Material Culture: Milk & Ice Vintage
At Baltimore's Milk & Ice Vintage, Clothing Offers Histories of Resilience and Innovation
Models Abbey Parrish and Paris Roberts bring historic vintage pieces to life in a photo essay by Jill Fannon
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A Photographer Capturing the Unabashed Beauty of Baltimore
This photo essay by Gregory McKay might make you fall in love with Baltimore
Harmonious images of Baltimore created after six years, tens of thousands of photos, and thousands of miles on a bike with a camera.
Ceramic Connection: The Potters Guild of Baltimore
Formed in 1955, the community clay studio comprises professionals and hobbyists, long-term potters alongside new enthusiasts
The Guild’s original animating purpose—to encourage curiosity about clay, push craftsmanship, and, perhaps most vitally, sustain a community clay studio—continues to motivate its membership.
Art AND: Mama Sallah Jenkins
The Barclay native discusses teaching and learning, art as sustenance, and starting grad school in her 60s
"I like to encourage them that this is yours; own it, own its greatness. I say there’s always a blessing in the lesson."
Dog Portraits on International Dog Day!
An art dog photo essay with images from Issue 11 and outtakes
Canine Comfort: Our Art Dogs, a series of portraits of dogs in Baltimore-based artists' studios
Tarnished Coins, Chewed Gum, Vacant Sales Racks: Lisa Dillin’s ‘Sorry we missed you’
In her Frederick Arts Council show, Dillin explores isolation and connection within ongoing economic decline
"I wanted to convey the feeling of the isolation and emptiness of the space but also connection . . . almost like you’re falling in love with that stranger, or at least having an intense curiosity."
A Cure for Toxic Museum Culture: Laura Raicovich’s New Book, Culture Strike
The myth of museum neutrality, why slowing down matters, and making authentic structural changes
Culture Strike is essential reading for art museum professionals, board members, artists, and cultural community members
Uncomfortable Comfort: The Paintings and Sculptures of Nicole Dyer
Dyer explores the shaky balance between overconsumption and deprivation
Nicole Dyer has an intimate knowledge of scarcity and overindulgence, and her exuberant canvases, papier-mâché sculptures, and installations explore the universal hunt for satisfaction through depictions of everyday products from the supermarket that surround us.
Art AND: Katie Pumphrey
The artist and swimmer on navigating the business side of things, establishing routines, and dealing with the failure gremlin
“Someone told me years ago, you have to be your biggest fan and always remind yourself of that when you’re in doubt.”
The Psychedelic & the Tangible: The Paintings of Se Jong Cho
The environmental scientist's painted fictions
Cho describes herself as a convergence of art and science, an artist and environmental scientist who wants to blur the boundaries between her fields through her compelling acrylic paintings.
National Aquarium in Baltimore: A Photo Essay
A photo essay collaboration between a Baltimore-based photographer and his daughter
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is a place for our children to wonder, dream, and stare starry-eyed at a world much larger than their home.
Re-making, Re-thinking: The Interplay Between SHAN Wallace’s Photography and Collage
On the Baltimore artist's ever-evolving practice
“I do not have the collage without photography. There is no photography without community,” Wallace says.
Art AND: Valeska Populoh
How to make decisions, build community and kinship, and create spaces for liberation
Like a good therapist, Populoh’s inquisitive nature gets anyone in conversation with her to view the world from a new perspective.
Living With Art: Olusanya Ojikutu
Creating context and conversation through a collection of classical and contemporary African art
By displaying contemporary works by African and diasporic artists with objects of historical measure into a setting for conversation, gatherings, and family, the Ojikutus have built a life around art devoid of the artificial distinctions that most museums have perpetuated for centuries
Opening Pandora’s Box: Women Behaving Badly at the BMA
A rewarding show of rarely seen prints that examines gynophobia in early print culture to the eventual rise of first-wave feminism
This show is richly rewarding, due in large part to a range of rarely seen objects and some truly clever juxtapositions.
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore: A Photo Essay
Animals and infrastructure of the Baltimore Zoo
Tsucalas's work is punctuated with razor-sharp compositions, a curious sensitivity, and a plucky sense of humor, both romantic and critical.
Art AND: Tracey Beale
The art jeweler, vocalist, and BMA program manager is constantly thinking about metal—for its malleability and its permanence
Largely self-taught, Beale now mostly allows her intuitive process to guide her from design to realization of new pieces.
Tiffany Ward Aims to Connect Artists Across the African Diaspora
Curating exhibitions and leading the Mare Residency Program, Ward explores migration, identity, Blackness, and womanhood
In her practice as a creative director, curator, and writer, Tiffany Auttrianna Ward asks questions about archives, storytelling, endurance, and existence in both physical and digital space, exploring themes of migration, identity, Blackness, and womanhood.