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.
Walters Workers United join a wave of museum unionizations
Organizers from Walters Workers United say that “the health and safety of employees, transparency, pay equity, and the museum’s top-down decision-making” are among the primary concerns they want to address.
This year, 36 artists across 6 categories get $2,500 each
For the 2021 awards, this structure "was specifically modified to address the needs of artists working in the region, almost all of whom have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic."
Some of these records inevitably confront themes that are pertinent to our present circumstances and upheavals, some take the listener to places subterranean or extraterrestrial, and many others pull off an inventive combination of all the above.
Edgar Reyes: Fragments at VisArts
As his family’s own historian, Reyes seems invested in keeping and sharing their stories with great care in a multifaceted way.
Reckonings, mutual aid, pivots, and survival mode
What have we realized, or re-realized, or realized for the nth time in 2020?
A White Artist Examines A Personal and Collective Legacy of White Privilege
This artwork skips the fraught emotionality of white people’s coming into consciousness about the constructs of race and the iterations of racism, and instead leads the viewer straight into an intellectual headspace.
Anthology featuring nine authors from around the US and Canada delivers bite-sized portions of terror
The horror and trauma here are more implicit and embedded into the place, more chronic than acute, and all too familiar.
The letter indicates conflicting understanding within the BMA itself about the justification for the deaccessions
A group of former trustees and members of Baltimore Museum of Art’s accessions committees sent a letter to Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh requesting that their offices investigate the BMA for its recent decision to deaccession three major works.
Among so many ever-louder calls for accountability and change across the country, MICA faces a critical moment
MICA faculty assert that the pandemic has magnified longstanding problems, and the Board of Trustees responds
Dylan Ubaldo commissioned Reem Unknown to design the ‘Tip Your Local Squeegee Boy’ T-shirt
Ubaldo gave Reem no stipulations; he just wanted something that felt "empowering" and true to Reem's style.
The Hampden-based progressive studio encourages artists’ autonomy and creative expression
Progressive art studios are philosophically integral to disability rights and social justice.
Photos by Devin Allen, Shae McCoy, Elena Volkova, Philip Muriel, Randall Scott, and Kyle Pompey
Ethics and expression through photos of protest
