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Take a guided journey through meditation to meet your higher self create your soul self-portrait! Discover and access talismans and representations of your higher self, and use collage and multimedia art techniques to manifest this unique and spiritual self-portrait.
Painted screens are a unique Baltimore folk art. Watch a short film on the history of the painted screens and the early painted screen artists, enjoy a demonstration of the painted screen technique, and then paint paint a small screen. Multiple painting options are available. Two drinks from a selection of beer and wine are included in the workshop cost!
Create your own dazzling mosaic with community artist and curator, Sarah McCann!
Rissa Fine-Karpoff gives the lowdown on the basics of weaving and then shows you how to create your very own mug rug (coaster) to take home! There will be a large selection of yarns and patterns to choose from, or you can create your own unique pattern. In addition to the small loom you will make your mug rug on, there will be two more complex looms to try out as well.
Painted screens are a unique Baltimore folk art. This workshop will include a short film on the history of the painted screen and early painted screen artists and a demonstration of the painted screen technique. Paint a small screen to take home with you based on provided designs or create your own!
Hargrove is a vérité style documentary chronicling the last year of trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s life as he embarks on his final European summer tour. Music icons including Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Questlove, Robert Glasper, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis and Yasiin Bey pay tribute to Hargrove’s artistry, impact and legacy. Roy Hargrove is your favorite musician’s favorite musician. Shot in Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento, and Marseille this film features stunning live performances by Hargrove in the last year of his life.
Raktism is a new method for investigating the fourth dimension, developed by contemporary artist Ainsley Burrows.
See what the resident artists have been working on over the last year in a celebration of artistic practice. Reaching Out is a salon-style presentation of work from Anna Divinagracia, Melissa Foss, kolpeace, Hope and Faith McCorkle, Hoesy Corona, Jason Austin, and Lendl Tellington.
Raktism is a new method for investigating the fourth dimension, developed by contemporary artist Ainsley Burrows.
See what the resident artists have been working on over the last year in a celebration of artistic practice. Reaching Out is a salon-style presentation of work from Anna Divinagracia, Melissa Foss, kolpeace, Hope and Faith McCorkle, Hoesy Corona, Jason Austin, and Lendl Tellington.
A livelier life drawing event, Dr. Sketchy's is where artists of all levels draw fabulous burlesque and variety performers! Enjoy delicious cocktails and a performance by the model, and compete in zany drawing contests to win free drinks and other awesome prizes! We'll start off with quick 1- and 2-minute gesture poses and gradually move up to 20-minute sketches. No drawing experience is necessary; just bring your own drawing materials—and cash tips for our model—and join us for some fun figure sketching practice!
Visual Arts Director Joy Davis and Creative Alliance staff welcome you to a night of art appreciation! Joy will conduct tours of Ainsley Burrows's exhibition, Raktism and Metachaos, from 5 to 630pm in the Main Gallery. Join Joy in conversation with featured resident artists to discuss the exhibition, Reaching Out, in the Amalie Rothschild Gallery on the second floor.
Creative Alliance's monthly Blackscope Cinema Series features Daughters of the Dust—a 1991 independent film written, directed, and produced by Julie Dash. It is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to be distributed theatrically in the United States.
The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival brings together the brightest Old Time Stringband musicians in the country to celebrate where this vibrant music form exists today and where it’s going. Join host artists Ken & Brad Kolodner along with a dizzying lineup at Creative Alliance for two days of concerts featuring brilliant musicianship and shimmering vocal harmonies, hands-on workshops, jamming, square dancing, conversation and revelry that’s fun for all ages.
A livelier life drawing event, Dr. Sketchy's is where artists of all levels draw fabulous burlesque and variety performers! Enjoy delicious cocktails and a performance by the model, and compete in zany drawing contests to win free drinks and other awesome prizes! We'll start off with quick 1- and 2-minute gesture poses and gradually move up to 20-minute sketches. No drawing experience is necessary; just bring your own drawing materials—and cash tips for our model—and join us for some fun figure sketching practice!
Are you a painter, musician, or creative entrepreneur that lives in Maryland? Do you have legal questions or concerns? Make an appointment for our Art Law Clinic on March 18, 2023 from 1pm-4pm! You can snag a 30-minute consult with one of our volunteer attorneys to sort out any general issues or questions you might have!
In collaboration with Komite Ayiti, Inc and Creative Alliance, Thorobred Books is excited to bring The Heroes Book and Art Tour to Baltimore, MD. Join us as we celebrate the release of the new book Heroes of the Haitian Revolution by publisher Thorobred Books featuring author Frantz Derenoncourt, Jr. and illustrator Kervin Andre.
Raktism is a new method for investigating the fourth dimension, developed by contemporary artist Ainsley Burrows.
Creative Alliance's monthly Blackscope Cinema Series expands our understanding and appreciation of Black Film in America. Through varying programming, including talks, demos, and making activities, the Baltimore community is invited to celebrate modern and contemporary film from Black and Diasporic creators.
Blackscope Cinema Series continues with a screening of Buck and the Preacher.
About The Film
Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said Poitier "showed a talent for easy, unguarded, rambunctious humor missing from his more stately movies".
A livelier life drawing event, Dr. Sketchy's is where artists of all levels draw fabulous burlesque and variety performers! Enjoy delicious cocktails and a performance by the model, and compete in zany drawing contests to win free drinks and other awesome prizes!
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