This Week: MD Film Fest preview event at the Parkway, ARTificial closing reception + screening, Express and Explore tour of Egyptian art at The Walters, Area 405 closing reception + perforamance, Station North Art Walk, ICE Out of Baltimore exhibition opening at Waller Gallery, Wye Oak Lecture with chef Michael W. Twitty at MCHC, Tea with Myrtis tribute to Billie Holliday, Pandora’s BoxX at Kreeger Museum, and The Bound and the Boundless closing reception at Red Giant — apply for The Rubys and more featured opportunities!
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Maryland Film Festival 2026 Preview Event
Wednesday, March 11 :: 7:30pm
@ SNF Parkway
Be the first to see what’s in store for MdFF 2026!
Join us for our annual Festival Preview Event as we unveil the full lineup of special events and exciting guests. Programming team members will share trailers, discuss highlights, and offer a special overview of five days of film and fun coming to the SNF Parkway and locations around Baltimore this April.
ARTificial | Closing Reception + Screening
Thursday, March 12:: 6-8pm
@ Maryland Art Place
Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to announce ARTificial, an exhibition in critical discourse with the utilization, implementation and innovation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in art making. ARTificial aims to explore the varied ways in which artists engage with AI and how it has shaped the arts since its inception. As access to AI tools increase – our engagement with AI informs how we interface with the environment, our communities, and our work.All artworks exhibited do not necessarily utilize AI – but challenge our perception of media, technology and digitization. Exhibiting artists critique, engage, reimagine and challenge AI as [simultaneously] a tool and collaborator – AI is a system shaped by human decisions, datasets and cultural assumptions – artists in dialogue with AI are unavoidably considering concepts surrounding ethics, authorship, bias and posthumanist sentiments. Collectively, the exhibition invites sustained reflection on how algorithmic technologies reshape aesthetic production and cultural meaning.
ARTificial is on view Thursday, January 22 – Mar 14, 2026.
Express and Explore Tour: Egypt in Color
Thursday, March 12 :: 6-6:30pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
Location: Meet in the Centre Street lobby
Although few intact examples survive today, ancient Egyptian life was studded with brilliant colors. Dive into a world of bold hues and modern twists as we reimagine the vibrant sights of the past through playful color and contemporary art, including this installation by Baltimore-based artist Jackie Milad. (Check out her BOOK created in conjunction with BmoreArt too!)
The Express and Explore Tour is a 30-minute art experience for adults that centers on creativity and connection. Led by museum staff, each tour features a different theme each month and allows participants to unplug and unwind in our galleries through playful activities.
405 DAILY Exhibition | Closing Reception
Friday, March 13 :: 5-9pm
@ Area 405
Closing Reception + Performance: Songs for Goat Skull by Lyn Goeringer
Performance @ 6:00 p.m.Join the Station North 2nd-Friday Art Walk and enjoy a performance by Lyn Goeringer: “Somewhere between ritual and improvisation, Songs for Goat Skull invites us to revive those lost dreams, to make a world the place we want it to be.”
Friday, March 13 :: 5-9pm
@ Station North Arts + Entertainment District
Join us for Second Friday Art Walks in the artistic heart of Baltimore. Enjoy an evening of simultaneous exhibitions, special events, and open studios at multiple venues in the Station North Arts District.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
ICE Out of Baltimore | Opening Reception
Friday, March 13 :: 5pm
@ Waller Gallery
Presenting ICE Out of Baltimore: an art exhibition featuring over 100 works of art by Baltimore artists who are using their work to uplift the fight for immigrant rights and to demand ICE OUT OF BALTIMORE! From Palestine to Mexico, all the border walls have got to go!
This art exhibition is free to all and will be on view at Waller Gallery from March 13th to April 3rd. The opening reception will be on March 13th at 5pm with music, speakers, and light refreshments provided.
100% of proceeds from artwork sold will be donated to impacted families through @cm_irc
Wye Oak Lecture—Why Maryland Matters: Tracing Maryland’s Culinary History
Saturday, March 14 :: 11am-12:30pm
@ Maryland Center for History and Culture
How did some of Maryland’s most popular dishes, including crab cakes, oysters, and the proud Old Bay Seasoning, come to be? Join Michael W. Twitty, James Beard Award winning culinary historian, as he takes attendees on a journey through Maryland’s culinary history, exploring the different regions’ connections to global roots, especially those of West and Central Africa and the African Atlantic. Author of The Cooking Gene and KOSHERSOUL, Twitty maps Maryland’s past and legacy from across the world right to your local market or restaurant, looking forward to current culinary trends and the food future.
Tea w/ Myrtis | Changamiré: A Tribute to Billie Holiday
Saturday, March 14:: 2-5m
@ Galerie Myrtis
Galerie Myrtis is pleased to announce a special anniversary edition of Tea with Myrtis, Changamiré: A Tribute to Billie Holiday, will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. at 2224 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD. This event is occurring in conjunction with the exhibition Art of the Collectors XI.
This curated listening salon features an intimate dialogue between acclaimed jazz vocalist Changamiré and Dr. Myrtis Bedolla, accompanied by vinyl selections from Seeking Billie: The Unusual Tribute to Billie Holiday. The program will also premiere Project 44, a new video series that connects Billie Holiday’s enduring legacy to the lived experiences of contemporary Black women.
Changamiré: A Tribute to Billie Holidayis a ticketed event ($40 per person). Advance registration is required, and seating is limited. The Seeking Billie LP will be available for purchase during the event.
Pandora’s BoxX Project: A Panel Discussion In Celebration of Women Artists and Cultural Visionaries
Saturday, March 14:: 3m
@ Kreeger Museum
Pandora’s BoxX is a photographic portrait project by Grace Roselli bringing together 360 portraits of women artists and cultural practitioners—cis, trans, and non-binary—who have shaped the visual arts from the 1960s to the present. Each portrait begins with a direct encounter in the subject’s own environment: an act of showing up and witnessing that cannot be outsourced or substituted. Sitters look directly into the camera and select the image that represents them, ensuring the portrait reflects how they wish to be seen. Spanning six decades of creative labor, the project forms an intergenerational record that asks who is remembered, who is left out, and how histories are built. These artists and visionaries are not only witnesses to art history—they are its authors.
Pandora’s BoxX Project: A Panel Discussion In Celebration of Women Artists and Cultural Visionaries’ brings together four women from the project’s multigenerational network of artists and art workers for a candid conversation about what it means to build a creative life over time. Moving from beginnings to visibility and survival, and ultimately to legacy, the panel will explore the influences that first sparked their paths, the realities of sustaining a practice, and the ways artists shape cultural memory for the generations that follow.
Guests may arrive at 2:00pm to visit the galleries before the panel.
Parking onsite is extremely limited and the use of rideshare is strongly encouraged.
The Bound and the Boundless | Closing Reception
Saturday, March 14:: 6-8pm
@ Red Giant
The Bound and the Boundless presents two solo exhibitions of recent work by Baltimore-based artists David Page and Sara Dittrich. For this presentation, the gallery divides into two distinct but related phases. The first phase is Displacement, a performance-activated sculpture by David Page that stages a restrained human figure. The second phase, We Continue to Rotate, is an interactive installation by Sara Dittrich featuring a projected cloudscape that examines the relationship between the body and time.
Featured Opportunities
Rooted: A Spring Art Exhibition
deadline March 19
posted by The Rawlings Conservatory
Exhibition Dates: April 1 – April 19, 2026
In this season of transition, as the Conservatory prepares for a major restoration, this exhibition offers an opportunity to celebrate the living world that surrounds us and of which we are a part. This exhibition takes the place of our annual spring flower display, which is on hiatus until construction is complete.
Folklife Apprenticeship
deadline March 20
posted by Maryland State Arts Council
Folklife Apprenticeships support traditional arts education by funding a mentor artist and apprentice artist to work together for one year.
During the grant period, the mentor artist passes down their knowledge to the apprentice artist.
Folklife Apprenticeships support living cultural traditions and are distinct from registered apprenticeships offered through the Maryland Apprenticeship Training Program (MATP) , which supports workforce development.
“Black-Eyed Susans: 50 Years of Creativity In Bloom–A Temporary Public Art Installation”.
deadline March 20
posted by the Frederick Arts Council
The Frederick Arts Council has opened a call to artists for an upcoming county-wide, temporary public art installation, “Black-Eyed Susans: 50 Years of Creativity In Bloom–A Temporary Public Art Installation”.
The exhibition will run throughout 2026 in various locations in Frederick County, Md with the first installation site in front of the YAAC, at 115 E Church St, Frederick.
“50 Years of Creativity InBloom” invites Maryland artists and artist teams to propose designs for a temporary public art installation celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Frederick Arts Council. This project will transform a public landscape through the massed repetition of individual Black-Eyed Susans, Maryland’s state flower, as a symbol of growth and renewal. Using the Black-Eyed Susan as a shared form, this project envisions vibrant fields that celebrate blossoming ideas, deep roots, planted seeds, and a future shaped together. Through repetition, color, and scale, the installation will transform a public landscape into a place of brightness, imagination, and forward momentum. The Black-eyed Susan is a flower rich in symbolism, offering messages of hope, truth, resilience and healing. Must be a Maryland artist.
Artists are encouraged to interpret the individual Black-Eyed Susan broadly—literal, abstracted, symbolic, or experimental—while contributing to a cohesive visual experience that feels alive, expansive, and optimistic.
Artists may propose materials of their choosing. Collaborative proposals welcome. This opportunity is open to professional artists and artist teams. Proposals will be reviewed based on: Artistic vision and originality, alignment with themes of growth, innovation, and optimism, feasibility, thoughtful use of materials, and production plan, the ability to create a strong collective visual impact, and the potential for collaboration and public engagement.
Rubys Artist Grants — Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
deadline March 23
posted by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
The 2026 Rubys Artist Grant applications open Monday, February 23, 2026, at 12:00pm.
The award invites artists in Performing Arts and Visual Arts categories to apply, and projects will be reviewed by experts in those disciplines. The new Alumni Grant can also be found via the same link below. Outstanding projects will move on to round two, where applicants will be asked to outline their full project narrative, budget, and public components.
Scout Art Fair 2026 – Artist Application
deadline March 27
posted by Creative Baltimore
Scout Art Fair will take place at the War Memorial Building in Baltimore, Maryland, May 21-24, 2026, in partnership with Artscape. With artwork priced between $150 and $5,000 created by both emerging and established artists from Baltimore and the surrounding region, Scout creates opportunities for collectors and newcomers alike to invest in exceptional contemporary art.
Scout Art Fair was founded on the belief that art should be accessible to all — and that creativity should be an integral part of everyday life. Scout creates opportunities for collectors at every level and supports Baltimore artists in sharing their work with a wider audience. By prioritizing affordability, Scout serves as an inclusive and engaging platform that fosters a culture of art appreciation and ownership while highlighting the vibrant artistic talent of Baltimore and Maryland.
The inaugural event was conceptualized by renowned artist and Baltimore native Derrick Adams, with assistant curation by Teri Henderson.
Artist Fellowships and Residencies programs
deadline April 1
posted by Baltimore Clayworks
Baltimore Clayworks is now accepting applications for the Lormina Salter Fellowship, EMBARC Fellowship, and our Long‑Term & Short‑Term Artist Residencies. Become part of a vibrant, clay‑centered community and take your practice to the next level.
Residencies begin September 2026.
Out of Order + KOOOO Installation Day
April 4 :: 7am-midnight
@ Maryland Art Place
Submission Requirements and Install:
Any artist is welcome to hang one original work of art on a first-come, first-served basis. Installation will take place Saturday, April 4, 2026, from 7am-midnight. We will have donuts and coffee for the early birds. No need to sign up in advance, just come by MAP’s first- floor gallery space @ 218 West Saratoga Street in the Bromo Arts District! You must be able to install your own work on April 4th to participate in the exhibition.
Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to announce Out of Order (OOO), MAP’s Annual Spring Benefit Exhibition & Silent Auction, on Friday, April 10, 2026, at 6 o’clock in the evening. This year marks the 29th year of OOO. The auction will be both a virtual and physical exhibition and will be held in the MAP building located at 218 West Saratoga Street, just within the Bromo Arts District. OOO is a highly celebrated exhibition-event, and a ‘one-night-only’ opportunity for patrons and collectors to acquire contemporary art at unbelievably low silent auction prices.
MAP is happy to continue KIDOOO, a youth version of Out of Order. KIDOOO was created as an opportunity for young artists to exhibit their work in a major arts venue, extending MAP’s services to students in elementary, middle, and high school level art classes.
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