BmoreArt’s Picks: December 9-15
This Week: ‘Express and Explore Tour’ at The Walters, Saul Zaentz showcase at SNF Parkway, celebration for Linda Dusman at UMBC, Sam Gilliam Lecture with Theaster Gates at JHU Bloomberg Center, Highlandtown Night Market, UMBC Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Open Studios, Current Art Market, Holidays at The Lewis Celebration, Station North Holiday Market, and ‘Sam Gilliam: Modernism to Minimalism’ at Galerie Myrtis — PLUS the Mayor’s Individual Artist Award 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!
Express and Explore Tour: A Light in the Dark
Thursday, December 11 :: 6-6:30pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
Light is a flexible, dynamic medium that can illuminate spaces and ideas alike. Presented in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute, this tour will explore how artists and scientists use light, from creating spectacular visuals to understanding our place in the universe.
The Express and Explore Tour is a 30-minute, staff-led art experience for adults that centers creativity and connection. These tours feature a different theme every month and encourage participants to unplug and unwind in our galleries through playful activities and group discussion.
About The Space Telescope Science Institute
Based in Baltimore, The Space Telescope Science Institute is dedicated to supporting NASA’s astrophysics flagship missions, advancing state-of-the-art astronomical research, and making the world’s astronomical information accessible to all, thereby inspiring and engaging others to participate in understanding, enjoying, and sharing the wonders of the universe.
Saul Zaentz Showcase at the SNF Parkway
Thursday, December 11 :: 7pm
@ SNF Parkway
7pm Gathering and 7:15pm Screening of two great short films. Join us for a special FREE screening of two local short films supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund: Sofia (directed by Camila de Ilheus) and Dwelling (directed by Jamyla Eunique Krempel).
Dress festively! COSTUMES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED: Come as a favorite movie character for a chance at special prizes from Ms. Claus!
Celebrating Linda Dusman
Thursday, December 11 :: 7:30-9:30pm
@ UMBC Linehan Concert Hall
After 37 years of teaching in higher education, including 25 years at UMBC, composer Linda Dusman will retire at the end of 2025. The campus community is invited to celebrate her creativity and contributions with a concert of her works performed by UMBC faculty:
- Flashpoint (solo bass flute) performed by Lisa Cella
- Diverging Flints (piano trio) performed by the Ruckus ensemble
- magnificat 4: Ida Ida (surround audio)
- Subterranea (percussion quartet) performed by the Umbilicus ensemble
- Terra Mycelia performed by the Ruckus ensemble
- Threading Mycelia (solo trombone) performed by Patrick Crossland (premiere)
Linda Dusman explores the territory between concert music and sonic art in her creative practice. She examines the natural world, current politics, and the human experience as a catalyst for constructing listening experiences that encourage a heightened awareness of the moment. Recent works include Terra Mycelia, composed for the Ruckus ensemble for premiere in 2024, and Infinite Transformations, a bioart installation created collaboratively with Foad Hamidi, Alan Wonneberger, Lee Boot, and Ryan Zuber which premiered in 2023. Triptych of Gossips, a setting of Serena Hilsinger’s eponymous epic poem, has become a cornerstone of Duo della Luna’s repertoire, and in 2024 received the Miriam Gideon award from the International Alliance for Women in Music. Dusman’s solo CD Flashpoint was released by NEUMA Records in 2023 to critical acclaim.
Dusman’s work has been awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music, Meet the Composer, the Swiss Women’s Music Forum, the American Composers Forum, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Ucross Foundation, and the State of Maryland in 2004, 2006, and 2011 (in both the Music: Composition and the Visual Arts: Media categories). Her works are published by I Resound Press and Neuma Publications, and are recorded on the NEUMA, Capstone, and New Albany labels.
Admission is free, and tickets are not required.
Linehan Concert Hall, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
