The Baltimore Museum of Art has launch of a new microsite to house and make publicly accessible nearly all of the videos that had been installed for its major spring exhibition, Candice Breitz: Too Long, Didn’t Read, which closed several days after its opening in March in accordance with health and safety guidelines. The site features Breitz’s powerful multichannel videos TLDR (2017), which explores a series of global debates surrounding sex work, and Love Story (2016), which contrasts narrations of the experiences of six individuals impacted by the global refugee crisis.

B2020 is an annual art exhibition presenting the best of emerging talent based and creating in Baltimore City.

For 2020, our platform is virtual and perfectly unfolds the brilliance of artists Will Watson, Xavier Xcel Lightfoot, Christopher Batten, Derrick Smith, Kayla Fryer, McKinley Wallace III, Charles Mason III, Ram Brisueno, Walter Cruz, Moses Jeune and Andrew Gray.

Whether painting, mixed media, video or photography, B2020 delivers curated voices in tune with BLM.

INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MONTH

International Underground Railroad Month September 2020
The Maryland Department of Commerce Office of Tourism (OTD) invites you to join us in commemorating International Underground Railroad Month during September 1-30, 2020.

Move over, Netflix! BMA Screening Room is a new video streaming service broadcasting the work of 50 video artists. Watch short films and videos created by some of your favorite Baltimore-based artists and discover the work of local visionaries like Erick Antonio Benitez, Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown, Nia Hampton, Chung-Wei Huang, Devin N. Morris, Jules Rosskam, and Abdu Ali and Karryl Eugene of as they lay. More videos will be added throughout the duration of the project.

The BMA invited several Baltimore-based galleries and collectives to curate digital exhibitions at tomorrows.artbma.org. Galerie Myrtis, Creative Alliance, ICA Baltimore, and Current Space, among many others, present the work of artists including Ernest Shaw, Zoë Charlton, LaToya Hobbs, Antonio McAfee, and Graham Coreil-Allen. Drop in the virtual galleries, and if you’re able, be sure to support them. All transactions will be conducted by the individual galleries, who will keep all proceeds along with the artists they represent.

California-based artist Kota Ezawa’s National Anthem (2018) is a meditation on patriotism and protest. The singlechannel animated video was inspired by the actions of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other football players who took a knee, sat, raised fists, or locked arms during the national anthem to call attention to police brutality against unarmed black men and social injustice. Ezawa (b. 1969, Germany) creates work that explores and translates significant cultural events into simulations that question the authenticity of both our experiences and retold histories.

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Join us for a slide-illustrated talk by Michael J. Wilson in honor of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 22.

All Hands On Deck! Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day with maritime singer and sometime pirate, Darcy Nair, who will take you on a musical journey with seafaring stories & songs.

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Mary Rizzo will be in conversation with Wesley Wilson and Melvin Brown.

Race is an historical and ongoing conversation, but rarely framed in the context of leadership. Now more than ever, we need leadership that can properly shape racial dialogue, policy, and impact on our society. What kind of leadership is necessary to facilitate healthy relationships between races, and policymaking that will foster equity, inclusion, diversity and harmony? How do we as citizens groom such leaders? Join ethics professor, performance artist and activist Ron Kipling Williams in an in-depth conversation about leadership and race.

How can museums and libraries make their collections useful in today’s world? Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress, joins Catherine Mayfield, France-Merrick Director of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library, in a conversation about “discovery.”

Learn about the Maryland Center for History and Culture's new core values—Discovery, Dialogue, Authenticity, Community—through MCHC Core Conversations, a four-part virtual program series. Subsequent programs to be announced monthly.

Creative Alliance presents Drag Story: Reading is FUNdamental!

Every THU | 1PM | Facebook Event Page Live Feed

Hey parents! Join us on Thursdays after lunch with your kids for a family-friendly Facebook Live Feed drag storytime event featuring some of Baltimore's favorite drag personas.

Hosted by s. Rasheem
FREE | Facebook Live

Dieter F. Uchtdorf had it right, “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.”

Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery was established in 1920 in Silver Spring, Maryland when Montgomery County was still mostly rural. Its proximity to the Nation's Capital meant that some of the pets buried there were owned by influential Washingtonians such as presidents, senators, and ambassadors. Over the 100 years of the cemetery's existence, it has been a witness to changes affecting society from urbanization to changing attitudes about the relationship between humans and their animal companions. There are now approximately 55,000 pets buried there and at least 50 humans.