If you were to walk by MICA’s Stu­dio Cen­ter on North Avenue (close to what I am told is the slow­est McDonald’s in the world) dur­ing the month of Jan­u­ary, then you most likely saw the work of Jowita Wys­zomirska through the win­dow of MICA’s Cura­to­r­ial Stud­ies gallery, The Tem­po­rary. Three site-specific instal­la­tions were fea­tured ...

Since I will miss the recep­tion tomor­row, I took the lib­erty of view­ing Search Engine: Lou Joseph 1998–2012 at the North Ave. Mar­ket on my own. I was blown away by amount of work on the walls, also enjoyed nav­i­gat­ing through the space with the Search Engine Field Guide (avail­able as a pam­phlet upon enter­ing ...

Last Sat­ur­day at Nudashank was the open­ing of Jor­dan Bernier’s solo show, New Waves. I was hav­ing cam­era issues and only had my cell phone with me, but I absolutely loved the show. I’m always a fan of Jordan’s work, and was excited to see the large graphite draw­ings he produced. One ele­ment of Jordan’s ...

Last week, I vis­ited the lovely stu­dio (and home) of illus­tra­tor Yelena Bryk­senkova. Yelena’s illus­tra­tions have gained trac­tion since she has grad­u­ated from MICA, and she’s quickly becom­ing known for her ele­gant draw­ings of women and images adorned with pat­terns ref­er­enc­ing East­ern Euro­pean folk art. Images via Yelena’s web­site. Image via Yelena’s blog. Yelena uses a ...

Beth Hoeckel’s stu­dio lies in beau­ti­ful, tree-lined neigh­bor­hood in Bal­ti­more. Light and airy, the space is home to Beth’s col­lage and mixed media work. As some­one who works in col­lage, I was impressed by Beth’s way of work­ing and orga­ni­za­tion. See­ing this space and hear­ing her speak really informed the work for me, which is ...

So ya’ll know I am in grad school? It’s finals time, and I’ve had to cut back posts to one a day to deal with the large ends that need to be tied. Mov­ing on, though! This past semes­ter in MICA’s Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice pro­gram, the Advanced Pub­lish­ing Work­shop with Jaime Zol­lars came together to cre­ate Bal­moral ...

Despite spend­ing upwards of 20 hours in my stu­dio this week­end (in a flurry of paper scraps to say the least), I was able to check out sev­eral shows this week­end. Rang­ing from minia­tures to yarn, paper to paint­ing, shows at Gallery 500, Nudashank, and School 33 demon­strated a var­ied aes­thetic through­out Baltimore. Mul­ti­plic­ity, at ...

This past Fri­day, I had the plea­sure of attend­ing the after party of IMPACT at the Mary­land Art Place. IMPACT was a two-fold event; ear­lier in the evening, there was a gala with a silent auc­tion while later then turned into the after party. IMPACT hon­ors twelve women who have made an impact on Baltimore’s ...

Bal­ti­more: If you are around MICA tonight and want to lis­ten to an inter­est­ing lec­ture on illus­tra­tion and the role of the illus­tra­tor reporter, then I’d sug­gest com­ing to hear DB Dowd speak! 7PM — 8:30PM Main Build­ing, Rm. 110 Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art DB Dowd is cur­rently teach­ing in my depart­ment (MFA Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice) in ...

If I weren’t going to be out of town this week­end, I would most def­i­nitely be attend­ing the open­ing of Paper Chasers at Nudashank this Sat­ur­day night (6PM-10PM). Works on paper! So many great artists! Nudashank 405 W. Franklin Street 3rd Floor Bal­ti­more, MD 21201 Image via Nudashank’s web­site. ...