Issue 17: Transformation

Issue 17: Transformation

How the Strategist, Organizer, and Advocate for a Just Creative Economy is Making Space for Her Own Practice

"Central to all the work that I’ve done, is how do we acknowledge the value that we have as creators, and demand the compensation, space, and honor that we deserve?"

Setting the Stage

Ashworth emphasizes that while the space has technological origins, its primary mission is to serve as a venue for human creativity, allowing individuals to engage authentically and expressively in theater.

From Concrete to Colorful

By working at such a large scale to cover not only walls, but at times the ground, ceiling, and pieces of furniture, Jessie and Katey are able to transform the surrounding environment, often gray and concrete, into an immersive chromatic experience.

Sweetness and Solidarity

You could call Fruit Camp a tattoo shop, but that would be reductive.

We Caught up with Current Space's Co-Directors ahead of its Epic Weekend-Long 20th Anniversary Festival

Current Space is 20. Feel old yet? Don't worry: this weekend, it's throwing a three-day birthday bash that will bring you back to your art school days. Isa Gold interviewed directors Michael Benevento and Julianne Hamilton to get some pearls of wisdom from their two decades of experience.

Bask in the Majesty of Kotic Couture, Baltimore’s Reigning “Queen of the Underground”

Since her arrival in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, Couture’s profile as entertainer and host has risen in a way that has been anything but chaotic.

A Conversation with the Artist and Founder of Night Owl Gallery

Night Owl Gallery along with its studios, workshop space, and programming, is not just a venue for displaying art; it’s a collaborative hub where artists and the community intersect, creating a synergy that drives our mission.

Lumpy, Dazzling, Amorphous Forms: and imagine you are here at the BMA

The sophomore Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission

Transformer’s tiny square footage to outsized contemporary art presence is its own genre-defying artistic practice

Transformer hosts about six exhibitions every year, transmogrifying its 14th & P street shoe-box space each time as far as these artists’ imaginations can push it.

Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area

How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?

The Four Award-Winning Businesses Redrawing Baltimore's Food and Nightlife Map

From a handshake deal over a dive bar with a loanshark to the James Beard Awards and Bon Appétit's "Best of Lists"—it's been a long road down a few overlooked blocks.

A Conversation with the Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture to the Mayor

A conversation with Miller Hall offers a balcony view into Baltimore City’s art ecosystem.

Fun Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 17

Thank you to Shawn Chopra and good neighbor, Mera Kitchen, Baltimore Spirits Co., AND especially to BmoreArt Subscribers !!!!!!!!!

An Introduction to Issue 17: Transformation

We present the region’s courageous leaders, creative explorers, and ground-breaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.