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I’ve been so happy to be a part of this project, The Yonder Cabinet. Collaborating with Baltimore artist and designer, Kelley Bell, The Yonder Cabinet invites artists to create dioramas of places they have “visited” in literary works they love. Artists also recorded a short audio clip of them reading a favorite passage from the work.

The first round of artists have been amazing to see work from. I was lucky document their work (photographs & soon video) for the website that Bell designed. We hope to invite more artists soon.

Our work will be on view at Maryland Art Place for the SPARK: A Brave New World? exhibition. Where you can see it in real life!

Also, a video tour by the curator can be found here.

Also additional content from the Yonder Cabinet artists can be found on the website below:

Every so often, we chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. By day, Melissa Penley Cormier, M.F.A ’17, intermedia + digital arts (IMDA), helps faculty and students at UMBC create the graphic pieces they need for presenting their research. By night, she’s building an arts practice that draws from nature and scientific processes. Here, Cormier gives us a peek into her life as an artist.

Read the full article by Jenny O’Grady here:

https://magazine.umbc.edu/career-qa-melissa-penley-cormier-m-f-a-17/

Window26 is a small local projection experiment taking place in the front window of Kelley Bell‘s home in Butcher’s Hill, Baltimore. It’s a way of sharing art in a public space that’s intimate yet at a safe distance. 

Time-based media artists of all stripes are invited to submit work for a series of programmed nights of projection this summer. Artists who do not work in time-based media, but have some interesting ideas of how to work with the site are also encouraged to submit ideas.

For more information, as well as templates and guidelines please use the contact form below:

Learned that my thesis work was collaged into a beautiful webcomic by one of my favorite Baltimore Artists before we ever met. Jim Doran made Gin Rumi from images he shot of my worry slides and “inspired by the Sufi poet and based on something he wrote.” The mashup makes my heart sing in all sorts of ways thinking back on this project and what it meant to devote a year to focus on this collection. 

Show of studio residents up until the end of the month at 3100 Falls Cliff Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211.

Message me for gallery access and directions.

Fret & Focus included in beautiful book “Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe” by Marvin Heiferman with a foreword by Scott Kelly. Copublished by Aperture and University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Fret & Focus is featured and written about on Seeing Science: Photography, Science and Visual Culture