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Balti-Shorts Fall Short
What happens to a city that can’t even imagine itself differently in the medium of film?
Kaitlin Jencso’s Transformations of the Mundane in the Digital Era
Jencso manipulates our attention to be just as glued to the devices as the girl in the image appears to be.
The House Gallery: An Interview with Joy Davis, Owner and Director of Waller Gallery
Joy Davis talks about navigating home and work, public and private, and dreams versus reality.
Sharon Flake’s “The Skin I’m In” Turns 20
Author Sharon Flake comes to Baltimore to speak about diversity in young adult literature at CityLit Festival
Sharon Flake writes about Black teens, and when I was a teen, it felt like she was one of few authors actually writing about us.
Notre Dame on Fire: An Absurdist Tragicomedy
While perhaps their reputed safeguarding properties were not enough to save the building entirely, a believer might credit the relics for the towers, the flying buttresses, and the rose windows remaining, incredibly, intact.
No Glitter Allowed: Ballroom 101
An interview with Marquis Revlon Clanton and Joseph Plaster on the historic collaboration between JHU Peabody Library and Baltimore's ballroom community
Alternative Adornment
Art Jewelry Goes Beyond Self-Expression and Experimentation
While the value system of commercial jewelry posits that what is expensive is precious and desirable, art jewelry presents a view and experience of jewelry that is divorced from the pedestrian themes of sameness and status.