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Lunch & Learn: Electrifying and Animating Maryland's Christmas Gardens
Animated Christmas wonderlands! From repurposed clock works to water pumps, from candles to incandescent lights, from old washing machine motors to electric TRAINS, TRAINS, TRAINS, mechanically-minded Marylanders added life to the German immigrant tradition of miniature worlds under the Christmas tree. This talk, given by Paul Rubenson, explores the roots and reasons behind a local craft tradition that embraced early twentieth-century technological enthusiasm to become an American holiday staple.
Everything’s New: Baltimore in the Roaring Twenties
During the decade of the 1920s, Baltimore was a boom town. Throughout the decade, life in Baltimore was changing, as its people and commerce adapted themselves to new social trends, new employment opportunities, and exciting new technologies. In almost every year of the decade, a new and significant business opened or expanded. Commerce, industry and jobs for the city’s residents underwent dynamic changes as Baltimoreans listened to Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong on the radio and danced the Foxtrot and Charleston.
Romare Bearden: The Artist as Activist
Examine how an American artist agitated for change through the power of his art and writing. Join Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation, for a discussion on Romare Bearden’s role as an art activist. This talk will explore Bearden’s evolution into a true master artist whose work changed our way of seeing the world.
In conjunction with Romare Bearden: Visionary Artist
Writers LIVE! Katrina Bell McDonald
Katrina McDonald talks about her book, Embracing Sisterhood.