A good read on the American Visionary Art Museum. www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

Wishing you all a very Baltimore 4th of July: "Naked performance artist climbs former Columbus pedestal in Baltimore' www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Protestors on top of the Empire State Building holding a message that says: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace." 🤍

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marking the passing of Jack Wilgus, longtime chair of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and notable photo historian and collector. www.iphotocentral.com/news/article...

A resource artists should know about. ncac.org/news/artists...

Who, specifically, ordered the Ocean Observatory Initiative destroyed? Someone made this decision. Reporters, get on this. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

This one really hurts www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

Reimagine the Jones Falls. Yes, it is possible, especially through multidisciplinary approaches. This story in The Banner highlights some important partnerships + an exhibit at AREA 405. www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

In Baltimore, every brick has a story to tell. The Peale Museum wants to be where they’re told. baltimorebeat.com/in-baltimore...

Artscape 2026 road closures. Shared by a friend, and passing them on to the community. #artscape2026

Dress rehearsal last night at the beautiful Reinzi garden in Houston, in preparation for Merce Cunningham's "50 Looks". I produced the original music for the final movement, overlooking the bayou. Frame Dance has produced something beautiful for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tonight, May 16th.

I am delighted to be contributing music to this visionary setting of Merce Cunningham's "50 Looks" - May 16th at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Frame Dance will transform the museum and grounds with movement. Taylor Boykins is the extraordinary vocalist elevating my music. #mercecunningham

This weekend I'm playing Reflections on Machaut: An Immersion by the DMV Regenerate! Orchestra - J. Clay Gonzalez, Wesley Hornpetrie, & the Regenerate! Orchestra Sat, May 2, + Sun, May 3, at 11 AM - the Plaza Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut's “Kyrie” as a drone with found percussion.

This is alarming, for scientific research and universities that support discovery throughout the United States. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I want to express my gratitude for Jeannie Howe's leadership at GBCA. Her retirement was announced today in this Banner article: www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

Really looking forward to screening Zero Feet, Zero Inches at The Liminal Dance Film Festival tonight at Dance Place DC. That's Saturday, April 25th at 5pm. Organized by Orange Grove Dance Co.

On April 30 and May 1, Orange Grove Dance will perform *outside* on the UMBC campus, traveling in space! Reserve tickets now — four performances only! umbc.edu/event/orange... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

‘Amazing’ unseen photos by Cecil Beaton and Lee Miller unearthed

Tonight in Brooklyn, I'm screening CosmonautOp_ReMix in JOUISSANCE. That's Friday, April 3rd, at the Millennium Film Workshop. Michèle Saint-Michel is the curator of this event.

Join us for "despite // bất chấp," our 2026 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition, Apr 1–18 (reception 4/2) at the CADVC with works by Taylor Goad, Nia Hampton, Bao Nguyen & Lynn Nguyen! umbc.edu/event/despit... @umbc.edu

Soon: I will be screening CosmonautOp_ReMix in JOUISSANCE, April 3 at the Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, New York. Michèle Saint-Michel is the curator of this dynamic project.

Join us on Saturday, March 7 for composer Susie Ibarra! She'll present a 6:30 pm spatial audio installation and a 7:30 pm concert of her works in Linehan Concert Hall, both free! umbc.edu/event/susie-... @umbc.edu @circa-umbc.bsky.social

Call for artists now open at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum. Bring your vision and Baltimore experiences to this community based museum. #baltimoreartists #thepeale thepeale.org/call-for-art...

'Remember Me As You Saw Me: Ursula Ricks, A Baltimore Blues Gem insists.' As her health declines, the singer says she wants to be remembered for her voice, the thing that saved her. My latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

Let's just say that it's not a good day to get locked out of your house. I just got back in, thanks to a locksmith. It's rough out there, Baltimore.

Any day I get to visit The Parkway Theater is a pretty good day. Now, to find parking along the ice crusted streets of Baltimore.

And just like that, the Brewers Art is done. I've been going there for decades. www.thebanner.com/culture/food...

On the anniversary of my stroke I am thinking of the powerful Irish proverb: "Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine," which translates to "Under the shelter of each other, people survive". May this same spirit of community shelter carry us through the troubles roiling American cities.

Dear American academics, UBC is part of Canada’s poaching plan for strategic research areas (including enviro, climate, water, Arctic): research.ubc.ca/federal-rese... Applications due JAN 15, so hustle.

You know your kids have gone to a liberal arts college when they can both do a passable Slavoj Žižek imitation.

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?...