At MOCA Arlington, Marissa Stratton creates a dialogue that feels both familiar and estranging, as if one is scrolling through memories materialized on physical surfaces.
This week's news includes: MDFF receives $20k in grant funding from the NEA, Ira Glass's magical Baltimore memories, new acquisitions at the BMA, the ghost of H.L. Menken, the BSO hits a high note, daring to dream with Lady Brion, breaking creative barriers with Amy L. Bernstein, and more!
A new photo book, Scene Seen, weaves together 85 bands, over 200 portraits, and 300 pages into a tribute to Baltimore’s creative resilience, documenting the essence of the music scene from 2016 to 2024.
SCENE SEEN at Greedy Reads and Bird in Hand, VIVA Books donation drive, Slavery in Motion at the BMA, Rapid Lemon's Variation Project, Baker Artist Portfolios closing reception at The Peale, and MLK Day celebrations - and calls for entry!
I met with Becker at the newly relocated Mobtown Ballroom to learn more about her work as an arts leader, and our conversation ranged from the complexity of demands that she balances, to her origins and identity as an artist and why art matters to us as humans.
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The best Baltimore art exhibitions of 2024 were groundbreaking, culturally relevant, and made me feel more connected to the place and time where I live.
With around 150 members, M3 is a powerful force uniquely composed of every major on campus. Reid referred to the marching band members as “triple A” students, being that they are academic, artistic, and athletic.
Our team at BmoreArt would like to take this moment to celebrate the positive as we look back to all we have accomplished together this year.
2025 Sondheim Semifinalists, Baltimore Small Stage Coalition, ACC Baltimore show on PBS, Amy Davis confronts Baltimore Sun owner, remembering John Ford, and NYE celebrations from the BSO and BOPA!
Thomas James Brings History & Contemporary Art Home
The Curator's REVISIT/REIMAGINE Exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman MuseumRoses Growing out of Concrete: Devin Allen’s Love Song to Baltimore
Textures of Us: Devin Allen at Galerie Myrtis Reflects Baltimore Respect, Culture, and PowerLevester Williams: "all matters aside" Quarries the Local and Literary
The CADVC Survey of Williams' Multidisciplinary Practice Draws Connections Between Big Ideas and Quotidian MaterialsThe Body Politic Pulls Focus on Addressing Gun Violence in Baltimore
Documentary Following Brandon Scott from Candidate to Baltimore Mayor Set for National BroadcastBmoreArt News: New Museum Leadership, Bria Sterling-Wilson at Galerie Myrtis, and The Dutchess opens in Hampden
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
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“My skating itself is almost a kind of activism in a weird way, just being so unapologetically queer and being outspoken..."
On view through Jan 5th, the exhibition is reflective of James’s curatorial practice—one that blends the visionary with the quotidian—framed by a curious mind and a warm spirit.
Whether you’re a native Baltimorean, or someone who calls Baltimore home like me, you’ll find pieces of yourself everywhere you look in this exhibit. It’s a love song to Baltimore.
V. Walton's practice continues to address nature, ableism, and racism, but the sculptures shown in Terra and their relationship to one another probe our understanding of the human body while situating that body as part of a greater, mysterious whole.
Art School Confidential: UMBC Grad Studio Visits with Nia Hampton and Bao Nguyen
On the IMDA Program, City Life, and How UMBC Gives them Space to Get Messy (Plus Health Insurance!)A More Perfect Union at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Opinion Editorial by BMA Union Member Rob KemptonLusmerlin Captures Attention with The Uncatchable Ciguapa
An Interview with the Artist on Why Her New Exhibit Recenters Dominican FolkloreMaryland Art Place, Interdisciplinary Hub
An Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, the Executive Director, and Caitlin Gill, Exhibitions Director and MSAC Directory CoordinatorThe Night of 100 ELVISes in Photos
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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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An interview ahead of Smith's reading and performance at A Home for the Heart to Live In: an annual gathering of Cave Canem poets hosted by CityLit at Motor House on December 8.
Curated by Lisa D. Freiman, "Levester Williams: all matters aside" is an expansive survey of the Philadelphia-based artist’s works-to-date. The show closes Dec 14th at UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC).
In I’m Not Your Superwoman, Pinkston explores the Black-woman-superhero-complex, Black women's labor, and the complicated trope of “resilience,” a word often romanticized, exploited, and conflated.
That chat with Faust sparked something—a desire to dig deeper into the lives of Baltimore’s gallerists and curators, beginning with Faust herself.
Life Changing: The MFA in Studio Art at Towson University
A Competitive MFA Degree from a Well-Funded, Multidisciplinary Art DepartmentCelebrating 110 Years at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Party Photos by Jill Fannon and E. Brady RobinsonReframing Gordon Parks and James Baldwin
Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery Offer a New Conversation Between Two Iconic Artists and ActivistsBmoreArt News: Craft in Baltimore, Maurice Berger, Pratt Workers United
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional mediaAt Untitled and NADA Miami, Hazy Painting and a Bright Market
Fairs Find Success with New takes on "Safe" Media Even as Institutions and Collections Celebrate Weirder Acquisitions
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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
“The light entered my grandfather and, as a third-generation survivor, the light has been passed down through me. I pass it on through my work,” says Baltimore-based artist Kei Ito.
Creative production is good for us. Those of us engaged in the arts have intuitively known this fact for ages, but the scientific studies and resulting evidence synthesized in the book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us drive the point home with hardcore data.
Founded by three visionary women and mothers—Mama Rashida Forman-Bey, Mama Kay Lawal-Muhammad, and Mama Nata’aska Hasan Hummingbird—WombWork seeks to shine a light on the stories of young people from some of the hardest possible circumstances.
Alex Ebstein has exhibited her work in New York, Paris, Stockholm, and Rome–but is better known in Baltimore for her many roles as a curator and arts administrator.