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].
Constantly pursuing the feeling of learning something new, Bathgate finds himself experimenting on the edge of the technologies he employs
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
The T. Rowe Price Foundation President talks about community self-determination, sharing resources, and hanging out with Prince
"What communities are asking for is to be heard and to determine their own futures."
The 2020 Sondheim winner talks about balancing family and studio time, portraiture as power, and symbol systems
Hobbs is the rare sort of person who sets intentions and actually accomplishes them, who revels in being busy and can forgive herself when she falls short of her own extremely high standards.
Advice from an iconic Baltimore papercutter on managing a creative business, collaboration, promotion, and more
What Annie Howe has learned from almost fifteen years as a freelance paper artist and illustrator.
Baltimore painter Jerrell Gibbs on the myth of failure, the art scene's evolution, the seduction of paint and more
Gibbs' obsession with the topic of painting sits so close to the surface, he is absolutely gleeful to get into it.
The visual journalist and arts administrator highlighting creatives of color and forging communities
“I’m just going to trust my hand to do what it wants to do while I’m having this conversation and not have to go back with a fine-tooth comb to make it perfect.”
Keeping organized and staying focused on your goals in the global pandemic
How can we make working from home work for us as creatives? How do we keep making measurable steps towards our career goals in a time when it’s hard to focus?
Laurie plays with borders and fences, flat spaces and wide-open ones that look like anywhere and nowhere at once
"I try to stress that all the real work in art-making is in the practice and the learning from those little failures along the way."
Ito's work tells how people were affected by nuclear warfare, and how we could be affected again
Born in Tokyo and based in Baltimore, Ito understands himself as a collection of opposites and pursues both sides of those narratives through his open-ended and expansive photography practice.
The natural wine enthusiast and co-owner of Le Comptoir du Vin talks food-industry camaraderie and COVID pivots
Prior to COVID, the restaurant was booked many weeks out. Now they’re making it work through a grab-and-go storefront selling sandwiches, hearty stews, and baked goods to go.
On view at the Peale at Carroll Mansion
Installed in the mansion, the works are loosely grouped thematically by floors and rooms, tackling themes of segregation, women’s rights and suffrage, colorism, voter suppression, immigrant rights, and white supremacy.
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
