The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, which awards $25,000 to an up-and-coming visual artist or visual-artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore area, has announced its semifinalists. The list of more 40 semifinalists will be whittled down to about six finalists who will have their work displayed in the Alvin and...
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A foam-shooting fire truck will buttress the arguments of pure food advocates Thursday, Oct. 13 at the Maryland Institute College of Art, according to a press release from the organizers of a 313-mile “march” and rally calling for the labeling of genetically-modified foods. “It was great to talk to you today. The Right2Know March...
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The @baltimoreprints Twitter feed alerted us this afternoon to news that many music nerds, graphic design heads, and printmakers have been waiting and hoping to hear: BREAKING NEWS: MICA will be purchasing the Baltimore Globe Poster collection. Preservation through production. So very exciting. Please RT. Globe Poster, known far beyond Baltimore for its letterpress...
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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future screens “The Baltimore Food Ecology Documentary,” the product of a class led by MICA faculty member Hugh Pocock, Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. in Sheldon Hall on the east Baltimore campus; it’s showing with “Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming?”....
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Since mid-December the Baltimore: Open City site has delivered a steady stream of thoughtful ideas and discussion about urban development, planning, and renewal–particularly as they pertain to Baltimore. The site is the outgrowth of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS), in preparation for the interactive exhibition Baltimore: Open City slated...
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Cathren Kull First off: To the entire 2009 graduating class of MICA, across all departments —animation, art education, art history, ceramics, drawing, environmental design, fiber, general fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interaction design and art, interdisciplinary sculpture, painting, photography, post-baccalaureate certificate in fine arts, printmaking, video and film—please note that four hours of standing...
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It’s an expectedly hit or miss showcase of works, but the reception for MICA’s annual Faculty Exhibition is today, Thursday, Oct. 2, from 5-7 p.m. in the Pinkard, Meyerhoff, and Decker galleries. Some of the faculty pieces are very familiar–Don Cooks’s Emily Dickinson-inspired architectural views, Mina Cheon’s dresses, Raoul Middleman portrait studies–but there’s still...
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Sabbatical Exhibition Decker Gallery, Fox Building, 1303 Mount Royal Ave. Aug. 22-Sept. 7 Reception: Thursday, Sept. 5, 5-7 p.m. The Maryland Institute College of Art starts off its fall 2008 exhibition schedule with an annual trio of shows featuring the works of students, faculty, and faculty returning to the fold. The Foundation and Faculty...
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| Image by courtesy maryland institute college of art The Maryland Institute College of Art unveiled its latest campus project and addition to the Baltimore City skyline at a press conference this morning: the Gateway, a mixed-used residential and studio space located at the supremely visible corner of North and Mount Royal avenues. The...
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Paul Slocum’s “Patterns for Beating Those Mean City Streets” In the Sunday, May 18, 2008, edition of the New York Times, TV critic Virginia Heffernan writes about a recent exhibition at the Kitchen titled “Artists Using YouTube,” wherein curator Rachel Greene invited four artists/critics–Sue de Beer, Matthew Higgs (who is also a writer and...
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Sometime after the ninth or 900th person e-mailed me yesterday asking what I thought of MICA undergraduate Lee Freeman’s gold chain link fence currently surrounding the public park at Mount Vernon Place, I suspected that yet another local “art” controversy was brewing. Then I read Sun art critic Glenn McNatt’s Critical Mass blog post...
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