Legacy: Celebrating 150 Years Of The Fine Arts At Mcdaniel College
*Reception: Thursday, Feb. 1, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
*Reception: Thursday, Feb. 1, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
MICA presents “Germinal,” a solo exhibition consisting of a site-specific installation by B.F.A. Painting faculty Lauren Frances Adams. The exhibition explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service of political messages, such as Quaker abolitionist quilts and pro-Confederacy secessionist cockades, and the recent removal of Baltimore’s Confederate monuments.
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The Digital Media Center (DMC) at Johns Hopkins University is excited to host a lecture and Q&A from Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick from the Out of the Blocks podcast! Out of the Blocks (http://wypr.org/programs/out-blocks) is a podcast that collects Baltimore’s stories one block at a time. The event is open and free to the public. The event will be located on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University at the Mattin Center, in Jones 101 (SDS room).
This national traveling panel exhibition tells the remarkable story of Alexander Hamilton, the statesman whose face is on the ten-dollar bill, but whose life is a mystery to most Americans. Hamilton (1757–1804), became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at age 32, and was a Revolutionary War soldier, financial and legal genius, opponent of slavery, and author of most of the Federalist Papers, which were critical in 1787–1788 in gaining popular support to ratify the Constitution.
MICA presents Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art and The Truthful Art, and his Visual Trumpery Tour.
Healing Through Art: Art Therapy Degree Announced and Explored in New Exhibit at NDMU
Baltimore, MD - Notre Dame of Maryland University (NDMU) Gormley Gallery presents a new exhibit featuring reproductions of works from Holocaust victims, along with original works created in art therapy sessions. The exhibit coincides with the launch of Notre Dame’s new undergraduate and graduate degree in art therapy and offers an opportunity for viewers to see the healing power of the creative process.
Our People, Our Land, Our Images
January 29 – March 18
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Opportunities to view indigenous peoples through the eyes of indigenous photographers are rare and recent. This photographic exhibition features the work of indigenous artists from North America, Peru, Iraq, and New Zealand. Distinctive in its historical reach, the exhibition includes newly discovered 19th-century trailblazers, members of the next generation of emerging photographers, and well established contemporary practitioners.
The Poet’s Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch’ing
February 1 – March 17
UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Accounting, economics and business administration students at McDaniel College prepare free income tax returns for low-to-moderate income taxpayers through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. VITA is open to those who earn $54,000 or less annually. In most cases, returns can be filed electronically. At each session, students help answer questions, as well as prepare and file tax returns.
Students in the Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) at the Maryland Institute College of Art are pleased to present Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space. On view in MICA’s Decker Gallery from February 2 through March 11, 2018, this collaborative exhibition highlights significant performative actions from 1955 to the present through a global timeline installation and the commissioning of new performances in local public spaces.
MICA presents a lecture by scholar and artist Andrea Polli, whose work examines the intersection of art, science and technology. Polli’s practice includes media performance and installation, public interventions, curating and editorial, directing and writing. Presented as part of MICA’s Mixed Media Series and by the Rinehart School of Sculpture.
Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Museum presents a talk by Broadway author and director Mark Bramble titled "42nd Street, Barnum, and Hamilton: Dance for Theatrical Storytelling," in conjunction with its current exhibition Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, on view through March 11, 2018.
5:30pm Exhibition viewing
6:00pm Talk
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries present the 2018 Hammerman Lecture, "Locating the Self-Portrait in Postcard and Photobooth Imagery," by renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis, whose pioneering work in the 1980s gave rise to the field of African-American photographic history.
Admission is free; advance registration is requested.
Interplay: Elizabeth Sarian and Nathan Cicero
Thursday, February 8, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Baltimore Dance Project
Thursday, February 8 – Saturday, February 10, 8 p.m.
Proscenium Theatre
Baltimore Dance Project presents a blend of new, recent, and repertory works featuring the company premiere of Unravel, choreographed in 1995 by the late Eric Hampton and reconstructed by Alison Crosby, and an excerpt from Framework, one of the company’s earliest works, choreographed by the late Elizabeth Walton, the company’s founding artistic director. New works include a solo by Sandra Lacy, and Tipping Point by Ryan Bailey.
Interplay: Melissa Lander and Lior Willinger
Sunday, February 11, 3 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Humanities Teaching Lab: Frederick Douglass Day
Wednesday, February 14, 12 – 2 p.m.
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites the community to celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass at a digital “Transcribe-a-thon,” with public readings and birthday cake.
MICA Painting faculty Lauren Frances Adams discusses her solo exhibition "Germinal," a site-specific installation that explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service of political messages, such as Quaker abolitionist quilts and pro-Confederacy secessionist cockades, and the recent removal of Baltimore’s Confederate monuments.
"Germinal" is on view through Tuesday, March 13, with a reception on Thursday, Feb. 15, 5 – 7 p.m.
MICA presents multidisciplinary Iranian artist Shirin Neshat in conversation with Christopher Bedford, Baltimore Museum of Art director. Topics discussed include themes in Neshat's work such as gender, identity, politics and contrasting life between the West and Muslim countries.
This even is part of MICA's Mixed Media Series.