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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.
Exhuming Domestic Roots
Zoë Charlton's Images Merge Family Memories into Metaphor
The artist Zoë Charlton enjoys roaming the aisles of craft stores, filling her basket with an assortment of materials, especially decorative stickers of trees, leaves, clouds, and various birds, such as geese, ducks, owls, and hawks.
Bishme Cromartie on Project Runway
Tune in to Baltimore's Favorite Self-Taught Fashion Designer Competing on National Television
If you have been watching Season 17 of Project Runway, or attended the giant party hosted at The Walters for the Baltimore-based fashion designer competing this season, you know the thrill of cheering on hometown talent.
Art AND: Corynne Ostermann
An Interview with painter, installation artist, singer/bassist of Natural Velvet
Ostermann’s visual art functions as a commentary on and celebration of celebrity culture and so-called feminine touches like roses and lipstick. Her paintings often mash up imagery of specific objects, like Kim Kardashian’s engagement ring, with stand-ins for fertility and farce, like sliced oranges
National Poetry Month with DewMore Baltimore
The literary nonprofit amplifies youth voices with upcoming poetry festival
Founded in 2013 by poets/artists Olufunmike Woods, Kenneth Morrison, and Slangston Hughes, DewMore Baltimore began as a platform for community engagement but then it evolved to focus on poetry.