Apr 18 Thursday
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams is a 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time.
Co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum (SAM), this exhibition was developed in close dialogue with the Baltimore-based artist and her collaborators to reveal the full breadth of Scott’s singular vision through more than 120 objects from public and private collections across the United States. The exhibition will feature significant examples of the artist’s sculpture—both stand-alone and wearable pieces—alongside performance footage, garments, prints, and materials from Scott’s personal archive. Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams also features a newly commissioned installation and an expansive catalog.
The first in a series of end-of-the-year exhibitions showcasing works by graduating Art majors working in a range of media from two- and three-dimensional approaches to digital and new media.
First Saturdays is a series of free hands-on projects and activities for children held on the first Saturday of each month. This series will feature local community partners showcasing their skills in movement, storytelling, arts, tinkering, and more!
Teens are invited to the Walters Art Museum on Thursdays for Teen Lab, a space for teens to hang out, create art, and make friends. During this drop-in program, teens can participate in creative collaborative activities, explore different cultures through art, or simply socialize, complete homework, and check out our galleries. Teens can stop by anytime between 4-6 p.m. to join in. Ages 13-17.
McDaniel College students compete for a $5,000 top prize in this annual competition. Finalists pitch their entrepreneurial ideas and products to a panel of experts. Additional $1,000 cash prizes are awarded for runner-up, People’s Choice, and Community Changer. Email [email protected] for more information.
James Conlon continues his exploration of Recovered Voices with a rare performance of the Lyric Symphony by Alexander von Zemlinsky, a onetime star of Vienna’s music scene who fled Nazi Germany and died in obscurity in New York. Opera standouts Melody Moore and Lucas Meachem bring the huge emotions of this ambitious score to life. Conlon, who “conducts like a man with Beethoven encoded into his muscle memory” (The Washington Post), takes a romp through Beethoven’s jovial Second Symphony.
Recovered Voices is a special initiative of LA Opera that seeks to bring the music of composers suppressed by the Holocaust to the stage. It was founded in 2006 with generous support from Marilyn Ziering.
ArtistsJames Conlon, conductorMelody Moore, sopranoLucas Meachem, baritone
RepertoireBEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2ZEMLINSKY Lyric Symphony
"Triads of Soul" Tribute to Otis Redding, Sam Cooke & David Ruffin/Temptations featuring Bryan Fox (Sam Cooke) & Rodney "The Soul Singer" Stith (David Ruffin/Temptations)
Come hear your Favorite songs like "My Girl”, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay”, “Change Gonna Come”, “Chain Gang”, “Since I Lost My Baby”, “Just My Imagination”, “You Send Me”, “I’ve Been Loving You” and many more!
Rodney Stith is an African American soul singer, songwriter and producer from Petersburg, Virginia he grew up singing and playing gospel music in church and local gospel groups where he learned how to play the piano from his grandfather and the guitar from his uncle by ear. His powerful urban retro soul brings back the soulful sound of the retro classic rhythm and blues. He comes across with a smooth edge mellow on the mind yet powerful enough to stir new emotion with each note.
Apr 19 Friday
Are you fan of the mysterious, the strange, the gruesome or the eccentric? Are you a writer or artist or film maker or performer? Draw upon your favorite works of Edgar Allan Poe and enter the 6th Annual Saturday “Visiter” awards, opening January 19, Poe’s birthday; deadline to enter is May 30, 2024.
The Saturday “Visiter” Awards are an international contest honoring a new generation of artists and writers inspired by the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and recognizes the best in multiple categories such as film, art, performance, and writing. For more information, visit http://SaturdayVisiterAwards.org. Winners of the awards will be announced at the International Edgar Allan Poe Awards & Festival in October 2024.
The Saturday “Visiter” Awards are named after the prize a young Poe won in 1833 from the Saturday Visiter, a weekly periodical published in Baltimore. That prize launched the famed writer’s career. The fee for SVA submission is $25 per entry and nominees will be given a ticket to the Black Cat Ball, a prize medal and a “Saturday Visiter Awards” designation for their work. Judges for the 2024 awards include representatives from preeminent Poe institutions and arts locations, including Baltimore’s own Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, The Poe Cottage in New York, and others.