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05/25/2021

Join BmoreArt at Latela Curatorial, a DC-based woman-focused art consulting service with artist Phaan Howng and Latela founder, Marta Staudinger, an independent curator, historian, and artist. We will discuss strategies for artists who want to sell work at different price points, a range of advice for collectors and artists who want to invest locally - both in DC and Baltimore, and new installation work in Howng's solo exhibition currently on view at Towson University Asian Art Gallery.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_22dv4oFsTD-URR7NpnmS3w

Join BmoreArt at Latela Curatorial, a DC-based woman-focused art consulting service with artist Phaan Howng and Latela founder, Marta Staudinger, an independent curator, historian, and artist. We will discuss strategies for artists who want to sell work at different price points, a range of advice for collectors and artists who want to invest locally - both in DC and Baltimore, and new installation work in Howng's solo exhibition currently on view at Towson University Asian Art Gallery.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_22dv4oFsTD-URR7NpnmS3w

05/24/2021

Art AND: Pooneh Maghazehe - BmoreArt

Pooneh Maghazehe is driven by material, choosing as her subject a small memory or moment and drawing from it an abstract rendering of the human form, typically female, and the applied implications of that femininity. There is a simultaneous representation of things as they absolutely are—a Diet Coke logo or a girl or maybe a porthole—and the denial that any of these things are real at all. Scientists observe, but Maghazehe seems content to let the viewer draw their own conclusions from the artifacts she presents.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/art-and-pooneh-maghazehe.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/21/2021

Collaborative Cinema: 'Children of Paris' and 'Mom & M' - BmoreArt

If you missed the opening night of the Maryland Film Festival on Wednesday, don’t worry, because you’ve still got almost a whole week ahead of you of films and programs to catch. Here is a close read of two films I’ve been anticipating, an intimate account of Baltimore artists and what it means to choose family.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/collaborative-cinema-children-of-paris-and-mom-m.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/20/2021

The News: Security Deposit Alternatives Bill Vetoed, BPD Report "Encouraging," Mosbys Make Headlines - BmoreArt

This week’s Baltimore news includes: A look at City Hall corruption, Scott vetoes Security Deposit Alternative Bill, Baltimore vaccine plant fails to deliver one dose, and more reporting from Baltimore magazine, Baltimore Brew, Technical.ly Baltimore, and other local and independent news sources.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/the-news-security-deposit-alternatives-bill-vetoed-bpd-report-encouraging-mosbys-make-headlines.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/19/2021

BmoreArt's Picks: May 18-24 - BmoreArt

This week: events via Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Co, The Framers Choice Gallery - Owner, Frederick Arts Council, CityLit Project, SNF Parkway Theatre / Maryland Film Fest, The Walters Art Museum, Motor House, Two Strikes Theatre Collective, Maryland State Arts Council, and more!

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/bmorearts-picks-may-18-24.html

BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

05/18/2021

At the Maryland Film Festival, Local is Global - BmoreArt

Executive director Sandra L. Gibson considers the festival “both a springboard and a culminating point” for the independent film community in Baltimore, which has been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on both cinemas and productions themselves. Though the festival remains mostly virtual this year, as it was last year, it feels more celebratory than consolatory, with a slate of genre-bending offerings that work as well in the digital world as they do on the big screen.

SNF Parkway Theatre / Maryland Film Fest

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/at-the-maryland-film-festival-local-is-global.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/17/2021

The Lungdeep Breath of Loving: Katherine Bradford's Mother Paintings at Canada - BmoreArt

Katherine Bradford’s Mother Paintings feel exhaled into being. Not easily or simply, but breathed out from a profoundly interior place. The paintings speak of care, worry, relief, anxiety—the lungdeep breath of loving. The figures populating this series live among slabs of heavy, humid air, hypersensitized in their responses to claustrophobic and caustic atmospheres.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/the-lungdeep-breath-of-loving-katherine-bradfords-mother-paintings-at-canada.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/12/2021

How Baltimore Fed Lucille Clifton’s Poetry - BmoreArt

Lucille, as she invited her students at St. Mary’s College to call her, was not a provincial poet. She was a poet of myth and spirit, of generations; of a displaced people; of a nation and world in need of both strength and healing. Born and educated primarily in upstate New York and living out her 26-year widowhood between California, Maryland, and as a visiting teacher in places such as Memphis and Durham, Lucille was not bound by place. Through the imaginative, mystical works she produced—works she insisted she received—Lucille transcended location and met the reader, you could say, at the heart of humanity, where place is merely background.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/how-baltimore-fed-lucille-cliftons-poetry.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/11/2021

Ellingson's Dreams: Vol. I, is a book of 100 absurd drawings by Kyle Ellingson. Ellingson is a Brooklyn-based illustrator whose work blends surrealism with pop art and comics. His website is https://www.kyleellingson.com/

Explore www.micagradshow.com where you’ll find the work of Ellingson alongside 150 other students in the class of 2021 from all fourteen MFA and MA graduate programs at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Image Description: Ellingson's Dreams: Vol. I

Ellingson's Dreams: Vol. I, is a book of 100 absurd drawings by Kyle Ellingson. Ellingson is a Brooklyn-based illustrator whose work blends surrealism with pop art and comics. His website is https://www.kyleellingson.com/

Explore www.micagradshow.com where you’ll find the work of Ellingson alongside 150 other students in the class of 2021 from all fourteen MFA and MA graduate programs at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Image Description: Ellingson's Dreams: Vol. I

05/07/2021

The Towson University Art+Design, Art History, Art Education Gallery presents SENIOR COLLECTIVE, an exhibition of work representing the program’s various concentrations of ceramics, digital art and design, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary object design, metalworking/jewelry, painting, drawing & printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Join them for a public opening reception next Thursday on Zoom, link below, at 7PM and view the exhibition online. Congratulations to all the graduates!

ZOOM LINK: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/94638805507?pwd=ZmIzVExweFdjazVhNS8xYld2WTgzUT09

Meeting ID: 946 3880 5507. | Passcode: 26616615

Image is of graduate Megan Calhoun’s work Overflow, glazed stoneware ceramics on wood stand

The Towson University Art+Design, Art History, Art Education Gallery presents SENIOR COLLECTIVE, an exhibition of work representing the program’s various concentrations of ceramics, digital art and design, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary object design, metalworking/jewelry, painting, drawing & printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Join them for a public opening reception next Thursday on Zoom, link below, at 7PM and view the exhibition online. Congratulations to all the graduates!

ZOOM LINK: https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/94638805507?pwd=ZmIzVExweFdjazVhNS8xYld2WTgzUT09

Meeting ID: 946 3880 5507. | Passcode: 26616615

Image is of graduate Megan Calhoun’s work Overflow, glazed stoneware ceramics on wood stand

05/06/2021

The News: Maryland Vax Rate, Walters Workers to Unionize, Nurses' War on COVID - BmoreArt

This week’s Baltimore news includes: Hogan promises “way more” vaccinations, cicadas 2021: here they come, museums make news, and more reporting from Maryland Reporter, Baltimore Fishbowl, The Intercept, and other local and independent news sources.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/the-news-maryland-vax-rate-walters-workers-to-unionize-nurses-war-on-covid.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

05/03/2021

Litscope: Ta**us & Justina Blakeney's Jungalow: Decorate Wild - BmoreArt

There’s one thing Taureans don’t skimp on: their homes. That makes Jungalow: Decorate Wild by Justina Blakeney a particularly well-suited book for Ta**us season. Every chapter pulls the reader in by the hand and shows them a new way to enrich their homes. https://bmoreart.com/2021/05/litscope-taurus-justina-blakeneys-jungalow-decorate-wild.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/29/2021

The News: Hogan Lifts COVID Restrictions, Renters' Rights, City School Board Speaks Out - BmoreArt

This week’s Baltimore news includes: Masks off Maryland (actually, maybe keep them on?), the lasting legacy of police brutality, Bolton Hill church to pay reparations, and more reporting from Technical.ly Baltimore, Baltimore Magazine, The AFRO, and other local and independent news sources.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/the-news-hogan-lifts-covid-restrictions-renters-rights-city-school-board-speaks-out.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/28/2021

Radical Books: Red Emma's - BmoreArt

For 17 years, Red Emma’s has created community and preserved it. The cooperative book store, coffee shop, bar, and radical space named after anarchist Emma Goldman began with a lofty goal, John Duda, one of its founding members, explains: “Let’s create an institution that could be self-sustaining and let’s run this thing as democratically as we want the world to be run.”

Last week, Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse announced they had purchased two properties in Waverly which they plan to make their "forever home." Read Brandon Soderberg's piece about Red Emma's from BmoreArt Issue 08: Archive!

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/radical-books-red-emmas.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/27/2021

Carrie Moyer on New Work, Teaching, and Art-Making in a Pandemic - BmoreArt

In mid-April, I spoke with Carrie Moyer via Zoom, both of us in our studios. Interviewing Moyer during the ongoing pandemic made me think about the expectations we put on ourselves and others and the unseen burdens that many of us carry while creating art. Moyer’s calm demeanor that has weathered the art world and beyond gave me solace during a time when having a studio practice can feel monumental and frivolous all at once. We talked about the reduced visual stimulation for artists during the pandemic, the perils of online teaching, and the act of painting when times get tough.

DC Moore Gallery

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/carrie-moyer-on-her-new-work-teaching-and-art-making-in-a-pandemic.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/25/2021

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 4/25 - BmoreArt

I’m tired. This week was hard. The internet was unbearable. There weren’t really any highlights, but here are some things that happened: Derek Chauvin’s conviction is not enough, Ma’Khia Bryant, the remains of two children killed by the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the fallacy of compliance, “this the country,” Slavery Saturday at Juilliard, ethical tourism, the ocean, the restoration of juvenile life without parole, and checking in on Black people.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/the-internet-is-exploding-10-must-read-articles-this-week-4-25.html

Derek Chauvin’s conviction is not enough, Ma’Khia Bryant, the remains of two children killed by the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, … Continued

04/19/2021

Connect + Collect Online Event

BmoreArt and the American Craft Council present a discussion of contemporary craft with three featured artists in ACC's Baltimore Craft Week.

https://shop.craftcouncil.org/pages/baltimore-connect-collect

BmoreArt and the American Craft Council present a discussion of contemporary craft with three featured artists in ACC's Baltimore Craft Week. We're pleased to be partnering with BmoreArt—an independent, Baltimore-based magazine that reflects the art and culture of the city and its surrounding regi...

04/18/2021

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 4/18 - BmoreArt

Why national parks should be returned to Native peoples, q***r Disney villains, situational and systemic grief, there is no “after” the pandemic, our horrible reality, Adam Toledo, Them as “pure degradation porn,” Issa Rae, anti-trans legislation targeting youth, and vegan cheese.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/the-internet-is-exploding-10-must-read-articles-this-week-4-18.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/16/2021

A Generous Spirit: Roya Golpira & Gutierrez Studios - BmoreArt

When John Gutierrez died of cancer at the age of 45 in 2010, he left behind a business built on hard work and craftsmanship, and a community of artists and friends who valued his passion and warmth.

“He had an immensely generous spirit about whatever it was—to tell you the truth, to let you into his world, to make you feel like you were the most important thing. Those are the things that he’s left behind,” says Roya Golpira, his long-time partner. She now heads Gutierrez Studios and says of the decision to continue after his death that, “It wasn’t a choice for me. I loved this place and I loved what we had created.”

Today: Nora Belblidia's feature on Gutierrez Studios from BmoreArt Issue 09: Craft.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/a-generous-spirit-roya-golpira-gutierrez-studios.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

04/15/2021

The News: Repeal of LEOBR and More Police Reform, Governor's Race Update, Renter Freedom or Predation? - BmoreArt

This week’s Baltimore news includes: The run-up to the run for Governor, local yarn company balls so hard, shelter in the time of COVID, and more reporting from Baltimore Sun, The Real News Network, Technical.ly Baltimore, and other local and independent news sources.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/04/the-news-repeal-of-leobr-and-more-police-reform-governors-race-update-renter-freedom-or-predation.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.