Baltimore Rising: An Exhibition at MICA

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Sheilah Kast

Published November 4, 2016 at 9:14 AM EDT

It’s been a year and a half since the unrest of April 2015 following the death of Freddie Grey, who was critically injured in police custody. The police trials are behind us, and much of the media attention. But MICA has a new exhibition that aims to ignite a conversation about the roots of Baltimore’s discontent: the social, political, and racial rifts that led to the uprising. Tony Shore, the chair of MICA’s painting department, gives us a tour of Baltimore Rising.

Sheilah Kast

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. Originally, she hostedWYPR's Dupont-Columbia University award-winning Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast from 2006 - October2015. She began her career at The Washington Star, where she covered the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, utilities, energy and taxes, as well as financial and banking regulation. She learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News; as a Washington correspondent for fifteen years, she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. Sheilahhas been a substitute host on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and The DianeRehmShow. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV, one about business and one about challenges facing older people.

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