This Week: Myrtis Bedolla in a panel discussion at NMWA, Pride Portraits at Current, Towson University’s ‘Summer at the Center,’ Station North Art Walk, opening reception for Bethesda Paiting Awards, Baltimore Clayworks Seconds Sale and Preview Party, Bria Sterling Wilson opening reception at Waller Gallery, opening reception for Se Jong Cho and Iris Hughey + Alex Ebstein at Current, Art After Hours at the BMA celebrates Joyce J. Scott, Pride Party at B&O Museum, and MiCasa SuCasa celebration at Tola’s Room — PLUS applications open for The David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence 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.
To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
Fresh Talk: Influence and Collecting
Wednesday, June 12 :: 4-6pm
@ National Museum for Women in the Arts
According to Arts Economics, 2021 was the first year in history when women collectors and arts patrons outspent men. Celebrated for their efforts to ensure equity, representation, and appreciation of women artists, leading curators and collectors will discuss how art moves through the modern market and is acquired, donated, and displayed. Learn how women and nonbinary people in these roles can influence the representation of women artists in private and public collections.
The panel will be followed by Catalyst Cocktail Hour.
Panelists
Schwanda Rountree, attorney and independent art consultant, Myrtis Bedolla, owner and founding director of Galerie Myrtis, and Sarah Arison, collector and president of the Arison Arts Foundation.
About Women, Arts, and Social Change
Women, Arts, and Social Change is a public programs initiative that highlights the power of women and the arts as catalysts for change. Fresh Talk, the initiative’s signature program, features cause-driven conversations with leading artists, designers, activists, social innovators, and others.
Pride Portraits
Wednesday, June 12 – Thursday, June 13
@ Current Space
Free for LGBTQIA+ individuals!
Pride Portraits is a two-day community event at Current Space that invites LGBTQIA+ individuals to collaborate with photographer Elena Volkova and create portraits using the wet plate collodion process.
Sessions are available on first come first serve basis.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
A tintype (or, wet plate collodion) is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with collodion and light-sensitive silver nitrate. During the sessions, each plate is hand-coated, exposed in camera, and developed instantly, with the process visible to the participants.
You are welcome to have any style of hair or clothing, however consider the fact that the wet plate process is not sensitive to the “warm” color spectrum, and will make colors that are yellow, orange, and red appear darker.
EYEWEAR: If you wear glasses with UV coating, wet plate collodion process will block the light from the eyes, and the photos will look like you are wearing sunglasses. If you have a pair of glasses without a UV coating, we suggest bringing those to the session. For people wearing glasses, the glasses add a strong element to their visual identity. Thus, we will not ask you to remove them for the photo, but it is up to you. If you have a pair of cheap, non-UV glasses, those work the best!
The process requires a powerful flash of strobes to produce an image. Please note that this process is not suitable for small children or animals.
The sitters will receive the tintypes within two weeks; pick up at Current space.
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More events at Current Space on June 12:
Mend Community Acupuncture
5-7pm
Enjoy a 30 minute custom acupuncture session in the Current Space garden. Sound by Amy Reid. Dress comfortably. Suggested donation $20. All proceeds benefit Baltimore Safe Haven.
&
Karaoke Forever with KJJK
7-11pm
Free!
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Also happening on June 13:
El Camino Screening & Celebration
7-11pm
Free!
Two documentary short screenings of the El Camino del Pan y el Mole film series plus drag performances by Pretty Boi Drag, Ervena Chloe, and special guest, Ivette Donnelly from New Orleans and music by Mariachi Garibaldi and DJ Patternist! Snacks provided by Taqueria Vargas.
Details: https://withfriends.co/event/20132413/el_camino_screening_and_celebration
Summer at the Center
Thursday, June 13 | Ongoing through June 30
@ Towson University Center for the Arts
For the first time in nearly 20 years, 2024 heralds the revival of summer arts celebrations at the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) with the debut of the Summer at the Center festival.
This festival isn’t just a celebration of, but a tribute to, Baltimore’s vibrant artistic tapestry and COFAC’s long history as a part of it. Set against the backdrop of the Center for the Arts’ theaters, concert halls, classrooms and dance studios, the festival will showcase performances from both Towson University departments/student groups and the wider Baltimore professional arts community.
Summer at the Center 2024 is scheduled to run from June 13 – 30.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
