Where Do We Go From Here? Transforming Detritus into Works of Art
Connect + Collect Artist Talk with Jordan Tierney, Adam Stab, Lee Davis and Anand Pandian
A BmoreArt Gallery Discussion and Event with the Ecological Design Collective
Visual Art Page 28
a model, a map, a fiction: transmediale Festival Draws and Disseminates the Digital Art World
This Iteration of the Genre-Bending Berlin Institution Considers Scale with Alternating Humor, Gravity, and Weirdness
The artworks on display might all be defined as technologically speculative but ran a range from past and present critiques to future possibilities (the term speculative comes up all too regularly in such spheres). Techno-utopianisms were not the theme here...
Ice from a Dying Creed: ‘This is Britain’ at the National Gallery of Art
In Washington, DC, an ambitious exhibition considers British photography from the turbulent '70s and '80s
A concise but impactful exhibition of photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art, presents a boisterous and iconoclastic photographic culture
Dancing With Trees: Wood Sculpture by Joe Haviland at the Rawlings Conservatory
A Photo Essay documenting the first major retrospective since the artist’s passing by Jill Fannon
A comprehensive range of carved wooden sculpture by nationally recognized Baltimore-based artist Joe Haviland is up through Sunday, February 19
Art AND: Fitsum Shebeshe
Studio Visit with an artist-curator who moved to Baltimore from Addis Ababa in 2016 to attend Graduate School at MICA
How Fitsum Shebeshe's studio work and curatorial projects explore a wide spectrum of cultural and existential questions
The Last Resort Artist Retreat
A Conversation with Derrick Adams
Established on a quiet block in the intimate north Baltimore neighborhood of Waverly, The Last Resort Artist Retreat (TLRAR) will offer Black creatives curated experiences in communal spaces that emphasize a renewed regard for rest, rejuvenation, and cross-disciplinary exchange.
Celebrating the Saddest Day of the Year
Photos and an Interview with Ana Tantaros, Baltimore's "Saddest" Party Planner
"Blue Monday" has the dubious distinction of being the saddest day of the year, according to pseudo-science. One Baltimore photographer sees it as the perfect excuse to throw a party.
Art AND: Amanda Burnham
On fearless artmaking, the value of openness, and why wanting stability is not selling out
"Nothing is ever failed. It's just going to take a form that I don't know about yet.”
From RuPaul’s Bedroom to a Liechtenstein Chalet: Catching Up with Paula Gately Tillman
On the Heels of Her Retrospective, the Photographer Talks New York in the 80s, Coming Home to Baltimore, and a Personal Journey
The photographer has suffered loss, embarked on myriad creative endeavors, published two books, and just closed a successful retrospective at the Creative Alliance.
Baltimore Lunar New Year: Photo Essay
Celebrating Asian Culture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in Photos by Elena Volkova
Baltimore’s Lunar Night Cultural Festival took place January 21 and 22, as a free weekend-long cultural event designed to embrace the richness of Asian culture and traditions through food and art in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and Lake Shore Park.
Hal Boyd’s “Active Imagination” Runs Wild
Artist Dedicated to Exploring the Subconscious in Lush Twenty-Year Retrospective at Gallery Blue Door
Hal Boyd wades into the gloriously oddball humanness of being. He pursues the lusty ocean of the every-person subconscious—a dreamland hauled up for all to see. Here relationships are loaded, flowers burst sexy, animals prowl cackling, beauty and hilarity intertwine.
Inside Phylicia Ghee’s Story of Remembrance
Phylicia Ghee’s 'Liminality: Midwifery and the Sacred Womb' at The Nicholson Project
After a residency at The Nicholson Project in DC, Ghee created a container for intergenerational inquiries about care and caregivers
Layered and Converging Histories: Lionel Frazier White III’s “Beyond the Frame” at Hamiltonian Artists
The Personal is Political in Gentrifying DC
Themes of fragmentation, remembrance, and celebration flow through White’s varied yet cohesive body of work.
Painter, Poet, Father, and Son: Bart O’Reilly
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.”
BARS: A Study of Space with Rhea Beckett
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.
A Tender Wish: The Sustainable Fashion of Bokeum Jeon
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?
A Legacy Left Intact: Darrel Ellis at the BMA
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.
The New Normal: Photos from a Year of Constant Transition
A Year in Photos by Jill Fannon
Starting in January and ending with today, a photo essay that captures the fleeting intensity of 2022