A VIVID 'IMAGINATION'
Barry Nemett, the chair of the painting department at Maryland Institute College of Art, has two passions, painting and writing. He discusses both and their intersecting roles in his life in a slide talk, "Fiction and Vision: Pigments of Imagination," at the Johns Hopkins University tonight. Nemett will also read from his new novel, Crooked Tracks, and hold a book signing.
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The presentation starts at 6 tonight in room 101 of the Mattin Center, 3400 N. Charles St. Call 410-516-6705 or go to www.jhu.edu.
FREE
NEW BLACK EXPERIENCE
Anne Arundel Community College puts a unique spin on celebrating Black History Month by hosting "The Other African-American: Nicaragua, Central America" today. The program offers a lecture, a short video, poetry and food that relates to the Afro-Nicaraguan culture. The Anne Arundel Dance Company will also perform.
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The event runs 4 p.m.-6 p.m. today. The college is at 101 College Parkway, Arnold. Call 410-777-1955 or go to www.aacc.edu.
FREE
A DAY IN THE LIFE
WHAT / / skate, Push, and DREAM art exhibit
WHEN / / The opening reception runs 7 p.m.-9 p.m. today. The exhibit is open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays through March 1.
WHERE / / Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard St.
WHY / / Because 18-year-old artist / singer / songwriter / actor Joey Odoms creates a window into a day in his life through his exhibit, which features photographs that he took within a 24-hour period.
CONTACT / / 410-225-3130
FREE
NIGHT OF CLASSICS
WHAT / / Shriver Hall Concert Series continues
WHEN / / Pre-concert museum tour begins at 2 p.m. and performance starts at 3 p.m. Saturday
WHERE / / Audi-torium of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive
WHY / / Acclaimed Turkish cellist Efe Baltacigil and pianist Anna Polonsky, who played with the Moscow Virtuosi and serves as a faculty member for the Vassar College Department of Music, perform works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Brahms and others.
CONTACT / / 410-516-7164
FREE
DRAWING ON HISTORY
Coyaba Dance Theater, which performs traditional and contemporary West African dance and music; the award-winning Dance Place Step Team, comprised of 10- to 14-year-olds; and The Wire's Maria Broom, who will be storytelling, take part in Sunday's African-American History Month Family Day at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The event also includes a tour of black art and African-American Family Day Art Workshop: True to His Colors: Baltimore Artist Tom Miller. During this activity, children and parents can contribute images to a mural using Miller's works as inspiration.
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The event runs 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. The museum is at 10 Art Museum Drive. Call 410-573-1700 or go to artbma.org.
FREE
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Munch on a turkey sandwich or some carrot sticks while you learn about historical artistic connections between Africa and Europe at today's Lunch and Learn presentation, "The Fascination with Ethiopia in Renaissance Europe," in the Walters Art Museum's Graham Auditorium. Joaneath Spicer, curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, will lecture on the close ties between Ethiopia and Europe, particularly Italy, during the Renaissance. The program includes discussions of Ethiopian art, food and society, images of Renaissance and baroque artwork, and a Q&A; session with Spicer.
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The program runs 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. today. The museum is at 600 N. Charles St. Call 410-547-9000 or go to thewalters.org.
FREE