Six artists have been chosen to obtain a 2023 Baker Artist Award in a spread of disciplines.
Abdu Ali was chosen for music, Oletha DeVane took the class for interdisciplinary arts and Elizabeth Dickinson was awarded for literary arts. Colette Krogol has been introduced because the Baker Artist Awardee for efficiency, whereas Margaret Rorison gained the movie and video and M. Jordan Tierney was awarded for work within the visible arts area. This yr’s awardees had been chosen following a six-week adjudication course of.
One artist per self-discipline was adjudicated to obtain a $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize.
From these six artists, Elizabeth Dickinson was chosen to obtain the 2023 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, which incorporates an extra $30,000. At $40,000, that is the most important artwork prize within the area and Dickinson is the primary literary artist to obtain the prize.
“Our authors shouldn’t have to depart this metropolis to get full recognition for his or her hard-earned work,” mentioned Carla Du Pree, GBCA board member and government director at CityLit Challenge. “Thanks to GBCA, and the panelists of this main award, for recognizing one among our stellar, literary gems. Properly carried out, Elizabeth, take your bow!”
Now in its fifteenth yr, the Baker Artist Awards has acknowledged over 150 artists and awarded over $1.3 million to artists within the Baltimore area.
“We’re thrilled to have fun the 2023 Baker Artist Awardees and 15 years of recognizing and supporting excellence within the arts,” mentioned Connie Imboden, president of the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund. “This yr’s awardees embody a few of the better of what the Baltimore area has to supply, and we couldn’t be happier to have fun their superb accomplishments.”
“GBCA is delighted to honor the superb artists who’ve been chosen as Baker Artist Awardees; the Portfolios and awards replicate the numerous ways in which excellence is expressed by way of various practices and disciplines,” mentioned Jeannie Howe, government director at GBCA. “We’re significantly excited that this yr, we’re shining a shiny mild on the area’s literary skills and historical past, and we’re grateful to, and congratulate all the 2023 awardees.”
The awardees had been chosen by an nameless jury from over 600 Baltimore-region artists who created a free, on-line Baker Artist Portfolio at www.bakerartist.org. Chosen artists exemplify a mastery of craft, depth of creative exploration, and a novel imaginative and prescient.
The 2023 Awardees shall be celebrated in a particular episode of Maryland Public Tv’s (MPT) Artworks program within the winter, which can embrace profiles of the six awardees, providing perception into their artistic evolution and course of.
$40,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Awardee
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson – Literary Arts
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is an award-winning author whose work encompasses cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, brief fiction, and memoir. Identified for astute analysis coupled with incisive, literary prose, Elizabeth’s work has been extensively revealed in locations like The New Yorker, The New York Occasions, Harper’s, The Washington Submit Journal, The Southern Evaluate, and McSweeney’s Web Tendency.
Her nonfiction has been optioned for movie and tv and has earned recognition in The Greatest American Essays anthology, amongst many accolades.
$10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Awardees
Abdu Ali – Music
Abdu (Mongo) Ali is a Baltimore-based musician, author, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and efficiency. Described as a cosmic, punk, and soulful tempest on stage, Ali has carried out their energetic and visceral reveals at MoMa PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Artwork, and The Kennedy Heart. Their work has been highlighted by The New York Occasions, The Fader, Elephant Journal, and Tracks on Arte TV. In 2019, Ali based as they lay, a curatorial platform that claims area for important dialogue, collaboration, and radical envisioning for Black artistic futures.
Oletha DeVane – Interdisciplinary Arts
Oletha DeVane is a means finder and a storyteller. Over the past 5 many years as she has traveled in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, she has been impressed by the tales and characters she encounters, bringing the surprising to mild, whereas discovering new nuances within the previous and acquainted.
Her aesthetic impulses are pushed by what critic and curator Angela Carroll describes as “anticolonial liberation efforts, Juneteenth, the legacy of her father, and humanity’s tireless existentialism.”
Colette Krogol – Efficiency
Colette Krogol is a Cuban American artist initially from Miami, Florida. She is a choreographer, director, performer, filmmaker and educator.
Krogol is the Creative Director and Founding father of Orange Grove Dance (OGD), which she established alongside her associate, Matt Reeves. OGD is a dance, design and movie firm that operates on the intersection of dance and immersive, performer-operated design. As OGD, Krogol’s acclaimed works and commissions have been introduced worldwide in museums, live performance levels, movie festivals, underground tunnels, metropolis streets, black field theaters, public parks, botanic gardens and high-end accommodations.
Margaret Rorison – Movie and Video
Margaret Rorison is filmmaker, educator and curator from Baltimore. She at present works with 16mm movement image movie, various photographic processes, poetry, and sound to discover her pursuits in portraiture, reminiscence, pure ecosystems, and concrete landscapes. Her work has been exhibited at Miami PULSE Artwork Honest, Microscope Gallery, The Museum of The Transferring Picture, The Nationwide Gallery of Artwork and The Walker Artwork Heart.
Her brief movies have proven at movie festivals together with Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Pageant, Photographs Pageant, Open Metropolis Documentary Movie Pageant and FICUNAM in Mexico Metropolis.
M. Jordan Tierney – Visible Arts
Jordan Tierney, Symbiocene Epoch Shaman, is a catalyst for deep kinship with our planet. To come across her observe is to be transported to a non secular and timeless area, reminding us of our frequent humanity and our connection to highly effective pure forces. Her concern for the setting leads her to create objects she imagines a shaman of the longer term may use to talk of the mysteries of the universe. Along with her woodworking expertise and a bit of sorcery, she creates sculpture from issues she collects whereas exploring Baltimore’s city streams and forest buffers.
To learn the complete artists’ biographies or study extra in regards to the Baker Artist Awards and Portfolios, please go to www.bakerartist.org.
Concerning the Baker Artist Portfolios
The Baker Artist Portfolios had been created to assist artists and promote Larger Baltimore as a powerful artistic neighborhood. The web portfolios are open to artists working in all disciplines who stay and work in Baltimore Metropolis and its 5 surrounding counties. The portfolios expose space artists’ work to regional, nationwide, and worldwide audiences. The positioning has been seen by a whole lot of 1000’s of artwork lovers, critics, gallery homeowners, lecturers, and leaders in artistic enterprise in practically each nation across the globe.
Concerning the Baker Artist Awards
Artists who create a Baker Artist Portfolio are robotically eligible for one among six Baker Artist Awards, which embrace vital financial prizes, exhibition and showcase alternatives, in addition to a characteristic on Maryland Public Tv’s Artworks program. Every year, chosen artists share a complete of $90,000 in prize cash. Costs are awarded to artists who reveal excellence in areas corresponding to mastery of craft, depth of creative exploration, and distinctive imaginative and prescient.
About Mary Sawyers Baker Prize
Mary Sawyers Baker was one among Baltimore’s early philanthropists, studied voice as a younger lady in Paris and embraced the humanities all through her life. She established the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund in 1964 to honor her husband, a widely known Baltimore civic chief.
About Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize
Designed to be transformational to the life and profession of 1 exemplary artist, the Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize was launched in 2016, when it was awarded to Joyce J. Scott. Mary Sawyers Imboden was the beloved niece of Mary Sawyers Baker and all through her childhood traveled extensively together with her aunt all through Europe. Mary Sawyers Baker established The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund in 1964 and upon her loss of life in 1976, was succeeded by Mary S. Imboden on its Board of Governors on which she served till 1999. Throughout her tenure on the board, she was instrumental in forming the Fund’s tips and procedures to higher replicate her aunt’s needs. Along with ensuring every greenback was granted correctly, Mary Imboden wished to verify the fund was revolutionary and particularly met the wants of the town of Baltimore.
Concerning the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund
The William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund commits its assets to reinforce the area’s economic system and high quality of life by making investments in arts and tradition. Its grants assist creative and cultural organizations and their companions by way of initiatives that improve a person’s sense of self and pleasure and make Baltimore a extra engaging place to stay and work.
Concerning the Larger Baltimore Cultural Alliance
The Larger Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) creates fairness and alternative in, by way of, and for arts and tradition in Larger Baltimore. A number one nonprofit supplier of companies to artists and cultural organizations within the area, GBCA believes in unifying and strengthening all members of the artistic neighborhood. We do that by way of advertising, schooling, monetary assist, and growing revolutionary packages that improve fairness within the cultural sector and past. To study extra about GBCA, please go to www.baltimoreculture.org.
