Renwick Gallery Gives American Craft Its Due
Unheralded painters and sculptors, wood carvers and quilters, and weavers and potters see their work shift from the dusty corner of a fair pavilion to an art museum in the nation’s capital.
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.”
"Rob Wants to Make People Happy; He Aims to Please" is on View at von ammon co. This Month
"Every act of art feels like a resurrection to me.... an act of trying to bring it to life, like Frankenstein trying to breathe life into his monster. I only feel something is complete when it goes from a flat line to having some heartbeat."
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.
Originally from Baltimore and now based in LA, Smith is an abstract painter and sculptor who manipulates mountains of fabric.
“All my creativity, spirituality, and skills that I utilize today—and wherever I go—came from Baltimore,” Smith says.
"Slippy Authorship" Infiltrates EGATNIV Vintage, Will Host a Closing Reception March 7, 6-8 p.m.
Against this backdrop of circulation and reuse, Rui Jiang and the Flying House Arts Collective have assembled thirteen Baltimore-based artists to question the very premise of artistic authorship.
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.
With the Support of PNC, the Eastern Shore Tradition Has Become a National Mecca for Nature Artists
The Waterfowl Festival in downtown Easton, Maryland, may have the appearances of a local shindig but having just celebrated its fifty-fourth year this past November, the three-day citywide exhibition of avian art and Eastern Shore culture regularly draws more than double the town’s population.
How Nine of Baltimore's Most Revered Women in the Arts Convinced Me Friendship Is Their Best Work of All
Joyce J. Scott invites me to spend an afternoon with the Gurlz in her home.
A Conversation with the Artist Ahead of His Upcoming Exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, Texas
"Star-Crossed: Recent Works by René Treviño" opens at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, Texas on February 21 with a reception from 5–7 pm
More Than a Must-See Exhibition, "Modernisms" Marks an Exciting New Direction for JMM
Executive Director Sol Davis sees art as a way of using the legacy of culturally specific traditions to imagine transformative futures: “I want a Jewish museum to help us dream wildly about the future.”
An Exhibit and Auction at C+C Gallery Celebrating 10 Years and 20 Issues
Portraiture by Two Black Women Artists Calls for a Truer Look at History
Tokyo-born, Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon and DC native Rozeal. (yes, there is a period at the end of her name) are featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and nearby National Gallery of Art, respectively.
What defines a great exhibition and how do they generate collective energy and wisdom?
If great exhibitions are the currency of museums, which ones in Baltimore are offering audiences rich and substantive investments?
Pop Nostalgia and Melancholy Technicolor Criticality Collide with the American Fever Dream
Da Corte has several ambitious mixed-media installations presently on view at Glenstone—injecting an unexpected bit of kitschy neon suburban dystopia into the bucolic institution's minimalist halls. It's a show worth the pilgrimage.
This year's Ornamenta theme is "Ruby," so all things RED will be trending!
The annual Baltimore Jewelry Center Gala Event on Feb. 7 offers dinner, drinks, dancing - and a jewelry auction featuring incredible wearable art.
Squishy, Political, and Visceral Textile Works at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery
"Soft Flesh and Volatile Insides" upends expectations in Goucher College’s Silber Gallery. This group exhibition—including works by Monique Crabb, Charlotte Richardson-Deppe, Ash Garner, and Stephanie J. Williams—utilizes textile as a core material and its softness becomes a vehicle for tension.
Between Kitsch and Crisis: Baltimore’s Unsung Middle Ground in Color at the Peale Museum
The Peale Museum will host a reception for Joseph Mario Giordano's "The Secret City: New Works in Color Film" Friday, January 16, 6–8 p.m.
