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!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Baltimore City's New Office of Art and Culture, AVAM announces Ellen Owens as new director, Amy Sherald profiled by Jerry Salz, John Waters goes to jail for a good cause, The Great Migration travels to Chicago, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Creative Alliance 30th Anniversary Marquee Ball, Earth Day at The Crow's Nest, The Queen-tet performance at the Peabody Library, MICA Grad Show III, Anacostia Portraits at DC Film Fest, Clavel at The Walters for a tepache tasting, Baker Artist Awards Celebration at the BMA, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Devin Allen reflects on his fame, Baltimore 10 years after Freddie Gray's murder, Amy Sherald continues to be sublime, a Maya Angelou reading protest in Annapolis, new season announcements from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and the BSO, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Strong, Bright, Useful & True at JHU Bloomberg Frary Gallery, GBCA Happy Hour honoring Carla Du Pree at The Peale, Jonna McKone and Elena Volkova at BmoreArt Connect + Collect, reception for Soledad Salamé at Goya Contemporary, Rachel Hayden at Current Space, and more!
Three Exhibitions Hit a Raw Nerve at a Time of Global Environmental Crisis
The Baltimore Museum of Art marked its 110th anniversary by launching the Turn Again to the Earth initiative. The goal: to encourage conversation and action around climate change and the role of the museum.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Goya Contemporary welcomed to ADAA, Guerilla Girls exhibition at NMWA, Nas performs 'Illmatic' with BSO, Fitsum Shebshe curates and online NADA show, Devin Allen and two new earth-based exhibitions at the BMA, John Waters news, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Artist Julia Kim Smith's Concrete Poetry 2 with author David Beaudouin at The Ivy, Piñata making and Great Lantern Parade artist talk presented by MICA + Creative Alliance, Latinx Artist Happy Hour at The Empanada Lady, Sarah Lewis kicks off the Sam Gilliam Lecture Series and more!
J.M. Giordano's photos offer proof that the art of the protest sign is alive and well
Washington DC was just one of hundreds of rallies hosted across the country protesting Trump policies
ONE FIGHT, ONE FUTURE, Hosted by Free State Coalition, Photos by Elena Volkova
Colorful Signs, Speakers, and Peaceful Protest on April 5, 2025, at City Hall in Baltimore City, part of a the national Hands Off Day
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Micah E. Wood and Christopher Chester see the Baltimore scene, Asia North returns, Carla Du Pree receives GBCA 2025 Cultural Innovator Award, diversity bans and area arts communities, Baltimore filmmaker Scott Evans, Spring Cleaning Art Market and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: UMBC hosts a webinar with Levester Williams, 35th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium at Howard University, Hai-Wen Lin talk at JHU/CVA Film Centre, Helina Metaferia Visiting Artist Lecture at Goucher College, 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition reception and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Derrick Adams, Jerrell Gibbs, Joyce J. Scott among the artists in a new BmoreArt partner exhibition at JHU's Frary Gallery, Baker Artist Awards exhibition to open at the BMA and finalists annoucned, a NGA video on LaToya Hobbs woodblock print process, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Jeffrey Yoo Warren lecture at JHU, IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition opening reception at UMBC, BIWA Films with Armina Howada Mussa at good neighbor, Jen White-Johnson artist-in-residence presentation at Stevenson University, MICA Grad Show II exhibition reception, and more!
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ $1M Public Art Challenge “encourages mayors to partner with artists, elevating the creative sector when developing solutions to significant urban issues”
Inviting Light is transforming the Station North Arts District with five site-specific public art installations and a series of dynamic community events this year.
How the Community Art Organization Earned Its Staying Power
Since the first classes Pupkin designed 25 years ago, the program has developed over 600 lesson plans—and in just the past year the organization provided 14,000 classes to Baltimore residents in schools, community centers, hospitals, shelters, veteran’s facilities, nursing homes, and more.
