Front Room: The Mary and Paul Roberts Collection
The BMA is incredibly grateful for the generosity of dedicated supporters Paul Roberts and his late wife Mary, who passed away in November of 2018.
The BMA is incredibly grateful for the generosity of dedicated supporters Paul Roberts and his late wife Mary, who passed away in November of 2018.
Beauty stops us in our tracks. It makes us pause, look, consider. Sometimes it overwhelms us. We are often told art should aspire to this standard and be proportionate, symmetrical, naturalistic, and orderly. But what of work that is designed to revolt and terrify? Across subSaharan Africa, artists working across a range of states, societies, and cultures deliberately created artwork that violated conceptions of beauty, symmetry, and grace—both ours and theirs. Subverting Beauty features approximately two dozen works from sub-Saharan African’s colonial period (c.1880-c.
Commissioned by the BMA, the New York-based collective, DIS, debuts a video series on the wide-reaching impact of the 2008 financial crisis. The series contemplates the future of money, income inequality, and the uncertain economic prospects of Millennials.
The sounds of Jacqueline Marie Butler's world come to life through new lobby experiences pre and post-show. Enjoy a fun, festive, lounge after the play every Friday night in June. The bar stays open and music continues. Be introduced to incredible local musicians, bands, and other artistic organizations showcasing work inspired by the powerful narrative of the Queens Girl Rep.
Exit the theatre and walk into an afterparty. All-vinyl, Baby Alcatraz spins as you grab a drink, enjoy conversation, and dance as the lobby pulses with sounds of the '60s.
Y:ART Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its June exhibition, featuring work by talented contemporary artists Kenneth Hilker and Joseph A. Corcoran. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 6pm - 9pm.
Book of Flowers
RYAN SYRELL
JUNE 8 – JULY 27, 2019
Opening Reception June 8th, 7 – 10pm
Night equalizes, it de-centers, and affirms that we are unstable and floating; unmoored from constructed time. It encourages wild oscillations between anxiety and ecstasy. A sense of porosity is amplified as sensation, perception, and memory wash together in nocturnal space.
Connect with the collections and learn the basics of taking a good selfie using your own smart phone. Museum admission is free on Second Sundays and no advanced registration required.
The FREE LakeFest Weekend includes three days of live music, an invitational arts and crafts show, strolling performers, festival food, a Clyde’s of Columbia Beer Garden and an array of activities and entertainment for all ages. One of the highlights of LakeFest this year includes evening performance(s) and residency activities by Bridgman Packer Dance.
The Walters Art Museum, in collaboration with the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, is proud to present the 14th-annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition.
Children Welcome! FREE
Creative Alliance | 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore 21224
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Join us for a fun, family-friendly event that celebrates the immigrant and refugee communities that make up Baltimore’s diverse cultural landscape. Food, music, student art exhibitions, art vendors, piñata-making, face-painting, and other activities by various partnering refugee groups will be available.
SCHEDULE
12-2PM | Food, art, and family activities throughout Creative Alliance
2-3:30PM | Performances in the theater
Contemporary Arts Inc presents a John Lamkin ii & Bruce Henderson Production "Soul Evolution": The Vocal Music of Horace Silver. featuring The John Lamkin "Favorites" Jazz Quintet with the Vocal Jazz Ensemble Ekklesla2, directed by Linda Hall.
The John Lamkin "Favorites" Jazz Quintet
John Lamkin II, Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Michael Hairston, saxophone/Bob Butta, keyboard
Michael Graham, bass/Jesse Moody, drums With the Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Ekklesia2, Linda Hall Director
And Vocalists
Eartha Lamkin & Bruce Henderson
For more than 30 years, New Orleans-natives Keith Calhoun (b. 1955) and Chandra McCormick (b. 1957) have been documenting life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Known as “The Farm,” the prison was founded on the consolidated land of several cotton and sugarcane plantations. Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex includes poignant photographs and videos that record the exploitation of men incarcerated in the maximum-security prison farm while also showcasing their humanity and individual narratives.
SoulCollage® is a creative process, developed by the late Seena Frost, which uses the art form of collage-making to enhance the journey of self-exploration. Seena Frost’s curriculum will guide us in creating our own personal deck of collage cards, consisting of five different “Suits.” Each class focuses on one suit as a way to explore both our inner and outer worlds. We will use already-made images from magazines to create original cards. make new pieces of art. These cards become a source of insight and inspiration as we share about our lives and our collages.
The Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project is the wild and sleepless weekend in which teams make a movie - write, shoot, and edit - in just 48 hours. On Friday, June 14, they draw their genre from "the cruel hat of fate.” They then get a character, prop, and line to include in their film. On Sunday June 16, exhausted and invigorated filmmakers make the wild dash to get their films in before the 48 hour deadline. Then it's time to celebrate the world premieres of all completed films at Baltimore's own Creative Alliance on June 23rd!
The Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project is the wild and sleepless weekend in which teams make a movie - write, shoot, and edit - in just 48 hours. On Friday, June 14, they draw their genre from "the cruel hat of fate.” They then get a character, prop, and line to include in their film. On Sunday June 16, exhausted and invigorated filmmakers make the wild dash to get their films in before the 48 hour deadline.
Projected lights, sounds, and reflective surfaces convey a sense of flowing water in Oletha DeVane’s installation, Traces of the Spirit, presented inside the BMA’s Spring House. The exhibition references the building’s past as a dairy and place where enslaved people were forced to labor and creates an altar-like location for a selection of the artist’s spirit sculptures. For these totem-like objects, DeVane (American, b.
As Black Girl Magic continues to grow and be embodied in our community we are able to see women who look like us in roles that historically have left us out or we have been underrepresented. The music industry is no different. With Business + Beats + Black Girl Magic we hope to highlight the journeys of women in the music industry and showcase the diversity of careers and career paths while also providing insight into the role sisterhood plays and has played in having a seat at the table.
Starting with early portraiture, “Reflections: A Brief History of Looking at Ourselves” is a new photography exhibition exploring themes of identity and place that are at the cornerstone of human experience and widely examined in contemporary photography. The year-long exhibition draws from the Maryland Historical Society’s photograph holdings, including daguerreotypes, salt prints, glass negatives, silver gelatin and digital prints. The exhibition opening June 19 is free and includes a light reception.
Join us for a fun evening of art, refreshments, and a Pastel Demo with Maria Marino - 1 of the featured artists in our FAB 4 Show...
It is always a treat to see an artist in action, and to see how a painting begins and progresses!
Demo will begin around 6:15 or so...
Urban Arts Leadership (UAL) is an example of change in action. A program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA), UAL is a fellowship program designed to increase diversity in the management of cultural and artistic organizations by building a pipeline for high achieving emerging leaders, focusing on those of color.