strikeWare
strikeWare
strikeWare
strikeWare
strikeWare is a Baltimore-based art collective formed to create action-oriented experiences using both traditional and new media. Our recent work aims to uplift and amplify stories critical to our American history, often using new technologies to emphasize the nowness of that history.
In the Sondheim Finalist show, strikeWare presents a visual experience about the institutions, educators and progenitors who shaped how Baltimore’s Black community acquired formal training and knowledge. The exhibition examines Black education in Baltimore from the essential role of churches such as Bethel AME in the antebellum era to the first public schools available to Black students after the Civil War.
Renovations uses the Peale Center building, once “Male and Female Colored School Number 1,” to look at the Black experience in Baltimore throughout history. In addition to a critical examination of historical and contemporary segregation in Baltimore City public schools, the show tracks the nine students who graduated from School Number 1 in 1889 - Baltimore’s first all-Black high school graduating class. The two following galleries, Augmented Church & State and BIMA artWalk show new work developed from research compiled for Renovations, first exhibited at the Carroll Mansion in January 2020.
Baltimore, MD USA
