BmoreArt’s Picks: November 16-22
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: We are featuring online events that you can participate in from the comfort of your own couch and some that you can safely leave the house for, plus a few calls for entry to get involved locally and nationally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
The Guardians: Reshaping History Virtual Artist Talk and Second Life Launch
Tuesday, November 16 • 6pm
sponsored by The Peale
Join us for a virtual discussion and tour of The Guardians: Reshaping History with lead artists Whitney Frazier and Kirby Griffin. The exhibition, on view at Carroll Mansion, the Peale’s home away from home during our building renovations, includes life-size portraits and audio stories of 13 women changemakers in Baltimore. The images were captured by Kirby Griffin, and the interviews were conducted by Whitney Frazier.
Whitney Frazier is an interdisciplinary artist, mother and educator with a community based public art practice in Baltimore, MD. She completed her BA in Painting, MA and MFA in Community Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Since 2002, Frazier has intentionally worked with diverse groups of people to implement community focused, concept driven public art projects that lead to relationship building, new resources for neighborhoods and bringing to life the shared vision of community leaders. Her work pushes the boundaries of what “public art” looks like by celebrating the unique cultures and site-specific needs of each community and by providing vibrant, bold and creative skills in design, painting, visual storytelling and outdoor placemaking.
Kirby Griffin is a Cinematographer and street photographer from the West Baltimore area Of Maryland. As a child of the Arts, Kirby pursued filmmaking in his early twenties after initially chasing a dream of being a performance artist – spoken word/acting – searching for the perfect 0utlet to express himself as a storyteller. In the Wake of the DSLR era, he set his sights on Cinematography. In 2011, with the help of a friend and fellow artist ‘Jerald Kerr,’ also known as ‘Jay Mastermind.’ Both motivated outside of the academic structure, they began teaching themselves the art and craft of filmmaking by diving headfirst, purchasing their own equipment and then filming, directing, and editing as much as possible. They came away with countless hours of study by way of literature, Youtube tutorials, lectures, networking, and a tremendous amount of trial and error, which proved essential.
Whitney and Kirby will talk about how the exhibition and companion photographs came to be.
SAY IT LOUD Exhibition | Opening Reception
Thursday, November 18 • 5-7pm
@ AIA Baltimore
The Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Baltimore), the Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF), and the Baltimore Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (Bmore NOMA) announce the physical opening of SAY IT LOUD Maryland, a new exhibition spotlighting the contributions of diverse designers to Maryland’s built environment. The exhibition includes 45 individuals representing a diversity of career levels, cultures, and backgrounds.
The physical exhibition launches October 1 as part of Doors Open Baltimore and will be the first major exhibition at the new Center for Architecture and Design at One Charles Center.
Created by Pascale Sablan, founder of Beyond the Built, SAY IT LOUD is the activation of a national movement of sharing, protecting and celebrating the journey of the underrepresented to inspire the next generation. SAY IT LOUD exhibitions have been hosted in cities such as New York, Chicago, and London.
Programming for SAY IT LOUD Maryland will elevate the identities and contributions of diverse architects and designers with lectures and tours that testify to the provided value of their built work and its spatial impact.
Parking At The Center: The most convenient place to park for our event is the SP Parking garage located at: 111 E Fayette St, Baltimore, MD 21202. For more convenient parking options near One Charles Center click here.
