Formed in 1955, the community clay studio comprises professionals and hobbyists, long-term potters alongside new enthusiasts
The Guild’s original animating purpose—to encourage curiosity about clay, push craftsmanship, and, perhaps most vitally, sustain a community clay studio—continues to motivate its membership.
Employees of the Walters Art Museum bring organizing efforts to the Mount Vernon Cultural District
“We wouldn’t be out here if we didn’t have a really good reason,” said Elizabeth Norman, an organizing committee member of Walters Workers United, which wants to create a wall-to-wall union for the museum's operational staff.
The Baltimore-based and process-oriented sculptor receives the $25,000 award
The Sondheim Finalist Exhibition is on view at the Walters through July 18.
Downtown gallery Resort ends its three-year run with solo shows featuring Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman
There is much to consider about depletion and extraction in a low- or no-budget art space within a gentrifying city.
In this collection of work, Munroe focuses on his relationship to Black single fatherhood, a multidimensional and intimate subject
The scenes are distorted and dreamlike, and Munroe knows just when to stop and let the material do the work.
A week of reviews of each of the five Sondheim finalists and their exhibits at the Walters
This week we will publish individual reviews of Hae Won Sohn, Tsedaye Makonnen, Hoesy Corona, Lavar Munroe, and Jonathan Monaghan
Walters Workers United join a wave of museum unionizations
Organizers from Walters Workers United say that “the health and safety of employees, transparency, pay equity, and the museum’s top-down decision-making” are among the primary concerns they want to address.
This year, 36 artists across 6 categories get $2,500 each
For the 2021 awards, this structure "was specifically modified to address the needs of artists working in the region, almost all of whom have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic."
Some of these records inevitably confront themes that are pertinent to our present circumstances and upheavals, some take the listener to places subterranean or extraterrestrial, and many others pull off an inventive combination of all the above.
Edgar Reyes: Fragments at VisArts
As his family’s own historian, Reyes seems invested in keeping and sharing their stories with great care in a multifaceted way.
Reckonings, mutual aid, pivots, and survival mode
What have we realized, or re-realized, or realized for the nth time in 2020?
A White Artist Examines A Personal and Collective Legacy of White Privilege
This artwork skips the fraught emotionality of white people’s coming into consciousness about the constructs of race and the iterations of racism, and instead leads the viewer straight into an intellectual headspace.
Anthology featuring nine authors from around the US and Canada delivers bite-sized portions of terror
The horror and trauma here are more implicit and embedded into the place, more chronic than acute, and all too familiar.
The letter indicates conflicting understanding within the BMA itself about the justification for the deaccessions
A group of former trustees and members of Baltimore Museum of Art’s accessions committees sent a letter to Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh requesting that their offices investigate the BMA for its recent decision to deaccession three major works.
Among so many ever-louder calls for accountability and change across the country, MICA faces a critical moment
MICA faculty assert that the pandemic has magnified longstanding problems, and the Board of Trustees responds
Dylan Ubaldo commissioned Reem Unknown to design the ‘Tip Your Local Squeegee Boy’ T-shirt
Ubaldo gave Reem no stipulations; he just wanted something that felt "empowering" and true to Reem's style.
The Hampden-based progressive studio encourages artists’ autonomy and creative expression
Progressive art studios are philosophically integral to disability rights and social justice.
Photos by Devin Allen, Shae McCoy, Elena Volkova, Philip Muriel, Randall Scott, and Kyle Pompey
Ethics and expression through photos of protest
