This Week: Jerrell Gibbs at James Cohan NYC, artists reception + awards presentation for UMBC's 2024 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition, The Black Artist Fair's Grantwriting Basics – The Black AF Edition, Open Critique w/ Schroeder Cherry at Creative Alliance, Arvay Adams opening reception and more!
For Chabwera, painting is an opportunity to turn inwards and reflect on the mind, body, and self. She then gradually externalizes those reflections through a singular piece or series.
The Baltimore Mayoral Portrait Competition has selected Ernest Shaw Jr., Kennedy Ringgold, Gaia, Megan Lewis, and Karen Warshal for $20,000 commissions
The Walters' new podcast "Free Admissions," Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) unveil new plan for Station North, Baltimore Center Stage announces their new season, Baltimore Youth Film Arts funding falters, and more!
"I was raised by a village and grew up in a multicultural environment, so community is the secret to my work's success."
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Stories conjured in plastic, clay and wood: 4 art exhibits mix meaning and material
At the national pavilions there’s an appropriately diverse set of strategies for addressing the legacies of colonialism and immigration from both traumatic or optimistic perspectives.
On Saturday April 27, the Creative Alliance hosted their signature gala event: The Marquee Ball, Baltimore’s costume party to end all costume parties.
The 60th Venice Biennale takes on themes of displacement, environmental injustice, racism, colonialism, but also manages to avoid easy cliches by treating artists from marginalized backgrounds as individuals with agency.
Art, Activism, and Abortion Access
Women’s Autonomy and Safe Spaces: Erin Fostel, Lynn McCann-Yeh, and Cara OberSpellbinding Yet Unnerving: A Theatrical Performance Created With AI
Orange Grove Dance's new performance, executed by human dancers and choreographed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), in review.BmoreArt News: Christian Siriano, Betty Cooke turns 100, MICA Art Walk Returns
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional mediaThe Public Art Chronicles Vol III: Norman Kenneth Carlberg's 1976 "Caterpillar"
On Touching COR-TEN, One Percent for the Arts, and the Effort to Label and Preserve its LegacyTugging at the Stitches of Art History: Elizabeth Talford Scott
Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs Revisited: A Legacy Unfolds at the Baltimore Museum of Art
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A&I, which launched on Friday, April 19th at The Voxel in Baltimore, combines experimental dance, ambient soundscapes, minimalist stage design, and innovative lighting techniques with a high-tech concept.
Wendel Patrick is an associate professor of music engineering at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University; he is also a composer, producer, beatmaker, pianist, sonic architect, photographer, and videographer. But how has he sustained a career with such a diverse breadth of work?
A recap of our very first City of Artists release celebration on December 8, 2023: a reading at the Enoch Pratt Library featuring authors Scott Shane, Sheri Booker, Lane Harlan, E. Doyle-Gillespie, and BmoreArt publisher Cara Ober as moderator.
Student Designers: Anaitza Brown, Austin Chia, Quinn Spence, Olivia Zheng, Nikki Zhao, Sasha Kramer, Kai Nunnally, Solli Kim, Cedar Clark, Rachel Glen, and Mahnoor Chaudry.
Standing Firm at Thirty: an Interview with Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino
The Vocalist Reflects on Three Decades of Growth, Songwriting, the American Dream, and Going Home to Family in JapanThe Public Art Chronicles, Vol. II: Michelle Santos' 2011 Mural "Historic Druid Heights"
Two Community Organizers Were Immortalized in a Mural that Ended up on the Front Page of the New York Times as an Illustration for Baltimore's Clap-Back to Donald TrumpBmoreArt News: Larry Hogan, Diversity in Arts Grant Funding, New/Next Film Festival
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional mediaA Carnival of Characters: Soaring Through David Barnett’s Circus
Arting Gallery Hosts a Reception Thursday, May 2 for the Whimsical ExhibitionBaltimore Gallery: Nine April Exhibitions
Nine Gallery Shows in Baltimore this April
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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A recap of our very first City of Artists release celebration on December 8, 2023: a reading at the Enoch Pratt Library featuring authors Scott Shane, Sheri Booker, Lane Harlan, E. Doyle-Gillespie, and BmoreArt publisher Cara Ober as moderator.
This, the Pratt’s 36th Breakfast, was to be my first. And so, with little idea of what to expect, I daydreamed about Jesmyn and me sitting across a fancy table, spearing pancakes and passing the bacon whilst talking about characters we had yet to bring to life.
City of Artists, BmoreArt's first full-length book, sold out in December, but is now available through a second printing
Helguera integrates playful formats with serious topics in his new work, Flor de Juegos Antiguos, created for the BMA’s new Joseph Education Center Experience Gallery
Unreliable Narrators: An Evening with Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas
A Sort of Recap on Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas in conversation via the Ivy BookshopFOMOgraphy: Baltimore Jewelry Center's Annual Ornamenta Benefit
Sapphire-Clad Guests Looked Divine at 2640The Club Car Pulls into Station North
A Pop-up Queer Cabaret and Art Space Breathes New Life into Storied North Avenue Market LocaleTwo Baltimore-based Artists Receive Creative Capital Grants
Jackie Milad and Marnie Ellen Hertzler Receive Prestigious National GrantFaux Pubes Fashion Show: "Merkin Dream" at MAP
What better event to host on International Women's Day?
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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In Issue 16: Collaboration, we explore synergistic models in the region, artists whose practice invites others in, organizations who prioritize collective action, and institutional entities willing to elevate local partners.
Stories from Issue 16: Collaboration
For Chabwera, painting is an opportunity to turn inwards and reflect on the mind, body, and self. She then gradually externalizes those reflections through a singular piece or series.
"I was raised by a village and grew up in a multicultural environment, so community is the secret to my work's success."
Shared commercial kitchens have long been used to create positive economic, environmental, health, and social effects for communities—a mission that Our Time Kitchen hopes to foster in Baltimore.
While the atmosphere on the Water Taxi was decidedly leisurely (it was a sunset cruise, after all), the underlying excitement was unmistakable. A constant flow of folks congregated around the book display even when the initial rush had passed.