The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Aaron Dante interviews Cara Ober, Lisa Snowden, and Michael Teitelbaum at Pratt Central Library; Transformer's Summer Soirée; Truepenny Projects presents Salty by AJ Clauss at The Voxel; a works on paper opening reception at Grimaldis Gallery; Dr. Sketchy celebrates 17 years and more!
Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National Aquarium
"The words ‘childlike wonder’ come up with all of them. That's what the artists want to invoke in attendees—inviting adults back to play, realizing the power in being in that space."
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: GBCA announces the 2025 Baker Artist Awardees, several local arts organizations celebrate World Environment Day, Happy 50th Baltimore Pride, Tony Shore and Phaan Howng light up Station North, a Banner interview with Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives, and more!
Evan Nicole Bell (Music), Monica Ikegwu (Visual Arts), Chung-Wei Huang (Film/ Video), Lola B. Pierson (Performing Arts), and Lysley Tenorio (Literary Arts), each receive a $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize
Bruce Willen was selected to receive the 2025 $40,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, the largest art prize in the region.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: CPM's Art Matters (in Baltimore) seminar, VILLAGER opening reception at Motor House, closing reception for The Walter's School Partner Showcase, TURNSTILE: NEVER ENOUGH screening at SNF Parkway, Baltimore Clayworks Seconds Sale Preview Party, Wickerham & Lomax opening reception and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Artscape 2025 reviews are in, Kimi Yoshino leaves Baltimore for Washington, The Driskell Center aquires a Megan Lewis painting, John Waters brings in the crowds, Good Contrivance Farm writer's retreat, Baltimore's first annual Puerto Rican weekend celebration, and more!
Family, Friends, and Colleagues Reflect on the Loss of the Artist and Advocate for Baltimore’s Creative Community
"She was very humble and did not want to put herself above the artists she worked hard for. I think reading these tributes she would be partially embarrassed at being celebrated but also touched to know the work she did mattered."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: CLLCTIVLY presents We Give Black, VisArts May Opening Celebration, The Lost Weekend at Greedy Reads, The IN Series: ETHIOPIA at Baltimore Theatre Project, Vagabond Players' PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, Earl Arnett book launch and jazz performance at An Die Musik, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Artscape updates, Trans Visibility quilt displayed on the Mall, Preakness past and present in photos, Joyce J. Scott receives honorary doctorate from UB, John Waters weighs in on Carly Hayden's firing and how to (mis)behave at his book signings, Guns of Steel, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: UMBC Senior Thesis opening reception, closing reception for Jonna McKone and Elena Volkva at Connect + Collect, Cathy Cook Film Retrospective at Current Space, John Waters book signing at Atomic Books, opening reception for Piper Shepard at Academy Art Museum, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Honorary MICA degrees for Christopher Myers and George Ciscle, Baltimore turns up for Turnstile, reactions to Dr. Carla Hayden's firing, coleman a. jordan | ebo at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennial, the lasting legacy of Black Cherry Puppet Theater, and more!
A Long-Overdue Monograph Offers a Complex Portrait of the Man Who Documented Baltimore's Seedy Underbelly
This month, storied art publisher Phaidon ships a hefty tome dedicated to one of the city's most overlooked (but important) photographers, who immortalized a sleazy queer Baltimore that no longer exists.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: JOCK’N BLUES unveiling + reception at BLIFTD ART STVDIOS, May Bromo Art Walk, Chew-Ache opening reception at The Compound, Preakness Festival 150 opening reception at MAP, MICA ArtWalk Opening and Exhibition, opening reception for Hosey Corona at Creative Alliance, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Julia M. Alexander passes away from heart attack, The Banner wins a Pulitzer, The Phillips Collection appoints Tiffany McGettigan and Clarisse Fava-Piz, 2025 Screenwriters Competition announced, BMA's upcoming exhibition The Way of Nature, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
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, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Graham Projects gets a home in Station North, the inaugural Scout Art Fair at Artscape 2025, Baltimore Center Stage news, Asia North and AVAM's Kinetic Sculpture Race return for 2025, Kennedy Center cancels Pride celebration, Tavish Forsyth's bare backlash, and more!
Music, Poetry, and a Love Letter to Baltimore: Annual Gathering of Activists and Artists is Growing
Judah Adashi hated the idea that Freddie Gray would be forgotten to most people, especially in Baltimore. Through music and art, he wanted to change that.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: MICA MFA Grad Film Showcase at SNF Parkway, Inviting Light panel discussion at MICA's Lazarus Center, the Banneker Douglass Tubman Museum celebrates International Jazz Day, Micah E. Wood and Christopher Chester at Enoch Pratt Central Branch, Ghost Rivers walking tour and more!
