Mike Riley's creates art in an unrefined and cartoon-like style that is rarely seen in high art; but even more interesting is what inspires him and just how deep these seemingly simple cartoons are. Riley uses a drawing style and portrays ideas that are ...
After interviewing Shahrzad Taavoni I was inspired. I noticed that I looked at things in a different way. Especially when considering the my relationship to others. I felt I understood what she expresses, how she feels when she seen others work, and how she ...
It’s funny. When I chose to interview Christine Shanks, I didn’t think that her art work, The Driving Through series, would resonate with me so emotionally. In her artist’s statement on the Maryland State Arts Council Visual Art Registry, Christine explained that “the ...
The Creative Alliance is currently hosting the “Songs on the Wind” exhibit featuring Huichol artist Francisco Loza and sculptor Gale Jamieson. The exhibit contains traditional Huichol yarn paintings with a 3D twist from Loza and tree sculptures composed of newspaper and magazine pages from Jamieson. ...
Last Friday, April 29 we attended the Transmodern Festival inside the well know arts warehouse space, the H & H building. Three stories of the building were subdivided into unique galleries for exhibition. The third floor was dedicated to Room’s Play, a trippy, theatrical ...
There are a couple of reasons for Telling Baltimore, and one that I heard bandied around last week was that both Iraq and Afghanistan have outlived the American attention span. That was about a week ago, at a preview held at the Walters. A lot has ...
Stereotypes and associations that people have about black males are extremely negative, according to Fanon Hill, the co-director of the Black Male Identity Project (also called BMI), and the typical reactions people have when discussing issues such as education, justice, health, fatherhood, and families ...
While I was visiting Los Angeles last week, a friend suggested I check out the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Initially, I was confused (as I assume you are right now) as to what “jurassic technology” actually is. I looked at and quickly closed out of ...
Jim Nicola, artistic director of the New York Theatre workshop, and Philip Arnoult of Baltimore Theatre Project were on hand after the May 1st performance of RENT at Towson University, to discuss the play and the artistic process that brought it into being. Topics included the creative ...
Something about my brain chemistry in my few decades on this earth has never been compatible with the idea of vegetarianism. I’m told some of my first words were “medium rare” and upon moving to Baltimore I would say yes to just about anyone that ...