Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Mary Pat Clarke, BOPA board members resign, Maurice Berger CADVC Program at UMBC, MD Humanities offers Indigenous history resources, Crust by Mack leaving Harborplace, Weaver Award winners announced, and more!
Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)
Baltimore sculptor Elliot Doughtie has thought a lot about locker rooms and other liminal spaces in which one’s identity is in flux.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This week: Timothy App at Goya, Raven Jackson at Clifton House, Rooted Shadows at Goucher College, Stoop Storytelling at AVAM, Baker Artist Portfolios at The Peale, Barry Nemett at Arting Gallery, Jacob Budenz at The Walters, Sankofa Dance at the BMA - and more!
Rhythms and Strips in Retrospect at Arting Gallery
A Former MICA Professor's Lifetime Love Affair with Drawing and Improvisation
Five Budget-Conscious Options for Fans of Classical Music
Baltimore offers a plethora of opportunities to catch high-brow performances at Natty Boh prices. Classical music aficionado Todd Morman shares his top picks, from season subscriptions to free concerts.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Cara Ober, Teri Henderson, and John Waters react to the Baltimore Sun's decision to cut features, Angela Alsobrooks' historic victory, BOPA contract ends, Skylight Boutique's gender affirming finds, Suchitra Mattai at NMWA, Free Admissions Podcast, and more!
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Bria Sterling-Wilson at Julio Fine Arts, Beth-Ann Wilson at Night Owl, Station North Art Walk, Baltimore Clayworks Winterfest Preview Party, Elena Volkva at Stevenson University, plus Fall Innovate Grants and more!
The Artist's Mixed-Media Exhibit at Transformer DC Interrogates America's Expectations of Black Women
In I’m Not Your Superwoman, Pinkston explores the Black-woman-superhero-complex, Black women's labor, and the complicated trope of “resilience,” a word often romanticized, exploited, and conflated.
Opinion Editorial by BMA Union Member Rob Kempton
Increased wages, more paid time off, and better benefits were obtained for unionized colleagues.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: a profile of artist Annie Howe, VILLAGER's BOPA exhibition reviewed, celebrating Archives Month with Maryland State Archives, MSAC receives national DEI award, BOPA news, the Lewis Museum's new Frederick Douglass mural, and more!
Two Exhibitions Deep, Downtown's New Arts Incubator Offers Perspectives on Climate and Environmental Justice
Founded by Leonardo Martinez, a recent DC to Baltimore transplant, the new artist incubator, studio building, and gallery devoted to climate justice is nestled just behind the central branch library on Mulberry Street.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Derrick Adams curates a show by V Walton at Swann House, Sasha Baskin Faculty Artist Talk at JHU, Dagmawi Woubshet lectures on James Baldwin at UMBC, virutal Q&A with BOPA leadership, renaming and Emancipation Day Celebration at Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, and more!
Fantasy Machine, an experimental fashion show and pop up shop presented by Meg Beck returned to Current Space for the 6th year
This year's iteration included a mixture of designers who have participated many times and those who were joining for the first time.
How a Trip to the Art Museum in Potomac Restored My Faith in the World
I was taken with this strange paradise hidden in the Potomac suburbs, this place that seemed to me like another country—if not another planet.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Ballet at the Beach, Danny Simmons at the Lewis Museum, Myrtis Bedolla at Dakar Bienalle, John Waters merch, Fearless Video Productions, Rob Lee interviews Katie Pumphrey, and more!
An Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, the Executive Director, and Caitlin Gill, Exhibitions Director and MSAC Directory Coordinator
"We are very multifaceted and action oriented. We are striving to foster as many opportunities as possible for the artists."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Phylicia Ghee at Current; Angela N. Carroll lecture at Towson; Devin Allen at Galerie Myrtis; Ainsley Burrows, Cara Ober, Jeffrey Kent, & Kirk Shannon-Butts in conversation at TOTW, Creative Alliance's Great Lantern Parade, Sky Hopinka film screening at the BMA - and more!
Authorship, Remix, and Identity in the Age of AI
"In a world of mass production, I believe it's important not to be too precious about the original. As an artist, I encourage others to borrow, alter, or even mess with my work. I find excitement in the idea that my work can evolve and change. It’s about the spirit of making art..."