Category: Artist Profiles

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  Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young In Conversation with Arthur Jafa, Part 1

  How do life, breath, joy, and pain manifest in black experience from cradle to grave? How are health and wellness nurtured? Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young’s Back and Song considers the labor and care provided by generations of black healers, including their historic contributions to and resistance of Western medicine’s flawed and discriminatory structures. […]

  Staff | 02.28.2020

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  In Conversation with Mickalene Thomas

  The artist discusses her hopes for how Baltimore receives her work and what it feels like to go first You can hear in Mickalene Thomas’ voice her affection for Baltimore and enthusiasm for this moment in BMA history when she speaks by phone from her Brooklyn studio about her immersive two-story installation now on view […]

  Jessica Novak | 12.19.2019