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Episode 15 - Stephen Towns in Conversation
We had the great opportunity to sit down with Stephen Towns in August. We talked about his artistic practice, his residency at Falling Water, and his upcoming show at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art curated by Kilolo Luckett. Tune in!!
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Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, South Carolina and lives and works in Baltimore. He trained as a painter with a BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina, and has also developed a rigorous, self-taught quilting practice. In 2018, The Baltimore Museum of Art presented his first museum exhibition, Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning.
His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Cultured, AFROPUNK, HYPEBEAST and American Craft. Towns was honored as the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Travel Prize, and in 2021, Towns was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award.
Towns’ work is in the collections of The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Art + Practice, Artist Mark Bradford’s nonprofit based in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, The Petrucci Family Foundation, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the City of Charleston, South Carolina, The Nelson Atkins Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, and is held in private collections nationally and abroad.
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More about Stephen Towns:
@ The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
https://thewestmoreland.org/exhibitions/declaration-and-resistance/
https://thewestmoreland.org/blog/baltimore-artist-stephen-towns-on-declaration-resistance-and-fallingwater-residency/
https://www.debuckgallery.com/the-westmoreland-museum-acquires-work-by-tina-williams-brewer-and-stephen-towns/
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/westmoreland-museum-gets-grant-for-2022-exhibit/
@ Fallingwater:
https://www.golaurelhighlands.com/articles/post/artist-stephen-towns-in-residency-at-fallingwaters-high-meadow-for-june-2021/
https://fallingwater.org/webinars/live-from-fallingwater-stephen-towns-and-kilolo-luckett-in-conversation/
A fantastic video:
https://youtu.be/iokg6uTJSpE
His website (under re-construction)
http://stephentowns.com/
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We had the great opportunity to sit down with Stephen Towns in August. We talked about his artistic practice, his residency at Falling Water, and his upcoming show at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art curated by Kilolo Luckett. Tune in!!
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Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, South Carolina and lives and works in Baltimore. He trained as a painter with a BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina, and has also developed a rigorous, self-taught quilting practice. In 2018, The Baltimore Museum of Art presented his first museum exhibition, Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning.
His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Cultured, AFROPUNK, HYPEBEAST and American Craft. Towns was honored as the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Travel Prize, and in 2021, Towns was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award.
Towns’ work is in the collections of The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Art + Practice, Artist Mark Bradford’s nonprofit based in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, The Petrucci Family Foundation, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the City of Charleston, South Carolina, The Nelson Atkins Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, and is held in private collections nationally and abroad.
.
More about Stephen Towns:
@ The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
https://thewestmoreland.org/exhibitions/declaration-and-resistance/
https://thewestmoreland.org/blog/baltimore-artist-stephen-towns-on-declaration-resistance-and-fallingwater-residency/
https://www.debuckgallery.com/the-westmoreland-museum-acquires-work-by-tina-williams-brewer-and-stephen-towns/
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/westmoreland-museum-gets-grant-for-2022-exhibit/
@ Fallingwater:
https://www.golaurelhighlands.com/articles/post/artist-stephen-towns-in-residency-at-fallingwaters-high-meadow-for-june-2021/
https://fallingwater.org/webinars/live-from-fallingwater-stephen-towns-and-kilolo-luckett-in-conversation/
A fantastic video:
https://youtu.be/iokg6uTJSpE
His website (under re-construction)
http://stephentowns.com/