Quarantine Diaries: Musicians
Bobbi Rush, Dyyo, Josh Stokes, Amy Reid, Ami Dang
Musicians who already survive precariously have lost gigs due to Covid-19 cancellations and have had to figure out how to hustle through a pandemic
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
Confronting White Violence: Readings and Resources
Articles and resources on the topics of protest, abolition, reckoning with white supremacy, and more
White people get upset about protest because it is a disruption—it demands attention and reckoning with the harm we are implicated in.
What’s Really Making Us Sick
On Anne Boyer’s ‘The Undying,’ Reopening America, and Capitalist Medicine
A challenging, instructive text in this period of mass illness and isolation, when it is hard to imagine a future, though we must.
Buying Baltimore Art for a Good Cause
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
Collecting from the Comfort of Home Via Innovative Online Galleries
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.
Take Care of Yourself: On Chronic Illness and Anxiety
Organizing my memories into a semi-linear timeline gives me a whisper of peace
The cruelty of our government is overwhelming.
BmoreArt’s Picks: March 24-30
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week we are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Supporting Arts, Culture, and Each Other During the Pandemic
A work-in-progress list of resources and ways to support Baltimore-based artists, service-industry workers, and small businesses.
Consider throwing a few bucks towards your favorite bartender who can’t work right now, or contribute to the funds that are being redistributed amongst the community. Donate or become a member of your local arts institutions. Buy work from an artist you like.
Do Good for the Good of the Stranger: Baltimore’s Art Scene Responds to COVID-19
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.
News Briefs: Sondheim Semifinalists, Black Arts District’s Plans, WPA Funding for DIY in DC
Baltimore Art News Stories
News Briefs are a compilation of art news around the Baltimore region.
This Art Kills Fascists
Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Field workers, sharecroppers, mothers, grandmothers (and occasionally fathers too) share space in her oeuvre with abolitionists and civil rights icons, everyone with dirt under their fingernails, everyone in all of their ordinary glory.
News Briefs: NEA and NEH Grants to Local Orgs, Opportunities for Film and Media Workers, and more
Big Funds for Creative Alliance, Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest Submissions Open, 2020 Saul Zaentz Fellows Announced, BCAN Celebrates Local Entrepreneurs.
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