Category: Feature
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Home Wherever I Go
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative. To learn about the diverse contributions needed to realize this expansive project, students convened weekly with a wide range of BMA staff […]
BMA Staff | 02.21.2025 -
Bodies of Water
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative. To learn about the diverse contributions needed to realize this expansive project, students convened weekly with a wide […]
BMA Staff | 02.14.2025 -
Infinite Weight
Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum is a wide-reaching project that proposes Indigenizing interventions to address and refuse the oppressive hierarchies of coloniality that pervade the realm of culture and serve as the underpinning of museums. The project encompasses community engagement, a series of nine monographic and thematic exhibitions, institutional interventions, public programs, and an untraditional catalog. In […]
Staff | 10.16.2024 -
Behind the Dust: Conservation of a Gitenga Mask
This Gitenga mask caused great excitement when it came to the BMA’s conservation lab for treatment, as the object is impressive both in size (33 ½ x 35 ½ x 19 inches) and in presence. But upon taking a closer look, conservators could see that the majority of the feathers, especially in the back, were deformed […]
Staff | 09.26.2024 -
New Acquisitions on View
This summer, 11 new additions to the Museum’s collection make their BMA debut. Read more about some of these recent acquisitions below and plan your next visit with a comprehensive list of new works on view and a map of where to find them. John Ahearn, Bashira, 1992 Charlie Ahearn, Bashira Walton Avenue 1992, 1992 […]
Colleen Kennedy | 07.12.2024 -
Designing Making Her Mark
In this interview, BMA Exhibition Designer David Zimmerman shares his experience transforming the galleries to present the 235 works on view in Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800. My name is David Zimmerman and I am the Exhibition Designer for the BMA. I am responsible for the physical design of […]
Staff | 12.26.2023 -
Making Her Mark: A History Of Women Artists In Europe, 1400–1800
For centuries, art historians have accepted the characterization of European women artists from the pre modern era as rare and comparatively less talented than their male counterparts. This assumption is now being turned on its head with a groundbreaking exhibition that presents a more accurate and expansive presentation of women’s creative accomplishments. A team of […]
Anne Brown | 10.16.2023 -
A Puzzling Plate from 18th Century China
One afternoon, a young man stopped at an antique shop north of Baltimore City, hoping to find a present for his new wife. He found the perfect gift: a puzzle-like plate with separate parts that fit together in just one way. After more than 30 years, the couple decided to offer the plate to the […]
Staff | 10.11.2023 -
A Teapot and Our Thirst for Fossil Fuels
Teetering on a ceramic oil rig, Pecten Shell Teapot refashions centuries-old art motifs and porcelain recipes to tell a story about today’s environmental crisis. A dragon’s head and tail form the spout and handle of the teapot, respectively. Insatiable, the creature strides forward in a never-ending chase for a flaming pearl. For ceramicist Michelle Erickson, the […]
Chloe Brettman | 09.20.2023 -
Baltimore and World War II’s Impact on Artist Matsumi Kanemitsu
One of the first Japanese American servicemen detained in the wake of Pearl Harbor drew on personal experience to develop his work outside of formal training Few people are aware that West Coast abstract artist and influential college educator Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992), or Mike as he was known to his friends, spent his formative years […]
| 09.20.2023