Where to Find Baltimore-Area MFA and BFA Exhibitions Online
Digital shows and presentations for area institutions' graduating classes
Featuring UMBC, MICA, Bowie State, and more
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BmoreArt’s Picks: April 28–May 4
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Put Your Anxious Energy to Work for You: 9 Art Admin Tasks You Can Do Right Now
For those who want to be productive, a short list of do-able tasks that you can feel good about
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.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 14-20
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Curation in the Age of Coronavirus
How a curator’s role must evolve, immediately and for the future
We all expended a tremendous amount of labor—myself, the artists, art handlers, the gallery director, friends, family—to get the show open. And now, the result of COVID-19 is that effort sits in a gallery unviewed.
MASTERS: You Wu
Artist, Aesthete, Rock-climbing Aficionado, Towson Studio Art MFA Candidate
You Wu and their art will undoubtedly survive any impending apocalypse.
Creative Real Estate: A Discussion With Trish Ofori of Baltimore’s Akwaaba House
Owner of the multi-use Mount Vernon building talks about her move from DC to cultivate community
Nestled on a lively strip in Mount Vernon, Akwaaba House is an 18th-century, three-story building that exudes a love of Black life.
Art AND: Angela N. Carroll
For Carroll—a regular contributor to BmoreArt—contemporary writing about Black artists has to move past tokenism
"The canon has purposely left out certain creatives and we’re trying to rectify that. Let’s not see this moment as a trend."
Art AND: Tiffany Jones
Tiffany Jones talks community art, motherhood, and the honesty of Baltimore's art scene
"I feel like the city wouldn't be what it is without its artists or creative people."
MASTERS: Monsieur Zohore
MICA MFA Candidate, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Spectacle
"Don’t come if you don’t already know what you want to get out of yourself."
Art AND: Monica Ikegwu
The artist discusses her career so far, doing her sisters’ hair, and the contemporary figure painters who inspire her.
Painter Monica Ikegwu’s goal is to take “ordinary people and make them into art in the ordinary clothes that they're wearing.
Art AND: Akea Brionne Brown
A Studio Visit with the 2019 23-year-old Sondheim Prize Winner
Brown’s installation and photography work, which asks her audience “to confront race and identity in modern terms,” challenges some viewers to recognize microaggressions they may not have previously considered.
Art AND: Thomas James
The challenges of being a good boss, James’ impressive sock collection, and what it takes to give a show that little something extra to make it truly resonate with the public
Thomas James sees curating as putting the works of different artists together in fresh combinations, creating new contexts and providing new inroads to the public to review.
Art AND: Nicoletta de la Brown
A shaman, self-care enthusiast, and performance artist is a master of all things ritual bathing, meditation, and breathing.
A discussion about the power of performance to move people to tears, meditation as a daily practice anyone can do, and the rewards of truly listening to yourself.
Art AND: Ashley Minner
Artist, Educator, Curator, Activist, and Member of the Lumbee Nation
“Amongst our people, education is a real value, because we haven’t always had easy access to it.”
Falling in Love with Art is Like Falling in Love
Strategies to help make your experience of art more direct, effective, and pleasurable
Due to insularity, technology, the art market, and a majority of writing about art, we now carry a bevy preconceived notions about the kind of art we are supposed to love, how to love it, and how it's supposed to make us feel.