Arts Every Day is proud to present its fifth annual 10×10 Exhibit, featuring over 130 works of art created by Baltimore City Public School students and teachers in response to a culturally relevant body of work, movement, or theme. Each year, the 10×10 Exhibit offers students and teachers a platform to use visual art as a tool for exploring complex ideas and perceptions.

The theme for the 2021 10X10 Exhibit is VOICE. With so much going on in the world today, the need to listen to the voices of our youth are so paramount, especially because the decisions we make today will impact the world our children will grow up in tomorrow. For this exhibit, we invited students and teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools to think about ways art, in its many forms can be used to inform, create discourse, and further understanding. This call for art encouraged students to use whatever creative outlet suited their intended message or their call to action.

This year’s 10X10 Exhibit, like so many other events, looks a little different this year. To ensure the health and safety of students, teachers, and families, we decided to take the exhibit online knowing that the artworks submitted would undoubtedly be just as powerful and meaningful as the years before. When you view these works, we ask that you take a moment to reflect on how this year’s submissions are coming from virtual learners. The works you see are a result of creatively utilizing the very limited resources and technology available to both teachers and students at home and how those limitations were overcome so that their voices could be heard.

Arts Every Day partnered with the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the One Book Baltimore Program to offer teachers and students access to programming and resources related to 2020’s selection: We Speak For Ourselves by D. Watkins. We also partnered with University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) through a generous grant from the Charlesmead Foundation to celebrate and elevate voices of Baltimore City students and teachers, engage students in conversation, reflection, & creation inspired by Southern Rites, and connect students to the impactful work of CADVC, UMBC.

The 10X10 Exhibit virtual reception will be hosted by the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of their Violet Hour program and will take place on February 17, 2021 at 6pm.