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Music & Imagination Day Camp for Kids Who Love Music!
Offered for the fifth year at the Loyola University Maryland campus, Children’s Chorus of Maryland & School of Music and the American Kodály Institute at Loyola University Maryland will hold the Music & Imagination Summer Day Camp from July 16th to July 20th, 2018. The camp is a one of a kind experience for children between the ages 5 ½ and 13 to explore and expand their understanding and relationship to music through play, games, and other joyful summer activities. The half-day campers play singing games and perform puppet musicals.
Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™ Exhibit Opening Weekend Celebration
Travel back in time to when dinosaurs last roamed the land and explore a variety of engaging and interactive activities and environments! In the Land of Fire, get connected to the prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Grab your little one, circle the land in insect costumes, buzz through a volcano with oozing lava and work through a swampy bog, and identify an ecosystem of animals and plants.
Vibrance
An exhibit featuring work from four artists – Ilene Gold, Robert Hofherr, Joyce Ritter, and Mary Jo Tydlacka – working in a variety of media, from painting to art quilts to collage. Each artist incorporates bright color and elements of abstraction in their art, creating vivid works that are often inspired by nature.
The public is invited to a free opening reception on July 9 from 6-8pm.
Mess Zone & Clay Play in the BGE Studio Workshop
Mess Zone & Clay Play in the BGE Studio Workshop
Open daily during operating hours
Admission is free with museum entry, which is $15.95 for individuals two and up. Members and children under two enter free.
Visit the BGE Studio Workshop and spark your child’s imagination through fun, hands-on art projects that you work on together! This summer’s projects are designed to get you excited – and learning – as you explore art!
Paint It! Ellicott City 2018 Juried Exhibition
An exhibit featuring artwork created by juried artists during Paint It!, an annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City, Maryland.
Due to the recent tragic flooding in Historic Ellicott City, the boundaries for Paint It! Ellicott City 2018 were extended to include all public locations within the Ellicott City zip codes, 21042 & 21043.
Walking Tours - Provide by the Baltimore National Heritage Area
Put your best foot forward and explore the best of Baltimore! Join the Heritage Area's Urban Rangers on a memorable walk through history featuring historic attractions, unique neighborhoods, and colorful stories that make Baltimore charming and unique. From the Inner Harbor to Fell's Point - we've got Baltimore covered!
LESLIE SCHWING: Serious Weather: Views from the Middle World
On view: June 29 – July 21
Reception: Fri, June 29 | 6 – 8pm | FREE
Paper Cutting Workshop: Sat, July 14 | noon – 4pm | $40, $35 members
Unraveling mythic events in ordinary places, Leslie Schwing's mixed media paintings are animated with figures, glyphs, and elements both personal and universal.
The BIG Show
Opening Reception: SAT JUN 16 | 6 – 8pm
The BIG Show on Stage: SAT JUN 16 | 8pm
Members’ Artwork Drop-off: THU JUN 7 – SAT JUN 9 | 11am – 7pm each day
The BIG Show Open Critique: WED JUL 18 | 7pm | FREE!
On View: SAT JUN 16 - SAT AUG 4
The BIG Show on Stage Sign Up: Performer Registration
The BIG Show, little BIG Show: Loan Agreement & Registration Form
Viewpoints
Experience the dynamic physical approach of Viewpoints. This work highlights nine tenets of a body in space, established by theatre practitioners Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. Follow impulse, make bold choices, and celebrate artistic risk-taking using this unique theatrical vehicle.
Classes take place Monday and Wednesday nights from 6:30pm-8:30pm for two weeks.
High Tide in Dorchester (Free Film & Filmmaker Talk)
A film by Tom Horton, Sandy Cannon-Brown and David Harp (Beautiful Swimmers Revisited). Join us for a screening of the film and conversation with the producer Sandy Cannon-Brown.
“If the consequences of global warming and rising sea levels and the worsening erosion and the high tides they bring seem a little hazy to you, come take a tour of Dorchester County where the future is now.” – Tom Horton
Co-sponsored by the Havre de Grace Green Team, Harford County Climate Action and Harford County Upper Chesapeake TWW.
Free and Open to the Public – Registration required.
Peabody Jazz Students
Nathan Hook, saxophone
Alex Fornier, bass
Jonathan Baez, percussion
Performing in our first floor gallery.
Free Brown Bag Lecture: Fruitions of Fate: The Foundation of Maryland’s Federalist Defense
Doctoral candidate Jonathan A. Hanna, Claremont Graduate University, explores the intellectual underpinnings of Maryland’s Federalists and their drive to ratify the new nation’s Constitution. Many state leaders in Maryland and throughout the new nation, known as Anti-Federalists, feared a strong federal government that would limit powers granted to the states. This is a timely presentation amidst current debates on interpreting the “letter” versus the “spirit” of the law.
The Business of Acting
Where to begin? This class identifies the tools of professionalism that every actor must harness. Navigate the waters of our industry and tackle key concepts, such as professional presentation and character type, in this sampler approach. Learn how to find work and explore the unique natures of Baltimore, DC, and New York City as the vibrant artistic communities that they are.
Christ Kaltenbach Presents "Seen on Screen : Great Movies and Why We Love Them" HAIRSPRAY
Chris Kaltenbach, film writer for the Baltimore Sun, selects and presents Hollywood classics with lively talks about each film and a running commentary on their influence in American culture.
HAIRSPRAY – In 1960s Baltimore, dance-loving teen Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) auditions for a spot on “The Corny Collins Show” and wins. She becomes an overnight celebrity, a trendsetter in dance, fun and fashion. Perhaps her new status as a teen sensation is enough to topple Corny’s reigning dance queen and bring racial integration to the show.
Pioneer Camp
This years Pioneer Camp will be Space themed! Campers will learn about satellites, telescopes, stars, space travel and more! The Campers are going to make their own telescopes and planets as we explore the final frontier. The annual STEM Camp for 8-11 year old students, will be offered in two sessions covering the same material for each. Registration is required. Payment must be through PayPal during registration. Where: National Electronic Museum Each day the Camp will Start at 9:00am and go until 1:00pm. So please pack a lunch!
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016
Jack Whitten made his sculpture privately in Greece—even after he became one of the most important artists of his generation. For the first time ever, these revelatory works will be on view in Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2016, co-organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists
In conjunction with Artscape, Baltimore’s premier arts festival organized by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, the BMA presents a special exhibition of works by the six finalists for the $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize: Erick Antonio Benitez, Nakeya Brown, Sutton Demlong, Nate Larson, Eunice Park, and Stephen Towns. The winner, finalists, and semi-finalists were chosen by an independent panel of jurors.
Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the artist’s monumental installation, Birth of a Nation (2014), which represents the abstracted figure of a black woman nursing a white infant against the backdrop of the first official flag of the United States. Suspended above a mound of earth, the quilt is surrounded by Towns’ ongoing Story Quilts series (2016–), a cycle of seven works in luminous fabrics and glass beads that narrate the life of Nat Turner and his 1831 rebellion.
Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics
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 sub-Saharan 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.