BmoreArt’s Picks: June 22-28
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
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Let’s Get It On: A Brood X Cicada Photo Essay
Photos by Jill Fannon capture these beautiful, tragic, and weirdly punctual insects
Brood X is the largest of all the cohorts of 17-year periodical cicadas, and they are here for just one reason.
Taharka Brothers: It’s a Teamwork Thing
Taharka Brothers' Detric McCoy reflects on the rebirth of the mission-driven ice cream company as a worker-owned cooperative
The founder of Taharka Brothers, Sean Smeeton, was my dad’s mentor when he was a teenager.
Beloved Artist-owned Space Area 405 Listed for Sale
New development in Station North making longtime residents and artists concerned about displacement and instability
Is there a way to bring much-needed investment to Greenmount West without displacing the artists?
Jonathan Monaghan, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
Monaghan’s themes of power, technology, and rampant consumerism speak to the unique challenges of today’s attention economy
The wolves feel like stand-ins for Americans, full of desire for the traditional trappings of empire while simultaneously feeling empty and repulsed by the barren world that surrounds us.
The News: Masks Off Maryland (Including Baltimore), Efforts to End Gun Violence, Safe Space for Black Trans Youth
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore news from the Baltimore Brew, WYPR, Baltimore Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
Lavar Munroe, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
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.
Diamon Fisher Curates Juneteenth Celebration as Both a Party and a Skillshare
Saturday's celebration at the Eubie Blake features music, art, food, workshops and more
Hoesy Corona, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
Through performance and wearable sculpture, Corona examines themes such as othering, fear of death, white supremacy, and the climate crisis
Each piece selected and displayed within the walls of the Walters—an institution with its own admitted history of othering and white supremacy—reveals the evolution of an artistic practice by a multidimensional creator making multidimensional work.
Tsedaye Makonnen, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
An artist who combines sculpture, fiber art, and performance into rituals designed to venerate and heal
Tsedaye Makonnen focuses her work in particular on people migrating from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, historically and in the present day, drawing parallels between the two.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 15-21
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
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Hae Won Sohn, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
An artist forcing us to ask not only “What is this?” but the much more unnervingly delicious, “When is this?”
Sohn uses commercial ceramics techniques overwhelmingly used to create uniform multiple objects, and experiments with the process at various stages to create unique objects that can’t be mass reproduced
The 2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists Exhibition
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
‘The Conductor’ Documentary About Marin Alsop Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
The documentary is inspired by both Baltimore and Vienna and it traverses both with the director’s own personal perspective
Director Bernadette Wegenstein, a filmmaker and professor of media studies at Johns Hopkins University, met Alsop in Baltimore City, where they both live and work.
Art AND: Abigail Lucien
The sculptor talks about moving to Baltimore during the pandemic, thinking with your hands, and singing to your plants
Lucien’s work is an investigation of how everyday materials can function as metaphors recalling an absence or intimacy of the human body
The News: Unemployment Uncertainty, BLISS in NE Baltimore, Moore Announces Candidacy
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore news from the Baltimore Brew, WYPR, Baltimore Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
N95s: Made In Maryland
Maryland Medical Industries co-founder Patrick Iles discusses how six creative businesses joined forces to strengthen Maryland’s regional PPE supply chain
There’s a slim chance of success at getting a manufacturing enterprise like this off the ground, but we had a much better shot at it with all of us bringing our experiences of owning and operating small businesses to the table.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 8-14
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.