Issue 15: Migration

Issue 15: Migration

Smoke Bellow, Baltimore's Post-Punk, Experimental, Australian Kraut Rock Band

For Australians Meredith McHugh and Christian Best who comprise the band Smoke Bellow— along with American drummer and vocalist Jen Kirby from the Stranger Time People band—music is the language through which they migrated to Baltimore.

Kris Kudrnac Talks About the Aesthetic Objects Which Form His Roots and Ground Him in Place

Among art collectors, Kudrnac is ecumenical and unpredictable, unusual because of his willingness to trust his own instincts and to invest generously, including objects considered craft and furniture.

Rice makes art that fills in this gap in our brains and busts open the myth of innocence around whiteness in America.

Rice’s work is so successful because she uses documents, data, maps, and other tools that create the foundation of her lived experiences as a middle-aged white woman in America to create large-scale, labor-intensive, craft-based pieces whose effect is simultaneously visual and conceptual.

Run by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, a new Baltimore art space offers artists and creatives chances to collaborate with scientists, policy-makers, and activists

With six studio spaces, an exhibition and event space, workshops, a library, and generous common areas, the Crow's Nest will foster “a diverse creative community whose members can inspire one another, collaborate, experiment, and cross-pollinate ideas."

This painting technique is also one of deliberate migration, called a “nomad” mark by the artist

Heydari's visual algorithms calculate a daily experience of chaotic disorientation

Envisioning a future that is better than our present in garments, images, and performance

For over a decade, Corona's work has touched on themes of displacement and arrival and their cyclical nature

At Mera Kitchen, the dialect is ever-expanding

The worker-owned business model was a no-brainer for the founding members, who understand that true democracy in the workplace cannot be achieved without access to ownership.

Cheng has expanded her art practice through clay and jewelry-making in recent years

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver and Hawaii as a child, the Baltimore-based artist says her study of conspiracism helps her to better understand American culture.

Nigerian-American Photographer and Video Artist Examines the Multiplicities of Presence

Chuks places particular emphasis on the past/present and individual/community; his dynamic portraits are synchronous explorations of self and subject.

A Baltimore-based fashion designer who imbues her home culture of Nigeria into elegant garments

Spirited Afro-futuristic designs that encapsulate a love for culture and home country, utilizing bold pattern fabrics designed just for her in Nigeria.

Jessy, a self-taught painter, began to use art to explore the racial mixing at the heart of their family

Hearing the term migration, what do you envision? Is migration just that one journey from point A to point B, that physical journey, or is it more? Is it lifelong?

The Illustrator, Printmaker, and Visual Storyteller Invites Metamorphosis and the Itch to Play

Kumar’s intricate and varied artistic/academic background is reflected in her wide-ranging practice. She says she finds art particularly exciting when it functions as a tool for “reinvention.”

Studio Visit with a Baltimore Clayworks Resident and Graphic Designer Who Also Teaches at MICA

Kiran Joan creates ceramic sculpture and functional pieces, but also regularly publishes illustrations in major US Publications

The DC-based artist's new work explores community through reclaimed cultural practices around music and dance. 

Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Arlington, VA, Robles-Gordon returned to exhibit her work in San Juan, but the trip inspired a performance as the focus for her latest project

The Daughters of Yemen: A Photography Series by Anysa Saleh

Anysa Saleh’s photography challenges established methods around portraiture, but her practice is based largely around Yemeni cultural traditions and taboos.

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