Art AND: Dereck Stafford Mangus
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.
Suzy Kopf
Writer
Suzy Kopf is a Baltimore-based artist, writer, and college educator. She graduated from The New School University with a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons and a BA in Art History from Eugene Lang College. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. The recipient of numerous residency fellowships and research grants, she was the co-founder of the Gowanus Swim Society, a Brooklyn, NY-based art collective.
She regularly leads workshops and lectures on professional development for artists. In 2021 she will have work in several group shows in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York. She is represented by Dwell Fine Art & Craft. You can email her with writing pitches at [email protected].
Stories By Suzy Kopf
Art AND: Giulia Livi
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.
We Care a Lot: Corita Kent at Goucher College
Contemplating the legacy of protest art created by the famous American Catholic nun-turned-artist-educator
'We Care: Works by Corita Kent' at Silber Gallery is a vibrant color bomb mission-driven text-heavy advertisement-inspired serigraphs.
Art AND: Christine Buckton Tillman
"When you bring things together, you can make new connections."
On taking things apart to put them back together
Art AND: Evan Woodard
The self-taught historian finding treasures in backyard privies
To arrive at their resting place, items found at the bottom of a privy had to fall often ten or more feet, often out of someone’s back pocket, the same way many of us have dropped a cellphone in the modern toilet.
Art AND: Yam Chew Oh
On the fickle nature of creativity and the desire to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are
There is more than the single story of the material; there is usually a personal tie-in, a cultural or historical reference the viewer can also pick up on if they engage with it.
Keeping it Professionally Personal: Using Social Media as an Artist
A digital strategist’s tips on how to make your art business more effective on social media
Insight from DC-based consultant Hannah Westfall after a social media audit.
Glam, Grotesque, Spectacular: The Story of ‘Majolica Mania’
Collectors Philip and Deborah English talk about the lure of the whimsical Victorian-era ceramics
Majolica Mania is the result of a near-constant effort by enthusiasts to get decorative arts curators to take this fantastical subset of ceramics seriously.
On the Professionalization of Art
How do we teach artists to be businesses?
There are as many ways to be an artist as there are people pursuing our profession.
Brain Explosion Moment: A Look Inside AMPLIFY, MICA’s 2022 Benefit Fashion Show
An interview with three of the twelve students participating in the annual show
MICA's Annual Benefit Fashion Show returned in person for the first time since the pandemic started.
Art AND: Meredith Moore
The artist discusses obsession with images, audiovisual archives, and exploring the limits of technology
Her work tells a story of real objects typically recast in an otherworldly way.
More Than Pretty Leaves
Baltimore’s thriving plant-collecting community
Baltimore’s houseplant community is as wide and diverse as our city, ranging from internationally recognized players to newcomers who just bought their first snake plant.
Bmore Art