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.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Cover girl Amy Sherald and her Whitney show, Malcolm Peacock at the BMA, Farmers' Market concerns, Lisa Gail Collins awarded literature prize from The Driskell Center, local craft stores, Neighborhood Design Center's 2025 Placemaking Forum, and more!
Iron Crow Theatre Revisits the Gender-Bending, Border-Busting Queer Punk Rock Immigration Opera America Needs Now
According to writer John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig is “more than a woman or a man. She's a gender of one and that is accidentally so beautiful."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: BCPS student exhibition at the BMA, Akeelah and the Bee at Baltimore Center Stage, BALTIMORATORY presents Kay-Megan Washington performing as Audre Lorde, opening reception for Rachel Kedinger at Baltimore Jewelry Center, POPPEA at Baltimore Theatre Project, and more!
Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan Open in The Baltimore Peninsula
Cole shares a swelling of emotions in seeing the line out the door for her Baltimore Slutty Vegan opening. She hopes the Bar Vegan opening will be a replay of that success.
Context and Changes in 2025 for Baltimore's Free Outdoor Arts Festival
Artscape should have a long-term impact–not just on local businesses who happen to be located on the festival footprint, but upon Baltimore’s arts ecosystem as a whole.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Artscape is on the move, Deborah Kass collaborates with Goya on a new print, remembering Kim Domanski, Baltimore Center Stage will not comply with DEI order, new BMA exhibition highlights Belair-Edison and Johnston Square heros, AVAM gala to honor Dr. John Carlos, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Reception + artist talk with Artemis Herber at Rosenberg Gallery, Kelley Bell presentation at UMBC, panel discussion on gender-based violence in art at The Walters, JCC talk with Sam Pollard at the BMA, book talk with Clara Bingham and Lisa Snowden-McCray at Pratt, and more!
The revolution will be local.
Paying attention to and valuing that which makes us special as a city and state will empower you.
Western Civilization is in Crisis, but One of Europe's Top Art Fairs Makes Dystopia Seem Weirdly Sexy
Never have I felt more like a future anthropologist wandering an excavation of the present. Have we preemptively organized our visual culture around an acknowledgement of its own impending ruin?
A Neurosurgeon’s Dedication to the Metaphor-Making Machine
Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Sarah Lewis and Theaster Gates announced as speakers for Sam Gilliam Lecture Series, Joyce J. Scott retrospective at Seattle Art Museum, Creative Baltimore Fund grant winners announced, The Walter's Latin American installation, 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.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: James Rouse at C. Grimaldis Gallery, a public talk with Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio at UMBC, Getting to Grown artist talk at JEMLA, BSA's Expressions '25, reception for The Art of Impact at MAP, 'Signs of People' launch event at Catonsville Clubhouse, and more!
The Artist’s Inaugural Exhibition in DC is a Timely Act of Resistance
As an exhibit, Confluences showcases Box's willingness to evolve her approach to image-making over two decades to meet the challenges of conveying complexity.
Playwright Sarah Mantell and Director Jessica Kubzansky Bring a Timely Twist to the Bard
And while it may not be Everything, it is a wonderfully comic, tragically relatable, entirely enjoyable evening of theatre.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Catonsville Arts District announces public art project, Station North reacts to loss of Artscape, Goya Contemporary's Thread Lines review in Artblog, DEI crackdowns affect arts funding, protecting arts funding in Maryland, Stevie Walker-Webb and Center Stage, and more!
A Two-Person Show at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art Considers Caregiving with Labor-Intensive Media
Franklin and Moore champion the courageousness of the human spirit.
