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NOW IN ITS 5th YEAR: MAKE STUDIO PRESENTS CORDIALLY INVITED
Make Studio is pleased to present the 5th installment of Cordially Invited, our invitational exhibition and set of complementary programming featuring artworks created in innovative U.S. and international studios that serve artists with disabilities. Cordially Invited celebrates the exciting and thought-provoking art produced in progressive art studios as a way to better understand and appreciate our neuro-diverse world.
LECTURE: Aneta Georgievska-Shine on Vermeer and the Art of Love --book talk and signing
ART SEMINAR GROUP LIVE LECTURE (ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM)
Vermeer and the Art of Love --book talk and signing
Aneta Georgievska Shine, professor of art history, University of Maryland
Clay After School
This is a 12-week afternoon class for ages 6 – 12. Students will work with their hands and discover the magical qualities of clay! They will explore texture, color and shape while building technical skills as they create a wide variety of wonderful creations. Each class session will introduce a new technique and present a new, exciting challenge. All works will be created in red earthenware, decorated with vibrant AMACO velvet underglaze and glaze fired to cone 04. Class includes all materials and firing.
Francis Scott Key Lecture Series—FSK from Home Claire McCardell: WWII and The American Look with Robyn Levy, Tory Burch Claire McCardell Fashion Fellow
World War II brought Frederick, Maryland-born fashion designer Claire McCardell to a turning point in her career. Already established in the fashion industry but not quite a household name, McCardell was commissioned to design uniforms for the Office of Civil Defense Corps. Using non-rationed materials such as weather balloon cottons, aprons, and mattress ticking, McCardell embraced the opportunity for uniqueness, ultimately leading to the embedded American Look for women.
Photographing Bethlehem Steel
Hear from photographers Ed Leskin (based in Bethlehem, PA) and J.M. Giordano (based in Baltimore) about their work documenting steelmaking communities in the mid-Atlantic and around the world. Leskin’s project “Images of Flesh and Steel” includes portraits of steelworkers in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Giordano’s temporary exhibition Shuttered: Images from the Fall of Bethlehem Steel documents the changing landscape of Sparrows Point. This program is part of Steel Weekend programming hosted by the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, PA.
LECTURE: Kerr Houston, The Milk of Dreams: The 59th/2022 Venice Biennale (Program 1 of 2)
ART SEMINAR GROUP LIVE LECTURE (ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM)
The Milk of Dreams: The 59th/2022 Venice Biennale (Program 1 of 2)
Kerr Houston, professor of art history, theory and criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art
The Big Tomato: Picked, Packed, and Shipped in the Chesapeake
Live Virtual Program (Zoom)
Join us on October 18th at 7:00PM when Baltimore Narratives guest speaker, Kate Livie, will share the history of tomato packing on the Eastern Shore, and how the region’s produce fueled industry, sparked innovative technology, shaped culture and transformed the landscape. This program will be hosted on Zoom. Access provided after registration.
FREE for all audiences. Donations encouraged.
WEBINAR: Dr. Joseph Luzzi on Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
ART SEMINAR GROUP ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM
Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
Dr. Joseph Luzzi, professor of comparative literature and faculty member in Italian studies, Bard College