Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 10/22
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Living With Art: Jackie Copeland
The range of works in Copeland’s collection highlights her discerning interests and tastes
Copeland's collection is a reflection of the depth and width of her 30-year career in museums: contemporary art, functional works traditionally sidelined as craft, and objects of historical importance for what they remind us about where we come from.
BmoreArt’s Picks: October 20-26
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
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What We Can Learn From The BMA’s Recent Deaccessioning Announcement
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Require Structural Change and Transparency in the Way Museums Acquire and Sell Art
Once an institution starts viewing its collection as revenue-generating assets, how does it reconcile its obligation to the artists it has collected in the past and the curators who made the decisions to collect the art?
NEW WORLD: A Photo Essay by Audrey Gatewood
A photographer asked friends to imagine society deeply changing, at a molecular level, into a fantasy where they are the agents of change
Gatewood's photos function as moments of healing, which build up to create a more conscious future.
Letter to MD Attorney General Demands an Investigation into the BMA’s Sale of Three Historic Works
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.
Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 10/15
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Quarantine Diaries: Rappers & Collaborators
Chris Cassius, Baby Kahlo, Logicoma, Stoop Baby Mo, Infinity Knives, Brian Ennals, Eze Jackson, Bailey Straughn
Though the feeling of being in a crowd at a show cannot be replicated, maybe reading the words and listening to the projects of these artists can bring you some semblance of that adrenaline and joy.
Art AND: Jinji Fraser
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.
BmoreArt’s Picks: October 13-19
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
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Practical Power: Fashion Designer Jody Davis
A Baltimore-based fashion designer crafts clothing with strength and flexibility
Her fashion line, Jody Davis Designs, recently celebrated its tenth year, and her garments have been worn by the likes of television journalists Soledad O’Brien and Gayle King.
Black Flower Power: The Portraits of Schaun Champion
Schaun Champion's romantic outdoor photos of Black men and women wearing floral crowns are the images we need right now
The series came from the artist's question: has anyone seen a black flower? No one could give her an answer, but she knew they existed.
Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 10/8
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Litscope: Libra & ‘Big Friendship’
Authors Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman strive for balance in their longterm, long-distance friendship
In classic Libra style, Ann and Aminatou are so inseparable that they actually write the book in one voice.
Cutting Across Boundaries: A Workshop of Our Own
A Workshop of Our Own is a woodshop specifically for women and gender-nonconforming craftspeople to work and learn new skills
Now in its third year, WOO boasts approximately a hundred active members who use the shop, including three resident woodworkers who rent studio space in the building to run their businesses.
BmoreArt’s Picks: October 6-12
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
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Peace Floods the Body: Bobbi Rush’s ‘Language of the Crow’
With each letter, Bobbi Rush elevates written language and transforms it into song
Short, spiritual, succinct, and sincere, Language of the Crow is a primer on liberation, self-discovery, introspection, and intuition.
Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 10/1
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