Photographer Stuart Ruston Captures Baltimore Artists on Their Own Turf
The images that follow offer a glimpse of the rooms behind the work and the artists who animate them, and of a creative city that is most fully visible when you’re invited inside.
The Painter Mines His Own Archive, Archetypes, and AI for Inspiration
After thirty years in the Brewer's Art, Bynum's paintings acquire a new life and new homes.
An Interview with the Iconic Cultural Maven and Proprietor of Nancy by SNAC
"My identity was shaped by my surroundings, family, freedom to express emotions, and strict discipline from loving parents. My father would say, 'Be who you are, wherever you are.' My mother always wanted us to improve. If I came home with five As and an A-..."
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
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.
The Painter Calls for Relooking at the African Diasporic Experience
"The Unembodied In-between of Blackness: that is where our humanity rests. That is where anyone from any ethnicity, any culture, that is where they connect with the work."
Meet the Curator Helming the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture
"The stories you tell and the artwork you choose have the power to transport people—to new times, deeper understandings, and different vantage points. That’s a sacred responsibility. Reshaping institutions begins with grounding yourself in purpose." "
Haskins' Currency Studio Is the Blueprint For Baltimore Art, Fashion, and Culture
There’s nothing quite like Michael E. Haskins’ Currency Studio in the city. Looking around the space, you’ll find everything from hats, baby vests, jewelry, stools, tote bags, speakers, and more. The self-proclaimed visionary does it all: He paints, sculpts, makes furniture, clothing, and more.
A Conversation with the Instrument Maker on Rediscovering Play, Ancient Traditions, and Peace Through Sound
"I like to think that sound has information, so when we build and play and listen to these kinds of instruments today, it's like opening a portal to an experience that was designed in another time, in another world."
Studio Visit with a Baltimore Clayworks Resident and Graphic Designer Who Also Teaches at MICA
Kiran Joan creates ceramic sculpture and functional pieces, but also regularly publishes illustrations in major US Publications
“Photographer, Wizard, Friend to All”
Timeless nature, without the compromise of any man made structures, is Joe Hyde's most inspired subject.
Meet the textile artist obsessed with making her own looms
“Find your life’s passion, make your life’s work, and give back to others.”
A Baltimore Homecoming, of Sorts, for a Painter and Fabricator Celebrating Movement in all Traditions
“I came back to oil, my first love, because it's how I move—it's slow, rich, flexible and giving. I needed this generosity and consistency after so much searching.”
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
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.”
On healing through art, the landscape's influence, and material problem-solving
Working with everything from moss and money plant membranes to artificial ivy and metal, Laura Amussen creates thematic exhibitions around singular ideas, such as the buoyancy of water as a metaphor for overcoming struggle.
A Ceramics Artist Living Thousands of Miles from Home Shares Her Love of Fashion, Ice Cream, Raw Clay, and her "Art Family"
Koh is a Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington DC, but originally studied fine arts at Hongik University in Seoul, and later earned an MFA from Alfred University in New York
On museum unions, getting to know a city by walking, and designed structures
For Mangus, an artist, writer, and museum guard, space for reflection is essential to a strong end result.
On abstracting the domestic, home improvement as curation, and being both a mentor and a mentee
Livi is an artist who moves between media seamlessly, always seeking out material that speaks to the domestic space and figuring out how to manipulate it after.
