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MADONNARI ARTS FESTIVAL/125TH COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION
Little Italy proudly presents the Little Italy Baltimore Madonnari Arts Festival in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Columbus Day Parade on October 1-4, 2015. This 4-day cultural event will showcase elaborate chalk paintings created by artists directly on the streets of Little Italy. S. High Street will come alive as it is transformed into fine works of art.
Festival of Fabrics: Color from the Earth Art Exhibition
Wax & Wane Fiber and the Rawlings Conservatory present Festival of Fabrics: Color from the Earth. The exhibition showcases naturally dyed fabrics created during a series of free public workshops. The exhibition runs from October 3-11, 2015 at the Rawlings Conservatory located in Druid Hill Park. The Conservatory is open Wednesday-Sunday, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, October 2, from 5-7 pm.
Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar
Maryland’s largest producers-only market offers an assortment of produce, meats, dairy, breads, flowers, collectibles and crafts on Sundays between April 5 and December 20 from 7am to sell out (typically noon). Many Sundays also feature live music performances and cooking demonstrations. The market is located below the Jones Falls Expressway at Holliday & Saratoga streets. For more information, visit www.promotionandarts.org.
Gold of the Ancient Americas
Take a broader look at centuries-old artifacts including pendants, beaded necklaces, gold-sheathed ear rods and nose ornaments from the Walters’ Central and South American collection. The exhibition explores the making of gold objects by ancient American goldsmiths from Peru to Panama.
NEW ARRIVALS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE O’NEIL COLLECTION
The BMA kicks-off a new series of exhibitions drawn from the more than 3,000 gifts of art acquired during the In a New Light campaign that concluded during the museum’s 100th anniversary in fall 2014. This exhibition features approximately 18 color and black-and-white photographs that were part of a major gift from Baltimore collectors Tom and Nancy O’Neil, who have collected 20th- and 21st-century photography for more than two decades.
Drop-In Art Activities: Up the Nile
We're traveling up the Nile and exploring Egyptian art and artifacts. Decode hieroglyphs, learn about Egypt's famed blue-green ceramics, and check out mummies and masks!
Black Box: Sharon Hayes
Through her performances, films, and installations, Baltimore-born artist Sharon Hayes (American, born 1970) examines the intersection of history, politics, and speech, with a particular focus on the language of 20th-century protest groups. For this exhibition the BMA is presenting Hayes’ Ricerche: three (2013), a 38-minute video that debuted at the 2013 Venice Biennale and received a special mention from the Golden Lion award committee. The film questions attitudes of 36 students at an all women's college in western Massachusetts on issues of sexual and gender identity.
NEW ARRIVALS: LATE 20TH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM RUSSIA & BELARUS
More than 20 photographs by Russian and Belarusian artists capture once-powerful symbols of the eroding Soviet State. These works came to the BMA from Brenda Edelson, who served as the museum’s program director from 1973-85 and oversaw the BMA’s Downtown Gallery, the first satellite gallery in the country. Most of the works date to the 1980s when the Soviet Union was increasingly opening up to the west.
BAKER ARTIST AWARDS 2014 & 2015 EXHIBITION AT THE BMA
The BMA celebrates Baltimore’s arts community with Baker Artist Awards 2014 & 2015, an exhibition showcasing two years of winners of both the $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes and the $5,000 b-grants. .
Diverging Streams: Eastern Nigerian Art
The new galleries for African art include an area for thematic focus exhibitions. The first exhibition brings together approximately 20 headdresses, masks, and costumes from the eastern Nigerian region of Africa. These works demonstrate the aesthetic relationships between the Igbo, Jukun, Igala, Ogoni, Boki, Idoma, Ibibio, and Ejagham cultures that lived between the Benue and Cross rivers. Many of the works are drawn from an important private collection.
Art & Flea M@RT
The Art & Flea MaRT is a free, weekly event presented each Sunday (weather permitting) outside on the 1200 block of Mt. Royal Avenue--the 'art & culture' corridor of MICA and UB, the Lyric Opera House and Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Featuring wares by local crafters, makers and purveyors of the fun and fine, visitors will find vendors offering everything from vintage fashions to handmade crafts, decor, jewelry, original artwork and a wide array of unique flea finds from furniture to housewares and accessories.
The Gold of El Caño
In conjunction with special exhibition Gold of the Ancient Americas, conservators Kim Cullen Cobb, Ainslie Harrison, and Julie Lauffenburger will present a talk on the 1,000-year-old cemetery site of El Caño in central Panama. El Caño offers an exciting opportunity to answer some compelling questions: who are the people of this region and where did they come from?
They Fight with Cameras: Walter Rosenblum in WWII from D-Day to Dachau
They Fight with Cameras: Walter Rosenblum in WWII from D-Day to Dachau
August 26 – December 16
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Juried Faculty Exhibition
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 5–7 pm
Juried Faculty Exhibition features the work of MICA’s world-renowned full-time faculty, highlighting their diversity in content, medium, and style. This year’s show features Timothy App, Carolyn Case ’97 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA), Cindy Cheng ’11 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA), Jim Condron ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA), Lillian Hoover ’05 (Mount Royal School of Art MFA), Sangram Majumdar, Bob Salazar ’83 (General Fine Arts BFA), Lynn Silverman, and Jo Smail.
Lecture: Raphael Rubinstein
Raphael Rubinstein is the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting Critic in Residence for fall 2015. The New York-based poet and art critic has published numerous books. He is a 1979 graduate of Bennington College in Vermont. From 1997 to 2007, he was a senior editor at Art in America, where he continues to be a contributing editor. He is a professor of critical studies at the University of Houston.
Terminal Velocity: Artist, Brandon Morse Brings Innovative Projections to Maryland Art Place This September
New-media artist, Brandon Morse, writes software to simulate and emulate systems in flux. Scenes of tumult, chaos and entropy are portrayed through these digital simulations presenting to the viewer video and video-installation works that draw parallels between chaotic natural phenomena and the human condition. The pieces in the exhibition titled, Terminal Velocity, will run as software in the gallery and as such will continually evolve and self-generate on the fly during the course of the exhibition; never repeating or looking the same twice.
Alumni Mandolin Recital Joel Michael-Schwartz
Joel Michael Schwarz ’15 will perform and speak about historic, cultural and musical parallels between two styles which developed independently, the blues in America, and flamenco in Spain.
Exhibition: First the Pain I
Reception: Wednesday, October 7, 5–7 pm
First the Pain I explores the pain one may experience when suffering with a mental illness or addiction, or when affected by a loved one’s condition. By looking at the anguish of those impacted by mental illness and addiction, people may better understand the nature of these illnesses and the stigma that compounds them. Through art, this exhibition delves into the pain surrounding these conditions, public perceptions, and empathy.
35th Anniversary Show & more!
Baltimore Clayworks is proud to announce its 35TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW and three new exhibitions in our galleries starting September 4 at 6PM.