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!
PNC’s ability to bring local contemporary artists directly to the Orioles cultivates a sense of hometown pride and community.
The Orioles Birdland Murals Powered by PNC project offers an elevated, unique experience for visitors to Camden Yards, where living local artists are able to share their love for the city visually, enhancing the experience for everyone.
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!
A Survey of Candor and Commitment to Realistic Depiction
Pollution can be dismayingly ubiquitous, but it can also be catalyzing, and full of expressive potential.
The Baker Artist Portfolios Have Selected 36 Artists
The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund have announced the finalists for the 2025 Baker Artist Awards.
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.
Towson University Exhibits Contemporary Artists with Historical Curiosities
Reverie & Alchemy, the group exhibition at Towson University, brings works by ten featured artists together with historical, even ancient, objects from TU’s multi-department collection.
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.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Cover girl Amy Sherald and her Whitney show, Malcolm Peacock at the BMA, Farmers' Market concerns, Lisa Gail Collins awarded literature prize from The Driskell Center, local craft stores, Neighborhood Design Center's 2025 Placemaking Forum, and more!
Context and Changes in 2025 for Baltimore's Free Outdoor Arts Festival
Artscape should have a long-term impact–not just on local businesses who happen to be located on the festival footprint, but upon Baltimore’s arts ecosystem as a whole.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Artscape is on the move, Deborah Kass collaborates with Goya on a new print, remembering Kim Domanski, Baltimore Center Stage will not comply with DEI order, new BMA exhibition highlights Belair-Edison and Johnston Square heros, AVAM gala to honor Dr. John Carlos, and more!
The revolution will be local.
Paying attention to and valuing that which makes us special as a city and state will empower you.
Western Civilization is in Crisis, but One of Europe's Top Art Fairs Makes Dystopia Seem Weirdly Sexy
Never have I felt more like a future anthropologist wandering an excavation of the present. Have we preemptively organized our visual culture around an acknowledgement of its own impending ruin?
A Neurosurgeon’s Dedication to the Metaphor-Making Machine
Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Sarah Lewis and Theaster Gates announced as speakers for Sam Gilliam Lecture Series, Joyce J. Scott retrospective at Seattle Art Museum, Creative Baltimore Fund grant winners announced, The Walter's Latin American installation, and more!
"Trying to avoid politics in art is like trying to dodge raindrops on a rainy day."
In 2020 alone, 133 artists around the world were detained, 82 were jailed—and 17 were killed. And yet, artists have repeatedly ignored the possibility of reprisal and made work envisioning change in trying circumstances.
