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The Monument Quilt

After 6 years of organizing, and after 49 displays in 33 cities across the US and Mexico, the culminating display of the Monument Quilt is set for May 31 – June 2, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, between 12th and 14th St. This will be the only time that the quilt will …

Wings Over Wall Street

Wing's Over Wall Street's first contemporary art installation 'Close to you': A Tribute to Karen Condron by Jim Condron, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education. Just like me, vintage bicycle, Karen Condron’s clothing, 72x65x10 inches, 2019 “Through adversity we find our heroes” – Steve Gleason Karen Condron Modeling, circa 1965Karen …

“Yin, Yang, and New York”

Yin, 2018Yang, 2018New York, 2018 Edelweiss Calacagno, MFA Interdisciplinary Candidate, with a concentration in printmaking, painting, and sculpture, has just been accepted into the 58th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition 2019! The International Art Exhibition, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, is curated by Ralph Rugoff and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo …

Maryland State Arts Council Announces Individual Arts Award Recipients

This year’s awardees represent the fields of Creative Nonfiction/Fiction, Digital/Electronic Arts, Media Arts, Painting, Theater Solo Performance, and Works on Paper. Awardees were chosen, based solely on artistic merit, by an out-of-state jury of discipline-specific experts. READ MOREMaryland States Arts Council Congratulations to the SEVERAL TU faculty and alumni who are recipients of the Maryland …

Resistance, Love and Showtunes

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, this exhibition will feature the photography of Baltimore based photographer Katie Simmons-Barth. Her work captures the fierce, joyful and often marginalized world of LGBTQ communities. In addition, the exhibition will feature a wide range of archives culled from local and national sources / testaments to …

Getting Off: Lee Breuer on Performance

"Since the nineteen-sixties and seventies, New York's experimental-theatre scene has toned down its wild-man character, but Lee Breuer is the grand old man of the movement."—The New Yorker Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works …

Phase Change

Towson EMF Alumni and Baltimore-based artist Thomas Faison '17 held an Artist Talk about his pop-up gallery mixed media piece Phase Change in Frederick, MD. Selected by the Frederick Arts Council and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Faison’s gallery piece will transform every four months as it follows a "three act …

Fix-it Fair

Alizon Santamaria, Costume Shop Manager and adjunct instructor for the Department of Theatre Arts, recently participated in the university’s first Fix-it Fair, hosted by TU’s Office of Sustainability. Students in her workshop got the opportunity to repurpose an old pair of jeans into an cutlery carrier to keep in their backpack/purse. Along the sustainability theme, …

Couch Conversations

Marissa Berk-Smith, Lukah Callanan, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Brandi Chantalle, Eunbi C. Kim Marissa Berk-Smith, Assistant to the Dean in the College of Fine Arts and Communication, was invited to speak at Roland Park Country School to over 300 young women about what it means to be an ACTIVIST in honor of MLK day and black history …