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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.

Music, Poetry, and a Love Letter to Baltimore: Annual Gathering of Activists and Artists is Growing

Judah Adashi hated the idea that Freddie Gray would be forgotten to most people, especially in Baltimore. Through music and art, he wanted to change that.

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.

A Conversation with Two of This Year's Spotlighted Authors, Michele Filgate and Dominique Christina

The CityLit Festival, now in its 22nd year, is both a celebration of literature and a reminder that advocating for the literary arts is essential labor. Full day events will take place on April 5th and April 25th, 2025.

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.

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.

"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.

An Interview with the Curator of “Romancing the Novel”

A new exhibition of romance novel cover art at McDaniel College celebrates the popularity of the genre.

The Best Perks in Town: Access to Sold-Out Metal Shows, Exclusive Artist Talks, and Tax-Deductible Cocktail Parties

Baltimore's membership models for cultural organizations are an excellent way to keep the venues we love afloat and sustainable.

Opinion Editorial by Nicholas Cohen, ED at Maryland Citizens for the Arts

Governor Moore’s proposal overlooks how crucial the arts have been to Maryland’s prosperity—and how pivotal they will remain in the future. Let us not turn our backs on the very policies that made Maryland a national model for the creative economy.

It's important that we agree on the conditions to declare that we have arrived.

This week, Baltimore's creative scene was profiled in Le Figaro, France's oldest newspaper, but the concept of a "Baltimore Renaissance" is false.

An Interview with David London Discussing His Vision for the Future

The Foundation Celebrates its 60th Anniversary as Director Melissa Warlow Retires After 35 Years of Service

Her New Book Proves It with Science, Art is Vital to Our Health

Creative production is good for us. Those of us engaged in the arts have intuitively known this fact for ages, but the scientific studies and resulting evidence synthesized in the book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us drive the point home with hardcore data.

A Note from the BmoreArt Team

Our team at BmoreArt would like to take this moment to celebrate the positive as we look back to all we have accomplished together this year.

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