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BmoreArt Magazine Issue 17: Transformation

In 2024, BmoreArt Issue 17: Transformation celebrated the region’s bold cultural leaders, creative innovators, and groundbreaking thinkers who are shaping a brighter future through collaboration and visionary efforts. This issue focused on individuals and organizations at the forefront of change and innovation, whose work addresses the urgent challenges of our time and place.

Highlights include profiles on Kotic Couture, Lane Harlan, The Voxel Theater, Fruit Camp, Raúl de Nieves, Elliot Doughtie, muralists Jessie and Katey, good neighbor, and many more artists and collectives who place creativity and progress at the center of their practice. We celebrated this issue at good neighbor guest house in Hampden last May (photos here).

BmoreArt Magazine Issue 18: Wellness

In Issue 18: Wellness, BmoreArt explores how art and culture serve as essential components of a healthy lifestyle. This edition highlights the region’s multidisciplinary cultural leaders, creative innovators, and transformative projects shaping a healthier future. These individuals and organizations address the challenges of our time, redefining what it means to thrive and fostering connections across disciplines to educate and empower communities.

Featured stories include Dr. Leana Wen, Alex Ebstein, Kei Ito, Dr. Michael Salcman, the Aquarium’s Voyages series, Wombworks, and JHU’s Neuroaesthetics Initiative, among others. Rendered in BmoreArt’s signature style—blending conversational language with compelling visual storytelling—this issue showcases the work of Baltimore’s leading photographers, artists, and writers.

City of Artists I: Featuring Phaan Howng, Erin Fostel, and J.M. Giordano
Exhibition at BmoreArt Connect+Collect Gallery | from January to April 2024

Baltimore has fostered literary and artistic excellence for over a century, including writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Edgar Allan Poe, and W.E.B. Du Bois and visual artists like Charles Wilson Peale, Joshua Johnson, William Henry Rinehart, and Grace Hartigan. City of Artists is the first full-length book from BmoreArt, designed to chronicle a collective cultural legacy and explore why this city remains a verdant site for significant cultural production.

Serving as a visual extension, City of Artists I, II, and III are a series of exhibitions created in partnership with the publication hosted at BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect gallery and workspace. Mirroring the book’s essence and aesthetics, these exhibitions present pivotal and emblematic works by featured visual artists and the opportunity to engage with the artists and their work in the gallery.

City of Artists I featured paintings by Phaan Howng, charcoal drawings by Erin Fostel, and black and white photography by J.M. Giordano. Although their style, media, and ideas vary, the works presented are all inspired by materials, ideas, and experiences that reference Baltimore.

City of Artists II: Featuring Se Jong Cho, Oletha DeVane, and Schroeder Cherry
Exhibition at BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery | from May to August 2024

City of Artists II marked the second presentation based on the book City of Artists. Mirroring the publication’s essence and aesthetics, City of Artists II showcases pivotal and emblematic works by Se Jong Cho, Oletha DeVane, and Schroeder Cherry. Through varying styles, media, and ideas, their works provide a variety of perspectives from the city’s art scene, as they translate their experiences into unique visual narratives that continue to evolve and influence Baltimore’s artistic community.

City of Artists III: Featuring René Treviño, Jackie Milad, and Edgar Reyes
Exhibition at BmoreArt Connect+Collect Gallery | Open until January 2025

At the intersection of cultural history, displacement, and personal identity, City of Artists III highlights the evocative works of three remarkable artists: René Treviño, Jackie Milad, and Edgar Reyes. Treviño’s multidisciplinary practice merges Maya and Aztec history with contemporary influences through his sculptural works. Milad’s mixed-media paintings and collages explore her Honduran and Egyptian heritage, delving into dispersed cultural histories. Reyes, through his multimedia art, addresses the adversities faced by his undocumented community and the blending of Indigenous and European traditions.

Each artist offers a unique perspective that encourages viewers to reflect on their own experiences and the shared human condition, enriching the dialogue around cultural and personal identity within the region’s vibrant art scene.

BmoreArt partners with JHU to invest in Baltimore artists

Johns Hopkins University started a partnership with BmoreArt to enhance its campuses with contemporary works of art. These new acquisitions will be thoughtfully displayed in spaces where the public and the university community can gather, reflect, and engage in meaningful discussions about the pieces.

In alignment with the university’s Diverse Names and Narratives Project, the initiative aims to showcase a wide range of perspectives by selecting artwork from local artists of growing acclaim, many of whom capture the essence of Baltimore in their work. A committee of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees will collaborate closely with BmoreArt to identify and purchase these artworks, which will be installed across campus. In 2024, three artists unveiled their work: SHAN Wallace’s piece was installed in the School of Nursing, while Latoya M. Hobbs and Ernest Shaw Jr. had their works displayed in the North Gallery of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.