The Light Ekphrastic is a non-profit quarterly online journal dedicated to the creation of new written and visual artworks through collaboration between artists. In the current issue, edited by Jenny O'Grady, I am collaborating with poet Marjan Khoshbaz. thelightekphrastic.com --

Today I took some Johns Hopkins students and employees on a tour of “Heavy With History: Devin Allen and the Baltimore Uprising at the BMA. If you haven’t seen it yet, you have until November 30 to do so!

There’s no fire season; it’s fire year. Charles Ichoku & Timothy Nohe Nov 22nd, 3-4 PM, The Peale, 225 Holliday St, Baltimore As wildfires grow frequent the boundaries between natural disaster and human infrastructure are eroding. Dr. Charles Ichoku and Tim Nohe explore the new era of fire year.

You're invited to the premiere of "The Beat Goes On: The Story of Baltimore Beat" www.eventbrite.com/e/film-premi...

Beyond the Frame: Baltimore Filmmakers Showcase 16mm screening of six short films from the 1970s & '80s by Baltimore filmmakers Sat. 11/22 1-3PM at Enoch Pratt Free Library

Job at TU: The Towson Electronic Media and Film department just launched a search for Assistant Professor of Internet Streaming Content and Television Studio Production. The job description is linked below. towson.taleo.net/careersectio...

Apparently in this new Guilded Age Trillionaires are considered to be an expression of a self regulating market and not an abysmal indicator of deeply distorted inequity and systemic theft.

My telematic artwork "Fire Year"will debut at The Peale Museum, Thursday evening, at the Opening for SPARK: Industrial Afterglow. My work takes on catastrophic fires, which have global and personal impacts. Last January my daughter was a climate crisis evacuee in Los Angeles. #thepeale #LAfires

Baltimore’s DIFFUSION Festival— 5 nights of international multichannel electro acoustic music begins November 7th!

My latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social: a conversation with Nichole Sullivan, owner of Hamilton-Lauraville artisan gift shop and creative workspace Keppel and Kismet! If you're a crafter like I am, you'll want to live there. And Nichole will serve you coffee if you stop by for a visit!

Somewhere in the middle rank of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is my desire for a sweatshirt straight from tumbling in the dryer. This, to warm myself when I have cut the autumn thermostat down to 66°.

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Coming soon one of my works of analog video synthesis for Art and Spirituality at Loyola University of Maryland. October 15th - November 19th, 2025. Reception: Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00 – 8:00 PM at Loyola's Julio Fine Arts Gallery. #videosynthesis #lzx

I'm presenting on AI and ethics at Ringling College of Art and Design this morning. Extraordinary art and design centered conversations and lectures yesterday. The campus is a gem, and the ideas are popping.

This Saturday afternoon I'm screening my experimental short Telemetry on the big screen at SNF Parkway, as part of the Windows Charles + North series. That work and others continue to be projected on windows in Station North, after dark.

Here is UMBC's President Valery Sheares Ashby welcoming a full house for a concert by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Linehan Concert Hall last night. What a great kickoff to the concert season. #artsumbc #umbc

New York friends mark your calendars. My experimental short film, CosmonautOp_ReMix, has been selected to screen at the Ditmas Shorts Fest in Brooklyn. Details: Thursday, September 25th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Brooklyn Artery, located at 1004 Cortelyou Road. ditmasshortsfest.com

Thanks, @wbaltv11.bsky.social, for covering the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, which features lots of @umbc.edu artists! Enjoy this clip featuring Phil Davis ’07, IMDA, and adjunct professor Alexi Scheiber — youtu.be/iFb1Tbg0wL8?...

If you work in higher ed, the Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, and the Arts you may find your intellectual property was scraped by Anthropic without your consent. The linked article gives you a simple search, use your name as an author. Prepare to be angered.

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Baltimore friends and fam, this is running tonight, Tuesday, August 26th at Charles and North. Come by, I'm screening my experimental short Telemetry (2025) at the SNF Parkway Theater. Screenings popping up in street facing windows, for a walk in a pleasant night.

The free jazz tenor player in the elder apartment across the way is playing a full tilt High Zero set into the late summer breeze.

Journalists, remember that when reporting on a hurricane you must use "churn," "lash," and "surge" as though no reporter has ever reached for these before

Soon in Station North, the @mdffparkway.bsky.social launches Windows on North + Charles. I will be screening Telemetry (2025) at The Parkway. There are multiple sites within an easy walk, featuring vivid time-based works. Join us.

Call for Art: More Joy, Less Guilt DC Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Baltimore County Arts Guild are hosting an art show in October, full of all kinds of flirtatious fun. Submit your 2D art by 9/5. Free to apply. #Baltimore #Maryland #CallForArt #LGBTQ #art #QueerArt

If you teach at a college, conservatory or university you should give this a read.

Congratulations to The Arm for their expansive new work at The Voxel for the evening length SUMMONED INTO FORM. The Arm trio is: Jason Charney, Sarah Manley, and Patrick McMinn. #immersivetheater #thevoxel #baltimoreperformanceart #thearm

Feeling lucky that I got a ticket for The Arm at The Voxel: Summoned Into Form promises to be a strong show by Jason Chaney, Sarah Manley and Patrick McMinn.

Hey Baltimore! On August 17th I will be performing "The Dreaming Manifesto" and giving away seed paper as part of Robert Hitz's "Voices in Harmony" show.

The city of Baltimore needs the journalism and art reviews that The Beat delivers. What it's been doing with its unique community resource boxes has been helping people, no questions asked. Step up, if you can. I did.

Fluid Movement's Dive Into Banned Books: A Water Ballet of Resistance and Joy at Clifton Park pool was devoted to the belief that we can keep libraries free and for free thinkers. The sunny day suited the spirit of the show.

I'm screening with all my relations at New Works August 9th at Current Space, Baltimore. Come through. Doors at 7:30. withfriends.events/event/ZsPh32...

My first radio job in the 1980s was at a CPB funded station in a small market. Our programming was split between public affairs, community, classical and jazz. So many people volunteered their time to host, engineer, and edit. This will silence community based radio in many places.

I just scrubbed out a bunch of "follows" that look like bots populated with generic images of young and attractive people with center left D politics. No mutuals, no interests aside from amplifying that particular neoliberal stuff.

Johns Hopkins University Press has licensed its books for training AI models. Authors have until the end of August to opt out.

WHY WE LOOK? Because the President of the United States, Donald Trump, shared an AI-generated video on Truth social showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office by FBI agents. petapixel.com/2025/07/21/t...

Coming up: 9° Festival ECRÃ, Official Selection, Video Art and New Media, with a screening of my datamosh work Zero Feet, Zero Inches at Cinemateca do MAM, Musée d'art moderne de Rio de Janeiro, from July 24th - 27th.

Job at UMBC: Program Specialist role in Visual Arts, supporting undergraduate and IMDA MFA programs. listings.umbc.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Thanks very much to the @thebaltimorebanner.com for visiting yesterday and for this piece about Disability Pride Arts Fest! (Please note that the performance program runs from 12-1, not 1-2 as printed.)

Dominant Curve by Vasily Kandinsky, 1936 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137241

I just learned that Dave Herman, painter, owner of Gray Matter Gallery, and a figure in the warehouse scene of Station North, was killed while cycling in Baltimore on Friday. Dave generously allowed us to perform an Akimbo contemporary dance work in his space on Guilford Ave. RIP

Issue 64 of Baltimore Beat is live. Our cover photo was shot by Devin Allen.

The 2025 Sundance Short Film Tour lands at the Parkway July 24–27 🎬 7 bold shorts from this year’s fest—curated by @sundanceorg, presented by @vimeo. One of our July Parkway Pop-Ups. Come see what’s next in independent film. 🎟️ Tickets at parkway.mdfilmfest.com #SundanceFilmFestival #ShortFilmTour

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Soon: FESTIVAL ECRÃ an Experimental Art and Cinema in Rio de Janeiro will be screening my experimental video Zero Feet, Zero Inches (Zero Pés Zero Polegadas), July 11-13 in the Foyer Cinema II and July 24-27 in the Cinemateca do MAM. This marks the premiere of this work in Brazil.

I'm looking forward to screening Telemetry (2025) an experimental video short using Apollo 9 found film footage and video synthesis. That will be coming up in Baltimore and beyond, starting this summer and autumn.

Seeking submissions for our August issue. Check it snd submit by June 28: www.thelightekphrastic.com

The 2025 nonfiction edition of The Parable of the Sower hits hard.

Spotted in a grocery store parking lot in Northwest Baltimore. Sun bleached CMYK or the ghostly presence of Queen Elizabeth? And no, it wasn't a Royal Farms.

Photos from Devin Allen