BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Antonio Soto and Carlos Raba in conversation at The Walters, Zoë Charlton lectures at UMBC, Dream Big Celebration at The Lyric, The Tallest Dwarf screening at JHU, Driskell Center Artist Talk + Driskell Distinguished Lecture, Kongo Astronauts screening at the BMA, and more!
How a Childhood Friendship Led to "Songs About Monsters"
Authenticity is BCT's raison d'être. At a time when nearly everything we see and hear online is curated, edited, polished, and packaged for our optimal consumption, there’s a growing hunger for something messy. Something a little askew. Something real.
"Then, Now, and Tomorrow: CAPP New Acquisitions" Celebrates Two Decades of Collecting at the University of Maryland
The Stamp Gallery’s current exhibition Then, Now, and Tomorrow: CAPP New Acquisitions celebrates the collection’s twentieth anniversary by displaying the eight artworks selected by the 2024-2025 CAPP committee alongside older collection highlights.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Full schedule announced for MD Film Fest, Merritt Gallery closing, Creative Baltimore Fund awardees announced, Jill Orlov is a big deal in miniatures, Nature Deficit Disorder at the BMA, Medieval Mindscapes and a missing manuscript at The Walters, MICA alum Yumi Hogan and indigo dyeing, and more!
A Troup Featuring Former Olympians Wants us to Enjoy Skating's Artistic Potential More Often than Once Every Four Years
"There’s certainly the huge value of competitive skating, but you have to think about, well, what happens after that?" says IDI's founding director Douglas Webster. "And that is the goal of Ice Dance International—to provide new ways of seeing skating.”
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
From Project Runway to Station North, the Baltimore-Born Designer Elevates Fashion to Fine Art
With bold colors, sumptuous textures, and rich colors that evoke decadence and splendor, a person dressed in Bishme Cromartie is a person to be not only seen but fortified.
A Tidy Survey Show Highlights Excerpts from The Walters Collection of Medieval Books of Hours—One of the World's Largest
You can almost sense the pleasure that the curator, Lauren Maceross, took in choosing her examples. Juxtaposed with tidy bands of text, the images on display range from playful to grisly and from conventional to conceptually complex. Cumulatively, though, they offer considerable rewards.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
2026 Sondheim Semi-Finalists announced, Wide Angle Youth Media celebrates 25 years, Joshua Johnson Council and Tribe 55+ foster intergenerational connection, John Waters keynote speech at AWP, Nate Brown's colorful cigarettes, Art with a Heart mural invitation, Chad Helton and more!
Renwick Gallery Gives American Craft Its Due
Unheralded painters and sculptors, wood carvers and quilters, and weavers and potters see their work shift from the dusty corner of a fair pavilion to an art museum in the nation’s capital.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: MD Film Fest preview event at the Parkway, ARTificial closing reception + screening, Express and Explore tour of Egyptian art at The Walters, Area 405 closing reception + perforamance, Station North Art Walk, ICE Out of Baltimore exhibition opening at Waller Gallery, and more!
From "Mining the Museum" to Making it More Accessible, Few Art Workers Have Left as Indelible a Mark on Institutional Practice
“I didn’t want to be the center of things... I wanted to see what would happen creatively from this group of people that were not me. I wanted to be the facilitator.”
On Texture, Transformation, and the Emotional Language of Hair in "Sinners"
"I recognize that hair is not merely about styling. It represents identity. In historical and genre films, the way we present hair influences how audiences perceive identity, culture, and history.”
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Amy Sherald named a Time Magazine Woman of the Year, David Driskell's legacy, AWP Conference comes to Baltimore, Bria Edwards' paintings of Black equestrians, MDFF lineup announcement, Baltimore Filmmakers Collective, artists bypass DC, local theater collaborations, and more!
"Rob Wants to Make People Happy; He Aims to Please" is on View at von ammon co. This Month
"Every act of art feels like a resurrection to me.... an act of trying to bring it to life, like Frankenstein trying to breathe life into his monster. I only feel something is complete when it goes from a flat line to having some heartbeat."
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Making Their Mark at NMWA, AWP Conference & Bookfair, Carole Boston Weatherford tribute reading at CCCC, BCAA Public Convening at MICA, BSA's Expressions '26, panel discussion on Baltimore's Confederate monuments at The Walters, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, and more!
What a Year of Preparing for the Largest Annual Writing Conference in the Country Has Revealed to Me About Our City
What do writers in Baltimore need? And how might AWP be an opportunity to realize it? To find the answer (or answers), I’ve spent the past year volunteering with a large, diffuse, grassroots group of writers, poets, and lit orgs in Baltimore who are all excited about the same question.
The modern Fête bridges MICA's 200-year history with contemporary artistic practice, and is a revival of events that originated in the late 1920s
MICA has leaned into this historic milestone by mining its rich and storied past, hosting a Bicentennial Gala called the Fête of Lights on February 21, at the Main Building and Cohen Plaza, featuring wearable art, art installations, a student-led fashion show, parade, and massive party.
