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Filmmakers Take Center Stage

Baltimore Festival Showcases the Work of Women

Filmmakers Take Center Stage

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

True-Life Tales

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

Portfolio: Jenny Campbell

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.”

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Portfolio: Susan Sykes

Portfolio: Susan Sykes

September 10, 2007
By Hope Keller
Photography By Bryan Burris

Susan Sykes is a Baltimore girl, not born but bred, and from the look of her Baltimore photorealist paintings, bred in the bone. She started classes at MICA at the age of 7. Read more »

 

Onward & Upward

Introducing Kids to Classical Music

August 4, 2007
By Martha Thomas
Photography By Bryan Burris

Determined to share her love of opera with her 6-year-old daughter, Kira, Paula Nersesian did her homework. Read more »

 

Portfolio: Carole Lyles Shaw

Portfolio: Carole Lyles Shaw

July 7, 2007
By Hope Keller
Photography By Bryan Burris

Carole Lyles Shaw leads a double life. The Laurel resident is a sought-after business consultant with an MBA from Columbia University. She’s also a sought-after artist who has exhibited her art quilts and mixed-media work in galleries around the country. Read more »

 

The Women Behind The Scenes at Centerstage

The Women Behind The Scenes at Centerstage

May 18, 2007
By Martha Thomas
Photography By Bryan Burris

Working in theater is a labor of love. Sure, there are people who make money — lots of it — but they are in the minority. Same with the glory: For every star on the stage there are dozens who toil behind the scenes with no expectation of — or desire for — the spotlight. Read more »