Social Contracts at Current Space, Baltimore, MD

Current Space and Invisible Architectures, a program of Co-Lab at Towson University is proud to present Social Contracts, an exhibition of works by Alyssa Dennis, Andrew Awanda, Anne Bouie, Elena Volkova, Eric Garner, Jaimes Mayhew & collaborators, Johab Silva, Jose Trejo Maya, Jung Won Lee, Oliver Maddox, and Sandy Williams IV.

This exhibition is a part of the Social Contracts Festival, an interdisciplinary art festival being held in and around Baltimore, MD in the Spring of 2024. It represents the final year of the Co-Lab sponsored project, Invisible Architectures. Festival locations include Current Space, Maryland Art Place, StartUp at the Armory Gallery in Towson, MD, and more.

A Different Horizon Atlas, First Edition

The First edition of A Different Horizon Atlas is ready to ship! Thank you to The Rubys Artist Grants, a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation for the generous support in completing this project!

To see more, go to adifferenthorizon.net

Book: Art and Activism in the 21st Century

My work with ‘sindikit project for the Friday Performance Series is discussed in the just-released Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the 21st Century in a chapter written by Zöe Charlton and Tim Doud.

Rubys Artist Grant

I am elated to announce that I was selected for a Ruby’s Artist Grant for my project A Different Horizon Atlas. A Different Horizon Atlas is a project that will create a series of five large scale atlas maps of utopic geographies imagined by groups of LGBTQAI+ people through interactive workshops. I am grateful to the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation for supporting my work.

Book: Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy and Purpose

I am pleased to announce that Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy and Purpose is now available to purchase on all of the usual platforms, or download from Punctum Press.

“Broad in scope, Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose presents an overview of the different paths taken by artists and artist collectives as they navigate their way from formative experiences into pedagogy. Focusing on the realms in- and outside the academy (the places and persons involved in post-secondary education) and the multiple forms and functions of pedagogy (practices of learning and instruction), the contributions in this volume engage individual and collective artistic practices as they adapt to meet the factors and historical conditions of the people and communities they serve through solidarity, equity, and creativity.”

Archives of the Future with Vermont Studio Center

Through a generous fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, I was able to collaborate remotely with 3rd-6th graders at Johnson Elementary in Vermont on the Archives of the Future in early 2021. Students were asked to imagine what the world would be like in the year 2050, and make work about it. The work is documented at this website: archivesofthefuture.com

'sindikit Friday Performance Series

I am curating a series of performance works for the artist run project ‘sindikit. Featuring over a dozen artists from October 2020- May 2021, this series explores performance over digital platforms from a group of artists who work in very different ways.

Baltimore Museum of Art's The Necessity of Tomorrows

My work is featured alongside some of Baltimore’s best video artists and filmmakers for the BMA’s project “The Necessity of Tomorrows”. Included in this collection is an old video from 2003, “J’aimeous: Behind the Scenes of Anti-Fashion” (linked below), a new video “From Windows”, and a medium-old video made with Risa Puleo in 2016, “Scream”.

Art Stands Still at Collarworks

May 31 – July 13, 2019

Artists: Abe Abraham, Environmental Performance Agency, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Rina AC Dweck, Regina José Galindo, Brandon Giessmann, J Houston, Janice Howard, Jaimes Mayhew, Antonella Piemontese, Silvia Ruzanka, Tae Kyung Seo, Kurt Treeby, Paul Vanouse, Mike Yood.

Curated by Natalie Fleming and Van Tran Nguyen

Opening Reception: Friday, May 31 || 5 – 8pm

The group exhibition, Art Stands Still, opens at Collar Works, a repurposed textile factory, within Troy, New York, a city that was once celebrated for its position at the forefront of American industrial achievement. Like many Rust Belt economies, it experienced a sharp economic decline in the late twentieth century. What is forward for cities like Troy? Art Stands Still looks to create a place for a community of alternatives to spatial, temporal, and social advancement.

Just for a moment, let’s not go anywhere, together.

National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day

Maryland Senator Mary Washington and Jaimes Mayhew at the 2019 National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day Celebration at Center Stage in Baltimore.

National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day (May 17th) was started by Nate Sweeney and staff at the LGBT Health Resource Center at Chase Brexton, and I was thrilled to be commissioned to make the banner for the 2019 celebration!

Nonument01::McKeldin Fountain Launch Events!

Join us for the official launch of the NONUMENT 01:: McKeldin Fountain app in McKeldin Square, the former home of the McKeldin Fountain, and participate in a public art project and demonstration of the value Baltimore residents place in their public spaces. Click here for more information.

Closing Celebration: Queer Interiors at Baltimore Museum of Art

The closing party for the yearlong installation “Queer Interiors” will include a performance by Hosey Corona, as well as a panel discussion by an array of local Baltimore artists.

13 Ways To Protest at ‘sindikit

13 Ways To Protest, an ad-hoc conundrum of performance pieces based in care, futility, and un-becomeness in reaction to the 2016 elections will take place at ‘sindikit on November 11, 2016.

The Army That You Have at Current Space, Baltimore, MD 9/17-10/22/2016

The Army That You Have
Exhibition Duration: September 17 – October 22
Opening Reception: September 17, 7 – 10pm
Gallery Hours: Sat. Sun. noon – 4pm.
Additional Performances and Events to be announced
Current Space: 421 N. Howard St. Balto. MD. 21201

Curated by Marian April Glebes
Artists: T+E+A+M (Thom Moran + Ellie Abrons + Adam Fure + Meredith Miller), Bart O’Reilly, Jaimes Mayhew, Josh Copusand Brian Stansbury.

The Army That You Have asserts that we can, as a society at large, rethink and critique disciplinary boundaries of making, process, and product, and posit the hope for a more careful world. They use the most available and ubiquitous material at hand and underfoot: dirt. Collaborations with dirt through force, suggested force and passivism- ridiculous, pluralistic, topical, explosive, meditative, and absurdity­ occupy suggested futures and self aware presence. Always maintaining a posture of futility, this work presents making as an act of creative and personal survival. These artists use dirt as a literal and metaphorical pathway to utopian reconstruction of our received social values and our projected existence, using the material underneath our literal and metaphorical feet as a mechanism to suggest and occupy a greater future and a more responsible now.

Queer Interiors at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 9/14/16-08/31/2017

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Queer Interiors, a multimedia installation that explores facets of domestic life experienced by LGBTQI+ communities. It was created by Baltimore-based artists Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew working in conjunction with Chase Brexton Health Care’s LGBT Health Resource Center. The installation is on view in the Commons gallery adjacent to the Imagining Home exhibition in the BMA’s Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center from September 18, 2016 through August 2017.

“On behalf of the BMA, I’m pleased to welcome this groundbreaking project that reflects everyday domesticity while highlighting the diversity of the Baltimore LGBTQI+ community,” said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. “We hope that Jaimes and Rahne’s inviting installation in the Commons will help to welcome all of Baltimore’s communities to the BMA and act as a site for conversation on how our homes reflect our personal and social identities.”

“We are absolutely thrilled to see the work that is emerging from both the artists as well as the community,” said Nate Sweeney, executive director of Chase Brexton Health Care’s LGBT Health Resource Center. “We know that for so many in the LGBT community, the arts have played and will continue to play a central role in people’s health and wellbeing. Health and wellness are more than taking pills, and the healing power of expression and importance of belonging are highlighted beautifully by this installation.”

Queer Interiors is part of the BMA’s Commons Collaboration initiative, which commissions an artist and non-profit to work together on an installation and offer a series of public programs related to Imagining Home. The project conceived and produced by Alexander and Mayhew is comprised of a larger-than-life bed, shelving and other furnishings, personal artifacts, and a multimedia wall quilt known as the Baltimore LGBTQI+ Home Movie Quilt. This component of the installation pays homage to Baltimore album quilts and the AIDS Quilt, with the aim of presenting a crowd-sourced multimedia portrait of the city’s LGBTQI+ communities. During the course of the year-long installation, the décor of the bed, personal artifacts, and domestic scenes projected on the quilt will change periodically to better portray the multiple facets of the LGBTQI+ population— including many underrepresented communities. The artists will work with individuals from these communities to select personal artifacts for each change. Photographs and home video content will be crowdsourced.

Care, A Rehearsal for a Performance at Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL 7/30-8/27/2016

Curated by Risa Puleo,

CONNECT Curator-in-residence

Opening Saturday, July 30, 2016, 5-8 PM

At Roots & Culture 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.

Through August 27th

Featuring work by: Valentina Desideri, Stuart Hordener, Carolyn Lieba Francois-Lazard, Jaimes Mayhew (with Risa Puleo), Park McArthur, Lynne McCabe, Carmen Papalia, Harriet Sanderson, Sarah Sudhoff, and Constantina Zavitsanos

with documentation of performances by Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton/Stephen Petronio

Care, rehearsal for a performance suggests a choreography of disability as a remedy for maneuvering through institutions that are disabling. The exhibition was inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance, a modification of Trio A performed in 1967 while Rainer was “convalescing” from surgery as a protest against the Vietnam War, and Steve Paxton’s Intravenous Lecture, made in 1970 in response to being censored by NYU. In this performative lecture, Paxton (and in 2012, Stephen Petronio) walked around a courtyard in front of NYU attached to an IV line, speaking institutional censorship. These two moments in Judson Dance Theatre’s history are relatively unconsidered and set the stage for a group of artists who are currently making work about mobility and institutional access.The exhibition expands definitions of mobility from physically navigating the world with a disability to include maneuvering through the bureaucracy of health care institutions and moving through social space. Curated by Risa Puleo, Roots & Culture’s first CONNECT curatorial resident, Puleo will live with the work over the course of its exhibition while she writes about an essay unpacking theses ideas.

Friday Night Performance Series at ‘sindikit, pt 2, Baltimore, MD 06/17/2016

This coming Friday, please join me at ‘sindikit for Joseph Faura and Jordan Sanford’s ritual healing performance, “Desiderium”.

Strange Landscapes at Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA 06/22–10/02/2016

Strange Landscapes

On View: June 25 – October 2, 2016
Opening Reception: June 25, 6-9 pm

Co-curated by Karyn Miller and Blair Murphy

Artists included in this exhibition are: Matthew Colaizzo, Edgar Endress, Ryan Hoover, Ariel Jackson, Katarina Jerinic, Matthew Mann, Jaimes Mayhew, Alejandro Pintado, Jacob Rivkin, Margarita
Sánchez Urdaneta, and Kate Stewart.

Friday Night Performance Series at ‘sindikit, Baltimore, MD 04/29/2016

I was invited by Tim Doud and Zoë Charlton to curate a series of Friday night performance at ‘sindikit in Baltimore.

See documentation of Kristen Anchor’s performance here.

Press Release: BMA Selects Baltimore Artists Jaimes Mayhew & Rahne Alexander For One-Year Commons Collaboration

BMA SELECTS BALTIMORE ARTISTS RAHNE ALEXANDER &
JAIMES MAYHEW FOR ONE-YEAR COMMONS COLLABORATION

BALTIMORE, MD (March 31, 2016)

The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today it has selected Baltimore-based artists Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew, working in conjunction with Chase Brexton Healthcare’s LGBT Health Resource Center, to produce artwork and a series of free public programs related to the exhibition Imagining Home. The artwork debuts in October 2016 in the Commons of the BMA’s Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center. This is the second year of the Commons Collaboration project, which launched in October 2015 with the opening of the Education Center and an installation by artist Marian Glebes and The Loading Dock.

Focused on an installation in the likeness of a bedroom and a montage of home movies, the next iteration of the Commons Collaboration will explore the artists’ notion of the “Quotidian Queer,” including experiences of home life and public space, identity presentation, social perceptions, chosen family, self-care, and the constantly changing concept of home. Five Baltimore-area Chase Brexton LGBT Health Resource Centers will serve as locations for continued engagement with artwork and programs.