Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Katie Pumphrey's art imitates life, "objectionable art" at the Smithsonian, a posthumous Bay Bridge cameo in 'The Baltimorons,' KenYatta Rogers journey to August Wilson, street art on West North Avenue, new state Arts & Entertainment districts announced, and more!
A Conversation with the Collaborative Artists and Twin Sisters Whose Names Have Guided Their Practice
Infused with a profound spiritual ethos, Hope and Faith’s immersive and evocative collages, sculptures, and other creations offer community, comfort, and transformation—especially to those navigating adversity or grief.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Remembering Dave Herman, Betty Cooke's jewelry to be auctioned, Opera Baltimore awarded a grant, Picturing Mobility exhibition coming to UMBC, Common in concert to benefit United Way of Central Maryland, Jessica Smith is new Managing Director of Motor House, and more!
Meet the Curator Helming the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture
"The stories you tell and the artwork you choose have the power to transport people—to new times, deeper understandings, and different vantage points. That’s a sacred responsibility. Reshaping institutions begins with grounding yourself in purpose." "
Art to Music, Music to Art
The center opened in November, 2024. Nine months on, it’s become a beloved meeting place for sublocal, musically inclined artists.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: 27th annual High Zero Festival, Imani Nia Robinson's 3 Blind Mice, Opera Baltimore, Tawny Chatmon exhibition comes to NMWA, Peabody students perform at nursing homes, Baltimore's confederate monuments in an LA exhibition, the Streetcar Museum, and more!
The Gardens of Douglas & Tsognie Hamilton
Situated anonymously among vast swaths of verdant Baltimore County farmland, Tashiding is a marvel of landscape, architecture, art, and most of all a purposeful mixture of Eastern and Western traditions.
XoXo Gallery, MAP, Hotel Indigo, and Current Space Make a Compelling Case for a Crafty Summer over Beach Time
Featuring Karin Birch, McCoy Chance, Monique Crabb, Julianna Dail, Lolo Gem, Huxley Green, Trevon Jakaar Coleman, Dooree Kang, Jeffrey Kent, Ahlam Khamis, Sarah Magida, Phylis Mayes, Jennifer McBrien, Katie O’Keefe, Cody Prysesk, Eileen Travis, Mariia Usova, and Rida Yawar
Haskins' Currency Studio Is the Blueprint For Baltimore Art, Fashion, and Culture
There’s nothing quite like Michael E. Haskins’ Currency Studio in the city. Looking around the space, you’ll find everything from hats, baby vests, jewelry, stools, tote bags, speakers, and more. The self-proclaimed visionary does it all: He paints, sculpts, makes furniture, clothing, and more.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: The Peale announces the 2025 Grit Fund Grant awardees, Motor House and BARCO celebrate 10 years with a fashion bash, Baltimore Print Fair canceled, BMA opens three new exhibitions, Free Admissions podcast from The Walters, Tonya Miller Hall leaves MOACE, and more!
How the Painter is Guided by Sound and Memory
While music is clearly a dominant voice in Lu’s work at the moment, and has been at least an undercurrent throughout her life and career, the other harmonic elements underpinning and interacting with it are as rich, varied, and complex as her palette.
A Life Devoted to Restoring, Reproducing, and Interpreting Beautiful Things
David Wiesand's custom built furniture workshop and showroom hosts an enthralling mix of original historic objects, lovingly created reproductions, and elegant adaptations where art history and technical expertise go hand in hand.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonina NPG show, The Walters wins an appeal, Robyn Murphy appointed BOPA CEO, a review of Benign Aggressors at Pazo Fine Art DC, NAS and the BSO, Peter's Inn garlic bread, Motzi Bread's Russell Trimmer, Baltimore by Baltimore, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: ARPA Grants, Baltimore artists in DC, Mary Proctor exhibition announced at AVAM, news from Goucher College galleries, three new exhibitions at The Walters, recent acquisitions at NGA, Courting Art Baltimore, #T4T4T Festival, 20th Annual ResFest, and more!
Exhibit Calls on Contemporary Artists to Center Earth and Sky
On view through August 9, Brighter Skies includes works by Taj Poscé, Zoë Charlton, Charles Mason III, Erin Fostel, John Ruppert, Thiang Uk, and Dolores Zinny.
DC's Frary Gallery Exhibits Johns Hopkins University's Recent Half-a-Million Dollar Acquisitions
An Art Collecting Committee was formed of JHU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and trustee representatives. They selected works from an artists’ portfolio curated by Ober and Inés Sanchez de Lozada, Manager of BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect gallery space that told a diverse Baltimore story.
Works from a Materially-Aware MFA Show Get a Second Life at Sleepwalker Collective
These are the critters and objects brought to being by artists Annika Marthinuss, Melissa Sutherland Moss, Benji Stiles, Tamara Payne, Blair Simmons, Ariel Oakley, and Katie Murphy, respectively, for the Maryland Institute College of Art’s MFA in Studio Art Low-Residency program.
A Small Exhibition takes on Big Ideas, with Six-Continents-Worth of Objects from the Collection
For a small show, then, it doesn’t think small. And does it work? Certainly, the works of art are generally compelling, and offer a collective testimony to the vast range and potency of materials used by artists across the centuries.
