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07/16/2021

Art AND: Tracey Beale - BmoreArt

Tracey Beale plays with fire. The jewelry artist, vocalist, and program manager for the Baltimore Museum of Art is constantly thinking about metal—its malleability and changeability when heated are attractive to her, but so is its permanence. Beale understands the role that jewelry plays in families and hopes her work will be worn by one person and passed on to others over time as an heirloom. “What is jewelry without the body?” she asks. “It becomes something completely different. People wearing the work is just as important as the work itself.” When tied to memories of the wearer, jewelry becomes a reminder of those who came before us, and Beale is constantly aware of working in close conjunction with legacy.

Read it today online and check out Tracey's portrait in the most recent print journal!
Words: Suzy Kopf Photos: Plaid Photo

Tracey Beale Jewelry Tracey Beale The Baltimore Museum of Art Maryland Institute College of Art MICA Alumni Association

https://bmoreart.com/2021/07/art-and-tracey-beale.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.

07/02/2021

Taharka Brothers: It’s a Teamwork Thing - BmoreArt

When I got here, I said, “Oh my goodness, all you guys want to be entrepreneurs, and this is what I’ve always wanted to do since I was younger.”
The founder of Taharka Brothers, Sean Smeeton, was my dad’s mentor when he was a teenager. My dad got mixed up in the Baltimore street life, but Sean, who was mentoring other kids in the Lexington Terrace neighborhood, helped them start lawn care and newspaper delivery businesses. Taharka Brothers Made In Baltimore

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/taharka-brothers-its-a-teamwork-thing.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.

07/02/2021

Art AND: Kris Fulton - BmoreArt

Hospitality is meant to embody the warmth and familiarity of a good friendship, to make us feel comfortable and known. That describes Kris Fulton to the letter: His natural warmth is built into the cafe he started with business partner Ann Travers Fortune. Fulton wants Sophomore to be a place for people to have experiences—some of them hopefully a little more profound than my remembrance of being sweaty and late—a place where friends can gather and conversations can be sparked. He sees the cafe as an important third space between work and home where people are free to enjoy themselves and the company of friends and strangers alike.

Suzy Kopf Plaid Photography Fadensonnen

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/art-and-kris-fulton.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.

07/02/2021

BmoreArt CC July 1 with Kumasi J. Barnett

Video from our July 1 C+C Zoom talk at Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, with Baltimore-based artist Kumasi J. Barnett, whose comic-book inspired paintings directly confront issues of police brutality, racial profiling, and systemic racism.

BmoreArt co-hosts Teri Henderson and Jeffrey Kent spoke to the gallery about their move from Chelsea to LA, discussed best practices for artists and collectors, and dug into Barnett's prolific comic-based work.

Barnett's works have been exhibited widely in the USA and abroad, including Lowell Ryan Projects, LA, where he is represented, and at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY and City Lore, NY, with museum exhibitions including the Zeittz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, and most recently at the Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show in 2020, in the Focus selection curated by Jamillah James. Barnett's work has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Artnet News, and The Guardian, among others.

Lowell Ryan Projects Teri Henderson Jeffrey Kent BmoreArt Kumasi J. Barnett

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This C+C talk features BmoreArt at Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, with Baltimore-based artist Kumasi J. Barnett, whose comic-book inspired paintings directly…

06/29/2021

Let's Get It On: A Brood X Cicada Photo Essay - BmoreArt

Brood X cicadas, thank you for giving us a new spectator sport, and we apologize for stepping on you. We celebrate you with this photo essay by Jill Fannon. YOLO and some advice via the late great Marvin Gaye: “Let’s love, baby / Let’s get it on, sugar / Let’s get it on, woo hoo.”

Photos: Jill Fannon

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/lets-get-it-on-a-brood-x-cicada-photo-essay.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.

06/27/2021

Don't miss our last C+C Zoom talk with Kumasi J. Barnett and Lowell Ryan Projects this Thursday, July 1 at 6:30 pm! RSVP Link below... and comic aficionados welcome!

Atomic Books DC Comics Marvel Comics Fans 1961-1997

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06/17/2021

Lavar Munroe, 2021 Sondheim Finalist - BmoreArt

Sondheim 2021 review 4: Lavar Munroe.
In this collection of work, Munroe focuses on his relationship to Black single fatherhood, a multidimensional and intimate subject.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/lavar-munroe-2021-sondheim-finalist.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.

06/16/2021

Hoesy Corona, 2021 Sondheim Finalist - BmoreArt

Sondheim 2021 Finalist review 3: Hoesy Corona.
Through performance and wearable sculpture, Corona examines themes such as othering, fear of death, white supremacy, and the climate crisis.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/hoesy-corona-2021-sondheim-finalist.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.

06/16/2021

Diamon Fisher Curates Juneteenth Celebration as Both a Party and a Skillshare - BmoreArt

For Diamon Fisher, it is essential to cultivate environments that reclaim joy and leisure for Black folks, as well as spaces that foster knowledge and exploration. Her latest project promises to do just that. Her second annual Juneteenth celebration, taking place this upcoming Saturday at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, features music, poetry, art, food trucks, a marketplace, workshops, skillshares, and more.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/diamon-fisher-curates-juneteenth-celebration-as-both-a-party-and-a-skillshare.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.

06/15/2021

Hae Won Sohn, 2021 Sondheim Finalist - BmoreArt

Sondheim 2021 Finalist Exhibition Review 1: Hae Won Sohn by Bret McCabe: An artist forcing us to ask not only “What is this?” but the much more unnervingly delicious, “When is this?”

Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist Artist Talk: Hae Won Sohn The Walters Art Museum Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Baltimore Clayworks

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/hae-won-sohn-2021-sondheim-finalist.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.

06/15/2021

Tsedaye Makonnen, 2021 Sondheim Finalist - BmoreArt

Sondheim 2021 Finalist Exhibit: Review 2: Tsedaye Makonnen by Cara Ober

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.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/tsedaye-makonnen-2021-sondheim-finalist.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.

06/14/2021

The 2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists Exhibition - BmoreArt

After way too much digital-only interaction with art (and people) over the past year, the BmoreArt team was excited to see the 2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists exhibition in person. And instead of publishing our reviews of each finalist's work all at once, we are spacing them out over a whole week. Check our website every day for a new review!

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
The Walters Art Museum

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/the-2021-janet-walter-sondheim-prize-finalists-exhibition.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.

06/10/2021

Baltimore Clayworks is hosting a Seconds Sale June 11th-13th. Attend their first look party TOMORROW from 6-9PM to have your pick of ceramic goods, $30 ticket includes a drink. Saturday and Sunday are free admission from 12-4PM. Indoor capacity limited and masks required.

06/04/2021

Dan Deacon's Long-Form and Experimental Radio Show Rekindles Human Connection Through Music - BmoreArt

Every Friday night on Baltimore’s radio station WTMD, Dan Deacon shares two hours of music that allows the listener to meditate, placing them into a healing trance. The program, Distorting Time, broadcasts mainly long-form music pieces, many of which have a unique experimental spirit.

Read Jaddie Fang's interview with Dan about the magic of a radio show, Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, and connecting through music.

https://bmoreart.com/2021/06/dan-deacons-long-form-and-experimental-radio-show-rekindles-human-connection-through-music.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.

05/25/2021

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.