Bold Color, Peaceful Vibes, and Fiber at the Center of it all
Close Enough explores the intimate power of gesture and memory. With works rooted in care, legacy, and presence, this exhibition holds space for quiet boldness and deep connection.
Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National Aquarium
"The words ‘childlike wonder’ come up with all of them. That's what the artists want to invoke in attendees—inviting adults back to play, realizing the power in being in that space."
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: GBCA announces the 2025 Baker Artist Awardees, several local arts organizations celebrate World Environment Day, Happy 50th Baltimore Pride, Tony Shore and Phaan Howng light up Station North, a Banner interview with Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives, and more!
Rubys Grantee Rae Red Illuminates Area 405 with Queer Video Installations and Performance
The performances, and videos in 'Paradise Portals,' are illustrations of human struggle, which despite the many forms our storytelling takes as a species, is the thing our work always comes back to.
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.
Group Show Offers Textured Perspectives Amid the Art World's Overdue Obsession with Black Style
In curating CoatTails, Cornelia Stokes demands that conversations about fashion must reflect the nuances and diversity of Black experiences.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: CPM's Art Matters (in Baltimore) seminar, VILLAGER opening reception at Motor House, closing reception for The Walter's School Partner Showcase, TURNSTILE: NEVER ENOUGH screening at SNF Parkway, Baltimore Clayworks Seconds Sale Preview Party, Wickerham & Lomax opening reception and more!
Charles Ludlam's Queertastic Penny Dreadful, 'The Mystery of Irma Vep'
Ludlam wrote the play in the 1980s, and the current production at Everyman Theatre proves the genre has resonated for not only decades but centuries—still just as luridly, in this case also hilariously, entertaining.
The Asia North Curator Wants More Art with a Sense of Humor, and Less about Sad Grandmas
"I get angry at the Identity-Industrial-Art-Market-Complex forcing artists who could be free of that to just fucking make art!"
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Artscape 2025 reviews are in, Kimi Yoshino leaves Baltimore for Washington, The Driskell Center aquires a Megan Lewis painting, John Waters brings in the crowds, Good Contrivance Farm writer's retreat, Baltimore's first annual Puerto Rican weekend celebration, and more!
Family, Friends, and Colleagues Reflect on the Loss of the Artist and Advocate for Baltimore’s Creative Community
"She was very humble and did not want to put herself above the artists she worked hard for. I think reading these tributes she would be partially embarrassed at being celebrated but also touched to know the work she did mattered."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: CLLCTIVLY presents We Give Black, VisArts May Opening Celebration, The Lost Weekend at Greedy Reads, The IN Series: ETHIOPIA at Baltimore Theatre Project, Vagabond Players' PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, Earl Arnett book launch and jazz performance at An Die Musik, and more!
Photos from Baltimore's First Affordable Art Fair
What does Baltimore investing intentionally in itself look like?
Photos from Artscape on Sunday, May 25 by Mollye Miller
Artscape's New Downtown Footprint in Photos: Artisan Market, Food Lab, New Murals, Concert Stages, Performances, and Sondheim Semi-Finalists at The Peale
Bringing the Life and Legacy of Baby Laurence to Stage
It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Artscape updates, Trans Visibility quilt displayed on the Mall, Preakness past and present in photos, Joyce J. Scott receives honorary doctorate from UB, John Waters weighs in on Carly Hayden's firing and how to (mis)behave at his book signings, Guns of Steel, and more!
"the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table" revisits the AIDS Crisis with Candor and Courage
Future Ghost, a Queer performance collective that is the brainchild of Lyam B. Gabel and Joseph Amodei, created the production out of a desire to bring light to not just the disease, but to the people who experienced and lived through this uniquely disastrous phenomenon.
Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 19 on May 15
In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
