Contributing Writer
Teri Henderson (b. Fort Worth, TX, 1990) is a curator, co-director of WDLY, and the author of Black Collagists. Henderson holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas Christian University. She formerly held a curatorial internship at Ghost Gallery in Seattle, Washington. During that time she also helped launch the social media campaign for the non-profit access to justice platform PopUpJustice!. She also previously served as the Art Law Clinic Director for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. She was published in the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. Her work as co-director of WDLY addresses shrinking the gap between the spaces that contemporary artists of color inhabit and the resources of the power structures of the art world through the curation and artistic production of events.
From Project Runway to Station North, the Baltimore-Born Designer Elevates Fashion to Fine Art
With bold colors, sumptuous textures, and rich colors that evoke decadence and splendor, a person dressed in Bishme Cromartie is a person to be not only seen but fortified.
"Rob Wants to Make People Happy; He Aims to Please" is on View at von ammon co. This Month
"Every act of art feels like a resurrection to me.... an act of trying to bring it to life, like Frankenstein trying to breathe life into his monster. I only feel something is complete when it goes from a flat line to having some heartbeat."
Pop Nostalgia and Melancholy Technicolor Criticality Collide with the American Fever Dream
Da Corte has several ambitious mixed-media installations presently on view at Glenstone—injecting an unexpected bit of kitschy neon suburban dystopia into the bucolic institution's minimalist halls. It's a show worth the pilgrimage.
Brown’s staged photographs reflect a lineage of Black beauty culture and rituals that are shared throughout the diaspora.
Black pop art iconography, like Jet magazine’s coverage and advertisements reflecting the 1960s Black is Beautiful movement and the Natural Hair Movement of the 2000s, are all influential to Brown’s photographs.
Nightlife photography of the past and present at Maryland Center for History and Culture
Curated by Joe Tropea, Visions of Night: Baltimore Nocturnes at the Maryland Center for History and Culture beautifully and seamlessly integrates Baltimore nightlife of the past and present.
'Music That Raised Us' at Black Artist Research Space
Music That Raised Us, which ran March 19-April 16, was an amalgamation of the collaborators' experiences but also of any artist who has been touched by the melody of a Stevie Wonder song or moved to move by the rhythm of a funk tune.
After an award-winning trip to SXSW, Beats Not Bullets hosts a fundraiser concert tonight at Metro Gallery
Beats Not Bullets, the brainchild of Kevin “Ogun” Beasley, was started six years ago as a way to teach students in Baltimore how to produce and create music.
“I wanted to create a space for Black people to feel surrounded by ancestors, surrounded by love.”
The future looks busy and bright for Merriweather, who completed her Fountainhead Residency in September and returned to live and work at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, where she’ll be in residence through July 2022.
Succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
CENTENNIAL: On The Topic Of Now at Current Space, Open House: Art, Craft, and Domesticity at MICA's Decker Gallery, and a new art gallery/retail space in the former ICA Baltimore building on North Avenue.
An Interview with Max Lents of the Baltimore Spirits Company and Gallery
The Baltimore Spirits Co. Cocktail Gallery offers a chance for one of my favorite pairings: cocktails and art.
Three succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
Exhibits at Project 1628, Maryland Art Place, and Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola
Hosted jointly by the SNF Parkway Theater and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the yearlong Baltimore Living Archives Residency features Lawrence Burney and SHAN Wallace
The residency gives artists access to the Pratt’s archives as well as the Parkway’s resources, along with the ability to publicly present their research.
