At the Close: Strong, Bright, Useful, and True Conversations

Description

The Irene & Richard Frary Gallery's second exhibition, "Strong, Bright, Useful & True: Recent Acquisitions and Contemporary Art from Baltimore," celebrates Johns Hopkins University's devotion to the Baltimore art community over time, foregrounding its focus on artists of its own community via the Johns Hopkins Collecting Committee program and through historical collecting efforts.

This program will mark the closing of the exhibition by bringing together key individuals whose contributions have been essential to its production. Moderated by Caitlin Berry, director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the panel includes Cara Ober, founder and editor-in-chief of Bmore Art; Cecilia Wichmann, curator and department head of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and artists Phaan Howng and René Treviño, whose work illustrates a multi-faceted picture of the Baltimore creative community.

Panelists will discuss the role of universities in the creative ecosystem, the unique nature of the Baltimore art world, and what it means to be an artist or culture worker practicing now.

A reception with light fare will directly follow.

About the Exhibition:

Featuring contemporary Baltimore artists shaping the national and global arts landscape, "Strong, Bright, Useful & True: Recent Acquisitions and Contemporary Art from Baltimore" illustrates the vibrancy of Baltimore's contemporary art scene and showcases a broad spectrum of media, including painting, sculpture, time-based media, and photography.