Baltimore’s Oldest Artist Co-Op Offers a New Generation a Model for Affordability in Perpetuity
What distinguishes AHI from most artist housing initiatives is its ownership structure. It is a not-for-profit housing cooperative—legally distinct from a 501(c)3—designed for member benefit rather than public charity.
What Would Baltimore Look Like If Every Elementary School Student Had Consistent Access to High-Quality Arts Education?
TWIGS offers a choice of six art areas: music, theater, stage design, dance, visual art, and film. Participants are selected through an audition process that, in most areas, prioritizes artistic potential and passion over prior experience. Once accepted, the classes are free.
Artscape Returns with SCOUT Art Fair, curated by Devin Allen and Cierra Britton
SCOUT Art Fair returns to Artscape with a clear focus: platforming emerging Baltimore-based artists and making collecting more accessible.
What to Expect When the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference Lands in Baltimore Next Year? Baltimoreans Share their Experiences from this Year's Edition in Detroit
I’ve included some highlights from my experience of NCECA with some thoughts from others who have connections with Baltimore. These are only a fraction of what you can see and experience. If you are friends with ceramic artists, potters, or collectors the conference feels like a family reunion.
In a Little Shy of Half a Century, BSA Has Churned out Alumni who've Conquered Billboard Charts, Hollywood, and the Runway
“Beyond the excellent instruction, BSA let me be who I am,” says theater arts alum Cameron Francis ‘89. “Our teachers encouraged self-expression and were never judgmental. They let us explore and take risks."
A Conversation with MCA's Executive Director Nicholas Cohen
MCA has spent nearly 50 years lobbying lawmakers about the positive impacts of investing in the arts and working with arts organizations of all sizes from Oakland to the Eastern Shore to help them secure funding and advocate for themselves.
I Went Back to My Alma Mater to Spend a Day With Current TU Student, Annie Tamini
Second year MFA candidate Annie Tamini met me in her fourth-floor studio—a prime corner spot with a window. We spoke about her reasons for attending Towson, and how her experience in the MFA program is so far unfolding.
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum Offers Visitors an Immersive Way to Meet Their Eponym
While Lewis was a bona fide history maker, he’s not a household name in the way that other Baltimore icons are. One of the goals of the TITAN exhibition is to change that.
In Partnership with Arts for Learning Maryland, BAI Offers City Highschool Students Paid Internships with Arts Organizations Across Baltimore
The program had its inaugural year in Baltimore in 2017. Since then, it has grown from 25 to 50 interns, and the number of worksites has increased each year as well. This summer BAI interns are working with 32 arts organizations across Baltimore.
Rubys Grants Will Provide $255,000 to 15 New Projects, Plus an Annual Alumni Grant and 2 Materials Grants
The Rubys Grant supports artists in Baltimore city and county who are working on innovative projects in literary, media, performing, and visual arts.
Making Space for Conversation & Feedback
The Crit Club gives gallery goers the opportunity to interact directly with the artists. More than that, this interaction is the primary goal. It offers something many other spaces do not: the time to think with the work and the artists, rather than simply around them.
A Conversation with Elena Volkova and Jonna McKone
At BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery Two Photographers Challenge Assumptions about Materials, Process, and Storytelling
From the Smithsonian to Forbes "30 Under 30," Baltimore Company ReBokeh is Changing How Audiences See Art
Named for the Japanese art of defocusing light sources in photography, bokeh, the app enables each user to custom-tailor their smartphone’s existing camera in real time to accommodate their unique vision requirements.
How Community, Family, and Friends Have Informed Her Lifelong Dedication to Wellness
I’ve always loved my work. I’m passionate about it because of my experiences growing up as an immigrant, as someone who saw many people go without access to care, as someone who experienced some of those problems myself, and as a clinician on behalf of my patients.
A Conversation with the Musician and Manager of the Station North Arts and Entertainment District
I met with Becker at the newly relocated Mobtown Ballroom to learn more about her work as an arts leader, and our conversation ranged from the complexity of demands that she balances, to her origins and identity as an artist and why art matters to us as humans.
An Interdisciplinary Practice Uses Cameraless Photography to Reflect the Horrors of Nuclear War
“The light entered my grandfather and, as a third-generation survivor, the light has been passed down through me. I pass it on through my work,” says Baltimore-based artist Kei Ito.
On the IMDA Program, City Life, and How UMBC Gives them Space to Get Messy (Plus Health Insurance!)
"I’m getting a living stipend, health insurance… it’s a support structure and resources for the parts of my practice that maybe aren’t even contained within the program."
A Conversation with the Curator on the Unseen Stories and Labor of Love Behind Baltimore's Galleries
That chat with Faust sparked something—a desire to dig deeper into the lives of Baltimore’s gallerists and curators, beginning with Faust herself.
Following the Baltimore Board of Estimates Vote to Terminate BOPA’s Contract, a Group of Artists and Organizers Ask: What Comes Next?
Artist group says that the next step is for Mayor Scott to share the specifics of his plan with the city, to make the process transparent as possible, and to create opportunities for artist communities to join in the effort
