Drop-in Art Making: Mindfulness
The Walters’ free art-making activities return for weekend family fun! Inspired by our collection, you can create your masterpiece at the museum or take a supply kit home.
A program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
The Walters’ free art-making activities return for weekend family fun! Inspired by our collection, you can create your masterpiece at the museum or take a supply kit home.
Suzanne F. Cohen’s (1935–2018) extraordinary leadership and enduring support for the BMA touched every area of the Museum. In addition to chairing the Board and numerous Trustee committees, Cohen helped establish an endowment for free admission and funded many exhibitions, commissions, restorations, public programs, and gifts of art.
Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, Pennsylvania) transforms wood into inventive abstract forms that source inspiration from the art of the African diaspora, jazz, and the European modernist avant-garde. Using only a mallet, chisel, and masterful joinery techniques, Mosley, largely self-taught, reworks felled timber from local sawmills into monumental biomorphic expressions inspired by ancient and modern cultures from around the world.
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669, Netherlands) is universally acknowledged as one of history’s greatest etchers, uniquely manipulating the etching needle and ink to create contemplative and affecting prints that have engaged viewers across centuries. His influence on the history of Western printmaking is foundational, especially for printmakers of the Etching Revival (1850–1930), such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, James A. M. Whistler, Mary Cassatt, and Mary Nimmo Moran.
New works by Lauren Frances Adams, Mequitta Ahuja, Cindy Cheng, and LaToya Hobbs—all past recipients of Joan Mitchell Foundation recognition with connections to Baltimore—emphasize the importance of continued support for artists at all stages in their careers. Whether through the shifting boundaries between self and other, contemplations about the cycles of life, or provocations to the public about shared histories, each artist engages deeply with vital aspects of contemporary culture.
The first exhibition on view in the new Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies showcases Henri Matisse’s graceful use of line in bronze sculpture and works on paper, drawn from the BMA’s collection. Although best known as a painter, Matisse was engaged as a draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker, relying heavily on line to create contours and shapes.
Richard Yarde’s virtuosic watercolors transformed the medium with large-scale colorful paintings often composed on multiple attached sheets of paper and executed without preliminary drawing. Equally inspired by historical Black photographers, European post-Impressionists and by a keen political purpose, Yarde (1939–2011, Massachusetts) drew acclaim early in his career for his masterful portraits of Black leaders—athletes, swing-era dancers, blues and jazz musicians—as well as individuals he knew growing up in the multicultural Boston neighborhood of Roxbury.
Mickalene Thomas’ immersive two-story installation transforms the BMA’s East Lobby into a living room for Baltimore reflective of Thomas’ signature aesthetic influenced by 1970s and 1980s motifs. The experience–the most expansive commission undertaken by both the artist and the BMA—extends onto an enclosed terrace, where Thomas has curated a presentation of works by artists with ties to Baltimore. Featured artists include: Derrick Adams, Zoë Charlton Theresa Chromati, Alex Dukes, Dominiqua S. Eldridge, Devin N. Morris, Clifford Owens, and D’Metrius John Rice.
“They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all.” —The Los Angeles Times
Welcome back to in-person concerts with Shriver Hall Concert Series!
For information on live-streaming options for this performance and for Covid-19 Safety Information visit shriverconcerts.org/health.
BRITTEN: Three Divertimenti
'An Alleged Suite', A Curated Suite of Dances
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden"
HoCo Open is an annual, non-juried exhibit showcasing local artists. Presented in a salon-style format, this crowd-pleasing show is open to artists of all skill levels who live, work, or study in Howard County.
Abstraction•Contraption showcases local artists Stanley Wenocur and Andrew Flanders. Wenocur’s abstract, mixed media works capture the fleeting feelings, emotional struggles, and visual and mental images that people experience. Andrew Flanders, a mixed media sculptor and fabricator, investigates the relationships between craftsmen, the body, and the contraption in his works through utilitarian and abstract dialogues.
ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM ****special lecture 1:30-3pm
Robert Mallet-Stevens, the Most Elegant French Modernist
Chris Boicos, professor of art history for the University of Southern California Paris program and founder (2007) and main lecturer for Paris Art Studies
Sign up and perform or just chill and enjoy the evening every fourth Thursday of the month at Motor House. Hosted by award winning poet Meccamorphosis!
ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM
Paul Cézanne - Background and Formative Years
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, professor of art history, University of Maryland
About this series: Paul Cézanne and the Art of Seeing
Widely considered as the “Father of modern art”, Paul Cézanne broke away from the artistic tradition by a new way of seeing – and painting, turning even the most mundane of objects into phenomena worthy of wonder.
UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Spectrum: 2022 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, featuring work by UMBC faculty Lynn Cazabon, Kathy Marmor, and Lisa Moren, opening on February 3 and continuing through March 12.
UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble in concert, performing modern interpretations of classic and recent jazz compositions, including works by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Joey Calderazzo, and Larry Goldings.
CPCM Series 2.5.22
Katherine Needleman, oboe
Lachezar Kostov, cello
Viktor Valkov, piano
Considered one of the greatest albums of all time, Radiohead’s OK Computer is interwoven with Brahms’ lush First Symphony in arranger and conductor Steve Hackman’s Brahms v. Radiohead. Performed by the BSO and three pop vocalists, the melodies of Brahms are seamlessly intertwined with songs such as "Paranoid Android," "Karma Police," "No Surprises," and "Let Down."
Join T. Herbert Dimmock, four superb vocal soloists, and the Bach in Baltimore Choir and Orchestra in the performance of Bach’s magnum opus, the B Minor Mass. This work represents Bach’s lifelong and tireless artistry as a composer and musician of the highest caliber. It is a grand synthesis of his every musical innovation and contribution. Bach began the B Minor Mass early in his career and didn’t finish it until the end of his life when he had already gone blind.
ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM
Still Life and the Transformation of the Ordinary
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, professor of art history, University of Maryland
In this lecture, Georgievska-Shine will present evidence of the ways in which Cézanne challenged the academic assumptions about still life painting, turning the most ordinary of subjects into studies of amazing pictorial complexity.
$15 door fee for guests and subscribers (no fee for members)