A studio visit with Safiyah Cheatam, Afrofuturist, conceptual and social practice artist, UMBC Intermedia & Digital Arts MFA Candidate
Like Afrofuturists before her, Cheatam carries on the legacy through her evolving studio practice, through her daily existence, and through elements that incorporate her training as a filmmaker.
After Covid-19 postponement, Issue 09: Craft is coming! If you want to own it, please subscribe via our website.
Issue 09: Craft celebrates Baltimore’s incredible makers, visionary artists, and creative businesses
"My work rides a fine line between fine art and craft, if such a line exists."
Rosa Leff's self-taught paper-cutting practice began at her dining room table
Images for Baltimore raises much-needed funding for the Maryland Food Bank
Buy a $50 print by a Baltimore-based artist and support the MD Food Bank
Sangram Majumdar, Magnolia Laurie, Gaia, Erin Fostel, and Taha Heydari
A discussion with five Baltimore-based artists whose art practices have been affected by coronavirus
Digital shows and presentations for area institutions' graduating classes
Featuring UMBC, MICA, Bowie State, and more
Social practice artist, advocate of alternative educational models, Mount Royal MFA
The coronavirus crisis has affected everything, from world geopolitics to our small art worlds, says the Venezuelan artist and MICA MFA candidate
Speaking the language of memes, real-world visual puns reveal the tragicomedy of contemporary life
FOLLOWING is a series of profiles and interviews of the art world social media accounts that make us think, laugh, cry, love, or sometimes just “like.”
Searching for solid footing in a world without structure with some unlikely support from Alice Cooper, sewing, weaving, and walking
The antidote to the greed and selfishness that got us all here is kindness and compassion. They say that begins at home. Lucky us.
Curated by Ginevra Shay, the project connected 22 poets and artists with 240 listeners
In this weird and surreal time of social distancing and self-isolation, a stranger’s voice can feel like a warm invitation.
Shop from Resort, Transformer, Make Studio, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore Clayworks, and Galerie Myrtis
Look no further than these Baltimore- and DC-based galleries and artist-run spaces currently selling affordable art.
How a curator’s role must evolve, immediately and for the future
We all expended a tremendous amount of labor—myself, the artists, art handlers, the gallery director, friends, family—to get the show open. And now, the result of COVID-19 is that effort sits in a gallery unviewed.
Poignant observations, compelling points of view, and beautiful fantasies, made in Baltimore during the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine
We are living through a major historical event and it's essential that we record our experiences.
Ellen Lesperance talks about the relevance of craft, the beauty of mistakes, creative direct action, and more
Craft materials, like art materials, need to be utilized to generate new and personal meanings that have relevance, that also engage with the world of ideas.
Even as much of the art world retreated to the safety of the internet, some creative workers continued their trade in the public sphere
We now know that this will be a matter of months, rather than weeks: the Cleveland Museum of Art has already canceled all programming through the end of June, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art expects to remain closed at least through July.
Art critic and UMBC curator Maurice Berger dies from coronavirus symptoms at age 63
He could have easily written beautiful and empty things, instead his life's work was naming racism and calling out the art world’s whiteness.
Artist, Aesthete, Rock-climbing Aficionado, Towson Studio Art MFA Candidate
You Wu and their art will undoubtedly survive any impending apocalypse.
Fear is a vital and necessary part of love
All of these cancellations are, of course, in the best interest of everybody’s health, but especially those of us whose immune systems are less resilient or suppressed.
