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.
An interview with Marquis Revlon Clanton and Joseph Plaster on the historic collaboration between JHU Peabody Library and Baltimore's ballroom community
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
A Conversation With Artist Sandy Rodriguez
Through her investigative, bio-regional maps, artist Sandy Rodriguez engages a multitude of narratives across dimensions and time periods, inviting viewers to challenge power.
Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son reflects on the lifelong process of decolonization
Brown shows us how decolonizing is more than a cultural buzzword. It’s a lifelong process. It’s also an internal one.
International Art English has enforced a hermeticism of contemporary art that is not particularly healthy
As a pragmatist and the editor of an independent publication that collaborates with artist groups and cultural institutions, I see so much room for improvement in the language and accessibility employed to attract new audiences
