A Good Spot: AFRAM 2022
Sights and scenes from the festival on June 18-19 at Druid Hill Park
The live music, food vendors, and the congregating of eclectic black folk make it feel like one giant family cook-out.
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The Night Shift
Nightlife photography of the past and present at Maryland Center for History and Culture
Curated by Joe Tropea, Visions of Night: Baltimore Nocturnes at the Maryland Center for History and Culture beautifully and seamlessly integrates Baltimore nightlife of the past and present.
Save the Last Dance: Muse 360’s Fundraiser for a New Home
This Saturday, Muse 360 is throwing a fundraising celebration at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center as the arts education nonprofit searches for a new home
Since 2005, Muse 360 has called the Howard Street cultural center home, but now faces the all-too-familiar challenge of finding another affordable space to host dance classes, meetings, and other events.
Hard Work Having Fun: Baltimore Rock Opera Society
Photos from BROS' latest production, Glitterus: Dragon Rising, at Zion Lutheran Church through this weekend
The community members of BROS shared with BmoreArt some insights on the hard work that goes into having so much fun.
Photos from HellBond: Dancing With the Spirits at Asia North Festival
Curators Michael Young and Jia Le Ling transformed the basement of the James E. Hooper House into the chambers of Hell
"The different traditions are also not the only things coming together. There is also the integration of modern and traditional art forms."
Mixing Music with Business Education: Beats Not Bullets
After an award-winning trip to SXSW, Beats Not Bullets hosts a fundraiser concert tonight at Metro Gallery
Beats Not Bullets, the brainchild of Kevin “Ogun” Beasley, was started six years ago as a way to teach students in Baltimore how to produce and create music.
Songs of My City: Trumpeter Brandon Woody on the Love and Tradition that Shaped Him
"Playing the trumpet gave me butterflies every time."
For Woody, music and community are one and he strives to make music that “sounds like my city.”
Photos: 2022 Maryland Dancesport Competition
Amateurs and professionals, ages 4-81, compete in the athletic world of dancesport
In the 1990s, ballroom dance organizations adopted the term Dancesport in a global effort to be a part of the Olympic games.
Sounds That Mend Us: Must-Listen Music
A look back at 2021 releases from Baltimore/DC-affiliated artists in anticipation for 2022
Entering 2022, it is gratifying that this city's music is still full of such vitality.
New Creative Alliance Director on Authentic Relationships and Art’s Transformative Power
Gregory S. Smith brings two decades of arts administration, business management, and event production
After almost a year’s search, Creative Alliance announced its new executive director this week.
Growing Roots: Creative Alliance at 26
How the Highlandtown arts center builds community with all kinds of bombast
For the team behind Creative Alliance, building trust is an ongoing process.
The Show Must Go On: The Baltimore School for the Arts’ Nutcracker Ballet in Photos
Photos from behind the scenes at the Baltimore School for the Arts Nutcracker Ballet
Nearly 40 years ago, Baltimore School for the Arts started an annual winter tradition to perform the Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker featuring high school and TWIGS dancers in the BSA’s grand ballroom.
Maverick Punk Sound: An Interview with Double Dagger
The legendary Baltimore punk band talks about its brief comeback, art and commercialism, and critical visceral performance
Around the end of August, Double Dagger announced their two-date shows at Ottobar and Current Space as a “once in a decade” event that would only be held in Baltimore in mid-October.
Fake, Foul, and Funny: The 14Karat Cabaret Gets Its Day in the Sun
MAP’s retrospective celebrates 30+ years of Baltimore’s underground performance art showcase
A discussion with Laure Drogoul about her show at Maryland Art Place and the 14 Karat Cabaret, an “Exquisite Corpse Manifest”
Once Again, Into the Woods: An Interview with Stephanie Barber
Trial in the Woods explores rationality, violence, and the ethics of punishment through Barber’s trademark humor and wordplay
BmoreArt interviewed Barber over email about addressing violence, the fraught usage of animals as metaphors, shapeshifting concepts of “justice” and “community,” and more.
Soft Revolution in a Free Guitar Rhythm: An Interview with Mdou Moctar
The Tuareg guitarist talks about poetry in translation, legacies of colonization, and building his first guitar using bicycle brake cables
Mdou Moctar's music carries memories through traditional guitar rhythms, a fusion between the desert nomads and modern diaspora.
A Photographer Captivated by Baltimore Musicians
Micah E. Wood's intimate portraits capture a bold musical vision
Color-saturated images of favorite Baltimore-based bands inspired by fashion, design, and art
Art AND: Sam Bessen
Why the director of the performance series In the Stacks and curator at Hopkins' Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection wants you to listen to Classical music
"I’m inspired by these musicians that weren’t satisfied with the presenting platforms or ensembles that existed, so they just created new ones."