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Following the Baltimore Board of Estimates Vote to Terminate BOPA’s Contract, a Group of Artists and Organizers Ask: What Comes Next?

Artist group says that the next step is for Mayor Scott to share the specifics of his plan with the city, to make the process transparent as possible, and to create opportunities for artist communities to join in the effort

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Mary Pat Clarke, BOPA board members resign, Maurice Berger CADVC Program at UMBC, MD Humanities offers Indigenous history resources, Crust by Mack leaving Harborplace, Weaver Award winners announced, and more!

Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)

Many of Doughtie’s sculptures look like rooms disassembled. Or perhaps more accurately, rooms in the midst of construction. When one takes apart a room, we think sledgehammer. Conversely, Doughtie’s sculptures are manicured and precise.

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

This week: Timothy App at Goya, Raven Jackson at Clifton House, Rooted Shadows at Goucher College, Stoop Storytelling at AVAM, Baker Artist Portfolios at The Peale, Barry Nemett at Arting Gallery, Jacob Budenz at The Walters, Sankofa Dance at the BMA - and more!

Rhythms and Strips in Retrospect at Arting Gallery

A Former MICA Professor's Lifetime Love Affair with Drawing and Improvisation

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The Artist's Mixed-Media Exhibit at Transformer DC Interrogates America's Expectations of Black Women

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.

Opinion Editorial by BMA Union Member Rob Kempton

Increased wages, more paid time off, and better benefits were obtained for unionized colleagues.

Two Exhibitions Deep, Downtown's New Arts Incubator Offers Perspectives on Climate and Environmental Justice

Founded by Leonardo Martinez, a recent DC to Baltimore transplant, the new artist incubator, studio building, and gallery devoted to climate justice is nestled just behind the central branch library on Mulberry Street.

"The Third Future: A Self-Portrait" is a Sky-High Confirmation of Ainsley Burrows as a Baltimore Painter

Following a triumphant opening at BOPA's Top of the World, writer Quentin Gibeau caught up with the multidisciplinary artist Ainsley Burrows to talk practice, success in Baltimore, and upcoming events on October 25th

Lusmerlin Captures Attention with The Uncatchable Ciguapa

An Interview with the Artist on Why Her New Exhibit Recenters Dominican Folklore

Turning the US Senate Chartreuse: Angela Alsobrooks for MD

Maryland’s Democratic Champion for the US Senate

Reframing Gordon Parks and James Baldwin

Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery Offer a New Conversation Between Two Iconic Artists and Activists

Life Changing: The MFA in Studio Art at Towson University

A Competitive MFA Degree from a Well-Funded, Multidisciplinary Art Department

Mobtown Ballroom & Café: Beyond the Dance Floor

As Mobtown Ballroom Celebrates its 13th anniversary, Co-owners Sarah Sullivan and Michael Seguin Reflect on Their New Space

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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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How a Trip to the Art Museum in Potomac Restored My Faith in the World

I was taken with this strange paradise hidden in the Potomac suburbs, this place that seemed to me like another country—if not another planet.

Fantasy Machine, an experimental fashion show and pop up shop presented by Meg Beck returned to Current Space for the 6th year on October 19th, 2024!

An Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, the Executive Director, and Caitlin Gill, Exhibitions Director and MSAC Directory Coordinator

"We are very multifaceted and action oriented. We are striving to foster as many opportunities as possible for the artists."

A Baltimore Retreat

From the moment you step into this boutique hotel and the good neighbor design shop, you are immersed in an atmosphere of refined taste and creative brilliance. Owned and curated by Shawn Chopra and Anne Morgan, the guesthouse pays homage to their Indian and Egyptian heritages.

Reinventing Sounds, Texts, and Images: An Interview with Cole Bryant

Authorship, Remix, and Identity in the Age of AI

BmoreArt News: Annie Howe, VILLAGER, Maryland State Archives

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

Mind on Fire's New Opera "and we, each" Bends Genres and Minds

After Sold-Out Baltimore Premier, the Show Travels to DC in October and NYC in 2025

A Love Letter to Wheel Throwing: Katherine Pon-Cooper at MICA

Circle in a Circle: Compulsion, An Exhibit by a MICA Senior

Forged Together: Collective Action at the Baltimore Museum of Industry

Reflecting on the History of the American Labor Movement while Looking Ahead into the New Millenium 

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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Yet Again, Short-Sighted Newspaper Leadership Fails to Understand the Difference Between Quantity and Quality of Readership

The Washington Post is cutting their ongoing Galleries column, a loss to local readers, artists, and audiences.

An exhibit where theories pale in the bright light of unabashed enthusiasm.

Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.

Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative

These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.

Dismantling the Monolith

Multiplicity is not a show about Black collage, it’s about Blackness in American collage which is entirely different.

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 17: Transformation
Issue 17: Transformation
May, 2024

In Issue 17, we feature the region’s courageous cultural leaders, creative explorers, and groundbreaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.

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Stories from Issue 17: Transformation
Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)

Many of Doughtie’s sculptures look like rooms disassembled. Or perhaps more accurately, rooms in the midst of construction. When one takes apart a room, we think sledgehammer. Conversely, Doughtie’s sculptures are manicured and precise.

An Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, the Executive Director, and Caitlin Gill, Exhibitions Director and MSAC Directory Coordinator

"We are very multifaceted and action oriented. We are striving to foster as many opportunities as possible for the artists."

A Baltimore Retreat

From the moment you step into this boutique hotel and the good neighbor design shop, you are immersed in an atmosphere of refined taste and creative brilliance. Owned and curated by Shawn Chopra and Anne Morgan, the guesthouse pays homage to their Indian and Egyptian heritages.

The Artist Works Directly from Life, but Experiments with Modernist Techniques, Subjective Experience, and Artificial Intelligence

This weekend is the closing night for Bynum's "Arcana Flux" exhibit at Clovr Collective. Saturday, October 5, 6-10. Come check out new works including prints and short film, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough."