Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)
Baltimore sculptor Elliot Doughtie has thought a lot about locker rooms and other liminal spaces in which one’s identity is in flux.
Rhythms and Strips in Retrospect at Arting Gallery
A Former MICA Professor's Lifetime Love Affair with Drawing and Improvisation
The Artist's Mixed-Media Exhibit at Transformer DC Interrogates America's Expectations of Black Women
In I’m Not Your Superwoman, Pinkston explores the Black-woman-superhero-complex, Black women's labor, and the complicated trope of “resilience,” a word often romanticized, exploited, and conflated.
Two Exhibitions Deep, Downtown's New Arts Incubator Offers Perspectives on Climate and Environmental Justice
Founded by Leonardo Martinez, a recent DC to Baltimore transplant, the new artist incubator, studio building, and gallery devoted to climate justice is nestled just behind the central branch library on Mulberry Street.
Fantasy Machine, an experimental fashion show and pop up shop presented by Meg Beck returned to Current Space for the 6th year
This year's iteration included a mixture of designers who have participated many times and those who were joining for the first time.
How a Trip to the Art Museum in Potomac Restored My Faith in the World
I was taken with this strange paradise hidden in the Potomac suburbs, this place that seemed to me like another country—if not another planet.
An Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, the Executive Director, and Caitlin Gill, Exhibitions Director and MSAC Directory Coordinator
"We are very multifaceted and action oriented. We are striving to foster as many opportunities as possible for the artists."
A Baltimore Retreat
From the moment you step into this boutique hotel and the good neighbor design shop, you are immersed in an atmosphere of refined taste and creative brilliance. Owned and curated by Shawn Chopra and Anne Morgan, the guesthouse pays homage to their Indian and Egyptian heritages.
"The Third Future: A Self-Portrait" is a Sky-High Confirmation of Ainsley Burrows as a Baltimore Painter
Following a triumphant opening at BOPA's Top of the World, writer Quentin Gibeau caught up with the multidisciplinary artist Ainsley Burrows to talk practice, success in Baltimore, and upcoming events on October 25th
Five exhibits that unleash the power of underrepresented perspectives and materials
Fragile Beauty at Hillwood, Preoccupied at the BMA, Connie Imboden and Mark Kelner at the Katzen, and The Subversive Thread at Academy Art Museum
An Interview with the Artist on Why Her New Exhibit Recenters Dominican Folklore
I started with La Ciguapa because I'm really interested in femininity and the concept of the womanly body in space, my body in space, my body in different places, especially as it relates to immigration.
Goxxip Girl Collective Christens a Feminist Art Space with the Group Show “Feral”
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.
The Artist Works Directly from Life, but Experiments with Modernist Techniques, Subjective Experience, and Artificial Intelligence
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."
How Nurturing Shapes Their Partnership and Their Current Collaborative Project
Family traditions, community education, cultural preservation, and storytelling have influenced Cheatam and Flounders' work and inspired the creation of Islam & Print.
A Competitive MFA Degree from a Well-Funded, Multidisciplinary Art Department
Towson University's MFA in Studio Arts is a supportive environment that is affordable, nearby, and academically rigorous.
Circle in a Circle: Compulsion, An Exhibit by a MICA Senior
Katherine Pon-Cooper’s "Circle in Circle: Compulsion" is a conceptually tight and handsomely executed show mounted in MICA’s Pinkard Gallery.
Ahead of Their September 22nd Show at Rams Head Live, McNew Reflects on a 40-Year Career
Yo La Tengo is a group that embodies a unique essence—their music is romantically heartfelt yet slightly whimsical, hiding a touch of noise within its melodic beauty.
How the Strategist, Organizer, and Advocate for a Just Creative Economy is Making Space for Her Own Practice
"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?"
