The Radial Blooms of Brandon Donahue
The Memphis-born artist sees the transformative power of improvisation and repurposing
No longer an athlete, or even a die-hard sports fan, Donahue is more concerned with the storytelling aspects of sports.
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Baltimore News: Valerie Maynard, YNot Lot Moves, Hampdenfest 2022
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: the passing of Valerie Maynard, Diamon Fisher, actress Moses Ingram, Adnan Syed released from prison, and more reporting from Baltimore Beat, Serial Podcast, Baltimore Brew, Baltimore Fishbowl, and other local and independent media sources
Muscle Memory: Kelly Walker’s Painterly Alchemy
How the artist balances athletic, energetic personal work with a bustling creative business
Walker hitchhiked to Baltimore at age 18 and fell in love with the architecture and culture of the city immediately.
BmoreArt’s Picks: September 20-26
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Kevin Tervala lectures on Abstraction and African Art, BmoreArt’s Jeffrey Kent and Cara Ober in conversation with Devin Allen and Bill Gaskins, Jo Smail opening reception at Goya Contemporary, Plein Air Painting at Evergreen, John Waters at MCHC, Sister Corita Kent at Goucher, and more!
Undivided Attention: River’s Dream by Curran Hatleberg
Hatleberg has recorded a world that is “forgotten without ever being quite remembered.”
The book's title, River’s Dream, comes from Hatleberg's desire for his child to be able to enter the same dream state of heightened perception he himself works in.
Sometimes Ambivalence is OK: The Twelfth Berlin Biennale
Step right up and beat your hope to death at the world's most depressing art show!
Curated by Kader Attia and titled Still Here!, this year’s edition mulls the lasting impacts of colonialism, modernity, globalization, and ecological exploitation and collapse—as well as dozens of tangentially related ills.
Pulitzer-Winning Composer Raven Chacon Brings the Noise to High Zero
The prolific artist brings his talents to the festival of improvised, experimental music this weekend
Although this will be his first in-person performance with High Zero, Chacon performed in High Zero’s virtual festival in 2020 with Tatsuya Nakatani and Carlos Santistevan.
The DoMa Gallery
Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff’s Bucolic Space for Contemporary Art
The rich patina of age and nature upon the original structure, a significant work of art in itself, elevates the unique contributions of contemporary artists to this region.
Baltimore News: Max Weiss, Dan Keech (aka Height), Baynard Woods
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Red Emma's permit problems, East meets West jazz, no skatepark for Easterwood, and more reporting from Maryland Matters, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, and other local and independent news sources.
Craftswomanship, Elegant Problems, and Relationships: Linda Popp
A studio visit between art educators/artists Linda Popp and Karen Carroll
After four decades working in Baltimore County art education, Linda Popp focuses on her art, investigating relationships and the concept of time and place through mixed media.
BmoreArt’s Picks: September 13-19
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Creative Confluence at TU Asian Arts & Culture Center, Candice Carty-Williams book release at Greedy Reads, C. Grimaldis Gallery exhibits Janet Olney, Annette Sauermann, Bill Schmidt, and Nora Sturges, 24th Annual High Zero Festival, Suzy Kopf at Gormley Gallery, and more!
Photovoice Sessions: Skatepark Baltimore
A place of motion, movement, and community
A key tenet of photovoice is that the goal is not to create technically sound photographs—and yet, in relieving that pressure, so much of the work was visually exciting.
Love Groove Festival: Photo Essay
John Tyler, a multi-instrumentalist, created Love Groove Festival to enable visual, musical, and performing artists to mix
“I was so in love with everything, and it seemed like a good way to bring different communities together," Tyler says.
Baltimore News: Charles Mason III, Selena Carter, Rebecca Hoffberger’s Last AVAM Show
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Tawney Chatmon interviewed for Anthology Magazine, E. coli bacteria in city water, 'everybody's unionizing' in Baltimore, and more reporting from The AFRO, Baltimore Beat, The Daily Record, and other local and independent news sources.
Groundless Sound: Luba Drozd at CPM Gallery
Artist Luba Drozd and curator Vlad Smolkin in conversation with Elena Volkova
There are no speakers to amplify the sounds; everything reverberates through the materials and the architecture of the gallery.
Shiny Fest: Local Label Brings Their First Festival to Le Mondo
A collective started in memoriam of a late friend and collaborator brings a DIY art market and music fest to Howard Street
This Saturday, September 10th, local record label Shiny Boy Press is teaming up with Le Mondo to bring the city a new music and art festival highlighting homegrown acts you might miss otherwise.
BmoreArt’s Picks: September 6-12
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Penn Eastburn at BSC Cocktail Gallery, Brent Crothers closing at Chesapeake Gallery, SPARK: New Light artist reception at The Peale, Telling Our Story opening at the Driskell Center, Kei Ito opening reception at Gallery in the Sky, EX-tend EX-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay and more!
Art on Speed
To Go Faster at Current Space is a cohesive group exhibition about the impact of our cultural obsession with velocity
A dynamic group show that explores the rapid pace of society, the collective need to move at a brisk speed, and how that affects our surroundings.