If you live in the Bal­ti­more area, this Sat­ur­day evening is a new show open­ing up at the Nudashank Gallery. Michael Dot­son will be show­cas­ing some of his paint­ings in the gallery’s first solo show, Curves. Michael cre­ates futur­is­tic scenes, strad­dling the line between what we know and what’s imag­ined. Done with­out the aid of ...

If you live near Bal­ti­more at all, you are prob­a­bly famil­iar with Artscape, a summer-time arts fes­ti­val, free and open to the pub­lic. For me, it’s a bit hit or miss, but there is always one sec­tion of Artscape not worth miss­ing — the Charles street Bridge near the Sta­tion North Arts Dis­trict. When I ...

Recently I had the plea­sure of vis­it­ing with Jor­dan Bernier, a Baltimore-based artist that cre­ates prints, posters, and zines, and active in the grow­ing Bal­ti­more art cul­ture. We talked about his inspi­ra­tion for pieces, his process, and of Bal­ti­more itself. He was kind enough to share some of his won­der­ful zines with me, as well ...

Steph Leung dab­bles in many things, includ­ing col­lage, cut outs, and murals. She was schooled in Bal­ti­more and is now based out of Oak­land, and has taken her murals from coast to coast. Steph’s murals are bright bursts of col­ors that often­times inter­act with not only the wall, but the floor and sur­round­ing areas. I love ...

If you aren’t famil­iar with my blog or tweets, then you might not real­ize how much I enjoy toys. Here’s a snip­pet of some of my collection: My main obses­sion is with vinyl toys, more specif­i­cally with design­ers and illus­tra­tors that turn their 2D draw­ings into 3D objects (more com­monly referred to as “art toys”). ...

While I try to fea­ture work that’s made all around the world, some­times it’s nice to fea­ture work and events that are local to where I am. Inno­vate Love is a silent art auc­tion to ben­e­fit the Bal­ti­more Love Project, a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion com­mit­ted to con­nect­ing com­mu­ni­ties and peo­ple through­out the city. Bal­ti­more is a ...

A friend (and for­mer room­mate!!), Jaime Bennati’s news­pa­per instal­la­tion and sculp­ture is some­thing that is to be mar­veled, both in its con­struc­tion and presentation. Jaime’s con­cept came from her dis­cov­ery of an aban­doned build­ing in a working-class Bal­ti­more neigh­bor­hood. After some explo­ration and research on the ware­house, she retrieved some of the items left over ...

Hillery Rebeka Sproatt is an artist and print maker liv­ing in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land. While involved in many endeav­ors, she has a great draw­ing series enti­tled Every­thing In Between, which is a medi­a­tion about “float­ing within”. Hillery was sell­ing her work at a local art mar­ket dur­ing the past hol­i­day sea­son, so I got the oppor­tu­nity ...