Keeping organized and staying focused on your goals in the global pandemic
How can we make working from home work for us as creatives? How do we keep making measurable steps towards our career goals in a time when it’s hard to focus?
Laurie plays with borders and fences, flat spaces and wide-open ones that look like anywhere and nowhere at once
"I try to stress that all the real work in art-making is in the practice and the learning from those little failures along the way."
Ito's work tells how people were affected by nuclear warfare, and how we could be affected again
Born in Tokyo and based in Baltimore, Ito understands himself as a collection of opposites and pursues both sides of those narratives through his open-ended and expansive photography practice.
The natural wine enthusiast and co-owner of Le Comptoir du Vin talks food-industry camaraderie and COVID pivots
Prior to COVID, the restaurant was booked many weeks out. Now they’re making it work through a grab-and-go storefront selling sandwiches, hearty stews, and baked goods to go.
On view at the Peale at Carroll Mansion
Installed in the mansion, the works are loosely grouped thematically by floors and rooms, tackling themes of segregation, women’s rights and suffrage, colorism, voter suppression, immigrant rights, and white supremacy.
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
Family secrets, the challenges of being a female business owner, and how knowing chocolate’s history might make you savor it more
She’s had a reverence for the confection since a fateful day in 2012 when, while working an event as a nutrition consultant, she stepped on a postcard advertising chocolate-making classes.
What an interior space tells us about its occupants
"Many designers and architects develop a look or aesthetic that defines their craft but for me, I had been raised to look for the narrative that gave each place its soul and identity."
The Miami-born, DC-based artist’s work is a late-capitalist playground with floaties and pool bros
"My first visual clue to the parallel nature of this situation was that pastels were suddenly in vogue again."
Merging Traditional Craft with Technology
Couwenberg, a titan of fine-art fiber education, is influenced by growth and evolution, which she excavates in an exploration of her personal history as a Dutch woman living in America.
Sohn’s exploration of the limitations of plaster and porcelain runs deep
"It's the material that's doing its thing and I'm only doing this selection."
Eight pro tips from a professor on creating demo videos for art students
If all else fails, try to channel the confidence of Oprah.
MdHS Curatorial Assistant Emily Bach searches for the stories in textiles
On any given day, curatorial assistant Emily Bach could be restoring a quilt from the collection, writing object condition reports, or conducting research on a new donation.
A Report from AVAM, BMA, BMI, MHS, NMWA, Peale Center, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and The Walters
Innovative offerings designed for a digital space and supporting community outreach
Led by materials and natural curiosity, Cheng's interdisciplinary practice is ever-evolving
For Cheng, the environment of the interdisciplinary studio, simulated in art school by classroom work time and interaction with the students, is the most important.
"My work rides a fine line between fine art and craft, if such a line exists."
Rosa Leff's self-taught paper-cutting practice began at her dining room table
Kelly Xio is an artist and a grocery store worker on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic
Customers are more afraid of hurting us right now; the power structures I’m used to have changed basically overnight.
Digital shows and presentations for area institutions' graduating classes
Featuring UMBC, MICA, Bowie State, and more
