The Art of Celebrating Christmas
October 13, 2009
By Danielle Burcham
Most people decorate their homes with dazzling lights and evergreen trees once a year, when the Christmas season is in full swing. For Samantha Smith, whose warm smile and sweet, soft manner shine no matter what the season, Christmas is celebrated year round.
Singer-Songwriter Turns “Chameleon”
March 20, 2009
Victoria Vox was just another singer-songwriter with a guitar until one moment a few years ago that changed the focus of her career. She was playing the version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” made popular by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole on her guitar, when a friend gave her a ukulele. Read more »
Baltimore Women’s Film Festival 2009 Call for Entries
February 26, 2009
The Baltimore Women’s Film Festival is now accepting entries for its 2009 events. The festival is dedicated and focused on seeking out and promoting cinema created by and for women. This nonprofit festival is held during October – breast cancer awareness month. The festival is open to films directed, written, shot, animated, produced or edited by a woman. The festival also screens movies focusing on themes that are highly relevant to women and films with outstanding performances by an actress or actresses. Festival competitive categories include Documentary, Feature Film, Short Comedy, Short Drama, Music Videos, Experimental Films and Animated Films. The festival also has a local filmmaker’s showcase highlighting films by Baltimore and Washington, D.C., filmmakers, and an International Women’s Filmmaker Showcase highlighting films from outside the U.S. There will also be a showcase called “Green Films” on Environmentally Related Topics. Read more »
A Museum of Their Own
Founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
January 23, 2009
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay is the author of A Museum of Their Own, National Museum of Women in the Arts, a lively account of how she founded the museum, which opened in 1987 in Washington, D.C. Read more »
Filmmakers Take Center Stage
Baltimore Festival Showcases the Work of Women
October 7, 2008
By Christine Welch
The historic Patterson Theater, home of The Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, is virtually empty for the time being. In 30 minutes, a crowd of filmgoers will be filing in to watch short documentaries created by – or for – women. Read more »
True-Life Tales
Spontaneity key to Stoop series' success
July 29, 2008
By Martha Thomas
Photography by Dan Kempner
Seated onstage, Steve Luxenberg asked to have the Centerstage house lights raised. “How many of you think you don’t have any family secrets?” the Washington Post writer and editor asked the audience. Read more »
Portfolio: Jenny Campbell
Screen Painter Jenny Cambell Keeps Up a Tradition
April 5, 2008
By Hope Keller
Jenny's Portrait by Bryan Burris
Screen Paintings Courtesy of Jenny Campbell
During the 11 years of what she describes as her Westminster exile, Baltimore artist Jenny Campbell had the Mona Lisa standing watch at her back door. The enigmatic, dark-eyed woman startled the neighbors, which might have been the artist’s idea. Read more »
Ruby Glover’s Baltimore
The Late Jazz Great in Her Own Voice
March 14, 2008
By Martha Thomas
Image courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Company, Inc., All rights reserved.
Photo by Christopher T. Assaf.
Jazz singer Ruby Glover spent her life — and her career — in Baltimore. As a young girl she sang in clubs along Pennsylvania Avenue (and went straight home to her mother after a gig). Just a few days before her death in October, she was videotaped by members of the Squonk Opera company, a Pittsburgh-based group that was in Baltimore doing interviews for a new work. Read more »
A Chat With Doreen Bolger
The BMA Director Discusses Art & Life
February 26, 2008
By Martha Thomas
Sometimes when she’s in a meeting in her office at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Doreen Bolger gazes across the room to a painting that shows pastel-colored horses — pink, yellow, blue — leaping down a slope. It’s called The Wild Asses and sometimes, when someone is ranting and raving in a meeting, the work gives Bolger a sense of perspective and makes her smile. Read more »
Deanna Bogart
The Girl in The Band
November 29, 2007
By Martha Thomas
Photography By Bryan Burris
The toe thing is important to Deanna Bogart. It’s not just that, on the dark side of 45, she can still hit a note on the piano with the tip of her cowboy boot while pounding the keys with her hands — an act of agility at any age. It’s that she gets the right key. “If I mess up and hit two notes instead of one, it really annoys me, and I let people know,” she says. “I’ll do it again and get it right.”
