The Author of "My Father's Work Shed" Discusses Family, Irish Households, and Other Inspirations
One experiences Bart O’Reilly’s paintings and poems with all the senses. There are familiar scents, visceral textures begging to be traced by curious fingertips, and passages that seem to be whispering, “I deserve to be heard aloud.”
A Curator Carves Out Space for artists at the Black Artist Research Space
Established in 2020, BARS is a haven for Black artists and culture movers that exists far beyond its own walls and expands in every direction.
An architecture major before she pursued fiber arts, Jeon seeks motifs from the simplicity of hanok, plain lines constructing its shape.
Isn’t sustainability the ultimate community care, a tender wish to live and survive together?
The Multidisciplinary Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) Receives His First, Overdue Major Museum Retrospective Posthumously
In working with a fixed set of decades-old family portraits, Ellis constantly conjured the past. His sculpted surfaces acted as a sort of Ouija board, though instead of a planchet, Ellis was guided by his father's original negatives to commune with his spirit.
A Year in Photos by Jill Fannon
Starting in January and ending with today, a photo essay that captures the fleeting intensity of 2022
Ten Baltimore Art Exhibits in 2022 that Made us Reevaluate Our Priorities
Thank you to the museums, galleries, colleges, artist-run spaces, and universities consistently supply us with exhibitions that challenge our intellect, influence our emotions, and encourage us to participate in creative production.
On healing through art, the landscape's influence, and material problem-solving
Working with everything from moss and money plant membranes to artificial ivy and metal, Laura Amussen creates thematic exhibitions around singular ideas, such as the buoyancy of water as a metaphor for overcoming struggle.
A rare opportunity to experience innovative constructions and beautiful objects, as artists build a legacy steeped in historical research
A groundbreaking exhibition about the promise of upward mobility and the sacrifices endured by Black Americans to realize a safer and more stable life, realized through the personal lens of family history from those who experienced it directly.
Photos by Saskia Kahn, a NY-to-Baltimore transplant, who loves the connections and conversations that photography invites
Remembering what can be special about this holiday season including the beauty of night, the sense of expectation, and buying into the magic
A Conversation with curators Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan Dennis about their Great Migration Collaborative Exhibit, now at the BMA
From Jackson, Mississippi to Baltimore, Maryland, telling the story of the Great Migration through the lens of twelve contemporary Black artists
A Ceramics Artist Living Thousands of Miles from Home Shares Her Love of Fashion, Ice Cream, Raw Clay, and her "Art Family"
Koh is a Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington DC, but originally studied fine arts at Hongik University in Seoul, and later earned an MFA from Alfred University in New York
The Musical Specificity and Language of Grey in Weiss' "Centerpiece" at Gross McCleaf Gallery
Weiss has spent a lifetime collecting an ever-evolving cast of invented characters. He’s spent just as long perfecting his stylized portrayals of them and their subject matter. Examples are presently on display in a dazzling show at Philadelphia’s Gross McCleaf Gallery.
An Exhibit and Holiday Jewelry Sale, with Photos by Vivian Doering
Signs, Signals + Symbols, an exhibition that explores jewelry as a symbol of identity and vehicle for communication, alongside the annual BJC Holiday Sale, featuring work by new, emerging, and established artists.
ABMB Just Started the Countdown to its 21st Birthday, but the Champagne Has Long Been (Over)flowing
Last week, Art Basel Miami Beach turned twenty. It’s hard to overstate how extremely the once-unlikely Floridian spinoff of the highbrow Swiss art fair has transformed both the global art market and its host city.
A Photo Essay by Mollye Miller capturing opening night energy in Station North’s newest art venue
What better way to animate a theatrical building with a unique history than inviting a group of artists to make site-specific work?
Memento Mori at The Parlor, Figure / Narrative at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Manifest Presence at Catalyst
Three Succinct Reviews including a group show about death in a former funeral home, as well as figurative narrative paintings from established masters Grace Hartigan and Raoul Middleman and a new generation of painters in Baltimore
Text and Found Object in exhibitions by Kei Ito and R.L. Tillman
While Ito leans on a more personal narrative to probe the continued legacy of violence, Tillman dissects printmaking history, wartime advertisements and reminiscence in social media today.
On museum unions, getting to know a city by walking, and designed structures
For Mangus, an artist, writer, and museum guard, space for reflection is essential to a strong end result.
