The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum – CBMM – recently received an $80,000 grant from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority program under the Maryland Historical Trust. The grant will help fund a new Small Craft Heritage Center project for CBMM, which—with full funding—is projected to begin in 2017. The construction of the Small Craft Heritage Center […]
Wherewithal is a showcase exhibition that brings together four diverse, emerging artists who are all completing a year-long Acme studio award for recent graduates. Alison Ballance’s deft organisation of hand woven textiles, print works, watercolour drawings and texts, is a restrained yet emphatic way of talking about doubt. Rutie Borthwick’s practice focuses on how the […]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announced the appointment of Katy Siegel as Senior Programming and Research Curator. In this new part-time position, Katy will play a key role in the museum’s future exhibitions, public programs, audience development initiatives, institutional identity, and partnerships, and will also advise on capital projects. Siegel […]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Front Room: Guerrilla Girls, a selection of 48 works by the New York-based anonymous feminist collective known for using humor to confront sexism and racism in the art world. The works are drawn from their Portfolio Compleat—a compilation of nearly 90 projects undertaken by the […]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced today the extended run of the thought-provoking exhibition ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery through Labor Day Weekend. The powerful exhibition features images by world-renown humanitarian photographer, Lisa Kristine. Since it’s opening, ENSLAVED has sparked discussion, at the museum, in the community and […]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Black Box: John Waters’ Kiddie Flamingos, on view September 21, 2016 through January 22, 2017. For the 2014 video, Waters filmed children reading a G-rated version of the cult classic, Pink Flamingos, and has said this new version is in some ways more perverse than […]
Cincinnati, OH – Northern Kentucky University’s Steely Library will present an art exhibition on the work of Thomas S. Noble, a prominent 19th century artist from Lexington, KY. Born on a plantation to a family of slave-owners, Noble was well known for creating Civil War era historical paintings depicting the cruelty of slavery. Classically trained […]
1,800 year old Egyptian mummy now on display as part of Curate My Community CINCINNATI – As students return to campus, a four-year-old is headed to college. Umi, an Egyptian child mummy from Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC), is now on display at Mount St. Joseph University. The mummy and an accompanying exhibit is located in […]
Grant will fund filming and production of Union Terminal restoration documentary CINCINNATI – Surrounded by scaffolding and construction materials in the Rotunda of Union Terminal, the Scripps Howard Foundation presented a grant for $15,000 to Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC). The grant will be used by CMC to produce a documentary on the repair of Union […]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is now accepting reservations for its fall Lighthouse Overnight Adventures program. Under the guidance of a museum educator, youth groups and their chaperones can travel back in time to explore the life of a late-19th-century lighthouse keeper, all while spending the night in the historic 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse, which […]
The Glass House is pleased to present Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession-Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope, the third part of the Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden landscape installation on view throughout the season in celebration of the 110th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s birth and the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Glass House site to the […]
Historians, Educators and Activists Convene to Discuss Urbanism, Inclusion and Cultural Freedoms CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced today that they will host the international Inclusive Museum Conference September 16-18, 2016. Museum professionals, scholars and civil rights activists from around the globe, will convene at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center […]
