BmoreArt’s Picks: March 19-25
This Week: Collection Connections at The Walters celebrates feminine management in conservation, Arts Every Day Cocktails and Conversation at The Peale, Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson lectures at The Lewis Museum, Xavier Hardison, BlissArmyKnife, and Jennifer McBrien opening reception at Bromo, MICA Curatorial Practice exhibition opening at Eubie Blake, Rosa Leff and Kelly Walter opening reception at Creative Alliance, Joyce J. Scott Community Day at The BMA, and AVAM’s Logan Visionary Conference — PLUS Grit Fund deadline and extra featured alternatives!
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Collection Connection: Conservation and Technical Research Celebrates a Milestone: Exploring Almost 75 Years of Female Leadership
Wednesday, March 20 :: 12:30-1pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
Location: Virtual
Registration required
In this presentation, Julie Lauffenburger, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of Conservation, Collections and Technical Research, can be in dialog with Terry Drayman-Weisser, Conservator Emerita, former Director of Conservation and Technical Research, to replicate on the ninetieth anniversary of the division, and its nearly 75 years of pioneering feminine management.
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Collection Connections is a sequence of onsite and digital behind-the-scenes experiences with the Walters assortment for supporters of the museum. Registration is required as house is proscribed. Look for extra particulars about upcoming occasions on the net and in your inbox.
Cocktails & Conversation: A better have a look at Arts Every Day and the 10X10 Exhibit
Thursday, March 21 :: 5-7pm
@ The Peale
Join Arts Every Day at The Peale Museum on Thursday, March twenty first from 5-7pm to realize unique perception into the group and listen to from 10X10 Exhibit curators whereas viewing over 300 artistic endeavors from Baltimore City Public School college students.
Helena Hicks Speaker Series | Women’s History Month – Dr. Raynetta Wiggins Jackson
Thursday, March 21 :: 5:45-8pm
@ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Helena Hicks Speaker Series | Women’s History Month – Dr. Raynetta Wiggins Jackson
Thursday, March 21 | 5:45 pm to eight pm | FREE EVENT
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Billie Holiday Center for Liberations Arts (JHU) for his or her annual Helena Hicks Speaker Series that includes Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, the Africana Archives Curatorial Fellow of Inheritance Baltimore & Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. Dr. Wiggins-Jackson’s lecture will deal with “Ethel’s Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz.” Her lecture grows out of her curatorial and exhibition work on the legendary jazz singer Ethel Ennis.
Raynetta Wiggins Jackson, PhD, is the Curatorial Fellow for Africana Collections, an interdisciplinary postdoctoral place located between the Sheridan Libraries and the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts within the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to serving because the lead curator for Ethel’s Place, she has contributed to 2 different ground-breaking exhibitions this 12 months, The Colors of Pontella Mason on the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, and The Birth of Jazz: Billie Holiday’s Baltimore, a transportable exhibition co-curated with Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence P. Jackson. Prior to assuming her present position, Dr. Wiggins Jackson was a supervisor of gospel packages at Washington Performing Arts and served as a graduate assistant on the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University, the place along with archival and curatorial work, she additionally organized the convention Why We Sing: Indianapolis Gospel Music in Church, Community and Industry.
This occasion begins with a wine reception and the Peabody Graduate Jazz Ensemble at 5:45 pm and Dr. Raynetta Wigins-Jackson’s lecture will start at 6:30 pm. The Helena Hicks Speaker Series honors Helena Hicks, the foremother of the student-led motion for Civil Rights in Baltimore City.
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