10-3-12: High Art

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For the last four years, the William G. Baker Memorial Fund, which concentrates all of its charitable giving to the arts, established the Baker Artist Awards. Each year, hundreds of Baltimore area artists post samples of their work on the Baker Awards website, where a panel of judges, a world-wide public, and fellow artists explore, engage, and respond to it. The judges choose winners of up to three Mary Sawyer Baker Prizes, and they award each artist a $25,000 stipend that will support future work.  In addition to the money, the Baltimore Museum of Art hosts an exhibition an/or a performance of the winner's work. This year's Baker winners are featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art through Sunday. 

One of those winners is Alexander Heilner, a dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work and installations involve photography, digital imaging, lighting design, sculpture, and a lot of the time...airplanes.

His current exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art consists of a series of aerial photographs which mark the interplay of natural and manmade landscapes. He tells Tom how he got these mesmerizing pictures.