Visual Art

Visual Art

Visualizing the Violent Impact of Colonization of the Americas on the Environment

These artists acknowledge that our current environmental crisis is serious and frightening, but overwhelmingly this exhibition presents ideas through monumental, visually stunning works, where the contrast between beauty and distress pushes the narrative forward. 

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Cindy Wolf and Charleston win a James Beard Award, The Clifton House hosts weekend event to honor Lucille Clifton, Arts for Learning to open charter school, Maryland Humanities receives emergency funding from Mellon Foundation, BOPA becomes 'Create Baltimore' and more!

Curated with diverse communities in mind, this new exhibit enhances inclusion and cultivates a sense of belonging.

While Baltimore’s growing Latino community accounts for 7.9% of its population, this project—the first of its kind—offers invaluable connections for Latinos to experience artwork directly represents them.

Materials Become Language in the 2025 Sondheim Finalist Exhibit at the Walters

The 2025 Sondheim Exhibit of finalists emphasizes the evocative power of materials in five mini solo exhibits.

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Amy Sherald nominates René Treviño for 2025 Frieze London Fair, Murjoni Merriweather and Rodney Jermaine Elliott (Qrcky) selected as 2025 Joshua Johnson Council AIRs, Dapper Dan Midas takes the stage, the Mayor celebrates Artscape's success, 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!

Rubys Grantee Rae Red Illuminates Area 405 with Queer Video Installations and Performance

The performances, and videos in 'Paradise Portals,' are illustrations of human struggle, which despite the many forms our storytelling takes as a species, is the thing our work always comes back to.

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.

Group Show Offers Textured Perspectives Amid the Art World's Overdue Obsession with Black Style

In curating CoatTails, Cornelia Stokes demands that conversations about fashion must reflect the nuances and diversity of Black experiences.

The Asia North Curator Wants More Art with a Sense of Humor, and Less about Sad Grandmas

"I get angry at the Identity-Industrial-Art-Market-Complex forcing artists who could be free of that to just fucking make art!"

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!

Photos from Baltimore's First Affordable Art Fair

What does Baltimore investing intentionally in itself look like?

Photos from Artscape on Sunday, May 25 by Mollye Miller

Artscape's New Downtown Footprint in Photos: Artisan Market, Food Lab, New Murals, Concert Stages, Performances, and Sondheim Semi-Finalists at The Peale

Bringing the Life and Legacy of Baby Laurence to Stage

It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.

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