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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, Transformative Forces opening reception at Waller Gallery, Veiled Forms  opening reception at Bogus Gallery, Paradise Portals opening + live performance at Area 405, John Ruppert in conversation with Kristen Hileman at C. Grimaldis Gallery, The Young Playwrights Festival at Baltimore Center Stage, and UB’s Graduate Book Fair and Reading — PLUS apply to be an Artscape volunteer and more featured opportunities.

 

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Baker Artist Talks
Wednesday, May 7 :: 7pm
@ Current Space

Current Space is proud to present the 2025 Baker Artist Award Finalist Showcase, an exhibition of works by finalists in the Visual and Interdisciplinary Arts disciplines.

Please join us for the Artist Talks –

Wednesday, May 7th at 7pm
– Sanah Brown-Bowers
– Andrea Sherrill Evans
– Lynn Cazabon

Sunday, May 25 at 3pm
– Jim Doran
– Dave Greber
+ Rachel Hayden, the exhibiting artist in the Project Space will give her talk as well

Exhibiting Artists Include:
Andrea Sherrill Evans
Ann Margaret Morris
Bria Sterling
Bruce Willen
Dave Greber
Jim Doran
Lynn Cazabon
Phylicia Ghee
Sanah Brown-Bowers
Suzanne Coley

Check out all of the finalists here: bakerartist.org/2025finalists

Exhibit Runs: April 19 – May 25, 2025
Opening Reception: April 19, 7-10pm
Closing Reception: May 25, 2-5pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm, by appointment, & whenever we’re open (check out the show anytime you’re here)!

 

 

Lempira: Oro y Sangre
Thursday, May 8 | Ongoing through May 31
@ Zion Lutheran Church 400 E. Lexington St

Deep in the jungles of what is modern day Honduras and El Salvador, home of warring Lenca factions, Lempira’s conquest is interrupted by an arrival of a dangerous new threat. Faced with the inevitability of colonial imperialism, Lempira must overcome his own pride, embrace a cause greater than himself, and unite the people he was once fighting against.

LEMPIRA is the massive mytho-historic tale of the invincible Lord of the Mountain, condensing a decades-long resistance against Spanish imperialism into one night of theatrical spectacle. Based on true events of Mesoamerican history & mythology, this heavily stylized retelling is filled with Latin-inspired metal music, epic storytelling, and arresting visuals that capture the rich, awe-inspiring spirit of indigenous Latin American culture.

With characters who use both English and Spanish, we invite the audience to look past the barrier of language and identify with characters through their actions and song. Rest assured, there will be projected translations in both languages during the show.

Content Warning: In this show there are depictions of gore, racial/colonial violence/subjugation, and a scene depicting violation of consent/sexual assault.

Pitched by Sebastian Ochoa Arguijo, Written by Gabe Shatkin, Jamie Ginsberg, Lucas Gerace, Nic Cole, and Sebastian Ochoa Arguijo

Composed by Sebastian Ochoa Arguijo

Profundo en las selvas de lo que hoy son Honduras y El Salvador, hogar de facciones Lenca en guerra, la conquista de Lempira es interrumpida por la llegada de una nueva y peligrosa amenaza. Enfrentados con la incapacidad del colonialismo para el imperialismo, Lempira debe superar su propio orgullo, aceptar una causa mayor que el mismo, y unir a las personas con las que una vez luchó.

LEMPIRA es la masiva leyenda mito-histórica del invencible señor de la montaña, condensando una resistencia desde hace décadas contra el imperialismo español en un noche de un espectáculo de teatro. Está basado en eventos reales de historia y mitología Mesoamericana, este relato muy estilizado está lleno de música metal de inspiración latina, narración épica, y visuales impactantes que capturan el espíritu rico e impresionante de la cultura indigena latinoamericana.

Con personajes que hablan inglés y español, invitamos al público a superar la barrera de idiomas e identificar a los personajes a través de sus acciones y canto. No se preocupen, les aseguramos que proyectaremos traducciones en ambos idiomas durante el espectáculo.

Advertencia de contenido:
En este espectáculo habrá representaciones de sangre, racismo/colonialismo, violencia/subyugación, y una escena representando violencia de consiento/asalto sexual.

 

 

2025 Reginald F. Lewis Museum Gala
Thursday, May 8 :: 6:30-11pm
@ M&T Bank Exchange

Step into a night of brilliance and legacy as the Reginald F. Lewis Museum celebrates twenty years of honoring African American history, culture, and contributions. Held at the beautifully reimagined M&T Bank Exchange, this enchanting affair promises an unforgettable experience of elegance, artistry, and purpose. Guests will be treated to a delightful fusion of live performances, exquisite cuisine, and moving tributes that celebrate the Museum’s journey—and the vibrant future ahead.

Let us gather beneath the glow of history and hope to toast two decades of impact, community, and cultural pride.

Attire: Black Tie

 

 

Sondheim 2025 Art Prize Finalists: Artist Talks
Thursday, May 8 :: 6-7:30pm
@ The Walters Art Museum

Location: Graham Auditorium
Registration is required.

Learn more about the 2025 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize finalists, Aliana Grace Bailey, Amanda Leigh Burnham, Lillian Jacobson, Jacob Mayberry, and Wonchul Ryu, as they share details about their practice and work on view at the Walters. Following the artists’ presentations, audiences are invited to ask questions in a Q&A session.

REGISTER

This program is co-hosted with the Baltimore Office for Promotion and The Arts and presented in conjunction with the 20th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, on view at the Walters from April 19 through July 20.

Thursday Nights are sponsored by T. Rowe Price.

About the Artists

Aliana Grace Bailey is an interdisciplinary fiber artist, designer, care worker, and founder of vibrant grace studio. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and lives and works in Baltimore. Aliana weaves layers of interconnection, comfort, healing, and storytelling through fiber. Aliana’s work embraces the vulnerability of artmaking to build intimacy, preserve memories, heal wounds, and create inner peace. Aliana’s work is large in scale, emotional, and vibrant in color, encompassing the body and providing viewers with a comforting hug while exploring familial connections, material, and experiences that tug at their hearts.

Amanda Leigh Burnham makes drawings of all kinds: artist books, comics, intimate observational drawings, dimensional collages, and large, site-specific installations which feel somewhere between a comic book and a stage set. A six-time Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize semifinalist, four-time Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award winner, and a Rubys Grantee, Burnham’s work has been shown internationally, including at the Berman Museum, American University Art Museum, the Delaware Contemporary, and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Since graduating with an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2007, Amanda has been a professor of art at Towson University.

Lillian Jacobson is a Baltimore-based Latiné artist of Colombian descent defining “belonging” through figurative painting. Adopted into a white American family, Lillian has always been attuned to how she is seen by others, which informs her empathetic approach to portraiture. Lillian holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited in group shows across the region, including the Maryland Art Place, Chesapeake Arts Center, Bowie City Hall, Maryland Federation of Art, and the Delaplaine Arts Center, where she won the People’s Choice Award for the 2024 exhibition Emerging Perspectives.

Jacob Mayberry, also known as Black Chakra, is a world-traveled spoken word artist and poetry champion. In Baltimore, Jacob cultivated his legacy by teaching youth how to find the power in their voices through poetry. He has coached eight statewide youth poetry champions and three international youth poetry finalist teams. He hopes to one day be remembered as an artist who changed the climate of Baltimore through his work.

Wonchul Ryu is an interdisciplinary artist based in Seoul, Korea, and Baltimore. He is currently pursuing his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and expects to graduate in spring 2025. Ryu participated in the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program in 2024 and has exhibited in group shows such as Exchange (Maryland Art Place, 2024) and Beyond Borders (The Bridge Arts Foundation, LA, 2023). In 2021, Ryu had a solo show, 우린 나쁜 꿈 속에 있었지, (We Were in the Bad Dreams.) at 양천리 갤러리 (Yangcheonri Gallery) (Seoul, Korea, 2021).

 

 

Survey / Surround | Opening Reception
Friday, May 9 :: 5-8pm
@ Baltimore Jewelry Center

The Baltimore Jewelry Center presents Survey / Surround, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Ling-lin Ku and Rachel Suzanne Smith, on view at its gallery in Station North from May 9–June 20, 2025. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, May 9 from 5 to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Survey / Surround invites viewers to explore a vibrant interplay between nature and human-made structures, where botanical and insect forms morph, camouflage, and reveal unexpected identities. Whether in natural or manufactured environments the shifting between intrinsic and contextual identities creates a complex duality. When used as a means of self-reflection and chosen expression, individuals explore and deploy a multitude of identities and take on different roles as they adapt to ever-changing situations. Through wall pieces, suspended sculptures, and interactive elements that playfully subvert expectations of subject and scale, artists Rachel Suzanne Smith and Ling-lin Ku create a dynamic hide-and-seek environment that challenges perceptions of self and society.

Founded in June 2014, the Baltimore Jewelry Center is the successor organization to the MICA Jewelry Center, which had served Baltimore’s metalsmithing and art jewelry community since the early 90s. Today, the nonprofit is providing a rigorous academic program and robust studio access program for metal and jewelry artists. “The Baltimore Jewelry Center features one of the few art-jewelry galleries in the Mid-Atlantic. Our exhibitions program is just one of the ways we share contemporary and traditional metal arts with Baltimore and the larger DMV community.

Our gallery shows also act as a platform to highlight, promote, and sell the work of local and national artists in the metalsmithing field,” said Shane Prada, Director. “We’re excited to host Survey / Surround which will offer a uniquely immersive and reflective experience in our gallery space.”

 

 

Station North Second Friday Art Walk – May
Friday, May 9 :: 5-9pm
@ Station North Arts District

Discover the pulse of creativity at Station North’s Second Friday Art Walk in May — where art, community, and inspiration collide!

This series of monthly self-guided tours of all the art and culture that Station North (near Baltimore’s Penn Station) has to offer is a grassroots, artist-led effort organized by community members and stakeholders. Spanning the neighborhoods of Charles North, Greenmount West, and Barclay, Station North is a diverse collection of artist live-work spaces, studios, galleries, rowhomes, and businesses, all just steps away from Penn Station and several higher learning and cultural institutions in the heart of Baltimore.

See below for venue list (coming soon)! Join us every Second Friday of the month for MONTHLY Art Walks in the neighborhood.

Check out the map for venues and create your own self-guided tour! Map will continue to be updated: https://shorturl.at/fuCV6 Printed maps available at some venues. Follow @stationnorth on Instagram for updates and map pdf!

 

 

Transformative Forces | Opening Reception
Friday, May 9 :: 6-9pm
@ Waller Gallery

Waller Gallery proudly presents “Transformative Forces,” an exhibition that reimagines the superhero—not as a mythical figure, but as a symbol of everyday resilience, cultural legacy, and self-determined identity.

This powerful show brings together a vibrant group of artists who explore what it means to be heroic in the face of adversity and invisibility.

Featured Artists:

Noreen Smith channels ancestral memory and feminine strength through multidisciplinary works that honor the quiet heroism of Black women across generations.

ALPHA Massaquoi Jr. captures the complexity of aspiration and adversity in large-scale drawings that reflect survival, resistance, and hope.

Rowan Bathurst paints lush, imagined landscapes that reconnect women to mythic symbols of rooted strength and inner clarity.

Tyrone Weedon and Jason F. Austin celebrate superheroes through a pop-cultural lens, blending comic book influences with personal and community-based narratives.

VILLAGER invokes African cosmology and ritualistic imagery to reclaim power and disrupt colonial myths.

Tony Silva (a.k.a. “Tony Stark”) reinvents the superhero genre with humor, tenacity, and striking marker-based work that celebrates transformation.

Through personal stories and bold visual languages, “Transformative Forces” invites viewers to discover heroism in the everyday, and reminds us that power often begins with presence, imagination, and resistance.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of art, conversation, and community.

 

 

Asia North 2025 Veiled Forms Exhibition | Opening Reception
Friday, May 9 :: 6-10pm
@ Bogus Gallery

Friday, May 10 – Thursday, May 15
Bogus Gallery
Gallery hours by appointment

• Friday, May 9, 6pm – 10pm: Opening Reception with performances by Lucia Li and Ni Xin.
• Friday, May 16: Artist Talk
• Saturday, May 17: Closing Reception with a fundraiser for the Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee and music by avant garde shakuhachi master Hideo Sekino. 

This exhibition highlights the work of local Asian artists Lika Yuyun Su, Winter Dior Hart, Kei Ito, Dooree Kang, and Lucia Shuyu Li, each engaging with the tactile and ephemeral qualities of texture, light, color, and form. Through intricate layers, coverings, and floating elements, their works invite viewers to explore the interplay of materiality and meaning, as traditional and contemporary elements merge.

Lika Su’s sculptures, with their meticulous textures and layered forms, evoke a sense of both groundedness and lightness, blurring the line between permanence and fragility. Winter Hart’s vibrant use of color and unconventional materials creates surfaces rich in texture, where layers and coverings hint at hidden histories. Kei Ito’s photographic works are imbued with light and shadow, using transparency and layering to echo themes of memory and intergenerational trauma. Dooree Kang’s installations and videos evoke a sense of floating and impermanence, with translucent materials and delicate compositions that capture the fleeting nature of time. Lucia Li’s digital works play with fluid color and form, creating a dialogue between the digital and physical, where lightness and depth coexist in tension.

The exhibition itself becomes a layered experience, offering viewers multiple modes of engagement. From the opening performance, which enacts the fluid interplay of light and form in real time, to the artist talk, where layers of meaning will be uncovered through dialogue, each event invites reflection on how surface and depth, covering and revealing, shape our understanding of both art and life. A Baltimore Kawasaki Sister Cities Committee fundraiser will further activate the space, fostering a community that supports and uplifts local and international l artists. Through this thoughtful exploration of form and texture, this exhibition transcends the visual to create a sensory experience. It celebrates the lightness of floating forms and the weight of layered histories, offering viewers a space to reflect on how cultural and personal narratives are woven into the fabric of contemporary art.

Curated by Liz Faust and Michael Young

 

 

Paradise Portals | Opening Reception + Live Performance
Friday, May 9 :: 7pm
@ Area 405

AREA 405 is proud to present Paradise Portals, a seven-channel multimedia video installation and performance directed by Red Rae, a 2024 Rubys Artist Grant awardee. The exhibition opens on May 9, 2025, and runs through June 13, 2025, featuring performances each weekend, 8 in total, with a sliding-scale ticket price of $10–$50. The gallery is open from Thursday to Saturday, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. The opening reception will take place May 9 from 5:00 – 9:00, participating in the Station North Second Friday Art Walk.

Video installations in Paradise Portals weave together performance documentation, drone footage, livestream video, and green screen technology to create portals between seven performers’ bodies and the environments that hold personal significance for them. Set within the historically preserved industrial space of AREA 405, the projections loop across multiple circular canvases and plexiglass creating the illusion of portals floating in space. Each week, audiences are invited to experience live performances that unfold simultaneously with the illuminated moving images.

The term portal was chosen by artist and director Red Rae with the belief that they open into alternative realities, warping fantasies, grief, loss, love and more. They prompted questions to seven collaborators — renowned queer visual artists, musicians, drag queens, and scholars: Eli Erlick, Aave, Rahne Alexander, Soleil, Bao Nguyen, Alex D’Agostine, Amy Reid, Pangelica, Bryce Hample, Arit Emmanuela and Max Gregg “If your body is a portal, where does it lead?” In response to this inquiry, Red and the others guide us through the portals bending reality and granting us new perspectives on life and identity.

The exhibition Paradise Portals is made possible by The Rubys Artist Grant Program and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

Disclaimer: This exhibition contains content related to queerness, nudity, and other adult themes. Visitors aged 13 and under must be accompanied by an adult to enter the gallery.

 

 

John Ruppert VESTIGES OF TIME: Traces in Light and Materials | ARTIST CONVERSATION with curator and scholar Kristen Hileman
Saturday, May 10 :: 4pm
@ C. Grimaldis Gallery

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Vestiges of Time: Traces in Light and Materials, a solo exhibition by John Ruppert. This body of work integrates photography and cast sculptures that act as testaments to earthly forms and phenomena, and anchor the physical records of time they bear into the present. Ruppert’s juxtoposition of material and man-made forms investigates human intervention, providing the viewer with a balance between earth’s creativity and man’s effort to celebrate the naturally sublime.

In his Olea Europaea series, Ruppert photographs trees from the olive groves of Puglia, Italy. Through digital manipulation, Ruppert creates composites of multiple photographs to build layers of detail otherwise lost to the limitations of focal length, concentrating in some areas while blowing out negative space in others. The resulting portraits are delicate and ghostly, guiding our attention over the sculptural bodies of these ancient trees, as well as the contemporary irrigation systems that keep them alive. Their forms are gnarled and twisted by time, bringing focus to the impact of man and the elements over the course of centuries.

Ruppert’s photography is a clear extension of his sculptural practice, where he explores how technology can be used to bare witness to the vital essence of something natural. In his Berg series, almost exact replicas of stone and rock are made through aluminum casting. Displayed with its sister beside it, each luminous silvery form highlights textures forged by the earth. Similarly, his Rock Reflections use digital scanning and 3D printing to create mirrored duplicates of rocks with resin, forming uncanny reflections that question our sense of reality. Ruppert’s Strikes harness the beauty and power of phenomena by casting fragmentations of tree bark splintered by the force of a lightning strike. Aluminum shards are restructured to create monuments to these remnants of life.

John Ruppert has exhibited widely at institutions in the US and abroad with works in numerous public and private collections including The Academy Art Museum, Kreeger Museum, OMI International Sculpture Park, and Decordova Museum. He has participated in several artists in residency programs and has received numerous awards including 5 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist grants, the Mary Sawyers Baker Award, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. He was also a recent participant in the 2024 Venice Biennale. John Ruppert is Professor Emeritus and served as Chair of the Department of Art, for 13 years at the University of Maryland, College Park, has been on their faculty since 1987. This is his seventh solo exhibition at C. Grimaldis Gallery.

Vestiges of Time: Traces in Light and Materials will be on view at C. Grimaldis Gallery from April 10 through May 17, 2025. A reception will take place on Thursday, April 10th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. An artist conversation with curator and scholar Kristen Hileman will follow on Saturday, May 10th at 4:00 PM. Hours for C. Grimaldis Gallery, which is free and open to the public, are Wednesday through Saturday, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

 

 

40th Annual Young Playwright’s Festival
Saturday, May 10 :: 10am-2pm
@ Baltimore Center Stage

The Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) is our longest running learning program that encourages expression and creativity in students all across the state.This year we received so many wonderful play submissions from participants in our residencies, and many more from students across Maryland, and we’re beyond excited to present this year’s winners!

This year’s “I Love My City, I Love Myself” Young Playwrights Festival theme is all about encouraging the youth to think intentionally about what community means to them and how they exist within their own communities – real or imagined.

 

 

University of Baltimore’s Graduate Book Fair and Reading
Saturday, May 10 :: 2-5:30pm
@ UB

The University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program will host its annual Graduate Book Fair and Reading on Saturday, May 10, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. in the Wright Theater in the UBalt Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

This year, the fair will celebrate the accomplishments of 13 graduating writers, who will read from their newly published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Guests are invited to meet the authors, purchase their books, and explore original literature shaped by a wide range of voices—from emerging talents to seasoned writers with decades of life experience.

The University’s MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts offers a uniquely hands-on experience for students: Each graduating writer designs, publishes, and presents their book. The result—for many, the realization of a lifelong dream—is a literary work that reflects the cohort’s vibrancy and determination.

Each book reflects the program’s distinctive blend of writing and publishing education. Students take coursework in writing, including classes devoted to workshop, as well as in typography and publication design, where they learn the fundamentals of their book’s layout, font selections, and visual storytelling.

With an emphasis on collaboration, storytelling, and publishing literacy, UBalt’s MFA program fosters a community of writers who support one another across genres and creative goals.

The program also offers writers the opportunity to build lasting connections within a creative community—relationships that help strengthen their work through feedback and mutual support.

Following readings by the graduating students, a reception and book sale will by available to attendees. Writers and guests will make connections with the newly minted authors, and celebrate Baltimore’s thriving literary arts scene.

The Graduate Book Fair and Reading is supported by the Klein Family Fund.

Learn more about The University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.

 

 

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Call for Art: The Speed of Fashion
deadline May 9
posted by The Crow’s Nest

Opening June 7th, our second group show of the year will be entitled The Speed of Fashion. Fast fashion dominates our landscape & landfills. Slow Fashion is often stereotyped as boring, shapeless, and prohibitively expensive. This exhibit seeks to explore the problems with what we wear now, and asks how we should wear our clothes in a not only sustainable, but restorative future. The Speed of Fashion is a national call looking for artwork exploring fashion and fibers in an environmental and climate justice context, with an emphasis on solutions-centered work.

We are looking for work that investigates the environmental and ethical issues around the current state of fashion– from textile production to labor issues to consumer waste in the fashion industry. Critically, we are looking for work that imagines and explores solutions to the world of fashion, whether speculative or already in action. We are especially interested in work that celebrates existing underappreciated solutions, such as DIY attitudes in alternative subcultures, and slow fashion that may be inherent to a cultural dress.

Fibers work will be the heart of this show, but any artwork exploring fashion or fibers in a climate justice context as a theme is welcome. This is a national call to artists residing in the United States.

 

 

NIGHTSCAPE Vendor Application
deadline May 10
posted by Night Owl Gallery

First come, first served. Limited to 14 spaces. We will close application when space is full. An email with details about load-in will be sent on or by May 14. Items must be original art, handmade, unique, etc. No resellers, MLMs, Made-in-China, etc. Creative vintage welcome. Questions? Shoot us an email?

We have a very limited number of tables. If you can bring your own that would be best!

 

 

Artscape 2025 Volunteer
deadline May 16
posted by BOPA

BOPA is seeking enthusiastic and hardworking volunteers to support Artscape, May 24–25, 2025. Volunteers can expect to support different front-facing and behind-the-scenes areas alongside diverse groups of staff and volunteer teams. All volunteer opportunities require various levels of skill, commitment, flexibility, and are subject to availability. Volunteers will receive lunch, dinner, festival credentials, a certificate certifying volunteer hours, and a festival T-shirt.

 

 

Tulsa Artist Fellowship
deadline May 29

The open call for the 2026-2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship award will begin accepting applications on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, and close on Thursday, May 29, 2025.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship annually appoints arts experts working across the United States who represent a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines to join the application review process. Reviewers, including art world key players, visionary artists and arts workers, award alum, and essential Tulsa Artist Fellowship stakeholders, evaluate submissions independently and identify top candidates to interview.

Individuals with outreach-specific roles support the open call submission by leveraging their network of experienced creatives to help identify eligible candidates. This structure deepens the Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s connection to the expansive communities and practices that constitute the field of art.

A highly competitive application will exemplify the following criteria:

• Applicant has established a rigorous and innovative arts practice
• Making art in Tulsa feels meaningful to the applicant
• Proposed project is forward-thinking, demonstrates impactful community engagement, appears achievable, and will significantly contribute to Tulsa’s arts identity

 

 

AFRAM 2025 Vendor applications
deadline May 31

Showcase your business at AFRAM! Our festival is one of the largest African-American festivals on the East Coast, drawing crowds of up to 200,00. Don’t miss this chance to amplify your brand.

Please CLICK ON AND fill out the APPROPRIATE vendor application below. Once the form is complete, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO CONFIRM AND SUBMIT IT.

NOTE: THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT VENDOR APPLICATIONS IS MAY 31, 2025.

 

“Northernness” Call for Exhibition
deadline June 1
posted by LoosenArt

This call is open to all artists working with photography, video, and digital techniques who are interested in experiencing “Northernness.” The theme, which is intentionally broad, invites artists to engage with either the geographic—everything connected to ‘the North’—or an imagined place, shaped by mythology, imagination, and fantasy.

What is the North, and how can it be represented or perceived through images and visual arts?

 

 

Request for Proposals
deadline June 6
posted by The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture

The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture requests exhibition proposals from individuals, groups of artists, and curators for Glen Echo Park’s Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery, and Park View Gallery for the calendar year 2026.

The mission of the Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries is to promote the work of accomplished artists who represent the diversity of the region, including resident artists at Glen Echo Park and artists from the greater Washington, D.C. area. Our exhibitions showcase compelling and multifaceted work by artists from across the DMV, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds and creative practices. These exhibitions attract a wide range of visitors and bring new audiences to Glen Echo Park.

Popcorn Gallery showcases the work of established visual artists, including resident artists at Glen Echo Park, as well as artists from the greater Washington, D.C. area. This gallery presents group exhibitions and occasional solo exhibitions of established artists.

Stone Tower Gallery presents intimate exhibitions of work in the Park’s oldest historic structure. This gallery is a welcoming space for visitors and is well suited for installations, or solo and small group exhibitions.

Park View Gallery presents the work of emerging visual artists, including Glen Echo Park instructors and advanced students at the Park. This gallery is well suited for solo or small group exhibitions.

Questions? Email [email protected].

Please note: If you have exhibited work in a solo exhibition in one of these galleries within the current or previous calendar year (2024 or 2025), you are not eligible for consideration for a solo exhibition in 2026, but you may participate in a group exhibition.

Additional gallery schematics available upon request.

 

 

2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture
deadline June 9

Applications for the 2026 Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture and Fashion & Design are now open to immigrants under the age of 38. The Vilcek Foundation will award six $50,000 prizes to young immigrants who have demonstrated exceptional early-career achievements in the fields of Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture.

Fashion is a reflection of cultural shifts and serves as a powerful form of self-expression. From hair and clothing to jewelry and makeup, fashion trends speak volumes about a time and place in society. Immigrants enrich the fashion industry by contributing their unique traditions, perspectives, and styles.

Through the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion, the foundation aims to bring awareness to the many ways fashion—and the immigrants working in fashion-related fields—make our society better.

 

 

Call for Entries, Abandoned Landscape
deadline June 15
posted by SE Center for Photography

Rural or urban, desert or jungle, ancient to recent. The SE Center is looking for photographers who appreciate the ravages of time and create compelling images reflecting those effects around us. Color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our juror for The Abandoned Landscape is Constance Lewis. Constance Lewis holds a Fine Art degree in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She founded Opal Gallery, an Atlanta-based artist collective that exhibited the work of an international array of artists. She has studied photography conversation in Paris, France and her independent curatorial work includes exhibitions in Paris, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Mississippi. She has published; Oraien Catledge: Photographs ( University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and has worked with renowned photographers on multiple book projects.

35-40 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s virtual gallery space for approximately one month. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slideshow. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

 

 

Stove Works Residency
deadline June 15

From February through November of each year, Stove Works’ Artist Residency invites eight Artists to live/work for one to three months at a time. Our residency serves as a moment away from the rigamarole of life and an opportunity for Artists (for you) to take advantage of the dedicated time, space, resources, and community we have to offer.

We have no expectations for how Artists use their time at Stove Works. Do whatever is best for you. We ask only that you come with an open and kind mind. We believe the relationships you build onsite are as valuable as the work you create while you are here.

Our Open Call for Residency applications runs from May 15 – June 15 of each year. Scroll down for more information.