Arts in the Media

The Shamans of Eastern Avenue
Francisco "Paco" Loza has found himself and his art at the intersection of cultures. Born in Guadalajara, this artist-in-residence at southeast Baltimore's Creative Alliance has lived for the past twenty years in the mountainous western Mexican state of Nayarit. In Nayarit's capital city of Tepic and its surroundings, he works and makes art with members of the Huichol tribe. Read more at bmore.

Maryland Traditional musicians Phil Wiggins, Warner Williams, Ahmad Borhani, and The Legendary Orioles on The Signal
ON THE SIGNAL 6/10/11  A special collection of documentary recordings with some of Maryland’s finest traditional musicians, from the archives of Signal producer Aaron Henkin and Maryland Traditions folklorist Cliff Murphy...

Traditionally Maryland - Maryland Traditions featured in Maryland Life Magazine
May 31, 2011 -  Maryland Life Magazine!

MD Artist Joyce Scott in New episode of the Peabody-Award Winning PBS series CRAFT IN AMERICA
The next installment of the Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary series Craft in America - a filmed journey to the history, artists and techniques of our nation’s rich craft culture - will air nationally on PBS (WETA in DC) at 8pm* on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 and on Maryland Public TV (MPT) on July 3, 2011.

Maryland 9/11 Memorial on track for 10th anniversary
Baltimore Sun -  For organizers of the 9/11 Memorial of Maryland, the unexpected announcement Sunday that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden came as a moving coincidence. Memorial committee members had planned to release renderings of the Inner Harbor site this month. The memorial, which will incorporate wreckage from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is to open in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks in September.

WARD MUSEUM FEATURED IN NEA ARTS MAGAZINE
The quarterly magazine of the National Endowment for the Arts features the Ward Museum on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

A salute to William Donald Schaefer from Maryland Citizens for the Arts
As last respects are being paid to William Donald Schaefer, the dynamo Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor, it's a great time to remember what he did for the cause of culture. Baltimore Sun

Baker Award Winners Announced
Beatboxer Shodekeh, cellist Audrey Chen and artist Gary Kachadourian each win $25,000 in annual arts competition. Baltimore Sun
 

MARYLAND MAKES IT TO THE POETRY OUT LOUD NATIONAL FINALS !
Friday, April 29, 7-9pm.

Maryland State Champion, Kari Barclay from Richard Montgomery High School in Montgomery County, has advanced to the Poetry Out Loud National Finals.   Watch it live online!  Friday, April 29, 7-9pm.

34-year-old Caleb Stine and 81-year-old Burton DeBusk bridge the generation gap on The Signal.
In this special edition of The Signal, producer Aaron Henkin and Maryland Traditions folklorist Cliff Murphy share a selection of recordings made on-site at this multi-generational meeting of the minds, a conversation in songs between folk musicians Burton DeBusk, Hugh Campbell, and Caleb Stine. www.signalradio.org/?p=882

MICA to buy Globe Poster collection
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun - The colorful work of Baltimore's Globe Poster Company, which began in 1929 and closed last year, will live on at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Baltimore Trade Center site for Maryland 9/11 Memorial
Governor Martin O'Malley announced Friday that the World Trade Center in Baltimore will be the site of the Maryland 9/11 Memorial.

ABC2, Posted: 09/11/2010

World Trade Center beams for Maryland's 9/11 memorial arrive
The Baltimore Sun, November 23, 2010|Three giant steel beams twisted and fused together during the collapse of the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The rubble, which arrived Tuesday, will be reborn as Maryland's 9/11 memorial, to be erected at Baltimore's World Trade Center in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

Creative Ways Arts Find Funding
The PBS Nightly Business Report featured Class Acts Arts Executive Director Joan Burns and the Unified Jazz Ensemble on December 30 in a story about the state of the arts in today’s economy.

Group is seeking to establish an art center in Leonardtown
It has been a longtime dream for a group of Leonardtown businesspeople and arts enthusiasts to establish a community arts studio in the St. Mary's County seat. Now, after five years of discussion, the dream could become a reality. Washington Post 

Baltimore's Buzz
Baltimore City Paper -- Maryland Traditions in Jazz takes its title from a program sponsored by the Maryland State Arts Council that pairs young, developing artists with older, ...

In Sight, Native American After School Art Program on Channel 77
"In Sight: Our Story"  is currently airing on Comcast Channel 77. You can see it on the BCPS Education Channel web site at:

Click her to see the segment which begins at second 40, once you click on play. Segment #25.

Work exhibited in the show and the show itself was funded by a 2010 Maryland State Arts Council Arts in Communities Grant and a 2009 Kresge Arts in Baltimore Grant. This project was completed over the course of Ashley Minner's Open Society Baltimore Community Fellowship.

Celebrating Maryland Traditions
Maryland Life Magazine features Maryland Traditions.

"When I think of Maryland Traditions, Mexican tortillas don’t necessarily come to mind. But the Annual Maryland Traditions Gathering and Showcase is about celebrating traditional arts and Tortilleria Sinaloa in Baltimore specializes in the tradition of making fresh, authentic Mexican tortillas."

Magical Experiences Arts Company on WYPR’s The Signal
MSAC artist-in-residence Joanne Margolius heads up a theater troupe called The Magical Experiences Arts Company (MEAC). MEAC works with the Maryland School for the Blind, United Cerebral Palsy Del Rey, and Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents, among others, presenting innovative and creative theater programming to empower, inspire, and education children, adolescents, and adults with severe multiple disabilities.  Listen now!

Maryland Traditions Ga†hering and Maryland Masters Showcase
Read about Maryland Traditions Ga†hering and Maryland Masters Showcase in Urbanite

Maryland Traditions master/apprentice team Samia Ahmad and Irum Ahmad on WYPR
Maryland Hindustani Traditions

Hear the Interview: Traditional artists Samia Ahmad and Irum Ahmad were interviewed. For nearly ten years, the Maryland State Arts Council‘s “Maryland Traditions” program has paired master teachers with apprentices who want to learn the techniques and history of a variety of traditional and folk arts. This year, teachers included a Colombian vallenato button accordion player, a Persian drummer, a Guatemalan marimbist, and an Appalachian Gospel singer.

Arts Council Folklorist Talks About Baltimore’s Appalachian Influx
For several decades following the Great Depression, thousands of Appalachians poured into the industrial North, looking for work.  Find out more by reading the full article in the City Paper.

Jazz Tradition Passes from Generation to Generation with Help from Maryland Traditions
To Ethan—From Lafayette, Carl, and Coltrane. Local jazz tradition passes from generation to generation, with some help from a state program.  Read the full article from Baltimore Magazine.
 

Do Arts Districts Live Up To Their Hype?
They're seen as a cure-all for urban blight, but there's a right way and a wrong way to go about creating them.  Read the full story in the Baltimore Sun.

Six Hundred Museums Offer Free Summer Admission to Military
The National Endowment for the Arts is inaugurating a new program Monday to give active military personnel and their families free admission all summer to hundreds of U.S. museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection.  Read the full story in the Washington Post.

State of the Arts: What Baltimore’s Emerging Cultural Scene Means
Picture this: It’s a golden age for young artists in Baltimore. In once-vacant warehouses and rundown rowhouses, creative types—students and recent grads of the Maryland Institute College of Art, plus newcomers and associated hangers-on lured by the city’s vibrant cultural community—are setting up shop.  Read the full story in The Urbanite.

Painted Screens Pilgrimage - FM 88.5 WAMU
Take the "Painted Screens Pilgramage"  WAMU - Metro Connection:  scroll down about 5 stories

Maryland Traditions Gathering and Maryland Masters Showcase at the Creative Alliance, June 10
The latest information about the Gathering and Showcase from the Urbanite.

US teenagers flock to live poetry events - BBC
The BBC's Jane O'Brien went to Poetry Out Loud in Washington, a national competition aimed at reviving the oral art form, to find out what is capturing the participants' imagination.  View the video

WYPR's Maryland Morning features Baltimore Clayworks
 Maryland Morning: Baltimore Clayworks: 30 Years and Still Throwing
4/20/10 Tom talks to Deborah Bedwell, Executive Director of Baltimore Clayworks, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

WYPR's Maryland Morning interviews Maryland Poetry Out Loud winner
Maryland Morning: The Sound of Poetry
4/20/10Nora Sandler gives us a rendition of her award-winning performance of Hate Poem.
 

Maryland Poetry Out Loud winner interviewed on WYPR
 WYPR’s Maryland Morning on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 to hear Tom Hall’s interview with Maryland Poetry Out Loud State Champion Nora Sandler, which will include a recitation of one of the winning poems from the competition. Ms. Sandler attends Richard Montgomery High School in Montgomery County and will represent Maryland at the National competition, which will be held in Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC on April 26, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. WYPR's Maryland Morning

A rare showcase opens at the University of Maryland
New gallery is devoted to the works of Maryland artist Joseph Sheppard - Joseph Sheppard has painted a president, sculpted a pope, written books on art and shown his work across the U.S. and Europe. But a new art gallery that opens Tuesday marks perhaps the greatest achievement of all for the Maryland-born artist: It will be the first time that a permanent gallery has opened in the state to house the works of a single living artist. Baltimore Sun

Baltimore mural on social justice dedicated
Artist, students work together. - Huge waves, oversized flowers and brightly colored people mark Baltimore's newest outdoor mural, which was painted last week under the Jones Falls Expressway and dedicated in the chilly Sunday morning wind. The mural near Mount Royal Avenue is an unexpected, 180-foot-long splash of color and a collaboration of about 100 students, nearby residents and artists. Baltimore Sun

Maryland Traditions and WYPR collaborate on "The Signal"
Velvet Hammer: Ahmad Borhani and Persian Classical Music in Maryland. WYPR 88.1 FM, March 19, 2010 - 12 PM and again at 7 PM. www.signalradio.org.

Report points to city arts' economic impact
A trio of annual Baltimore events - Artscape, the book festival and the New Year's celebration at the Inner Harbor - generated an estimated $36 million in economic benefits during the past year, according to the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.Baltimore Sun