His murals dot Baltimore City and are immediately recognizable for their realism, sense of color, and strong, often political narratives
"Our abilities are not proprietary and should not be hoarded. If someone needs assistance producing a mural, I try to make myself available."
Constantly pursuing the feeling of learning something new, Bathgate finds himself experimenting on the edge of the technologies he employs
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
The T. Rowe Price Foundation President talks about community self-determination, sharing resources, and hanging out with Prince
"What communities are asking for is to be heard and to determine their own futures."
The 2020 Sondheim winner talks about balancing family and studio time, portraiture as power, and symbol systems
Hobbs is the rare sort of person who sets intentions and actually accomplishes them, who revels in being busy and can forgive herself when she falls short of her own extremely high standards.
Baltimore painter Jerrell Gibbs on the myth of failure, the art scene's evolution, the seduction of paint and more
Gibbs' obsession with the topic of painting sits so close to the surface, he is absolutely gleeful to get into it.
The visual journalist and arts administrator highlighting creatives of color and forging communities
“I’m just going to trust my hand to do what it wants to do while I’m having this conversation and not have to go back with a fine-tooth comb to make it perfect.”
Laurie plays with borders and fences, flat spaces and wide-open ones that look like anywhere and nowhere at once
"I try to stress that all the real work in art-making is in the practice and the learning from those little failures along the way."
Ito's work tells how people were affected by nuclear warfare, and how we could be affected again
Born in Tokyo and based in Baltimore, Ito understands himself as a collection of opposites and pursues both sides of those narratives through his open-ended and expansive photography practice.
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
Family secrets, the challenges of being a female business owner, and how knowing chocolate’s history might make you savor it more
She’s had a reverence for the confection since a fateful day in 2012 when, while working an event as a nutrition consultant, she stepped on a postcard advertising chocolate-making classes.
"My work rides a fine line between fine art and craft, if such a line exists."
Rosa Leff's self-taught paper-cutting practice began at her dining room table
For Carroll—a regular contributor to BmoreArt—contemporary writing about Black artists has to move past tokenism
"The canon has purposely left out certain creatives and we’re trying to rectify that. Let’s not see this moment as a trend."
Amber Eve Anderson, Lance Bankerd, Se Jong Cho, Ami Dang, Taha Heydari, Eze Jackson, Leslie King-Hammond, Amanda McCormick, Deyane Moses, and Ernest Shaw
For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.
Tiffany Jones talks community art, motherhood, and the honesty of Baltimore's art scene
"I feel like the city wouldn't be what it is without its artists or creative people."
The artist discusses her career so far, doing her sisters’ hair, and the contemporary figure painters who inspire her.
Painter Monica Ikegwu’s goal is to take “ordinary people and make them into art in the ordinary clothes that they're wearing.
A shaman, self-care enthusiast, and performance artist is a master of all things ritual bathing, meditation, and breathing.
A discussion about the power of performance to move people to tears, meditation as a daily practice anyone can do, and the rewards of truly listening to yourself.
