When Nikki Stokes started out as a spoken-word artist, she never imagined herself as a fashion designer or a business owner.
At HGE Designs, Stokes maintains a balance between her handmade wearable objects, fashion, and therapeutic sensory objects.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Chesapeake Art Center's protest art exhibition, BOOOM by Anthony Grant at good neighbor, Ernest Shaw at Top of the World, IAM that IAM at Waller Gallery, Ornamenta 2022 kicks off at Baltimore Jewelry Center, VisArts hosts opening receptions, and more!
A new chapbook organized by Ann Quinn is both an anthology and a self-directed workshop for poets looking to expand their skills
Poetry Is Life, a new poetry workbook published this month by Baltimore’s Yellow Arrow Publishing, morphs a successful workshop into a handy, portable, and non-electronic format.
A look back at 2021 releases from Baltimore/DC-affiliated artists in anticipation for 2022
Entering 2022, it is gratifying that this city's music is still full of such vitality.
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Early lights-out for The Block, AVAM whirligig under renovation, Bramble Baking Co, and more reporting from Baltimore Brew, Greater Greater Washington, The Real News Network, and other local and independent news sources.
Baltimore roller-skating women in photos by E. Brady Robinson
Remembering how empowered skating made her feel as a girl, she hit the streets, meeting up with friends and eventually a wider network of female-identifying Baltimore skaters.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Icons of American Animation opens at McDaniel College + Carroll Arts Center, Exeter hosts an artist talk with Elizabeth Flood and Bradley Milligan, No Pix After Dark interviews E. Brady Robinson at Hotel Indigo, Bria Sterling-Wilson opens at Hooper House, and more!
Four Baltimore-based women artists handily exceed expectations when given an opportunity at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Lauren Frances Adams, Mequitta Ahuja, LaToya M. Hobbs, and Cindy Cheng received significant project support from the BMA to create new bodies of work.
The city-wide triennial features site-specific work responding to New Orleans, the American South and, often as a result, issues of environmental, economic, and racial justice
With 17 different venues and a map in hand, I moved in currents and countercurrents over the course of my 11-day visit and still didn’t see it all.
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Marilyn and Nick Mosby make news again, Gun Trace Task Force explained, Hogan proposes tax cuts with Maryland's projected surplus, cause for celebration in Belair-Edison, and more reporting from The Real News Network, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Brew, and more.
The maximalist mixed-media artist talks about taste, class, and asking questions of the world—and other artists—around her
"I think fundamentally artists are always interested in what comes next—what happens if I push this idea further, what happens if I try this new material, etc."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Kyrae Dawaun, Cecilia Kim, Ara Koh, Samera Paz, and Matthew Russo artist talk at Hamiltonian Gallery, an opening reception for Hosey Corona at The Nicholson Project, "On the Other Side" info session at SNF Parkway, and more!
A Photo Essay by Greg McKay
Baltimore in winter is a seesaw from tropical to arctic and everything in between, but when it snows it is nothing short of magical.
Gregory S. Smith brings two decades of arts administration, business management, and event production
After almost a year’s search, Creative Alliance announced its new executive director this week.
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Afro Archives and Savannah Wood, Katherine Fahey resurrects a lost art, hospitals beg for vaccinations, chaos in area schools, and more reporting from The Real News Network, Technical.ly Baltimore, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
Photos by E. Brady Robinson at The Cahoot's Brothers and Get Shredded Vintage
Warm Winter Looks from Two Beloved Remington-based Centres of Unique Baltimore Fashion
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Elaine Fisher at Project 1628, Waller Gallery presents Nakeya Brown, Safiya Cheatham, Chris Kozjar, and Savannah Wood at Eubie Blake, Kelly Walker, Robert Hoffman, and Markus at Gallery Blue Door, NEA calls for entry - and more!
Cheon's multidisciplinary work describes the subtle dynamics of a divided country, embedding contradictory layers of information that political discourse leaves out
Cheon’s practice is rooted in the tradition of activism and protest central to the history of modern Korea.
