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Art To Dine For 2024: BmoreArt | City of Artists Salon

Ed and Ann Berlin host a literary and arts salon in their home centered on the book City of Artists, BmoreArt's first full-length book, featuring 220 pages of personal reflections from leading writers alongside portfolios from Baltimore city’s most celebrated visual artists. Enjoy a drink and small bites among Ed and Ann's collection of 20th Century art and design, as sparkling discussion unfolds with some of the artists and writers from the book, as well as Rachel Castedo, the designer of the book. You'll leave with a copy of City of Artists to take home.

Art To Dine For 2024: Bites & Brushstrokes

Join Yogini Dahiwadkar for a three-hour lesson to demystify watercolor painting. In this hands-on workshop, Yogini, a painter and arts educator, teaches you how to paint with watercolors in a loose style. She also showcases several of her paintings and discusses different watercolor styles, from realism to abstract art. During breaks, enjoy a cooking demonstration and a feast of traditional Indian food paired with authentic chai tea. Take home your beautiful watercolor painting and the recipe for the meal to recreate the whole experience at home!

Art To Dine For 2024: Fast Cars & Collectibles

British car enthusiasts will be right home in this extraordinary garage designed for entertaining and admiring gorgeous M.G.s and Jaguars. The Lippert’s home is a beautifully renovated former butcher’s shop with preserved features from the original building. The garage is adorned with chandeliers and Persian rugs, with a treasure trove of sleek automobiles and top-notch kitsch. Bob Lippert shares how he became involved in collecting and what it takes to be successful in the hunt. This exclusive look into collecting British automobiles and paraphernalia combined with British-themed cuisine prepared by award-winning Chef Nancy Longo of Pierpoint is not to be missed.

Art To Dine For 2024: Sanctuary of Sawdust

Enjoy a locally catered, sit-down dinner amid the art of Kelly Walker in the compelling architectural setting of Sandtown Furniture Company. Kelly uses a wide range of atypical material, pushing media past their intended purpose, encouraging them to collide and react. Her works are intricately layered, referencing graffiti, landscape, and color field. Evan Woodard of Salvage Arc discusses the history of the building and local art and crafts for sale.

Art To Dine For 2024: The Art of Pueblo Pottery

Paula Fernandes and Michael Donnenberg open their home to share a collection of Pueblo pottery amassed over the last 30 years by their friend and neighbor, Curt Decker. His collection showcases pieces from 12 of the 19 Pueblo tribes, including Acoma, Santa Domingo, Santa Clara, Hopi, San Ildefonso, and Tesuque, as well as several Anasazi pieces reflective of the early potters (around 1200 AD). Sizes range from small effigy of owls to large water vessels and many fine line painted vessels. Enjoy a homemade brunch as you peruse this unique and beautiful collection of Indigenous art.

Art To Dine For 2024: Arts & Crabcakes

Jennifer Hardy opens her home to showcase her collection of Maryland, Baltimore, and DMV visual artists, including Shinique Smith (Baltimore); David Driskell, Tawny Chatmon, and AfriCOBRA artist Frank Smith (Baltimore); and Elizabeth Catlett and Sam Gilliam (DMV). Her collection also includes Black and international artists like Kehinde Wiley, Radcliffe Bailey, and Joan Mitchell. Delight in classic Maryland bites and refreshments, including local wine and crabcakes surrounded by exceptional art!

Art To Dine For 2024: An Evening with Wendel Patrick

Join in an exhilarating night with musician, professor, and multi-disciplinary creative Wendel Patrick as he shares his artistry and provides insight into his artistic process. The composer, producer, beatmaker, pianist, sonic architect, photographer, and videographer, has been referred to as “David Foster Wallace reincarnated as a sound engineer” by Urbanite Magazine and “wildly talented” by the Baltimore Sun. Wendel Patrick has made a name for himself internationally as a music producer of remarkable vision and skill. He was named the 2022 Renaissance Man of the Year at the Baltimore Crown Awards, was the 2021-2022 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow at Harvard University, and most recently, he won a Capital Emmy as co-producer of Maryland Public Television’s Artworks: The Art of Curation – Execution. Chef Chef Sean Guy of Water for Chocolate provides a delicious spread of upscale comfort cuisine for this intimate night of conversation and performance.

Artesanas Table: Picaditas Perfections

Join Creative Alliance's Artesanas for continent-spanning cuisine rendezvous on the last Friday of every month. Sign up either individually or bring a partner and forge an exquisite meal from scratch, with Latin and South American recipes recipes and culinary skills! After strutting your stuff, finish off with a full shared meal with your new culinary compatriots in this joyful, enlightening Friday evening experience.

The Art of Herbs: Four Thieves Vinegar

Delve into Four Thieves Vinegar, a legendary herbal remedy with a rich past. As Bettina Perry relates the historical origins and modern applications, learn the key ingredients and glean the properties, uses, and benefits of each component. Discover how to incorporate Four Thieves Vinegar into your daily life, from culinary uses to household cleaning and natural health remedies. Each session ends with creating your own custom Four Thieves Vinegar blend to take home!

Art To Dine For 2024: Bolton Hill Banquet

You and nineteen of your invited guests enjoy an exclusive three-course immersive dinner event crafted by Chef Idalee DiGregorio, including a signature cocktail, wine, amuse bouche, main course, and dessert. Collaborate with Chef Idalee on your menu for a truly delicious experience! The banquet table for 20 is set in Project 1628, an art gallery in Baltimore's historic Bolton Hill, featuring the work of artist Rob Calvert. Rob's two- and three-dimensional artwork reflects his background as an artist and architect. His paintings and drawings evoke more than they describe of their organic origins.

Lion’s Mane Crabcakes with BaltiSpore

This once-in-a-mycelium event is a unique chance to create a vegan or vegetarian version of a Maryland favorite—the crab cake—from lion's mane mushrooms. Learn to harvest, prep, and cook while discovering the benefits of the lion's mane mushroom and its impact on the carbon footprint of the food industry.

Art To Dine For 2024: Baltimore 360 | Our Thriving Black Art Scene

Enjoy fabulous art in various media from veteran and emerging Black artists, while expanding your view of the art scene in Baltimore. Learn how aesthetics and techniques emerge from lived experiences perhaps unfamiliar to many non-Black art lovers. Explore the obstacles they may have faced to being appreciated and collected and how persisting in that environment can be understood as a form of racial justice activism. Taste an array of delicious pastry art accompanied by tea, coffee, wine, and punch, while taking in the expansive view of Baltimore's Outer Harbor. Peruse art for sale—sculpture, painting, prints, writing, and jewelry will all be represented—listen to readings, taste beautiful delicacies, and get curious about the vibrant Black art scene in Baltimore!

Art To Dine For 2024: Persian Art, Culture, & Cuisine

Try your hand at the ancient and revered art of Persian/Farsi calligraphy! With tools used in the 14th and 15th centuries, create your own work of art with direction from Nahid Tootoonchi, a professor of graphic design in Towson University’s College of Fine Arts and Communications. Enjoy a presentation from Nahid about the history and modern transformation of Persian calligraphy while indulging in delicious food from Mira Kitchen Collective and admiring the Romanesque arches and dramatic views of Penn Station from artist Carol Higgs’ Station North loft. Leave the party with a special gift from Nahid: your name beautifully written in Farsi.

The Art of Herbs: Mulling Spices

Dive into the aromatic world of mulling spices. Perfect for the colder seasons, warm up your life with these fragrant blends. Discover how to use mulling spices in your kitchen beyond the traditional mulled wine or cider and learn how these spices can support your health and well-being. You'll get hands-on experience in creating delicious, spice-infused recipes that can be enjoyed year-round.

Art To Dine For 2024: Art With a Purpose

Baltimore artist Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen invites you into his private studio for an intimate afternoon of conversation and art-making. After an engaging discussion about the practice of community-based art and how it relates to social justice, enjoy light refreshments and then, get messy! Create art based on a social justice theme with your fellow attendees using one of Jay's pieces. Experience firsthand what it is like to create art with a purpose!

Art To Dine For 2024: A Cabinet of Curiosity

Enter into a cabinet of curiosities, and explore an expansive collection of everyday objects and art pieces amassed during the host's 40-year career in Africa and Haiti. Artist Carla Stetson, presents mixed media works from her series, Ornithography, as well as other large-scale ink drawings and paintings. Sip on bissap—hibiscus juice from West Africa—and mulled wine and dine on Soup Joumou, Haiti's national dish, which represents freedom and independence from the enslavement of French colonizers.

Fall Pickling Party!

We can pickle that! Baltimore chef and owner of Ella’s Pickled Produce, Keith Curley, teaches you the ins and outs pickling produce. Learn some basic ways to prepare vegetables with uniquely flavored pickling brines and enjoy your harvest all year long! All produce and supplies for pickling provided!

Art To Dine For 2024: Art & Politics

Diane Stollenwerk and artist Mary Ann Mears (mother to Delegate Elizabeth Embry) host an evening of lively discussion at the intersection of art and politics in Mary Ann's breathtaking, art-filled home. Tour her studio, enjoy delicious food, and be part of the conversation with state-level political and business luminaries, including host and former Delegate Maggie McIntosh, Senate President Bill Ferguson, and Mark Anthony Thomas, President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, who recently named Culture and the Creative Arts as one of the top three growth areas for the Baltimore region. A real treat for politically-engaged people who care deeply about the future of the arts!

Art To Dine For 2024: Play With Your Food

Jewelry designer Shana Kroiz and her husband, hair stylist Edward Seidel, host a lively dinner where guests are encouraged to play with their food! Gourmet cook Eddie prepares foods in interesting shapes, colors, textures, and patterns that guests can sculpt into visual presentations, inspired by the organic designs of Shana's jewelry. Shana discusses her inspiration and production and invites guests to visit her in-house studio and showroom.

Artesanas Table: Ecuadorian Feast

Let CA's Artesana Zoila teach you to cook a feast with Ecuadorian hornado as the centerpiece. This traditional dish has pre-Columbian origins, with indigenous cooking techniques that involved hot stones and banana leaves. With the arrival of the Spanish, new culinary techniques and seasonings were incorporated, giving rise to hornado as we know it today. Warm the soul (and belly) this fall at the Artesanas Table!

A Nigerian Friendsgiving w/ Bisola Gee

This Workshop will feature a Nigerian-themed five-course menu, blending tradition with modern flavors that reflect the rich culinary influences of Bisola's upbringing.
This intimate event will be a night of flavorful dishes, meaningful connections, and the warmth of the season. Let's create new memories at Friendsgiving together.

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