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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.
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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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.
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts
In collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Advanced Media Studies, the BMA presents an exhibition of works by MacArthur Award-winner Mary Reid Kelley and her collaborator and husband Patrick Kelley. The exhibition includes two films featuring their signature black-and-white sets and costumes. This is Offal (2016) is inspired by Thomas Hood’s 1844 poem, The Bridge of Sighs, in which the narrator, a forensic pathologist, laments the suicide of a young woman whose body is pulled from the Thames.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maren Hassinger: The Spirit of Things
For more than four decades, New York-based artist Maren Hassinger (b. 1947, Los Angeles, CA) has explored relationships between the industrial and natural worlds in a practice that is both meditative and critical. The BMA’s exhibition represents a broad range of her work with abstract compositions, videos, and documentary photographs. For her abstract compositions, Hassinger has transformed wire rope, newspapers, plastic bags, and other materials into evocations of beauty.
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!
Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters from the Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger
Sacred Spring highlights the Viennese Secession, an influential group of artists who sought to break free from the academic art of the past. Founded in 1898, the group shared their ideas through public exhibitions and images and texts for journals, including Ver Sacrum or Sacred Spring. Two calendar pages made by Gustav Klimt and Kolomon Moser for the 1901 issue of Ver Sacrum are featured as well as three posters by Klimt, Moser, and Egon Schiele that advertise the Viennese Secession’s exhibitions in 1898, 1899, and 1918 respectively.
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!
Imagining Home
The inaugural exhibition for the BMA’s new Center for People & Art brings together 37 works from across the BMA’s collection to explore the universal theme of home. Visitors will discover paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, textiles, and works on paper from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, as well as four miniature rooms, plus a variety of interactive features presented in three thematic areas:
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
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 BRA SHOW
THE BRA SHOW
JUNE 27 - AUGUST 4, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION | JUNE 30 | 6-9pm
Y:ART Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of THE BRA SHOW. This compelling exhibition features original art from some of Baltimore’s Biggest Art Stars. It will feature over 40 artists who have been challenged to come out of their comfort zones; each creating extraordinary artwork for this loaded exhibition.
OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH MARY REILLY
Join us every third Wednesday at the Cabaret at Germano's for Baltimore's Best Open Mic Night. Dinner is served beginning at 6:00. Sign-up is at 7:00 and the performance begins at 7:30. Please purchase tickets in advance online or by phone to allow us to serve you comfortably. $10 cover for all in attendance.
Master cabaret artist, Mary Reilly, hosts. Each month a different featured artist and theme. Michael Sheppard works his magic on the baby grand.