In Upendo's latest album "For the Love of it All" the band brings experience and heritage to new compositions.
This week's news includes: Julia M. Alexander passes away from heart attack, The Banner wins a Pulitzer, The Phillips Collection appoints Tiffany McGettigan and Clarisse Fava-Piz, 2025 Screenwriters Competition announced, BMA's upcoming exhibition The Way of Nature, and more!
A lighting ceremony for Charlton's work at the North Avenue Market, was hosted with big crowds, programming, and performances.
This Week: Baker Artist Talks at The Peale, Baltimore Rock Opera Society's "Lempira," 2025 Lewis Musuem Gala, Sondheim artist talks at the Walters, opening reception for Ling-lin Ku and Rachel Suzanne Smith at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Station North First Friday Art Walk, and more!
Creative Alliance Honors Linda de Palma and JM Giordano for Lifetime Achievement
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Judah Adashi hated the idea that Freddie Gray would be forgotten to most people, especially in Baltimore. Through music and art, he wanted to change that.
On the heels of a successful solo show, we catch up with Zody Burke to talk about her upcoming show in New York, an experimental studio practice, and the pitfalls of getting lost in translation as an American artist in Europe.
It’s unusual to group an exhibition around an adjective, but Uncanny is less about a word than a psychological experience where something feels unnerving because it’s familiar but just slightly off.
What happens when two women, each born into royal circumstances with claims to the throne of England, grow up to become bitter rivals? We have the makings of an imperial tale of political and religious intrigue that is as riveting now as it must have been almost 500 years ago.
Introducing the Next Generation of Talent: Akeelah and the Bee at Baltimore Center Stage
BCS + BSA Spells "Triumph"BmoreArt News: Graham Projects, Scout Art Fair, Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional mediaGrowing the Future, Word by Word: The 22nd Annual CityLit Festival
A Conversation with Two of This Year's Spotlighted Authors, Michele Filgate and Dominique ChristinaHating on Artscape
Context and Changes in 2025 for Baltimore's Free Outdoor Arts FestivalBmoreArt News: Ellen Owens, Amy Sherald, John Waters
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Spending time with the pieces on display is humbling the way that great art so often is. Climate change, the relationship between man and nature, the vastness of geological time, and our relative insignificance are all conveyed through images and objects of great aesthetic beauty.
Visiting this single exhibit is an efficient way to appreciate the sweep of Pendleton's career and especially his claim on abstraction within the history of modern art that so strongly informs his practice.
This exhibit at The Crow's Nest pushes you to do what you can do to protect the land and the communities that inhabit it.
This week's news includes: Devin Allen reflects on his fame, Baltimore 10 years after Freddie Gray's murder, Amy Sherald continues to be sublime, a Maya Angelou reading protest in Annapolis, new season announcements from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and the BSO, and more!
Art and the Climate Emergency at the BMA
Three Exhibitions Hit a Raw Nerve at a Time of Global Environmental CrisisThe Weight of Worlds: Angela Franklin and Chevelle Makeba Moore's "Getting to Grown"
A Two-Person Show at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art Considers Caregiving with Labor-Intensive MediaFinding Epiphany: John Ruppert's Vestiges of Time
Ruppert Explores the Symbiotic Relationship Between Nature and Civilization at C. Grimaldis GalleryEarth, Hand, and Fire: Three New Shows at Baltimore Clayworks
Three Satisfying Exhibits at the Baltimore ClayworksPhotographic Narratives in Silver and Earth
A Conversation with Elena Volkova and Jonna McKone
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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Baltimore never gets positioned as the creative hub it is and has been for over 100 years. That is wild to me. It is my mission to continue to connect Baltimore to the world.
Inviting Light is transforming the Station North Arts District with five site-specific public art installations and a series of dynamic community events this year.
The CityLit Festival, now in its 22nd year, is both a celebration of literature and a reminder that advocating for the literary arts is essential labor. Full day events will take place on April 5th and April 25th, 2025.
Pollution can be dismayingly ubiquitous, but it can also be catalyzing, and full of expressive potential.
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 ChristinaA Tribute to Susan Alcorn and Her Harmonic Worlds
The High Zero Foundation Honors the Late Musician and Educator with an Evening of Music and Remembrances on April 5thBaltimore Gets Slutty: Pinky Cole Brings Two Seductive Vegan Restaurants Home
Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan Open in The Baltimore PeninsulaDC ‘Hands Off’ Rally: Tens of Thousands Protest Against Trump
J.M. Giordano's photos offer proof that the art of the protest sign is alive and wellBmoreArt News: Scene Seen, Asia North 2025, Carla Du Pree
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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 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.
Stories from Issue 18: Wellness
Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.
Creativity is part of resilience, which is considered a central aspect of mental wellness. We are creating all the time, problem-solving, playing, experimenting, interacting with others spontaneously, etc. Creativity is the weft across the warp of our lives. We cannot function without it.
"Move your body, engage in breathwork, and immerse yourself in the transformative power of cold water."
From the challenges of growing up with undiagnosed ADHD and autism, White-Johnson now celebrates the beauty in what others might see as symptoms. Sharing these insights, and genuine, authentic moments through her work, she hopes to amplify her vision of true justice.