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Clay in Your City: NCECA is Coming to Baltimore

What to Expect When the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference Lands in Baltimore Next Year? Baltimoreans Share their Experiences from this Year's Edition in Detroit

I’ve included some highlights from my experience of NCECA with some thoughts from others who have connections with Baltimore. These are only a fraction of what you can see and experience. If you are friends with ceramic artists, potters, or collectors the conference feels like a family reunion.

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Ward 81: Mary Ellen Mark’s Radical Compassion

The Photographer's Groundbreaking Project is Revisited at The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at UMBC

In 1975, she was hired to take still photos on the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which was filmed on location at Oregon State Hospital. It was there Mark first met the women who lived on Ward 81, the only psychiatric ward of its kind for women in the state.

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Books, Hours, Avatars: Medieval Mindscapes at the Walters

A Tidy Survey Show Highlights Excerpts from The Walters Collection of Medieval Books of Hours—One of the World's Largest

You can almost sense the pleasure that the curator, Lauren Maceross, took in choosing her examples. Juxtaposed with tidy bands of text, the images on display range from playful to grisly and from conventional to conceptually complex. Cumulatively, though, they offer considerable rewards.

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George Ciscle: A Life in the Service of Art

From "Mining the Museum" to Making it More Accessible, Few Art Workers Have Left as Indelible a Mark on Institutional Practice

“I didn’t want to be the center of things... I wanted to see what would happen creatively from this group of people that were not me. I wanted to be the facilitator.”

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MICA’s Fête of Lights Celebrates 200 Years

The modern Fête bridges MICA's 200-year history with contemporary artistic practice, and is a revival of events that originated in the late 1920s

MICA has leaned into this historic milestone by mining its rich and storied past, hosting a Bicentennial Gala called the Fête of Lights on February 21, at the Main Building and Cohen Plaza, featuring wearable art, art installations, a student-led fashion show, parade, and massive party.

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Seen & Heard: A Conversation with Julia Kim Smith

Julia Kim Smith's Transit arrives at a moment when the language of displacement has become uncomfortably familiar.

Smith, the daughter of Korean refugees who immigrated to the United States after the Korean War, assembles fifteen years of work spanning video, text, embroidery, and blood into a reckoning that refuses the comfort of metaphor.

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