Issue 14: Environment

Issue 14: Environment

How do two artists who study the urban landscape approach ecology?

For these two transplants working in education—Evans hails from Tempe, Arizona, and Cazabon from Detroit—Baltimore’s landscape has become important to their work.

“Photographer, Wizard, Friend to All”

Timeless nature, without the compromise of any man made structures, is Joe Hyde's most inspired subject.

An Artist's Growth from Architectural Illustration to Herbalism

“All buildings are living systems, and I wanted to live in a building where the builder ⁄ designer knows and feels this in their bones.”

Meet the textile artist obsessed with making her own looms

“Find your life’s passion, make your life’s work, and give back to others.”

A visual artist sees mushrooms as an avenue of hope in her work

Cramer began exploring mushrooms after years of creating myopic biological imagery and a constant worry about humanity’s impact on the environment.

How the Neighborhood Design Center is Helping Baltimore’s Creatives Revive a Climate-Conscious City

“If you look at adaptive reuse projects, at least half of the building you need is already there,” Karla Brent says. “The energy that was needed to build that was used years ago,” whereas new building projects require production and shipment processes that create pollution and consume raw materials.

Glenstone is a place that seamlessly integrates art, architecture, and nature into a serene and contemplative environment.

Located in Potomac, Maryland, a museum that tends to its outdoor environments as much as the indoor ones that house much of the art.

Studio Visit with an artist-curator who moved to Baltimore from Addis Ababa in 2016 to attend Graduate School at MICA

How Fitsum Shebeshe's studio work and curatorial projects explore a wide spectrum of cultural and existential questions

A Conversation with Derrick Adams

Established on a quiet block in the intimate north Baltimore neighborhood of Waverly, The Last Resort Artist Retreat (TLRAR) will offer Black creatives curated experiences in communal spaces that emphasize a renewed regard for rest, rejuvenation, and cross-disciplinary exchange.

How a restauranteur, chef, author, and television host became a leader for environmental causes pertaining to foodways, health, and economic justice

John Shields strives to spread awareness of the farmers, biologists, and environmentalists restoring the Bay and the watershed’s soil, and rebuilding a local food economy through farm-to-table practices at Gertrude's Restaurant

On fearless artmaking, the value of openness, and why wanting stability is not selling out

"Nothing is ever failed. It's just going to take a form that I don't know about yet.”

The MD Zoo in Baltimore is a global leader in animal and habitat conservation programs

“People don’t always understand how important zoos are at helping animal populations survive in the wild because a lot of that work goes unseen.”

A Curator Carves Out Space for artists at the Black Artist Research Space

Established in 2020, BARS is a haven for Black artists and culture movers that exists far beyond its own walls and expands in every direction.

An architecture major before she pursued fiber arts, Jeon seeks motifs from the simplicity of hanok, plain lines constructing its shape.

Isn’t sustainability the ultimate community care, a tender wish to live and survive together?

On healing through art, the landscape's influence, and material problem-solving

Working with everything from moss and money plant membranes to artificial ivy and metal, Laura Amussen creates thematic exhibitions around singular ideas, such as the buoyancy of water as a metaphor for overcoming struggle.

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