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Art AND: Ashley Minner
Artist, Educator, Curator, Activist, and Member of the Lumbee Nation
“Amongst our people, education is a real value, because we haven’t always had easy access to it.”
Jeannie Vanasco Confronts the Man Who Raped Her
Baltimore author Jeannie Vanasco’s recently published memoir, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, dwells in the desire for a lived-out apology and underscores the nonlinearity of healing.
Worlds on the Brink of Collapse
Nora Sturges and Jackie Milad at C. Grimaldis Gallery
At C. Grimaldis Gallery, two solo exhibitions by Baltimore-based artists Nora Sturges and Jackie Milad repurpose cultural iconographies.
Artist-Run: Ten Alternative Baltimore Art Spaces
A guide to Baltimore's artist-run spaces.
What They’re Wearing: Spectrum of Fashion Gala at the Maryland Historical Society
A Gala Opening for an exhibition of Historical Fashion and Runway Show
Guests for the Spectrum of Fashion Gala at the Maryland Historical Society on October 5, 2019, showed up wearing gowns, tuxedos, sequins, feathers, capes, and Christian Siriano originals, as well as creative offerings like a metal steampunk hat I only admired from a distance and a couple wearing Bhu
Diversify or Die, Boards of Directors in Baltimore
Boards need to diversify. What does that mean anyway?
When we talk about diversity we’re supposed to be talking about more than just race, but in our beautiful city that’s 63 percent Black—one of the Blackest metropolitan areas in America—isn’t it, like, kinda mostly about race?