This Week: Maryland Muse at the Goldstein Treasury Building, Makini performance at UMBC CIRCA, Marjuan Canady screens her film at Motor House, ‘Black Art in the Absence of Light’ documentary screening at The Driskell Center, Through Our Eyes exhibition opening and reception at The Walters, Vickie Chow ‘In the Stacks,’ American Craft Made at the Baltimore Convention Center, Subversive Productions workshop at Creative Alliance, Your Pixel Echo opening reception at Gallery CA, and Rena Detrixhe and Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann opening reception at Tephra ICA — PLUS deadline to apply for the Rubys Grant and more featured opportunities!
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.
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Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration
Ongoing through June 7
@ Goldstein Treasury Building
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) is thrilled to invite you to its newest exhibition “Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration,” in collaboration with the Maryland Office of the Comptroller’s “Art in Treasured Spaces” initiative.
Exhibition Period: Friday, March 1, 2024 to Friday, June 7, 2024
Exhibition Location: Goldstein Treasury Building, 1st Floor, 80 Calvert Street, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401
“Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration” presents a diverse collection of two-dimensional creative works inspired by the unique culture, beauty, and daily lives of Marylanders. The exhibition showcases 64 artworks, including 54 pieces submitted by artists who participated in MSAC’s year-long online exhibition series of work by Maryland artists, as well as 10 selected photographs from the Maryland Traditions program.
Participating Artists:
Alyscia Cunningham, Andrei Trach, Betty Pethel, Bill Dunlap, Bria Sterling-Wilson, Catelynn Kreutzer, Chayo de Chevez, Chloe Irla, Colleen Tiefenthal, David Zuccarini, Doug Rayfield, Errol McKinson, Evelyn Brumwell, Fern Loos Beu, Gaye Moore Mertz, Geo McElroy, Hillary Steel, Jackie Miller, Jamie Hardges, Janice Toepper, Jereme Scott, Joanna Barnum, John R Iampieri, J.P. Henry, Karin Birch, Kate Norris, Lesley Giles, Lisa Scarbath, Marc Castelli, Mary Jo Tydlacka, Matthew C. Shuman, Merideth M. Taylor, Michaela Johnson, Mitzi Ash, Myungsook Ryu Kim, Nancy Fishel, Pat Lang, Patricia Hilton, Penny Knobel-Besa, Petra Bernstein, Rachana Saurabh, Rachel Ann Cross, Romando A Escalona, Ronald Beverly, Schroeder Cherry, Sheryl Southwick, Sonia Pratt, Stacey Sass, Sunhee Jung, Theresa Knight McFadden, Wil Scott, William Rothenbach, Yuh Okano, Rose Thompson (Jeon)
Makini
Tuesday, March 12 : 5:30-7pm
@ UMBC CIRCA
Positioned at the base of the furthest extended toe of a body of new work, I am remembering how discomforting it is to be at the start of something. Traveling backwards into the darkness of the unknown, my eyes regarding the hazy fullness of the past, I am asking my eyes to trust the rest of my sensorial body. Of this body that relies so heavily on sight, I ask for trust in the truth that my eyes do not contain the most important sense in this moment. It is a moment of saying goodbye to over a decade of thought and practice and movement, of powerful communities of collaborators, of finding ourselves in places in which we ought not to be, of learning how to belong and to be belonged to. It is also a moment of wondering what it is that I even believe anymore about the notion of belonging.
As I archive a decade’s worth of work centered around Black majorette performance, I turn my attention to the ground that holds the bodies that shimmy over top of it. In a new body of work, tentatively titled terrestrial, I am most curious about we, humans, as Earth, as opposed to on the Earth, or with the Earth. I am making proposals for the range of methods with which we can deal with the vastness of time — far beyond the containers of white supremacy and settler colonialism, and possibly beyond their antecedents, and the antecedents of those antecedents. How do these bodies already contain the epic and the unforeseen of the planet? What does that have to do with how we seek expertise in the forms that we create?
Makini will also be leading a dance workshop for students on March 11 & 13 from 2:30-4:40. Space is limited. Please contact the dance department if you are interested in participating.
Screening of Girls! Girls? Girls. with artist talk featuring Marjuan Canady
Tuesday, March 12 :: 8-9:30pm
@ Motor House
From magazine covers to billboards, to strip clubs, the slogan, “girls, girls, girls” dominates our culture. Girls! Girls? Girls. began as a one-woman satirical play written and performed by Marjuan Canady in 2010. For six years she toured this play internationally which examined the black woman under the lens of public opinion. Now as a short performance documentary, Canady and her comrades take their wit “to the streets” to gain perspective from entertainers, scholars, entrepreneurs, athletes, students, and community organizers on the 21st-century black female image and other issues such as beauty, health, violence, education, and sex.
Enjoy a screening of the performance documentary followed by an artist talk with Marjuan Canady!
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