Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Reflections on Strong, Bright, Useful & True, BOPA adds new board members, Lawrence Burney publishes his first book, Irene and Richard Frary Gallery to feature Lindsay Adams this fall, Jan Kirsh's exile on Ellicott City main street, Center Stage's Trans History Project, H
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Tony Shore wins MASB Travel Prize, AVAM's new director Ellen Owens, 2025 Baltimore Book Festival, Love Groove Festival returns, Plein air artist Jason Witte, Arewà Basit and Amy Sherald, Goya Contemporary at the Armory Show, Nourished by Time, and more!
The 2025 Armory Show VIP Preview in Photos, featuring two Baltimore-based Galleries
Photos by E. Brady Robinson of art, visitors, artists, and culture workers at the Armory VIP Preview on September 4, 2025
Beautiful New Book Blends the Baltimore-based Author's Visual Works with Fiction
Deborah English's illustrated fiction is more high art than a graphic novel, more expansive than an illustrated work.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: American Sublime comes to the BMA, winners of the Rabkin Prize announced, Nichole Morris documents all of Baltimore, Turnstile takes on the world, Baltimore's skateboarding scene, Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies exhibition, and more!
Overlooked Liminal Spaces Host Some of Baltimore's Best Public Art
All the demolition and reconstruction in the decades preceding the 80s reated a plethora of liminal spaces in our cities—and Baltimore was lucky to attract artists who rose to the placemaking challenge they presented.
UMBC’s newly launched Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund pledges to support work on the histories of race, representation and justice in visual culture
Berger’s notion of us was always an expansive one, so it’s fitting that his legacy continues to grow, even after his death.
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.
