This Week: Terry Thompson at Eubie Blake, Baltimore Black Dance Collective at The Gordon Center, Maryland Arts Day, The Chicory Project at The Walters, Teri Henderson and Tracey Beale in conversation at The BMA, performance by Mandy Brown at Peabody Library, 405 Daily exhibition opening at Area 405, Voices in Solidarity at The Lewis Museum, opening reception for Erica Soohyun Kim at Ink Spot Press, Shades of Black Film Fest at CCCC, free admission for Tom Miller Day at MCHC, opening reception for Gina Pierleoni at The Peale — PLUS and more featured opportunities!
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Terry Thompson, BHCLA Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday, February 11 :: 4-8pm
@ Eubie Blake Cultural Center
Please join us for an exciting opportunity to talk with BHCLA Artist in Residence Terry Thompson for our fourth Helena Hicks Speaker of the season. He will give a short address reflecting on his artistic career, participate in a live oral history interview recording, and host an open Q&A with the audience. The Peabody Graduate Jazz Fellowship will perform a number of jazz selections to kick off the evening.
Please note that Black Culture Builders of Baltimore Coworking begins at 4pm in the same space!
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Terry Thompson is a self-taught American artist, born in Chicago, Illinois. He currently lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland. He also well-known veteran club dj/producer/promoter with releases on the London, UK record label Defected. During the 80’s, Thompson often decorated nightclub parties with his photo-montages and collage works. He produced numerous events over the years including massive parties during the famed Winter Music Conference in Miami. In 1990, Thompson moved to a loft space in downtown Baltimore after a successful Army career. During that period he started his art career with small shows in his loft and eventually branch out to local exhibitions while simultaneously dj’ing and working in corporate America. His art creativity began with figurative collages and paintings influenced by Romare Bearden, Picasso, Miro, Modigliani, and his long-time friend, Spanish painter Salvador Bru. Today, Thompson has his own vocabulary that is a unique blend of colors, shapes, forms, and motifs inspired by dance/dj culture, fashion, design, dreamscapes, and experimental vistas.
Thompson held Artist-in-residence from 1999-2004 at School 33 Art Center. Thompson participated in various exhibitions including: Bianco e Nero, YART Gallery Baltimore (2019), Post Cards from the Edge, Bortolami Gallery (2019) New York, ATM at the Former Robert Miller Gallery (2018) New York, Post Cards from the Edge at Gallery 524 (2018) New York, The ArtBox Project 1.0, Basel, Switzerland (2017), Post Cards from the Edge, Metro Pictures (2017) New York, Art Takes Miami at Scope (2014), Scope, Miami (2012), Sub-Basement Art Gallery (2004, 2008), Galerie Francoise (2012), Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (1998). He holds a Masters of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University.
Celebration: Uplifting & Honoring the Culture & History of Black Dance
Wednesday, February 11 :: 7:30pm
@ The Gordon Center
In partnership with the Baltimore Black Dance Collective, the Gordon Center presents a celebration of the history, diversity, and beauty that resides within African American Culture through the voices of community artists from around Baltimore County.
CELEBRATION is an evening of powerful performances that honors and uplifts cultural storytelling. Held in February in recognition of Black History Month, this dynamic event features local professional dance companies, student ensembles from Baltimore County Public Schools, and performances from local Baltimore-area dance studios. Hosted in partnership with the Baltimore Black Dance Collective, the showcase reflects the richness and diversity of the African Diaspora through movement, music, and community. It is a vibrant gathering that bridges generations and celebrates the legacy and future.
Featuring original dance performances by artists, companies, studios, students and schools in our local community, the showcase highlights select dance works in an eclectic range of styles from ballet to hip hop to liturgical and more.
Participants include:
• Keur Khaleyi African Dance Company
• Full Circle Dance Company
• Dance & Bmore
• Coppin Dance Company
• Stephanie Powell Danse Ensemble
• George Washington Carver Junior Dance Ensemble
• Milford Mill Dance Company
• Sudbrook Magnet Middle Dance Ensemble
• Baltimore County Public Schools All County Dance Ensemble
• Baltimore Dance Tech Hip Hop Ensemble
• Symmetry Arts
• Morton Street Dance Center
• Maryland Academy of Dance
Thursday, February 12
@ St. John’s College, Annapolis
Maryland Arts Day is the largest annual gathering of arts professionals in Maryland. With more than 500 participants, representing every county in the state and Baltimore City, this statewide arts advocacy event connects artists, educators, administrators, volunteers and trustees with lawmakers from every legislative district in Maryland. Maryland Arts Day needs your participation to show strong support for the arts in Maryland and its impact on the economic and cultural vitality of the state.
Black History Month Performance: The Chicory Project
Thursday, February 12 :: 6-7pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
Location: Sculpture Court
Registration requested.
Join us for an evening of living Black history! Witness Baltimore’s contemporary griots channel the spirit of Chicory magazine—uncensored, urgent, and unbroken—for Black History Month.
Almost 60 years ago, a literary revolution spilled onto Baltimore’s streets when Chicory magazine became the people’s pulpit: a raw, unfiltered outlet where Black residents transformed grocery lists into manifestos, porch conversations into sonnets, and pain into power. For decades, its pages held the city’s breath. Now, The Chicory Project—a print and digital publication dedicated to showcasing the diverse, dynamic voices of Baltimore—resurrects that radical ethos and has constructed new soapboxes to carry on its legacy. In the Sculpture Court of the Walters Art Museum, featured poets invited by The Chicory Project will stand where marble statues loom and share poems forged in the same fire that birthed Chicory, thus reclaiming space in honor of the voices history has tried to silence.
Art History Happy Hour: Teri Henderson & Tracey Beale
Thursday, February 12 :: 6-8:30pm
@ The Baltimore Museum of Art
This lively evening of engaging interactives, specialty drinks, and community gathering is perfect for the art-curious!
We’ll be joined by curator, author, and arts editor Teri Henderson and Tracey Beale, artist, jewelry designer, and Director of Public Programs at the BMA, to explore Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Activities will take place in Fox Court.
Inspired by Sherald’s painting If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It (2019), a title borrowed from Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon (1977), guests are invited to look closely, disconnect from technology, and enter a meditative flow of art making and writing.
This event is for adults age 21 and older. Please see Accessibility at BMA for additional resources to support your visit.
In the Stacks: Facets of Love with Mandy Brown
Thursday, February 12 :: 6:30-7:30pm
@ George Peabody Library
Soprano Mandy Brown and pianist Tatiana Loisha will present Facets of Love: Receiving & Reflecting Love’s Light, a concert that blends poetry with music to celebrate love in its many forms.
Reaching beyond the romantic, the program features works that explore the depth and complexity of love’s expressions, including unrequited love, self-love, friendship, familial bonds, and loss. Robert Schumann’s Widmung, Dvořák’s Songs My Mother Taught Me, and Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3 will be featuredalongside other music centered on the experience of receiving and sharing love.
To mark the occasion, rare love songs and historic valentines from the Sheridan Libraries’ Special Collections will be on display for one night only. Join us to celebrate love in one of the world’s most beautiful libraries.
405 DAILY Exhibition | Opening Reception
Friday, February 13 :: 5-9pm
@ Area 405
AREA 405 presents 405 DAILY, its first tenant exhibition, featuring works by seventeen (17) former and current building artists and the Station North Tool Library. On view from February 13 to March 13, 2026, the exhibition adopts the format of a newspaper, with the curator assuming the role of journalist to document the day-to-day lives of artists working upstairs.
The exhibition takes shape through curator Joyce Liang’s reflection on the static public image of AREA 405. It explores how public memory is shaped by headlines, whose prominence is closely related to their ability to trigger emotional responses. While early press coverage of the building largely focused on moments of crisis and transition, this exhibition turns viewers’ attention to what continues beyond such events. Framed as a manifesto, it asserts that everyday life, and often undocumented experiences, constitute the majority of AREA 405’s lived history.
In the curator’s diaries, Liang wrote: “Since [the public announcement of its reopening], I find people’s impressions of [AREA 405] somewhat unchanged, as if its public presence has been frozen on the date of that piece of news…Major events in the history of 405 like this often spread to a wider audience because of their simplicity and intensity, and I realize that this phenomenon applies similarly to other major events in human history.”
The exhibition also challenges the hierarchy of headlines, recognizing that those appearing in The New York Times carry different weight than those published in community newspapers. This distinction, however, is not a judgment of significance; it is an acknowledgment that, within a community, its own headlines reflect what matters most to its members, regardless of the relative importance of national news. […]
This exhibition is part of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)’s Bicentennial celebration and includes a Gallery Naming Ceremony in honor of Dr. Leslie King Hammond on Friday, February 20, 2026, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The exhibition also presents a month-long series of tenant-led workshops, performances, and open studios.
Saturday, February 14 :: 11am-3:30pm
@ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Voices in Solidarity: Baltimore’s Black and Jewish Operatic History, a collaborative partnership between Opera Baltimore, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland launches with a powerful kick-off event at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on February 14th, 2026. Join us for an immersive public program using vocal music as a lens to explore the deep roots and lasting resonance of Black musical traditions shaped by migration, resilience, and artistic exchange in Baltimore.
The day begins with a moderated panel featuring scholars, archivists, and performers. including acclaimed Baltimore-born opera singer Daniel Rich. Anchored by artifacts from the Lewis Museum, the panel explores themes of tradition, support, tension, and solidarity across Black and Jewish communities. The afternoon culminates in a recital by Daniel Rich, tracing his personal and artistic journey through opera, musical theater, spirituals, and new works by Baltimore composers, reflecting the sound, stories and ongoing artistic excellence of Black Baltimore. Daniel will be joined by poet, singer, and visual artist Vincent Stringer and pianist, JoyAnne Amani
Lunch Service: Boxed Lunch is available during this event for pre -purchase for a $20 fee. Boxed lunch includes a sandwich, chips, small coleslaw or potato salad, fresh baked cookie, and a bottle of water. Lunch orders are limited to 2 per registration.
Brutal Cuteness: recent prints by Erica Soohyun Kim | Opening Reception
Saturday, February 14 :: 2-4pm
@ Ink Spot Press
Erica Soohyun Kim is a recent graduate of MICA. The theme of her work is the struggle between cuteness and self-definition.
Erica says “as an Asian girl I was exposed to a lot of cuteness… I rebelled against this and became a tomboy. Recently, though, I have come to see that cuteness, or childishness, is innate in us all.” She invented the character Poopalina, a small, cute, but homicidal creature.
Erica works in a variety of printmaking mediums. The show will feature lithographs, etchings, monotypes, and chine colle; also animation, and Erica’s hand printed books.
“Brutal Cuteness” opens on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2026, with a reception from 2:00-4:00 pm
The show will also be open February 15th, 21st, and 22nd, 2:00-4:00 pm
The Ink Spot Press is located at 943 N. Calvert St in Baltimore’s Mt Vernon.
Saturday, February 14 :: 6pm
@ Charm City Cultural Cultivation
Spend Black History Month with CCCC as we host The Shades of Black Film Fest emphasizing the spectrum of Black life across the diaspora. Every Saturday in February, we will show a movie that celebrates art, love, culture and unadulterated Black joy!
Film Screening Start Feb 7 from 6-8pm/ Refreshments will be provided
Doors open 6pm. Screening begins promptly at 6:30p
Film Screening Schedule: Saturdays throughout the month of February.
2/7- The Last Angel of History
Directed by John Akomfrah
2/14- Love Jones
Directed by Theodore Witcher
2/21- Lover’s Rock
Directed by Steve McQueen (Film Selection by Lawrence Burney)
2/28- The Wiz
Directed by Sidney Lumet (FIlm Selection by Derrick Adams)
Tom Miller Day—Free Museum Admission
Sunday, February 15
@ Maryland Center for History and Culture
In celebration of Tom Miller Day, enjoy a day of free Museum admission. View Tom Miller’s Summer in Baltimore triptych painting, on display in Collecting Maryland: Art, Artifacts, Community.
Objects Made Holy | Opening Reception
Sunday, February 15 :: 1-4pm
@ The Peale
Join us for the Opening Reception of moving exhibit from Gina Pierleoni, Objects Made Holy
Curated by Gina Pierleoni with a short film by Myles Banks, this exhibit brings together 40 Baltimore City residents, the objects they consider sacred, and the moving stories that transform how these items are experienced. A spoon is never just a spoon.
Featured Opportunities
Artist to Artist Consulting with Jeffrey Kent
BmoreArt’s C+C program is offering a FREE professional development opportunity for artists.
Led by artist Jeffrey Kent, this exclusive opportunity is available to a limited number of applicants. Individualized consultations will be catered to the goals of each artist according to where they are in their career. Sessions may include: developing your artist portfolio, curating an online presence, grants and residencies, negotiating or presenting a studio, engaging with collectors, placing your work in museums, and more.
Sessions will be scheduled directly between participants and Jeffrey. All artists are welcome to apply—there are no qualifications that would make you under- or overqualified. Space is extremely limited, and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Grants for Arts Projects
deadline February 12
posted by National Endowment for the Arts
he NEA is committed to supporting excellent arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Activities funded through Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. We also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities. We strongly encourage applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities. We welcome applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.
We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.
2026 Baltimore City Black History Month Parade
deadline February 16
posted by The Mayor’s Office
Dependable engaging volunteers are needed to make the 2026 Baltimore City Black History Month Parade a memorable event and the best parade on the east coast. Review the options below and sign up where you’d like to volunteer. Please be flexible because you may be asked to assist with a task different than originally assigned. A virtual volunteer meeting will be held. You’re encouraged to wear clothing honoring Black History colors: red, green, yellow and black.
* Please make every effort to keep your volunteer commitment as no-shows greatly impact event execution. We need you!
Installation Residency
deadline February 19
posted by Kutztown University
The Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is seeking proposals for a site-specific immersive gallery installation piece, culminating after a 4 week in person artist residency.
This artist residency provides artists with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research, practice, and creative endeavors. We encourage proposals from artists, crafts persons, and designers for the production of this original, temporary, site-specific installation for our university’s primary exhibition space. International artists are eligible for this residency. We cannot offer visa sponsorships for this opportunity.
The selected artist (or artist team) will receive $10,000 (in installments, see below). The payment to the artist must cover all material and labor costs associated with the production of the work : all materials and manufacturing costs, meals, advanced tech items, transportation costs, housing, and all artist fees and honoraria. No additional funding will be provided beyond the $10,000 stipend.
Application Echoes of the City Stages: Capturing the Rhythm and Heartbeat of the City
deadline February 20
posted by Create Baltimore
Create Baltimore (formerly Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts) is seeking local bands and musicians of all genres to perform at Artscape 2026 — the largest free arts festival in the country.
This is your opportunity to bring your sound to thousands of festival-goers and be part of Baltimore’s most visible and celebrated cultural event.
If you make music in this city, we want to hear from you!
Pop-Up Performances at Artscape
deadline February 20
posted by Create Baltimore
Create Baltimore is accepting applications for Pop-Up Performances at Artscape 2026.
We are seeking innovative, imaginative, and audience-engaging pop-ups that activate the festival in unexpected ways. These performances may be stationary or roaming and will take place throughout the Artscape footprint.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Artists and performers presenting original, professional-quality work designed to captivate, surprise, and delight festival audiences.
Pop-Up Performances may include (but are not limited to):
Live painting or visual art activations
Dance troupes or movement-based work
Stilt walkers or immersive characters
Interactive performance or experimental acts
Any unique, mobile, or site-responsive performance
If it’s creative, engaging, and unexpected — we want to see it!
HER Maryland: Stories that Inspire. Maryland Women Icons Group Exhibition Application
deadline February 22
posted by Chesapeake Arts Center
Please use this form to apply for Chesapeake Arts Center’s HER Maryland: Stories that Inspire Exhibition. Artworks must contain either images of Maryland women icons or can contain the concept of in the submission.
All mediums of artwork will be considered for this exhibition. There are also no restrictions on size as long as the work can fit in the gallery, and nontraditional mediums are welcomed. Artworks must be made by Women artists in Maryland or D.C area and created within the last 2 years. In addition, artworks must contain either images of Maryland women icons or can contain the concept of in the submission.
The Make Space Accelerator Program
deadline February 27
posted by Make Space
The Make Space Accelerator is a creative home-buying program especially designed for artists and creative entrepreneurs.
Our 8-week program has been built to share and stress the importance of having and maintaining a community-based arts practice and sharing your skills to transform your surroundings. This program is educational and designed to be active, participatory and rigorous. Most of the training and workshops happen in-person, some are virtual. We estimate 60-70 hours needed to devote to this program. At the end of the program participants will be able to purchase one of the Make Space homes of their choosing for below market value and receive a 5k closing cost credit towards one of the Make Space homes.
The Make Space Accelerator Program is A 60-hour, home buying program for Baltimore creatives ready to build sustainable livelihoods and community power by becoming homeowners in the Mount Clare Community.
Ten Tiny Dances at Le Mondo
deadline February 27
posted by B&B Collective
Ten Tiny Dances is an intimate, site-specific dance performance platform featuring short original works performed on a 4’ x 4’ stage. This unique format challenges artists to adapt their movement vocabulary to sixteen square feet, encouraging innovation, clarity, and creative risk-taking across all dance styles and traditions, including contemporary, experimental, cultural, street, and traditional forms.
This open call welcomes Baltimore-based independent dance artists and college-level dancers across all genres. Selected artists will present their work inside Le Mondo, offering audiences an accessible and close-range experience of Baltimore’s diverse dance community.
All selected artists will receive a flat performance stipend of $100 for their contribution.
The Weight We Carry: Mental Health Awareness Month Exhibition Application
deadline March 6
posted by Chesapeake Arts Center
Please use this form to apply for Chesapeake Arts Center’s The Weight We Carry: Mental Health Awareness Month Exhibition.
All mediums of artwork will be considered for this exhibition. There are also no restrictions on size as long as the work can fit in the gallery, and nontraditional mediums are welcomed. Artworks must be made by artists in the Maryland or D.C. area and created within the last 2 years.
Call for Proposals
deadline March 6
posted by Georgetown Heritage Arts
As we develop the Arts & Culture program, we invite artists and creative practitioners to submit conceptual proposals for temporary public art installations to take place in calendar year 2027 and beyond. This initiative aims to strengthen Georgetown’s cultural identity through thoughtful, site-specific public art, while creating opportunities for artists to engage meaningfully with one of Washington, DC’s most historic neighborhoods.
Interlude Artist Residency
deadline March 7
What’s Included: Private studio with 24-hour access, private two-bedroom living space, shared kitchen and common areas, two weekly catered family meals, stocked kitchen, $595 stipend, and curated studio visits with Hudson Valley arts professionals.
Your Family, Your Way: Attend with your children on-site, bring additional family to help with childcare, or come solo—whatever works best for you. We offer individualized childcare planning and connect you with vetted local providers, camps, and programming. The property includes play spaces, a kids’ art studio, and outdoor areas designed with families in mind.
Community: Two carefully matched artist/family units share each session, creating meaningful connection with peers who understand the joys and challenges of making art while raising children.
Studios: Climate-controlled spaces with beautiful views, lofted areas, WiFi, and sinks. Work in any medium except highly toxic materials. No ceramics facilities, kiln, or woodshop available.
The Resident Artist Program
deadline March 13
posted by Creative Alliance
The Resident Artist Program is a collaborative live/work residency at Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD designed for artists seeking sustained time, space, and community to focus on their practice. For over a decade, the program has supported artists from Baltimore and beyond through reduced-rent studio housing, professional development opportunities, and ongoing engagement within a creative environment.
From an artist’s perspective, the residency offers both mental and physical space to challenge, deepen, and sustain an art practice over time. Resident artists balance independent studio practice with cohort-based programming, opportunities to share their work publicly, and ongoing community engagement—with fellow resident artists, within Southeast Baltimore, and across the city’s broader arts ecosystem. The experience is shaped by Creative Alliance’s multidisciplinary, community-centered setting, encouraging artists to consider their practice in conversation with different artistic styles, approaches, and audiences.
The program centers on ongoing artistic production, professional development, peer exchange, and public engagement through exhibitions and events. Artists are supported not only through physical space, but through access to resources, networks, and a community that extends beyond the residency period.
