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This Week: René Treviño and Ellen Hoobler discussion at Connect+Collect, Katie Pumphrey artist talk at Alex Cooper, Material Systems curated by Alex Ebstein opening reception at MICA, artists Angela Franklin and Chevelle Makeba Moore Jones exhibition curated by Schroeder Cherry opening at JELMA, Marisa Stratton artist talk at MoCA, Micah E. Wood and Christopher Chester in conversation with Devin Allen at Bird in Hand, Baltimore Jewelry Center’s 2025 Ornamenta Auction, and E. Brady Robinson at the Pratt Library — PLUS Asia North 2025 call for art and more featured opportunities!

 

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René Treviño

René Treviño and Ellen Hoobler: Art, Identity, and Legacy
Wednesday, January 22 :: 6-8pm
@ Connect+Collect

Join us on Wednesday, January 22nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at BmoreArt Connect+Collect for an evening exploring the creative process and cultural narratives through the lens of interdisciplinary artist René Treviño and curator Ellen Hoobler. The event begins with a special screening of a 20-minute documentary that offers an intimate look at Treviño’s artistic journey in creating work for his recent exhibition, stab of guilt, at the Wellin Museum of Art. The film highlights Treviño’s meticulous process and his exploration of identity, mythology, and historical reinterpretation.

Following the film, Treviño and Hoobler will engage in a dynamic conversation exploring his practice, which reimagines traditional narratives of race, sexuality, and heritage. Ellen Hoobler, the William B. Ziff, Jr., Curator of Art of the Americas at the Walters Art Museum, will offer a curatorial perspective, drawing on her work for the museum’s new landmark permanent installation. This Walter exhibition features over 200 works spanning 40 cultures and more than four millennia, presenting a richly layered exploration of ancient and contemporary art from Latin America/Latinoamerica.

Together, they will examine themes of shared humanity and the resonance between historical and modern art practices, offering new ways to think about the connections between the past and present.

 

Katie Pumphrey | Artist Talk + Swim Stories
Wednesday, January 22 :: 4:30-6:30pm
@ Alex Cooper

Baltimore-based Auctioneer Alex Cooper’s quarterly art exhibition series is currently on view with an exhibition featuring the work of Katie Pumphrey. On Wednesday, January 22, from 4:30-6:30, Pumphrey will give an artist talk entitled “Artist Talk with Swim Stories.”

Guests will be able to view Pumphrey’s Emerge Exhibition and hear the presentation while enjoying light refreshments. The Artist Talk coincides with the preview of the January Gallery Auctions providing attendees the opportunity to tour the auction house as well.

Katie Pumphrey famously completed the first swim from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and is preparing for her third swim of the English Channel.

“Katie’s work is informed by her career as a marathon swimmer.  Hearing her talk about her work and her swimming is a rare treat,” said Kathleen Hamill, Director of Art at Alex Cooper. “We look forward to bringing her work and her stories to our customers.”

The Emerge Series aims to bring awareness to Alex Cooper clientelle about the vibrant art community that is Baltimore.  Emerge will expand the art buying experience for Alex Cooper customers by providing them with multiple options for creating or adding to their art collecitons.

The Emerge Series with Katie Pumphrey runs until January 31, 2025.  All works will be available for immediate purchase on Alex Cooper’s Buy Now Portal. (www.buynow.alexcooper.com)

ABOUT ALEX COOPER (www.alexcooper.com)

Alex Cooper, headquarterd in Towson, MD, is proudly celebrating 100 years of business.  It is one of the largest auctioneers in Maryland and Washington, DC. The company has more than 50 employees and specializes in the sale of arts and antqiues, jewelry, silver, furniture and decorative arts, as well as the sale of residential, commercial and industrial real estate. The showroom also features a “Gallery of Rugs” offering one of the region’s most expansive rug collection.

ABOUT KATIE PUMPHREY (www.katiepumphrey.com)

Katie Pumphrey (b.1987) is an American interdisciplinary artist and ultramarathon open water swimmer. Pulling from her experiences in the water, her paintings, sculptures, and installations use abstraction and imagery to investigate our anxieties, fears, and how our imagination plays tricks on us. Incorporating a bit of humor, Pumphrey explores these tensions and the connectedness between human instincts and play. She has a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her works have been exhibited in galleries across the United States, including solo exhibitions in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Key West.

On June 25th, 2024, Katie Pumphrey became the first person to complete the Bay to Baltimore swim, a 24 mile swim from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Other notable swims include the English Channel (2015, 2022), around the island of Manhattan (2017), and the Catalina Channel (2018, 2024)— those three swims make up the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Pumphrey was the 194th person (73rd woman) in the world to achieve that honor. Her work is deeply connected to this aspect of her life. Pumphrey lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

 

 

artwork: E E Ikeler

Material Systems | Opening Reception
Friday, January 24 :: 5-7pm
@ MICA Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery

Material Systems is a group exhibition showcasing works by artists whose systematic methodologies inform their artistic practices, encompassing works that span painting, printmaking, collage, animation, and sculpture. Through additive processes, these artists construct, layer, and integrate materials into cohesive yet dynamic works that emphasize craftsmanship and materiality.

The exhibition foregrounds the artists’ use of meticulous processes, such as stacking, layering, and excavating, to form their distinct artistic voices. Often defying or expanding the limitations of artistic categorization, many of the works blend technologies and traditional techniques to find hybridity between media. Similarly, themes of memory, identity, transformation, nostalgia, and angst are explored and combined in the works presented. The exhibition, held at MICA’s Riggs and Leidy galleries, is meant to inspire student artists to explore the conceptual significance of materials and methods in their own creative practice.

Alex Ebstein is an artist and curator based in Baltimore, MD and James Williams II is an artist, curator and faculty member of MICA’s painting department.  The two artists/curators both work in the area of painting and utilize atypical materials and techniques to achieve their ends, including yoga mats, velcro, mixed media, applique, and ceramics.

Exhibiting Artists: Matt Bollinger,  Richard Hart, Andrew Hladky, E E Ikeler, Saskia Krafft, Gracelee Lawrence, Austin Lee, Aryana Minai, Danni O’Brien, Michael Stamm, Elisa Soliven, Karen Yasinsky, Monsieur Zohore

 

 

“Forever Following” 2023. Angela Franklin

Getting to Grown: A Diaspora Journey | Exhibition Opens
Friday, January 24
James E. Lewis Museum of Art

James E. Lewis Museum of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland will open to the public Getting to Grown: A Diaspora Journey Exhibition featuring artists Angela Franklin and Chevelle Makeba Moore Jones. Curated by Schroeder Cherry, Getting to Grown  features a mix of textile works, paintings, and collaged images depicting the ways one might navigate life to become “grown.” These works of art highlight moments like, raising families, living abroad, and transitioning loved ones to death. Inspired by the African diaspora, familial memories and lived experiences, the artists use depictions of nature and humanity to speak to the development of their inner worlds as it relates to the changes they’ve experienced in the outer world.

Getting to Grown opens Friday January 24th and will feature a presentation from Morgan’s theater department on Sunday, March 2nd at 2pm. An artist talk is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 11 AM in the James E Lewis Museum.

Angela Franklin earned her BA in Art from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, her MFA from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and a MA in Education Management at Hamdan Bin Mohamed e-University in Dubai. She is a former instructor in the art department at Morgan State University, and has lived and worked in higher education in Senegal, Nigeria, Abu Dhabi and the Marshall Islands. Her works are narrative tales that explore, chronicle, and testify to people of the African Diaspora and their shared experiences and philosophies regarding themselves and other cultures. Franklin has exhibited her works in various national and international public and private art venues including the Art Hub-Abu Dhabi; Musee Boribana, Dakar, Senegal; DAK’Art Biennale National Exhibit in 2018 and the DAK Art Off Exhibit in 2024; the Renwick Gallery-Smithsonian Institution, and the National Afro-American Museum, Wilberforce, Ohio.  Since 2020, she has been commissioned to create large-scale works for Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio and Acres of Ancestry, a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem rooted in Black ecocultural traditions and textile arts.

Chevelle Makeba Moore Jones earned a BFA from MICA, (Maryland Institute, College of Art), Baltimore, Maryland, and has exhibited her works in various public and private arts venues throughout the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. Her art invites discourse around mental health and self-care. She is the recipient of several Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts/Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation fellowship in painting. The city of Baltimore has also honored the artist with five Individual Artist awards. Chevelle’s work is in the collection of several private collectors including but not limited to, the Lancaster Museum of Art, the City of Baltimore, and the collection of Absolut Vodka of Sweden.

 

 

"You Will Never Be Forgotten," installation view. Photograph by Vivian Marie Doering.

Marisa Stratton Artist Talk
Friday, January 24 :: 6:30pm
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington

Join MoCA Resident Artist Marisa Stratton and Curator Amanda Jirón-Murphy in a dialogue about “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” Stratton’s solo exhibition of contemporary portraiture, currently on view in the Wyatt Resident Gallery. Stratton will discuss making portraits through the mediation of a phone screen, and share her artistic references, process, and unique perspective on the social media landscape. This talk is free; no registration is required.

 

 

Q&A with SCENE SEEN authors Micah Wood and Christopher Chester ** Rescheduled Date **
Sunday, January 26 :: 7-9pm
@ Bird in Hand

Join us to celebrate SCENE SEEN, the incredible new art book documenting Baltimore’s music scene from 2016-2024, including portraits of 85 bands taken over those 8 years. Daoure Diongue will kick off the evening with a performance of experimental ambient jazz. Then, stay for a Q&A with photographer Micah E. Wood and designer Christopher Chester, moderated by photographer Devin Allen.

Stop by to enjoy the music, meet and greet with the authors, pick up a signed copy, and spend some time in good company!

 

 

Jewelry info L to R. Aurélie Guillaume – Les Papillons, Earrings, 2024, Enamel on copper, sterling silver Ashley Buchanan – 2pc Folded Pendant with Folded Studs, 2023, brass, powder coat, silver, rubber Andy Lowrie -Tweaker Vision, Brooch, 2024, Vitreous enamel, silver, copper, brass, stainless steel pin

Ornamenta 2025 Auction
Monday, January 27 | Ongoing through February 8
presented by Baltimore Jewelry Center

The Ornamenta auction will go live on January 27th and close on February 8th. Guests are able to participate both online and in person at our Ornamenta fundraiser!

The Baltimore Jewelry Center is an educational nonprofit building a vibrant creative community for the study and practice of metalsmithing and art jewelry. We educate and inspire new and established artists, as well as promote metalsmithing and art jewelry to the general public through exhibitions, community and educational outreach.

Our organization is dependent on fundraising and donations to operate our educational and studio rental program. These funds allow us to offer our classes and workshops at a below-market rate while paying our instructors competitive wages. Furthermore, this revenue allows us to offer free workshops in our neighborhood in Station North, operate our residency program, offer scholarships, provide programming for kids and teens, and host prestigious exhibitions that present the work of local, national and international artists.

You can support our mission and programming by bidding on the items in our auction. You can also support directly by giving to our Fund A Need causes at the bottom of this page. We hope you will bid high and bid often! Auction bidding begins on January 27th at 5:00 pm EST and ends on Saturday, February 8th at 10:30 pm EST.

You can also support the BJC during Ornamenta by purchasing raffle tickets!

 

 

E. Brady Robinson: Her Work with Baltimore’s Creative Communities
Monday, January 27 :: 6-9pm
@ Enoch Pratt FREE Library, Central Branch

Registration is recommended for this event. Please register here.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is proud to announce a special lecture by E. Brady Robinson, a Baltimore-based photographer and creative director known for her vibrant and eclectic mix of fine art photography, cultural documentation, and portraits of creatives. Robinson’s work reflects a deep connection to creative communities, capturing fashion, runway, and music. Her photography, which often explores creativity, social events, and movement, has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Mark Hachem Gallery Paris and the Lishui Photography Festival in China. Represented by Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Robinson holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She also teaches at Georgetown University.

The lecture will provide attendees with insights into Robinson’s experiences documenting Baltimore’s vibrant creative community. Robinson will discuss special projects funded by the Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant, solo exhibitions with Maryland Art Place, and select photo essays published in BmoreArt, where she regularly contributes. Her photography style is highly social, capturing creativity in all its forms, from portraits of artists to music and fashion. Join us for an evening of art, culture, and conversation with one of Baltimore’s respected photographers.

 

 

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Summer Dance Intensive Audition * Updated *
February 1 :: 9:30am-1pm
@ Coppin State University
February 2: 10am-1:30pm
@ Morton Street Dance Center

Chicago’s acclaimed Deeply Rooted Dance Theater is auditioning students at the youth and pre-professional levels for its 2025 Summer Dance Intensive, which offers technical training and artistic development within the discipline of dance. Participants at youth and pre-professional levels experience a rigorous curriculum fostering learning and personal growth, along with opportunities to learn the company’s repertory through workshops and performances. The curriculum includes classes based in Horton, Graham, ballet, and contemporary movement. The curriculum also features The Continuum, a series of guided conversations on self-awareness and personal growth informed by each participant’s creativity and artistic process.

The six-week program runs June 2–July 12, 2025 at Deeply Rooted’s studios at Ballet Chicago, 17 North State Street, downtown Chicago.

For more information and to register for an audition, visit deeplyrooteddancetheater.org/summer-dance-intensive.

* Auditions also take place January 31 at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, open only to Peabody Institute students.

 

 

LUX Center for the Arts Call for Artists: “Under the Influence”
deadline February 1

We invite artists to submit their work for our upcoming group show titled “Under the Influence.”

This exhibition will explore the profound impact that artists have on one another. Art is a dynamic conversation—a dialogue that transcends time and space, where each artist builds upon the ideas and styles of those who inspire them.

In “Under the Influence,” we invite you to showcase how your work reflects this interconnectedness, whether it’s a nod to a lesser-known contemporary artist, a dialogue with a peer, or a response to a collective movement. Every artist, regardless of their level of recognition, contributes to the evolving narrative of art, shaping the way we perceive and create.

Theme:

“Under the Influence” is an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which art is a dialogue between the past and the present. We encourage submissions that reveal connections to specific artists, movements, or styles—whether through technique, concept, or thematic resonance.

 

 

Wave Farm Transmission Art Residencies
deadline February 1

Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium. Applicants should deeply consider the distinctive qualities of FM radio as opposed to online radio and/or podcasts. This is an opportunity open to international applicants. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears. Their radio artwork will also be included in Wave Farm’s weekly syndicated program The Radio Art Hour, which is rebroadcast on dozens of additional radio stations across the U.S. A stipend of $1,000 will be provided to each resident artist. In 2025, residencies will be offered monthly, May through October.

 

 

2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship Application
deadline February 3
posted by The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 – April 30. Fellows are selected through a rigorous jury process. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. The Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship counts among its alumni Sam Messer, Sarah Oppenheimer, Tala Madani, Troy Michie, Jennie Livingston, Jennifer Packer, Ellen Gallagher, Firelei Báez, and other critically acclaimed artists, many of whom have gone on to receive the highest commendations in contemporary art.

More information regarding the Fellowship program can be found at: https://fawc.org/the-fellowship/.

The Fine Arts Work Center is implementing three tiers of application pricing in an effort to increase access to the process. The Visual Arts application fee is $40 from October 9 to November 15 at 11:59 am. The application fee is $55 from November 15 at 12:00 pm to December 1 at 11:59 am. The application fee is $65 from December 1 at 12:00 pm until the close of the application period on February 1 at 11:59 pm. All deadlines occur in the Eastern Time zone. The application fees are payable with a credit or debit card when you submit your application on SlideRoom.

Individual application fees directly support Fellowship expenses, including jury process, Fellows stipends, the maintenance of artist live-work space, and overall administrative support.

For visual arts application questions, contact Sarah (she/her) at [email protected].

 

 

MMPH: Shorts Auditions and Designer Call

Manor Mill Playhouse is always looking for new talent. If you are interested in getting involved in the show, on stage, on the production team, or in any way at all (or know someone who might want to), keep reading.

AUDITIONS

All roles for all three shows are open, and all actors will receive a stipend. We will be holding auditions for MMPH Shorts on the following dates:

  • Thursday, February 6th, 7 pm – 10 pm
  • Saturday, February 8th, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Callbacks: Sunday, February 9th, 10am – 2 pm

Auditions and callbacks will take place at Manor Mill (2029 Monkton Rd, Monkton, MD).

Sign-up & Cast Breakdown: 

Click here for more information on the plays, including character breakdowns, and to sign up for a slot.

Actors will sign up for a one-hour time slot to attend on Feb. 6 or Feb. 8 and will receive sides once registered.

If you cannot make the scheduled audition sessions and would like to be considered, please contact Vanessa Eskridge: vlceskridge@gmail.com.

DESIGNER CALL

Are you interested in working on the Design/Production Team? We are looking for the following to join us for this production:

  • Scenic Designer 
  • Lighting Designer
  • Stage Managers: 3-4 needed

Please email Producer Vanessa Eskridge at [email protected] to learn more about these opportunities. We are looking for candidates who are excited to creatively design for all three short plays.

*All production team members will receive a stipend.

 

 

Juried Call for Art – Birds in Peril
deadline February 10
posted by Gallery 220

Art and science pair up to tell the stories of Birds in Peril, an exhibition at Gallery 220 (located at 220 N. Washington St. Havre de Grace, MD 210178). The exhibition is slated for March 28th- May 11th, 2025 and will be curated by the Havre de Grace GreenTeam.

Art has been used to document various global problems for ages. Birds in Peril will showcase the current struggles of the bird population. The artwork will highlight bird species that are struggling to survive in the current environment.  Bird populations world-wide are experiencing declines due to many factors, including loss of habitat, global warming, sea-level rise, over-hunting, light pollution, predation by feral cats, changing landscape along migration routes, and competition with invasive species.  Scientists are working to identify solutions to these challenges to help soften the impact of human instigated conflict to try to save some of the most imperiled species.  Some efforts to save these species are complicated and global in scale, other efforts that can be addressed at the local, even backyard, scale.

The exhibition will serve as a vehicle to educate visitors of the miraculous efforts, hardships, and challenges birds face in surviving the man-altered landscape.  The show will be timed to correlate with International Migratory Bird Day, the second Saturday in May as part of the HdG Green Team’s Bird City programming.

Call Submission Guidelines

We are looking for different representations and points of view on the theme Birds in Peril, – both literal and metaphorical interpretations in multiple mediums– both abstract and representational. The work may represent the danger that birds are in, offer potential solutions to this crisis, celebrate the birds, explore the art of conservation etc. Media includes but is not limited to: painting, drawings, sculpture, photography, installation, video/film, and mixed media.

 

 

Polly Apfelbaum (3x 92-24) in MacDowell's Eastman Studio in March 2024 with a series of more than 150 works she created with 37 colors of gouache on six-inch circular paper. (Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

MacDowell Fellowship
deadline February 10

MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts. About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence.

 

 

Asia North 2025 Exhibition | Call for Art
deadline February 14

The Asia North 2025 exhibition seeks artworks with themes that have a sardonically reactive spirit that usurps familial and societal pressures and expectations of identity politics, political realities, the orientalist gaze, and/or all the “business as usual” rides that we experience as an APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and Desi American) within the DMV diaspora. Rather than a prescriptive education into one’s personal cultural identity, experiences, or journeys, submitted work should present anecdotes, tongue-in-cheek critiques, or subversive/rebellious reactions against these forces at large. Work created in the same spirit as DADA, abstraction, satire, escapism, romanticism, playing, and/or the love of the physical act of art making itself is especially welcome.

Guest Curated By Phaan Howng

Howng is a Taiwanese-American Baltimore based artist known for her paintings and immersive installations of lush flora thriving in what she calls an “optimistic post-apocalypse.”

 

 

Inviting Light Open Call
deadline March 31

Inviting Light is an ambitious public art project that will bring the vibrant glow of cultural activity to Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District (Station North) with five site-specific public art installations and numerous curated events throughout 2025.

Five artists, selected by artist and curator Derrick Adams, are currently developing site-specific outdoor artworks to be installed from January–September in Station North.

Beginning in March, these sites and adjacent areas will be further activated by ephemeral works and public programs organized by curator José Ruiz.

This Open Call seeks proposals from artists of all kinds to be considered for Inviting Light’s additional community programming, which will be incorporated within the project. Accepted proposals will be staged outdoors from March–June and September–December 2025.

 

 

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