BmoreArt’s Picks: September 24-30
BmoreArt's Picks: September 24-30
This Week: Karla T. Vasquez in conversation with Krystal C. Mack at UMBC, Charm City Fringe at The Peale, public reception for Elena Volkova at Stevenson University, Boshell Lecture at The Walters, Walk on By opening reception at Creative Alliance, Jackie Milad, Edgar Reyes, and René Treviño at Connect + Collect, Baltimore Book Festival, and MICA Art Market — PLUS Made in Baltimore Holiday Store call for vendors and more featured opportunities!
BmoreArt's Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page , which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
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Humanities Forum — Karla T. Vasquez in Conversation with Krystal C. Mack Tuesday, September 24 :: 5:30-7pm UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Karla Tatiana Vasquez, food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist In conversation with Krystal C. Mack, food designer and artist This event is part of the Fall 2024 Humanities Forum
In 2015, first-generation Salvadoran American, Karla T. Vasquez, began an online project to document recipes like the ones her mother made during her childhood. Over time, the project grew to include not only recipes, but also stories from the women who created them, offering a portrait of life for Salvadoran women both before the civil war and after their arrival in the United States. Vasquez will discuss The SalviSoul Cookbook and her efforts to preserve the food and stories of Salvadoran moms, aunts, grandmothers, and friends.
Karla T. Vasquez is a food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist based in Los Angeles. Her writing has been published by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, Eater LA, and KCET (PBS SoCal), among others. Her recipe development work can be seen in Food & Wine, Serious Eats, BuzzFeed Tasty, and Tastemade. She is also a food justice advocate and an active member in her community to increase healthy food accessibility in low-income communities, previously working with Hunger Action Los Angeles and Los Angeles Food Policy Council. She founded in an effort to preserve her family's recipes, and since then it has expanded to focus on cultural memory and intergenerational healing for the Salvadoran diaspora.
Krystal C. Mack is a self-taught food designer and artist using her social practice to highlight food and nature's role in collective healing, empowerment, and decolonization. Her work has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Food & Wine, and MOLD Magazine. She has been named a "Woman to Watch" by the Baltimore Sun and featured on the Cherry Bombe 100 Women in Food list by Cherry Bombe Magazine as a food industry "Change Agent." In 2023, she was awarded the United States Artist Fellowship in Architecture & Design, becoming the first artist in the history of the USA Fellowship to be honored for working with food.
Admission is free. This event is co-sponsored by the Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association , the Public Humanities Program , and UMBC Dining Services .
Charm City Fringe Opening Party Tuesday, September 24 :: 7:30pm The Peale
The 10th annual Charm City Fringe Festival is happening September 26 – October 6 at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! You won't want to miss this fantastic line-up of new, funky, always thought-provoking, occasionally sexy shows and artists plus exciting after hours events. Join us for a free opening night party with a live band, local market vendors and a sneak peak at the acts on September 26. But don't wait for the opening night party to buy your tickets! Tickets are on sale now!
The Me Before The War No Longer Exists: Ukrainian Portraits Elena Volkova | Public Reception Thursday, September 26 :: 4-6pm | Ongoing through December 14 Stevenson University
The Me Before The War No Longer Exists: Ukrainian Portraits is a participatory project that engages the community of Ukrainians displaced by war in collaborative creation of wet plate collodion portraits, with the aim to provide a platform for refugees to reclaim their sense of selfhood.
The project is framed through photography's function to reflect society and convey truth, poetically. Utilizing it as a form social practice, I facilitate collaborative creation of portraits, using the historic wet plate collodion process, digital photography, and video. I am interested in emergent properties of collaboration and the agile process of shaping images, where the experience of making is centered. Ukrainian Portraits aims to bring visibility to people displaced by war, who are engaged in a delicate negotiation between their personal lives, communal backgrounds, and their emerging identities as displaced individuals. This project is guided by my own experiences of displacement; it addresses the themes of belonging, ambiguity, liminality, and subjectivity. The resulting images reflect a sense of transition, becoming, or, being in between, woven into the project's narrative of reclaiming one's selfhood. My creative role intertwines with the complexities of immigration, trauma, loss, and ambiguity that surrounds it. Through shared presence and creative collaboration, a unique artistic experience emerges, blurring the lines between the subject, creator, and audience.
Bio: Elena Volkova is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator, whose creative practice uses historic and contemporary photographic techniques to delve into the complex themes of liminality by exploring the nuances of subjective experiences. Volkova exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been a recipient of Rubys Grant, Baltimore Municipal Art Society Travel Prize, and a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists, in addition to other recognitions and awards that support her creative practice. Volkova has been a social practice resident artist at Maryland Center for History and Culture, Anacostia Arts Center, and Maker General among others, and her work is included in various private and public collections, including Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Museum of Art, and MDHC. Volkova resides in Baltimore, MD and teaches Photography at Stevenson University.
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