Tension and Endurance: The Year in Books from Baltimore/DC
(Mostly) 2021 Baltimore book highlights
Okay, there are also some 2020 releases included here, but let's give each other some grace...
Rebekah Kirkman
Contributing Editor
Rebekah Kirkman is a Contributing Editor at BmoreArt. Formerly BmoreArt’s Managing Editor, Rebekah is an artist, writer, and editor. She earned a BFA at MICA and later worked for the Baltimore City Paper as its visual arts editor. She writes criticism, essays, and profiles with a strong interest in social/political concerns surrounding the arts. Her freelance work has appeared in the Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Fishbowl, The Outline, and elsewhere.
Stories By Rebekah Kirkman
Familial Sense of Care: Documenting Baltimore’s ‘Guardians’
The Guardians: Reshaping History presented by the Peale at Carroll Mansion
"I take care of myself when I'm taking care of people,” Audrey Carter says. “When I know people are okay, I'm okay.”
Hidden Labor: Area 405’s Final Shows
The last shows at Area 405 pay tribute to the nearly 20 years of work that went into the artist-run venue and studio building
The final part, the “Eulogy,” takes place this Thursday, December 16.
BMA Workers Say Fair Pay and Job Security Shouldn’t Be a Privilege
Baltimore Museum of Art workers are unionizing for livable wages, staff advancement, health and safety
Organizers say their aims align with the BMA’s goals to remake the museum into a more equitable, accessible, diverse, and inclusive institution. In a statement to BmoreArt, museum director Chris Bedford affirmed their shared interests.
Great Halloween Lantern Parade 2021 Photos
A photo set of the annual parade organized by Creative Alliance and Friends of Patterson Park
E. Brady Robinson captured the parade's exuberant energy—the inventive costumes, glowing lanterns, and tricks of light.
City Council Shows Support for Walters Workers United, Museum Director Cancels Gala
Baltimore City's law department says the union and the museum have “a complicated dispute” over what it means under federal law for their right to unionize.
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.
The Way Forward for Walters Workers United
Employees of the Walters Art Museum bring organizing efforts to the Mount Vernon Cultural District
“We wouldn’t be out here if we didn’t have a really good reason,” said Elizabeth Norman, an organizing committee member of Walters Workers United, which wants to create a wall-to-wall union for the museum's operational staff.
Hae Won Sohn Wins 2021 Sondheim Artscape Prize
The Baltimore-based and process-oriented sculptor receives the $25,000 award
The Sondheim Finalist Exhibition is on view at the Walters through July 18.
Rupture and Regeneration: Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman in Resort’s Final Shows
Downtown gallery Resort ends its three-year run with solo shows featuring Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman
There is much to consider about depletion and extraction in a low- or no-budget art space within a gentrifying city.
Lavar Munroe, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
In this collection of work, Munroe focuses on his relationship to Black single fatherhood, a multidimensional and intimate subject
The scenes are distorted and dreamlike, and Munroe knows just when to stop and let the material do the work.
The 2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists Exhibition
A week of reviews of each of the five Sondheim finalists and their exhibits at the Walters
This week we will publish individual reviews of Hae Won Sohn, Tsedaye Makonnen, Hoesy Corona, Lavar Munroe, and Jonathan Monaghan
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