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.
Cave Presents Seven Recent Works at the 61st Venice Biennale
Among myriad works in In Minor Keys that touch on loss and care, ornament and protest, violence and healing, or the body and nature, Nick Cave’s figurative bronzes are the central cast of this grand mise-en-scène.
A Ping-Pong Pop-Up Reimagines the Sport as a Framework for Memory, Movement, and Meaning
Running through May 31, Open Court transforms JMM’s largest gallery into a ping-pong arena, blurring the line between art and sport with spotlit tables, bleachers, scoreboards, and archival images.
A Century-Old Military Strategy Transposed to Contemporary Portraiture
Instead of trying to hide his subjects to shield them from whatever artillery their Blackness provokes, Qrcky leans into their inherent visibility, painting them boldly and strikingly.
An Exhibition at the Crow's Nest Offers Rare Optimism, and an Earth Day Open Mic Night Today, April 22
The exploration of speculative fictional worlds can help us walk through new ideas that might otherwise seem implausible and unlikely, however much we might want them to be real.
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."
The Artist's Show at Gallery Blue Door and Why He Calls for Rethinking Portraiture
"Every artist has something they have to say. At this moment, my language and what I’m striving to get across is the right to be, without excuses, I don’t have to give an excuse for being."
Red Carpet Looks and Afterparty Wildness
The reimagined, ballroom-culture-infused spectacle clawed its way into the Broadhurst Theatre on April 7, 2026, serving looks, drama, and pure feline fabulousness.
Thirty-six artists selected from over 1000 Baker Artist Portfolios
Artists were selected by the jurors, for excellence demonstrated in three key areas: mastery of craft, depth of artistic exploration, and unique vision.
An Anonymous Painter Offers a Baroque Counterpoint to Rapid AI Slop in "The Infinite Known"
The ten small oil paintings in "The Infinite Known," all by an anonymous artist who uses the emphatically capitalized pseudonym ALBER STEIN, largely share an interest in surreal juxtapositions and hybrid content.
The Photographer's Groundbreaking Project is Revisited at The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at UMBC
In 1975, she was hired to take still photos on the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which was filmed on location at Oregon State Hospital. It was there Mark first met the women who lived on Ward 81, the only psychiatric ward of its kind for women in the state.
Seen & Heard: A Video Conversation with Baltimore chef Spike Gjerde
Mount Vernon-ers, welcome to Bar Dali, your new favorite hangout
"Then, Now, and Tomorrow: CAPP New Acquisitions" Celebrates Two Decades of Collecting at the University of Maryland
The Stamp Gallery’s current exhibition Then, Now, and Tomorrow: CAPP New Acquisitions celebrates the collection’s twentieth anniversary by displaying the eight artworks selected by the 2024-2025 CAPP committee alongside older collection highlights.
A Tidy Survey Show Highlights Excerpts from The Walters Collection of Medieval Books of Hours—One of the World's Largest
You can almost sense the pleasure that the curator, Lauren Maceross, took in choosing her examples. Juxtaposed with tidy bands of text, the images on display range from playful to grisly and from conventional to conceptually complex. Cumulatively, though, they offer considerable rewards.
Renwick Gallery Gives American Craft Its Due
Unheralded painters and sculptors, wood carvers and quilters, and weavers and potters see their work shift from the dusty corner of a fair pavilion to an art museum in the nation’s capital.
From "Mining the Museum" to Making it More Accessible, Few Art Workers Have Left as Indelible a Mark on Institutional Practice
“I didn’t want to be the center of things... I wanted to see what would happen creatively from this group of people that were not me. I wanted to be the facilitator.”
