This week on Spotlight On Maryland, Gina Crash spoke with Anne Brown, Senior Director of Communications at the Baltimore Museum of Art, (BMA), about their major ticketed exhibition, Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, their museum-wide initiative, Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum, and their newly renovated and reopened Joseph Education Center.
For 50 years, Joyce J. Scott has brought Baltimore to the world and the world to Baltimore through her genre-defying art. This major retrospective brings together nearly 140 of the beloved Baltimore icon's sculptures, jewelry, quilts, garments, performances and mixed-media installations on view through July 14th. Reserve tickets today at artbma.org.
The artwork, perspectives and histories of Native artists, scholars and community members are at the center of Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum, a major BMA initiative that begins addressing the historical erasure of Indigenous culture by arts institutions while creating new practices for museums.
Anne talked about these exhibits and initiatives as well as the BMA's newly renovated and reopened Joseph Education Center, offering hands-on installations and activities. Anne also discussed the BMA's recently announced Sustainability Plan. Following months of climate-driven protests at museums across the U.S. and abroad, the BMA's environmental initiatives offer opportunities for more productive dialogues and actions within the museum context. Collectively referred to as Turn Again to the Earth, a title inspired by the writing of environmental activist Rachel Carson, the efforts will unfold over the remainder of 2024 and throughout 2025.
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