In an age of online stay-at-home comfort, it can be intimidating to try a new place and meet new people. This is one reason BmoreArt has continued our tradition of hosting release parties in different iconic Baltimore locations, spaces that would otherwise require an invite to a private event. Like the city itself, our online and print publication is brimming with opportunities to experience excellence, to feel the pride of belonging to something larger than oneself.
On May 15, we celebrated the release of BmoreArt’s 19th issue themed around hidden gems at True Chesapeake with all of the featured artists, contributors, advertisers, and our subscribing members at the Artist level and above.
Issue 19 highlights Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life. This issue reveals a thriving hub of culture workers, events, traditions, and institutions that bend over backwards to entice us.
Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations. It’s the perfect city for people who enjoy making discoveries and having adventures. Wealth is not a harbinger of taste in Baltimore; rather it’s a confidence in ones’ own agency, a fierce independence honed by authentic experience.
Baltimore truly is a city of artists. BmoreArt plays a critical role in our cultural ecosystem by providing an independent, regional platform for creative communities to share their work and ideas with new audiences through print and online media, bespoke art books, and events of all kinds.
Thank you to our advertising sponsors including the Baker Artist Awards, Visit Baltimore, Creative Alliance, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Phaidon & the Amos Badertscher Foundation, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Rubys Grants, Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), Alex Cooper Auctioneers, The Charles and Senator Movie Theatres, Academy Art Museum, the MFA Program at Wilson College, the Walters Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art on our back cover. It truly takes a village of support – and we all benefit from collective success.
Many thanks to True Chesapeake for hosting our release party on May 15 with sponsorship from Union Brewing and the Baltimore Spirits Company.
To all of our subscribing members who attend our events, share our online stories, and receive our print journals in the mail, thank you for helping us to to do the work that we do. If you’re reading this now and didn’t realize BmoreArt offers membership plans at varying levels of engagement, I hope you will consider joining our growing community. As we move forward into increasingly unprecedented times, we need each other more than ever—and so do Baltimore’s hidden gems.
