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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Walters Art Museum, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Chemical Industry, Arts, Inner Harbor
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Helen Bruce Thomas, volunteer
Helen Bruce Thomas, a retired nurse and homemaker, died April 23 at the Rogerson House assisted-living facility in Boston of unknown causes. The longtime resident of Phoenix, Baltimore County, was 89. Born Helen Whitridge Bruce in Baltimore, she was...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Vernon
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Winners of 2013 Baker Artist Awards announced
An installation artist who sculpts with mirrors and salt, an innovative cellist and a self-taught photographer whose work has been informed by the four decades that she has spent battling a rare genetic illness are the winners of the 2013 Baker Artist...
Tags: Photography, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Artists, Fine Artists, Photography Supplies and Services
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Action in Maturity to mark 40th anniversary
Esther Bonnet, 100, is always thinking about new plans for Action in Maturity — as she has since she co-founded the transportation service for seniors more than 40 years ago. During a recent visit from Elizabeth Briscoe, AIM's executive director,...
Tags: Baltimore County, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Pratt Street
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MICA president Fred Lazarus to retire at end of 2014 academic year
As President Fred Lazarus IV expanded the Maryland Institute College of Art over the past 35 years and helped turn it into one of the nation's leading arts colleges, supporters say, he has also focused on Baltimore — to the betterment of his college...
Tags: Charles Street, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Artscape, American Visionary Art Museum
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Ensuring the BMA's future
As chairman of The Baltimore Museum of Art's board of trustees, I want to thank you for the balanced reporting and editorial on the recent steps taken by the BMA to secure the financial stability of this great institution ("The BMA's shrinking staff,"...Tags: Arts
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'On the Shore of the Seine'
The case of a small painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art decades ago took an unexpected turn recently when new questions were raised about a woman's claim that she bought it at a flea market. The holes in her story...Tags: Museums, Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia), FBI, Justice System, Arts
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Towson museum brings nuisance and noise
One of the ironies of the art world is that for all its important holdings the Baltimore Museum of Art is laying off 14 people in order to balance its budget ("Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14," April 9). Yet right over the city line, in Towson,...
Tags: Museums, Arts
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Mavis S. 'Sherry' Sheedy, art teacher
Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore public schools art teacher and longtime museum docent, died April 4 of congestive heart failure at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. The Reisterstown resident was 74. The daughter of a civil engineer...
Tags: Teachers, Heart Failure, Teaching and Learning, Museums, Verizon Communications
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'VEEP' goes deep in Season 2, and there's more Julia Louis-Dreyfus to love
"Deep" and "sitcom" are not words often used in the same sentence. But a visit to the "VEEP" soundstage in Columbia gave a glimpse of the larger cultural power of this savvy satire from HBO, returning for its second season Sunday night. I also came away...
Tags: Unemployment, Matt Walsh, In the Loop (movie), White House, Veep (tv program)
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The BMA's shrinking staff
It's one of the ironies of the art world that major cultural institutions like the Baltimore Museum of Art are home to priceless collections of paintings, sculpture and other works by the world's greatest masters, yet they often struggle to come up with...Tags: Museums, Walters Art Museum, Finance, Unemployment, Arts
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Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14 employees
More than five years after a financial crisis ravaged the U.S. economy, the Baltimore Museum of Art has finally run out of options. Museum administrators announced Monday that after exhausting other cost-cutting measures, they have laid off 14 employees,...
Tags: Museums, Walters Art Museum, Finance, Artists, Financially Distressed Companies
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