“Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Color” Live Panel with Oletha DeVane and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims at the Baltimore Book Festival

CADVC is pleased to announce a free program featuring the celebrated artist Oletha DeVane and the brilliant curator and art historian Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims at the Baltimore Book Festival!

Please join us THIS SUNDAY at 11am at The Study at Johns Hopkins (3215 N. Charles St) for a presentation by DeVane and Dr. Sims focused on the publication “Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit,” publichsed by CADVC. The books, featuring a half century of DeVane’s energetic, interactive sculptures, paintings and works on paper, are on a special discount for the Baltimore Book Festival at $30 each and any purchased copy will be signed by DeVane and Dr. Sims — so be sure to get your copy then!

Maryland-based artist Oletha DeVane (born 1952) has long been a prominent presence in the Baltimore-area art scene, working in all media, including public sculpture. “Spectrum of Light and Spirit” documents the first full retrospective of her work, from early paintings to video artworks and interactive sculpture, presented at CADVC in Fall 2022. The exhibition reflected DeVane’s fascination with how materials convey meaning and reemerge as myths and memories.

“Oletha DeVane is a wayfinder and a storyteller,” says the retrospective’s curator, Lowery Stokes Sims. “Over the last five decades as she has traveled in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, she has been inspired by the stories and characters she encounters, bringing the unexpected to light, while finding new nuances in the old and familiar, and unexpected correlations among those varied cultures.”

RSVP: Christopher@WaverlyMainStreet.org