Transformer’s tiny square footage to outsized contemporary art presence is its own genre-defying artistic practice
Transformer hosts about six exhibitions every year, transmogrifying its 14th & P street shoe-box space each time as far as these artists’ imaginations can push it.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Taharka Brother's 'We Want Moore' ice cream, Black Restaurant Week returns, Chaka Khan coming to Artscape, Flicks from the Hill returns to AVAM, Baltimore Magazine becomes podcast partners with Rob Lee, VisArts announces new Emerging and Mentoring Curators, and more!
Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area
How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Artist talk with Mark West at Motor House, Summer ‘24 opening reception at C. Grimaldis Gallery, closing receptions + artist talks for Space Mission & Placebo Effect at Current, James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance opens at the Portrait Gallery, and more!
The Four Award-Winning Businesses Redrawing Baltimore's Food and Nightlife Map
From a handshake deal over a dive bar with a loanshark to the James Beard Awards and Bon Appétit's "Best of Lists"—it's been a long road down a few overlooked blocks.
2024 Rubys grants provide $270,000 to 16 new projects across 4 disciplines, plus an annual alumni grant and 2 microgrants
The Rubys support artists in Baltimore City and Baltimore County working in performing, media, visual, and literary arts.
Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative
These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week: John Waters' guide to Baltimore, filmmaker Nia Hampton interviewed by Rob Lee, Little Feat's Baltimore connection, Trans Pride Day photo essay, criticisms of Baltimore Pride, The Coral Wig gets national attention, Ellyn Weiss and Sondra Arkin, and more!
New Mural Project Slated to be One of the Longest Artworks in Baltimore
Hamidi's 500-foot mural will stretch along both walls of the Maryland Avenue bridge between Lanvale and Oliver Streets midtown.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Remembering the Multiplicity and Influence of Early Twentieth Century Cultural Trailblazers
Brilliant Exiles comprises nearly eighty artworks depicting sixty American cultural influencers who went to Paris on the eve of World War II.
A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure
This month, Kathy O'Dell takes readers on a ride through, above, below, and behind Pat Alexander's beloved "Geometro" mosaic in the Lexington Market Metro station. Plus, the sad stories of two Alexander works that Baltimoreans can no longer enjoy.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week: Katie Pumphrey's Historic Swim, CJay Philip Wins a Tony, Leslie King Hammond at JHU, Baltimore Emmy Award Winners Galore, MSAC Announces $734,282 for Public Art, Antiques Roadshow at the MD Zoo, and more!
A Conversation with the Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture to the Mayor
A conversation with Miller Hall offers a balcony view into Baltimore City’s art ecosystem.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: TU + MAP closing reception for Invisible Architectures \ Social Contracts; Dierra Jones resident artist talk at Baltimore Jewelry Center; Kelly Walker opening reception at Lord Baltimore; the Banneker-Douglass Museum hosts a virtual conversation with Angela Carroll, Deyane Moses, and more
Over the Course of Two Days this June, Volkova Created Collaborative Tintype Portraits with the City's LGBTQ Community
Shot over the course of two days at Current Space earlier this month, Volkova’s black and white tintype portraits of the LGBTQ community offer a dignified, complex document of the city’s queer scene.
A Review of Iron Crow Theatre’s Production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, running through June 30
Perfect for Pride Month, Baltimore’s Premier Queer Theater Manifests a Much Needed Feel-Good Musical About a Boy Who Dreams to be a Drag Queen
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore's Queen, Juneteenth, Soon Come Exhibit, People of Pride, Pardons for Cannabis Convictions, Broadway & Beyond at Everyman, New Lexington Market Murals, and more from regional and independent news sources.
