. Grimaldis Gallery

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Places of Origin, Points of Departure, a solo exhibition of paintings by Cheryl Goldsleger. In an exploration of the inescapable relationship individuals and societies have with place and location, Goldsleger’s intricate topographical paintings offer a unique vantage point for the viewer to understand the myriad forces at play upon the global landscape and its inhabitants.

Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who coined the term the ‘butterfly effect’ stated, “Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” Goldsleger’s paintings address these shifts in understanding and thinking about our place in an increasingly smaller, interconnected global society. As socio-economic events and natural phenomena unfold, she visualizes webs of connections in constant states of flux. Although not always apparent or linear, these connections create perceivable links between the positive and negative, the natural and synthetic, and the tranquil and turbulent.

Places of Origin, Points of Departure merges perception with proprioception – an awareness of our body in space. The paintings in this exhibition draw attention to remarkable changes in an evolving landscape, building tension and empathy as multiple perspectives coalesce. Within the compositions of the paintings, Goldsleger weaves together fragments of research, forming layers of accruing marks that must be selectively removed to reveal earlier formations underneath. And as these additions and subtractions build up, the paintings slowly expose a final image packed with visual movement and an understanding of chaotic connectivity.

 

 

BMA x NMWA Monthly Talk Show: Power
Monday, October 12 • 12-12:45pm
presented by The National Museum of Women in the Arts + The Baltimore Museum of Art

From government offices to the streets, how do we harness and critique power?

Join us as hosts from the Baltimore Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts explore the powerful photography of visual activist Zanele Muholi and guest artists Candice Breitz and Oasa DuVerney discuss how they engage with many forms of power in their work.

WATCH LIVE on the BMA and NMWA Facebook pages.

 

 

Women of Steel | Outdoor Exhibition Opens
Monday, October 12 | Ongoing through April 2021
presented by Baltimore Museum of Industry

The Baltimore Museum of Industry (BMI) will open its next exhibition outside of the museum to allow for social distancing and open-air exploration during COVID-19. The exhibition, titled Women of Steel, opens on October 12 on the museum’s fence along Key Highway in South Baltimore and is free of charge to view. This is the first time the BMI has hosted an outdoor exhibition.The exhibition will open during a “Week of Workers” at the museum full of programming dedicated to celebrating the history of workers in Baltimore.

Women of Steel – October 12, 2020 through April 2021

Women of Steel highlights the stories of women who worked at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point mill in Baltimore from the 1930s until the mill closed in 2012. In many cases, women endured discrimination, sexual harassment, and childcare challenges. They made choices and sacrifices as they weighed risk and rewards in search of camaraderie, respect, and a livable wage. The exhibition features photographs and first-person quotes from the women themselves.

“Planning for this exhibition was well underway when the pandemic hit, and we realized that it would be a long while before people could gather inside to view this remarkable project. We decided to move it outside where visitors would feel comfortable,” says Anita Kassof, the executive director of the BMI. “It’s also a free exhibition, so visitors can enjoy it regardless of income, as we know a lot of Marylanders are facing many challenges in the wake of the pandemic.”

The Women of Steel exhibition was made possible through gifts from Tradepoint Atlantic, PNC Bank, Robert Patterson, The Macht Fund of the Associated, and the Alvin & Louise Myerberg Family Foundation. The exhibition will be open through April 2021.

Week of Workers – October 12 – October 16, 2020

A celebration of workers will take place the week of October 12, when in addition to the opening of Women of Steel, the museum’s 1942 Whirley crane will be lit up with LED lights, and a program about behind-the scenes workers will be streamed live from the museum. Details below:

Crane: restoration of the 1942 Bethlehem Steel “Whirley” crane was completed in late 2019 and now the crane will be lit nightly in a variety of colors, celebrating the Orioles (orange), the Ravens (purple), Pride (rainbow) and more. The crane was used in local shipbuilding efforts during World War II, with the operators climbed up nearly 100 feet into the cab. The lighting is made possible by a grant from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority and in-kind support from Freestate Electric Companies.

Live from the BMI: Invisible Labor: Stories about hidden work, unseen efforts, and toiling far from the limelight. The BMI and the Stoop Storytelling Series present an evening of true stories focused on the work–and workers–that we rarely see. Thursday, Oct 15, 7-8pm. Live streamed from the museum on Zoom. Registration at bit.ly/BMIinvisiblelabor This program is sponsored by Constellation.

 

 

header image: Echiko Ohira, Untitled (paper and thread #3), 2016–17; Tea-stained blueprint, cardboard, thread, and glue, 39 x 39 x 11 in.; Courtesy of the artis

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