Keeping it Professionally Personal: Using Social Media as an Artist
A digital strategist’s tips on how to make your art business more effective on social media
Insight from DC-based consultant Hannah Westfall after a social media audit.
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Glam, Grotesque, Spectacular: The Story of ‘Majolica Mania’
Collectors Philip and Deborah English talk about the lure of the whimsical Victorian-era ceramics
Majolica Mania is the result of a near-constant effort by enthusiasts to get decorative arts curators to take this fantastical subset of ceramics seriously.
On the Professionalization of Art
How do we teach artists to be businesses?
There are as many ways to be an artist as there are people pursuing our profession.
Brain Explosion Moment: A Look Inside AMPLIFY, MICA’s 2022 Benefit Fashion Show
An interview with three of the twelve students participating in the annual show
MICA's Annual Benefit Fashion Show returned in person for the first time since the pandemic started.
Art AND: Meredith Moore
The artist discusses obsession with images, audiovisual archives, and exploring the limits of technology
Her work tells a story of real objects typically recast in an otherworldly way.
More Than Pretty Leaves
Baltimore’s thriving plant-collecting community
Baltimore’s houseplant community is as wide and diverse as our city, ranging from internationally recognized players to newcomers who just bought their first snake plant.
Art AND: Bonnie Crawford
On care work, connection, and paying close attention
"I do think that artists have always played an important role in imagining alternatives and bringing to light things that we’re not discussing otherwise."
Baltimore’s Prodigal Daughter: Asma Naeem
How an upbringing in Baltimore and an earlier career in law influence the BMA's chief curator
Naeem considers her shift from law to art history, which had been an early passion, to be just that: a shift and not a U-turn.
Scaling Up: The Late Richard Yarde’s Watercolors
With 'Richard Yarde: Beyond the Savoy,' a watercolorist gets his due at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The exhibition will be many people’s first encounter with Yarde’s distinctive improvisational and graphic watercolor style which colorizes, enlarges, and simplifies historical photographs of Black American life, history, and culture.
Art AND: James Williams II
The painter and professor on parenthood, vulnerability, and why it's important to have a 'mindset of experimentation'
"While exploring new hobbies, I came across new materials [and] I had collected ideas over the years that I had always hoped to explore."
SK8R Girls: Photo Essay
Baltimore roller-skating women in photos by E. Brady Robinson
Remembering how empowered skating made her feel as a girl, she hit the streets, meeting up with friends and eventually a wider network of female-identifying Baltimore skaters.
Art AND: Amy Boone-McCreesh
The maximalist mixed-media artist talks about taste, class, and asking questions of the world—and other artists—around her
"I think fundamentally artists are always interested in what comes next—what happens if I push this idea further, what happens if I try this new material, etc."
Art AND: Bill Schmidt
There is a feedback loop between Bill Schmidt's studio and his visual world, where mysterious shapes take on greater significance
Schmidt works at a tiny scale so that viewers to have to get close to his paintings, to have an intimate and “one-on-one relationship with the surfaces.''
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann Isn’t Apologizing for Beauty Anymore
Mann’s wall-sized collages and installations rework and play with her own life and history, visually summarizing the collision of her upbringing
Mann simultaneously combines Eastern and Western influences, using extremely old mediums such as Sumi-e ink, invented in the first century AD in China, and contemporary ones such as Yupo paper, to create a synthesis that is personal and multi-faceted.
Art AND: Jessica Gatlin
An integral part of Gatlin's process is to look at a big idea in different ways and consider it from every angle
"I identify as interdisciplinary and sometimes I even go as far as to say non-disciplinary because I have a craft and DIY background. I don't necessarily feel like discipline is the right word to use. I love materials and I love playing with something new, I think that’s the thing that pulls me."
Art AND: Sam Bessen
Why the director of the performance series In the Stacks and curator at Hopkins' Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection wants you to listen to Classical music
"I’m inspired by these musicians that weren’t satisfied with the presenting platforms or ensembles that existed, so they just created new ones."
Art AND: Mama Sallah Jenkins
The Barclay native discusses teaching and learning, art as sustenance, and starting grad school in her 60s
"I like to encourage them that this is yours; own it, own its greatness. I say there’s always a blessing in the lesson."
Art AND: Katie Pumphrey
The artist and swimmer on navigating the business side of things, establishing routines, and dealing with the failure gremlin
“Someone told me years ago, you have to be your biggest fan and always remind yourself of that when you’re in doubt.”