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!
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.
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.
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!
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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Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble is exactly the show we need right now.
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.
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.
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 BeautyFriction and Frustration: Wickerham & Lomax at Current Space
"The Return of American Pest" Confounds, Closes with a Reception on SaturdayTimeless & Timely: Elena Volkova's Pride Portraits
The Artist's Second Annual Tintype Celebration of the City's LGBTQ+ Community Joyfully Returned to Current SpaceThe Baltimore City Crit Club: New Gallery Invites Critique as Its Mission
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Works by Selin Balci, Kelley Bell, Oletha DeVane, Jordan Tierney, and Stephen Towns highlight the importance of rewarding experimentation, research, and innovation.
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.
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!
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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The 2025 Sondheim Exhibit of finalists emphasizes the evocative power of materials in five mini solo exhibits.
"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
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!
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 25thHex Ferments Makes It Easy to Be Good to Your Gut
Award-winning Fermenters Invite the Curious to Market, Bar, and Tasting Room in GovansFinding Epiphany: John Ruppert's Vestiges of Time
Ruppert Explores the Symbiotic Relationship Between Nature and Civilization at C. Grimaldis GalleryBmoreArt News: Baker Artist Awardees, World Environment Day, Baltimore Pride
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Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National AquariumThe 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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Rubys Grantee Rae Red Illuminates Area 405 with Queer Video Installations and PerformanceVoyages: Manifesting Joy in Conservationism
Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National AquariumMaryland 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 NorthGrowing the Future, Word by Word: The 22nd Annual CityLit Festival
A Conversation with Two of This Year's Spotlighted Authors, Michele Filgate and Dominique ChristinaConnect + Collect
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