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Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: The Peale awarded Andy Warhol Grant, Free Fall Baltimore applications are open, Disability Pride Month and the arts, CA's Art to Dine For, National Gallery partners with Google Arts & Culture, Galerie Myrtis participating in the Armory Show, The Pratt Library, and more!

An Interview with Organizer Pablo de Oliveira on How the Carnival Party at Creative Alliance is Evolving and Performers You Won't Want to Miss This Year

The Viva Brasil party has become an icon of Brazilian culture in Baltimore, drawing audiences from throughout the DMV area. This year it returns to the Creative Alliance Theater, Saturday July 19th at 7:30pm.

An Announcement from Calvin Ball, Howard County Executive

From supporting local community institutions such as the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo) to collaborating with the Downtown Columbia Partnership on the Books in Bloom Festival, Howard County is at the forefront of supporting literary artists who inspire change.

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week: Rapid Lemon Productions "Variations on Night," Jordan Tierney interactive experience at BMA, Art Soiree x Baltimore Met Gala party at Lord Baltimore, Submersive Productions' Voyages: Chapter 7 at the National Aquarium, COLAB artist panel at Eubie Blake, and more!

How the Secondhand Craft Store and Maker Space in East Baltimore Made Me Believe in Magic Again

Spaces like these are part of the underground magic of Baltimore—where tapping into community is core, where beauty is found and made.

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Do Women Still Have to be Naked to Get Into the Met Museum?

Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble is exactly the show we need right now.

German and Polish Food Traditions Flourish at Chachi's

Step into the kitchen at Chachi’s at Fadensonnen and it won’t feel like a rotisserie chicken restaurant as much as an ode to the craft of cooking.

"A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore & Me" Released This Spring

Arnett recounts the life he and Ennis created together with candid detail in A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore & Me. The book also offers an intimate account of the midcentury music scene, Baltimore, and how closely the politics of the time overlapped with show business.

The Artist's Exhibit "Signifiers" is on View at Gallery Blue Door Through July 25th

Hal Boyd’s paintings operate on multiple levels and attract a diverse audience. They resonate with both high art enthusiasts and non-art world “civilians.” In this show, Boyd continues his exploration of the subconscious and philosophy, expressed through narrative imagery.

Joan Cox: Side by Side

The Artist's Solo Exhibition at Towson University Proves Visibility is Beauty

Friction and Frustration: Wickerham & Lomax at Current Space

"The Return of American Pest" Confounds, Closes with a Reception on Saturday

Timeless & Timely: Elena Volkova's Pride Portraits

The Artist's Second Annual Tintype Celebration of the City's LGBTQ+ Community Joyfully Returned to Current Space

The Baltimore City Crit Club: New Gallery Invites Critique as Its Mission

Making Space for Conversation & Feedback

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From Excavations of Forgotten Histories to Speculative Futures, the Baker Artist Awards Support the Unconventional

Works by Selin Balci, Kelley Bell, Oletha DeVane, Jordan Tierney, and Stephen Towns highlight the importance of rewarding experimentation, research, and innovation.

Curated with diverse communities in mind, this new exhibit enhances inclusion and cultivates a sense of belonging.

While Baltimore’s growing Latino community accounts for 7.9% of its population, this project—the first of its kind—offers invaluable connections for Latinos to experience artwork directly represents them.

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Cindy Wolf and Charleston win a James Beard Award, The Clifton House hosts weekend event to honor Lucille Clifton, Arts for Learning to open charter school, Maryland Humanities receives emergency funding from Mellon Foundation, BOPA becomes 'Create Baltimore' and more!

Visualizing the Violent Impact of Colonization of the Americas on the Environment

These artists acknowledge that our current environmental crisis is serious and frightening, but overwhelmingly this exhibition presents ideas through monumental, visually stunning works, where the contrast between beauty and distress pushes the narrative forward. 

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Professional Strategies for Artists

Interviews with artists, studio visits, and hands on 'how to' articles about guiding your art career to the next level and meeting your goals.

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Shop BmoreArt: Subscriptions, Books, Print Journals, & Branded Goods

Become a subscriber and join our community! For two (free) tickets to each magazine release party, subscribe at the Artist ($100) or Premium ($250) level. Pre-order a copy of our first full-length book, City of Artists, and secure your copy. Gift the gift of BmoreArt art publications this season!

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Materials Become Language in the 2025 Sondheim Finalist Exhibit at the Walters

The 2025 Sondheim Exhibit of finalists emphasizes the evocative power of materials in five mini solo exhibits.

Baltimore's Most Fun Punks Drop a New Video, Wisdom, and a Show in Philly Next Month

"Politics have always been intertwined with music. I don't feel there's more of it now; it depends on what's happening in the world at any given moment." -Tommy Rouse

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Amanda Leigh Burnham wins the Sondheim Prize, Gallery Myrtis' Emergence exhibition featured in Colossal, 3 local organizations win Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grants, summer can't miss exhibitions, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson on Claire McCardell, and more!

"The Return of American Pest" Confounds, Closes with a Reception on Saturday

American Pest feels intensely familiar and specific, yet it reflects nothing from my highly partisan social media feeds. It feels like entering into an America that exists... but I’m seeing it as if under water or on some other plane of reality that I have never visited before.

Hal Boyd: At 90, the Prolific Painter Inspires Viewers to Witness

The Artist's Exhibit "Signifiers" is on View at Gallery Blue Door Through July 25th

Hex Ferments Makes It Easy to Be Good to Your Gut

Award-winning Fermenters Invite the Curious to Market, Bar, and Tasting Room in Govans

Finding Epiphany: John Ruppert's Vestiges of Time

Ruppert Explores the Symbiotic Relationship Between Nature and Civilization at C. Grimaldis Gallery

BmoreArt News: Baker Artist Awardees, World Environment Day, Baltimore Pride

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

Voyages: Manifesting Joy in Conservationism

Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National Aquarium

The Baltimore Arts & Culture Guide

Search: Museums, Galleries, Performance, Film, Organizations & Advocacy, Literary Organizations, Media, Bookshops, Maker, Mixed Use & Studios, Education, Grants & Awards, Residencies, Artist Housing, and Supplies. This guide is for Baltimore area artists, makers, creatives, and anyone who wants to get involved in the arts in the region.

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Personal, Political, Poignant: 'Paradise Portals'

Rubys Grantee Rae Red Illuminates Area 405 with Queer Video Installations and Performance

Voyages: Manifesting Joy in Conservationism

Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National Aquarium

Maryland Center for History and Culture's Monumental Claire McCardell Collection Illuminates New Biography

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Celebrates the Launch of Her Book Where She First Discovered "The Designer Who Set Women Free"

Inviting Light Opens with a Glowing Response

Artist Zoë Charlton's Work is the First in the Initiative Unveiled in Station North

Growing the Future, Word by Word: The 22nd Annual CityLit Festival

A Conversation with Two of This Year's Spotlighted Authors, Michele Filgate and Dominique Christina

Connect + Collect

Connect+Collect is a BmoreArt initiative designed to engage new and established collectors and to build relationships with Baltimore based artists and galleries through talks, gallery tours, and studio visits.

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Issue 19: Hidden Gems
Issue 19: Hidden Gems
May, 2025

Issue 18: Wellness posits art and culture as a key element in a healthy lifestyle. This issue features the region’s multidisciplinary cultural leaders, creative explorers, and groundbreaking projects building a better future.

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Stories from Issue 19: Hidden Gems
Bringing the Life and Legacy of Baby Laurence to Stage

It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.

Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 19 on May 15

In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.

Our new print journal features artists and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.

Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations.