Art Transplant: The Foodie Bassoonist
Although he played three days earlier in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s season-ending performance of Verdi’s “Requiem” at Meyerhoff Hall, Fei Xie, the orchestra’s principal...
Art Transplant: The Museum Director
“To me, Baltimore is a collision of East Coast and Southern sensibilities, producing a culture that I have never experienced anywhere else—and it’s fascinating,”...
Afraid of the Dark?
Tony Shore started painting on black velvet in the early ‘90s when he was a junior at MICA—where he received a full scholarship, incidentally....
In Black and White
In the winter of 2014, University of Maryland alum Jason Reynolds and Boston native Brendan Kiely were sent off on tour together in support...
Network(ing) Star
Fia Alvarez finished her first complete play, “Pretty Princess and the Seven Cockatoos,” when she was in the fourth grade at St. Francis of...
Art Transplant: The Melodist
Hanna Olivegren, 2015
For international art transplant Hanna Olivegren, the journey to Baltimore began with a melody in her head.
The 28-year-old musician was volunteering at...
Art Transplant: The Performance Poet
Sharea Harris, 2012
“The amount of black artists in Baltimore is fucking fantastic,” says Sharea Harris, 29, a poet and recent graduate of the University...
Art Transplant: The (Shy) Renaissance Woman
Linda Franklin likes old Industrial Era cities. When, in 1993, she decided to move from New York, where she’d lived as an artist for...
Getting Personal with the Personals
You know you’ve made it as a writer when you go perusing the Craigslist writing gigs section late at night. There you’ll find a...
Going Public
"The truth of the matter is, a lot of us are living very mundane, familiar lives,” Rahne Alexander says, her hands wrapped around an...