Our annual Speaker Series brings internationally-recognized artists, critics, and art professionals to Baltimore to inspire, awe, and challenge our home audience. Each year the theme shifts to reflect contemporary practices and trends. All lectures are free and held at the Baltimore School for the Arts, located at 712 Cathedral Street (unless otherwise noted).
Interiors, our 2017-18 Speaker Series, looks inside exciting artist practices by centering the significant relationships between artists and their collaborators, subjects, friends, and families that make creative production possible.
CoHosts II returned to lectures hosted in partnership with artist-run platforms including galleries, spaces, collectives, and festivals who we asked: Who is the one artist or art professional that you want The Contemporary to bring to Baltimore?
The Yes Men
CoHosted with The Transmodern Festival
November 28, 2016
Kimberly Drew
CoHosted with Platform Gallery
December 12, 2016
Jenna Wortham
CoHosted with KAHLON, The Agency
April 28, 2017
Sharon Hayes
CoHosted with Penthouse Gallery
May 16, 2017
Raúl de Nieves
CoHosted with Terrault Gallery
May 30, 2017
7pm Lecture
Baltimore School for the Arts
7pm Lecture
Baltimore School for the Arts
5-7pm
Eubie Blake Cultural Center
7–10pm, 7pm Lecture
Baltimore School for the Arts
7–9pm, 7pm Lecture
Baltimore School for the Arts
Talking Shop partnered acclaimed artists and professionals from various disciplines to discuss the nexus of art, science, medicine, technology, politics, and more.
Tania Bruguera + Eddie Conway
moderated by Lionel Foster
Joyce J. Scott + Marquis Revlon
moderated by Lee Heinemann
Jerry Saltz + Stavros Halkias
moderated by Lu Zhang
LaToya Ruby Frazier + Dr. Lisa Cooper
moderated by Elissa Blount-Moorhead
Adam Metallo/Vince Rossi + Dwyer Kilcollin
moderated by Ginevra Shay
CoHosts was organized with thirteen local commercial, artist-run, and independent galleries. Each gallery responded to a simple question: Who is the one artist or art professional that you want The Contemporary to bring to Baltimore?
