BMA Director Christopher Bedford and Berlin-based, South African artist Candice Breitz talk about her inspiration for the two works, Love Story, which addresses the worldwide refugee crisis, and TLDR, a film about the treatment of sex workers

Elissa Blount Moorhead

Sep 11th, 2020 14m 24s

Baltimore-based artist Elissa Blount Moorhead talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about Back and Song, her multi-channel video collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young that explores the pursuit of healing and well-being, especi

Katharina Grosse

Mar 10th, 2020 14m 54s

German artist Katharina Grosse talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about her gallery enveloping fabric and paint installation—her first in a U.S. museum—and describes the immersive experience awaiting visitors. Katharina Grosse: Is It Y

Ellen Lesperance

Feb 7th, 2020 10m 53s

Portland, Oregon-based artist Ellen Lesperance talks about her paintings inspired by sweaters worn by activities at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, creative non-violence, and her Congratulations and Celebrations Sweater, which is worn f

Mickalene Thomas

Dec 9th, 2019 7m 33s

New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas talks with BMA Director Chris Bedford about the recent national and international recognition for black women artists are getting and A Moment’s Pleasure, her new immersive new commission that has transfor

Leonardo Drew

Nov 1st, 2019 8m 21s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks to New York-based multi-media artist Leonardo Drew about how the artist gives new life and meaning to the found materials he uses. Mr. Drew also discusses his appreciation and respect for viewers’ differen

William T. Williams

Oct 7th, 2019 9m 53s

Artist William T. Williams talks about his long career as an abstract painter and his role in mentoring the next generation. Works by Williams are on view at the BMA in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art and Every Day: Selections from

Melvin Edwards

Sep 9th, 2019 29m

Artist Melvin Edwards talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about how his experiences in Africa have influenced his work—including his ongoing Lynch Fragments series—and shares details about his upcoming installation at The Baltimore Muse

Clifford Owens

Aug 23rd, 2019 10m

Photographer and performance artist Clifford Owens talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about vulnerable interactions in his performance work, growing up in Baltimore, and the BMA’s newly reinstalled contemporary galleries.

Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick

Jul 8th, 2019 12m 13s

New Orleans-based artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick discuss their work documenting the men incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola—including how they began this project more than 30 years ago and the daily struggles

Wangechi Mutu

Jun 10th, 2019 9m 8s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu about her transition from working in collage to bronze sculpture and this moment of success for her and other black female artists. Mutu’s Water Woman sculpture is

Joyce C. Scott

May 10th, 2019 10m 45s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks with Baltimore-based artist Joyce J. Scott about the new exhibition pairing her artwork with that of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and the legacy of artmaking in her family. Hitching Their Dreams to

Paul Rucker

Apr 8th, 2019 10m 5s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Paul Rucker, an artist determined to create compelling works of art that provoke the mind, body, spirit, and conscience of this ethically embattled world of the 21st century. Their conversation focuse

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg

Mar 5th, 2019 9m 1s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Berlin-based Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg about their creative collaboration making psychologically charged, Surrealist-inspired stop-motion animated films, sculpture, and immersive

Ken Royster

Feb 7th, 2019 8m 45s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Baltimore-based photographer Ken Royster about the process of creating his black and white documentary images and his recent embrace of color digital images, as well as Ken’s perception of the changes

Lauren Boyle

Dec 21st, 2018 6m 37s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Lauren Boyle of the New York-based artist collective DIS. Boyle explains how she, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro came up with the collective’s name and describes how they conceive their pop

Ebony G. Patterson

Dec 11th, 2018 5m 24s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford discusses the work of Ebony G. Patterson, whose exhibition at the BMA includes an opulent tapestry with dazzling arrays of found and fabricated materials—glitter, sequins, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and

Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin

Nov 5th, 2018 4m 34s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford explores how the artist collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin met and how they work together developing scripts and viewing environments for their frenetic, non-linear movies. The artists’ work is on vie

Mark Bradford

Oct 5th, 2018 9m 55s

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews the acclaimed artist Mark Bradford who represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2017. The artist talks about the exhibition he created for Venice, its presentation in Baltimore, and about his wo

Tavares Strachan

Sep 18th, 2018 4m 29s

Christopher Bedford talks with Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan about his work with scientists at MIT in Cambridge and the Allen Institute in Seattle, the meaning of his compelling new light installation on the BMA’s historic fa\u231\uade,

Maren Hassinger

Aug 3rd, 2018 4m 26s

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 of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College

Shinique Smith

Jul 6th, 2018 4m 30s

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 of Art, and her current and upcoming projects.

Oletha DeVane

Jun 1st, 2018 4m 7s

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 spiritual traditions. To see examples of her paint

Meleko Mokgosi

May 4th, 2018 4m 13s

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 the European Old Masters, the artist’s paint

Stephen Towns

Apr 5th, 2018 4m 38s

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 Nat Turner and his 1831 rebellion. Towns is als