How a full-time artist and a Baltimore City councilperson have built their art collection
“Everything in this house represents the person, so every piece of art is an intimate connection to that artist,” Fostel says. “Having their work on our walls constantly keeps them in mind.”
Building an archive of everyday Black life and culture
A conversation with conceptual artist and photographer Larry Cook and gallery owner/director Myrtis Bedolla
Why doesn’t Baltimore’s collecting institution buy more art from the artists who live and work here?
You would think that I would be on the same page as our major collecting institution in Baltimore, but I do not understand their “art math.”
ICA Baltimore's Flat File Program offers a wide range of materials, styles, and price points
ICA Baltimore is a volunteer-run art space that looks to promote the professional development of Baltimore and regional visual artists through our programs.
Beautiful handmade craft items envisioned as Dutch still life tableaux
Although businesses are struggling because of Covid restrictions, this season we wanted to make it easier to patronize Baltimore-based artists and shops and to luxuriate in the amazing range of quality that you can support through your purchases.
A redesign for Necessary Tomorrows includes a new online exhibition featuring Kirby Griffin, Gyasi Mitchell, Glenford Nuñez, and Sharayna Christmas
Christmas is an immovable force in the Baltimore arts landscape, a textbook multihyphenate mother, dancer, producer, and the founder of the nonprofit arts organization Muse 360 Arts.
The range of works in Copeland’s collection highlights her discerning interests and tastes
Copeland's collection is a reflection of the depth and width of her 30-year career in museums: contemporary art, functional works traditionally sidelined as craft, and objects of historical importance for what they remind us about where we come from.
A fall fashion shoot at the Baltimore Jewelry Center
Contemporary art jewelry, designed to be beautiful and comfortable, enhances the wearer's daily experience.
Liz Faust, Thomas James, Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton, Giulia Piera Livi
This edition of Quarantine Diaries features five Baltimore-based gallerists and curators who have adapted their practices to create new opportunities for artists to survive and thrive through quarantine
What an interior space tells us about its occupants
"Many designers and architects develop a look or aesthetic that defines their craft but for me, I had been raised to look for the narrative that gave each place its soul and identity."
Three artists work within AFRO American Newspapers' archives
This new phase of programming allows us to congregate and experience art together safely, on the street or in our cars from a distance.
The Hampden-based progressive studio encourages artists’ autonomy and creative expression
Progressive art studios are philosophically integral to disability rights and social justice.
A Charles Village Home Filled with Contemporary Art
What doesn’t fit in their apartment waits in storage as they rotate pieces in and out, rendering their home as both a gallery and a domestic space, enriched by their love for art and artists.
Three Baltimore-based Artists Exhibiting Together
This edition of Quarantine Diaries features three artists whose exhibition at BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery was postponed.
In Church’s world, bodies are much more likely to remain isolated than to touch
Now the textures of the art I have collected are more real, more tangible, than the textures of human faces.
NMWA’s collecting practices have significantly diversified the art world since 1987
NMWA’s recent acquisitions include 166 photos by Mary Ellen Mark, a mixed-media portrait by Delita Martin, three large-scale photos by Rania Matar, and a six-foot-long chandelier by Joana Vasconcelos
Adapting to virtual platforms, cooperative sales models, and what a future art world could look like
FAIR was designed for the internet and functions with a profit-sharing model with percentages going directly to artists and their galleries, a cooperative gallery sales pool, and a cooperative artists sales pool, with a smaller percentage going back to NADA.
Performance artist Monsieur Zohore collaborates with NY galleries New Release and Palo to raise legal funds for protestors
All proceeds go directly to Baltimore Action Legal Team, an organization that offers legal services to protesters and has been operating a bail fund since April 2015
