Art Matters
----Art Matters---- with Baltimore Museum of Art Director Christopher Bedford connects listeners with some of the most interesting and innovative artists working today. As the 10th director of Maryland's largest art museum, Bedford is recognized as a dynamic leader who recognizes the powerful role that art and artists can play in shaping our society.Tune in the first Friday of every month to hear how artists from Baltimore and beyond define themselves and their work.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
Maren Hassinger
Artist Maren Hassinger discuss how her sculptures came to incorporate everyday materials such as newspapers, wire, and plastic bags, as well as her 20-year career as director of the Rinehart School o…
Shinique Smith
Artist Shinique Smith joins Christopher Bedford for a conversation about Baltimore’s influence on her work, the evolution of her artistic practice during her years at the Maryland College Institute o…
Oletha DeVane
Maryland-based artist Oletha DeVane joins Christopher Bedford for a conversation about how her work conceptually links the physical and spiritual worlds and is influenced by African and Haitian spiri…
Meleko Mokgosi
Botswana-born, New York-based artist Meleko Mokgosi speaks with Christopher Bedford about his new exhibition at the BMA, Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance. Presented in the BMA galleries adjacent to…
Stephen Towns
Christopher Bedford talks with Baltimore-based artist Stephen Towns about his first museum exhibition, Rumination and a Reckoning, and his choice to use quilting as a medium to narrate the life of Na…
Spencer Finch
Moon Dust (Apollo 17) transforms the BMA’s majestic Fox Court, evoking in viewers a sense of wonder. For the next seven years, museum visitors can enjoy the sublime light installation by Spencer Finc…
Z\u246\ue Charlton
Chris Bedford and Baltimore-based artist Z\u246\ue Charlton discuss the meanings behind her surreal life-size figurative drawings and how people relate to images of bodies.
Senga Nengudi
BMA Director Christopher Bedford delves into the career of performance artist/sculptor Senga Nengudi – from her pioneering work in Los Angeles in the 1970s to recent exhibitions that include more art…
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald
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