Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: BOPA parts ways with CEO Rachel Graham and cancels Community Listening Sessions, Sankofa Dance Theater celebrates 30 years, new programming at Center Stage, remembering Judith Jamison, BSO's Katherine Needleman advocates for women in classical music, and more!
Documentary Following Brandon Scott from Candidate to Baltimore Mayor Set for National Broadcast
Four years in the making, this local production offers a nuanced, deeply observed study of Baltimore City politics that speaks to audiences near and far. The film is now poised to reach a national audience with its broadcast premiere November 25 on PBS’ POV series.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Arts Education Town Hall, opening celebration at Charm City Cultural Cultivation, Baltimore Clayworks hosts an artist talk with J.M. Giordano, panel discussion on community health at the BMA, Voyages: Chapter 6 at the Aquarium, and more!
24 Historical Objects Offer Visions of Well-Being Worth Revisiting
Exhibition at the Walters through December 15 explores medieval Europeans' interest in monitoring bodies, curing ailments, and attaining good health.
A Conversation with the Curator on the Unseen Stories and Labor of Love Behind Baltimore's Galleries
That chat with Faust sparked something—a desire to dig deeper into the lives of Baltimore’s gallerists and curators, beginning with Faust herself.
Following the Baltimore Board of Estimates Vote to Terminate BOPA’s Contract, a Group of Artists and Organizers Ask: What Comes Next?
Artist group says that the next step is for Mayor Scott to share the specifics of his plan with the city, to make the process transparent as possible, and to create opportunities for artist communities to join in the effort
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!
