For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is currently on display at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

“Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.”

For more information about the exhibit, visit CADVC’s website.

EXCHANGE: a home-based artist residency is a thesis project by Hyejung Jang, a Curatorial Practice MFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA) in partnership with School 33 Art Center. EXCHANGE is designed to explore new ways and potential for forming intimate connections between artists and community members by supporting emerging artists, and integrating contemporary art into everyday life.

This is a two-month long project—from January 23 to March 23, 2013—placing two emerging international artists with two local families in Baltimore. It transforms the home into a fertile platform of new experience, cross-cultural dialogue, social integration, education, and art while the artists live with the host families. The work created by the artist during their residency will be exhibited at School 33 from March 22 to May 25.

The project is currently in the phase of raising funding through a Kickstarter campaign.

Discovery,” organized by Los Angeles-based arts organization RAW, will spotlight Baltimore artists working in film, fashion, music, visual art, hair & makeup artistry, and performance art. The one night event creates a circus of creativity that provides a little taste of everything.

Date: February 7
Time: 8pm-12am
Location: TATU, 614 Water Street, Baltimore, MD

Autospa was one of the highlights of Artscape 2012. Conceived and performed by artists Nina Sarnelle, Erin Womack, Agnes Bolt and Scott Andrew, it was a total mind and body experience that many people may not have been able to see first hand. If you missed it..or want to relive it, sit back, relax and check out the video!

Autospa from erin womack on Vimeo.

Downtown arts collective, EMP, is opening their first exhibition of 2013 on January 18th. “Reject the Gaze” features the paintings and drawings of local visual artists Lacey Anderson and Sylvia O.

In “Reject the Gaze,” the artists are stylistically juxtaposed yet share a similar effect on the viewer: both Anderson and Ortiz turn notions of the flesh on their head and directly challenge the viewer’s gaze on the female form.

“Reject the Gaze” opens January 18.