The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Aruna D’ Souza lecture at MICA, Jill Orlav talk at Pratt Library, The Shape of Power gallery talk at SAAM, filmmaker Kristen Lovell and photographer Samantha Box in conversation at NMWA, LAYERS opening reception at MICA, Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik at Bird in Hand, and more!
Why She Has Dedicated Her Life to Championing Theater Education
That's our mission: that at every age and stage of life, we're making meaningful human connections through music, movement, and theater making. No matter where you are in your life, you do not have to age out of creativity or community.
It's important that we agree on the conditions to declare that we have arrived.
This week, Baltimore's creative scene was profiled in Le Figaro, France's oldest newspaper, but the concept of a "Baltimore Renaissance" is false.
An Interview with David London Discussing His Vision for the Future
The Foundation Celebrates its 60th Anniversary as Director Melissa Warlow Retires After 35 Years of Service
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: A post-election statement from MCAAHC, Reginald F. Lewis exhibition at the Lewis Museum, Tom Miller Week returns, the future of BOPA, Angela Franklin and Chevelle Makeba Moore Jones at JELMA, tattoo artist Bill Waverly, and more!
The History of Communication Has Always Been a History of Calculated Risk
The cheekily titled If Books Could Kill (on view through August 5, 2025) focuses on toxic materials—mercury, arsenic, and lead—that were used by scribes, illustrators, and printers in a variety of historical contexts.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: René Treviño and Ellen Hoobler discussion at Connect+Collect, Katie Pumphrey artist talk at Alex Cooper, Material Systems curated by Alex Ebstein opening reception at MICA, artists Angela Franklin and Chevelle Makeba Moore Jones exhibition and more!
How Community, Family, and Friends Have Informed Her Lifelong Dedication to Wellness
I’ve always loved my work. I’m passionate about it because of my experiences growing up as an immigrant, as someone who saw many people go without access to care, as someone who experienced some of those problems myself, and as a clinician on behalf of my patients.
TikTok's Days May be Numbered, but its Content Lives on in Oil Paint for Posterity
At MOCA Arlington, Marissa Stratton creates a dialogue that feels both familiar and estranging, as if one is scrolling through memories materialized on physical surfaces.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: MDFF receives $20k in grant funding from the NEA, Ira Glass's magical Baltimore memories, new acquisitions at the BMA, the ghost of H.L. Menken, the BSO hits a high note, daring to dream with Lady Brion, breaking creative barriers with Amy L. Bernstein, and more!
Micah Wood and Christopher Chester on Creatively Archiving Baltimore
A new photo book, Scene Seen, weaves together 85 bands, over 200 portraits, and 300 pages into a tribute to Baltimore’s creative resilience, documenting the essence of the music scene from 2016 to 2024.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
SCENE SEEN at Greedy Reads and Bird in Hand, VIVA Books donation drive, Slavery in Motion at the BMA, Rapid Lemon's Variation Project, Baker Artist Portfolios closing reception at The Peale, and MLK Day celebrations - and calls for entry!
A Conversation with the Musician and Manager of the Station North Arts and Entertainment District
I met with Becker at the newly relocated Mobtown Ballroom to learn more about her work as an arts leader, and our conversation ranged from the complexity of demands that she balances, to her origins and identity as an artist and why art matters to us as humans.
Rapid Lemon Productions Imagines Parenthood Under Authoritarianism
The dystopian play runs through January 26 at Strand Theater.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Peabody's new Hip Hop Degree with Wendel Patrick and Lupe Fiasco, MCHC receives grant from Lilly Endowment, Shawn Chopra, remembering BSA's Anthony M. ‘Tony’ Carey, Dave Portnoy's pizza party, and more!
An Interdisciplinary Practice Uses Cameraless Photography to Reflect the Horrors of Nuclear War
“The light entered my grandfather and, as a third-generation survivor, the light has been passed down through me. I pass it on through my work,” says Baltimore-based artist Kei Ito.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Baltimore Clayworks' artist walk with curator Leigh Taylor Mickelson and opening reception for Garden Reverie, ImprovScape with Erin Barry-Dutro at Peabody Heights Brewery, opening reception at BCS's Indigenous Art Gallery, Iron Crow Theatre's 'Act of God,' and more!
Her New Book Proves It with Science, Art is Vital to Our Health
Creative production is good for us. Those of us engaged in the arts have intuitively known this fact for ages, but the scientific studies and resulting evidence synthesized in the book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us drive the point home with hardcore data.
