Studio Snapshot

• Another year another updated Baker Artist Portfolio!
• I will have work in the MICA Staff Exhibition Mineral Grit juried by Betsy Johnson, Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum. Join me for the opening Friday, January 25, 5-8pm at MICA's Lazarus Center.
• I received the Maryland Student Loan Debt Relief Tax Credit! Lol. But seriously. An MFA isn't free, and I am thankful to the state of Maryland for helping me pay back my loans. Apply! (Or see if your state offers something similar.)
• You can watch my lecture at Parsons online! (Last Anywhere & Elsewhere update, I swear!) I start at 3:28 after the introduction, and the video includes two other panelist lectures with a discussion starting at 52:10.
• Rejections T_T (including odds) : MICA Alumni Grant (~7/315 or ~2%)

Five Faves

1. The Craigslist buyer who picked up my dresser this week, and after telling me her house recently burned down said, "There's just something about an old piece of furniture that makes me feel like I have a home again."
2. Limes! Of the scooter variety. So much fun!
3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. "In the Apache language, the root word for land is the same as the word for mind. Gathering roots holds up a mirror between the map in the earth and the map of our minds. [...] At a certain angle of that mirror, the routes converge and we find our way back home."
4. Level Up by Ciara and this $$2019$$ playlist that I'm still in the process of making (open to suggestions along the theme of #power & #money).
5. End-of-the-year lists and intention-setting. This horoscope felt eerily accurate (I'm a Capricorn), especially the last paragraph about wrapping up "a seven year period of intense inner excavation" and entering a 7-year period in which I will find "the most innovative ways to create and release your creations into the world." Woohoo!

100 Words

Singular Space by Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio at ICA Baltimore

In what usually feels to be the cavernous space of the ICA Baltimore, this visual and auditory installation stands its ground. Six projections are mapped in angular, overlapping shapes, the imagery flowing and falling over large Brutalist-inspired objects that mimic the place it documents: Forum Fountain in East Baltimore. Monumental, the piece is barren and still, the looping soundtrack meditative, drawing one inward. The trees are leafless, the concrete pervasive, and humans are nowhere to be found. A public sculpture abandoned. Even in the gallery viewers keep their distance: a statement on public space and our anxiety in navigating it.

Catch the Artist Talk on January 19 @ 4pm @ ICA Baltimore

Deadline Details

• DUE JAN 13: WPA Auction; Gala event with free ticket + 50/50 split in sales; free to apply.
• DUE JAN 15: Sondheim Award; $25,000 award for Baltimore-area artists; $30 to apply.