Amy Sherald, the artist best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is having a mid-career retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She recently cancelled an exhibit at the Smithsonian over censorship concerns with the painting “Trans Forming Liberty”, above. She’s a fellow alumnus of MICA, having graduated from the MFA program, and worked in Baltimore for 17 years. I’m going to get tickets and take the girls to this show. I was lucky enough to have seen the Michelle Obama painting at the National Portrait Gallery, and it is breathtaking in real life. Looking forward to this show.