BmoreArt’s Picks: February 8-14
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!
Open House: Art, Craft and Domesticity
Ongoing through March 6
@ MICA Fox Building
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) are thrilled to present Open House: Art, Craft and Domesticity, a show that calls attention to the relationships between individuals, home environments and everyday household objects.
Open House features pieces by 12 artists working in fine art, craft and functional design. Using textiles, furniture and ceramics — as well as newly-commissioned sculptures, site-specific installations and digital graphics — the show invites visitors to consider how they live with and among objects made by human hands.
“We selected the artists in Open House because of their relationships to functional objects and the everyday,” Victoria Cho ’22 (Painting BFA), a senior in the class, said. “After more than a year of learning and working from home, we all think about labor, art objects and the boundaries between people and places differently — and while this show doesn’t directly address the pandemic per se, it does reflect that changed perspective.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nearly all of the artists in the show live in or near — or have ties to — Baltimore. They include:
- Multidisciplinary artist Erick Antonio Benitez ’15 (Painting BFA)
- Fiber artist Loring Boglioli
- Baltimore design studio Crump & Kwash
- Sculptor and current MICA student Josh Frick ’23 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture)
- Sculptor Kellie Gillespie ’21 (Rinehart School of Sculpture MFA)
- Multimedia papercut artist Annie Howe ’01 (Fiber BFA)
- Plywood sculptor David Knopp
- Ceramicist Daeun Lim (Busan, South Korea)
- Fiber artist Emily Luking
- Botanical artist Emily Paluska (Washington, D.C.)
- Multidisciplinary artist and ceramicist Vanna Ramirez
- Assemblage artist Leo Sewell (Philadelphia)
Head to https://www.mica.edu/events-exhibitions/open-house-art-craft-and-domesticity/ to learn more about each of these artists.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
Programs for Open House include two writing workshops — one in-person and one virtual — with local author and creative writer Dale E. Lehman; a virtual paper flower workshop with featured artist Emily Paluska; and various streamable videos, including an artist lecture and virtual studio visits with featured artists David Knopp and Crump and Kwash. For more information, visit https://www.mica.edu/events-exhibitions/open-house-art-craft-and-domesticity/.
NMWA xChange: Pulsating Patterns
Tuesday, February 8 • 12-12:45pm
presented by The National Museum of Women in the Arts
This monthly talk show, a spin-off of the 2021 GLAMi award-winning series BMA x NMWA, connects viewers to NMWA and its mission to champion women artists. Join us as hosts from the museum interview special guests, including artists, educators and curators; consider topics relevant to our world; and offer insight into collaborations that the museum is fostering while its building is closed for renovation.
On this episode, museum staff members Virginia Treanor, associate curator, and Adrienne L. Gayoso, senior educator, welcome artist Barbara Takenaga, whose work is featured in NMWA’s special exhibition Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center through May 22, 2022. This episode centers on Takenaga’s expression of subjects from the cosmic to the cellular through a meticulous process of patterning. This discussion also celebrates Untitled (Belinda), the first work by Takenaga to be accessioned into NMWA’s collection.
Barbara Takenaga is the Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Art, Emerita, at Williams College. She divides her time between Williamstown, MA, and New York City, where she maintains a studio. Her work has been widely exhibited, at institutions including Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; National Academy Museum, New York City; Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia; and International Print Center, New York City.
Takenaga’s most recent awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Fine Arts, the Wauson Fellowship from the FOR-SITE Foundation, and the Eric Isenburger Annual Art Award from the National Academy Museum. She is represented in the permanent collections of the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney; and Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, among others. She was born in North Platte, Nebraska.
