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City of Artists: Baltimore

City of Artists is the first full-length book from BmoreArt, Baltimore’s art and culture magazine, featuring 220 pages of personal reflections from leading writers alongside portfolios from the city’s most celebrated visual artists. In inspired text and rich visuals, the book offers a multifaceted and diverse perspective, where authors explore specific moments that shaped their creative vision and visual artists offer bodies of work inspired by materials, ideas, and experiences of their hometown.

 

Watch the book trailers.

 

Watch our reading event with the authors at the Enoch Pratt Library.

 

See press for the book here:

 

• Baltimore Fishbowl: Inside the Gorgeous New Coffee Table Book City of Artists: Baltimore, Nov. 27, 2023

 

• NPR Midday with Tom Hall: “City of Artists: Baltimore” integrates writing & visual arts, December 4, 2023

 

• Le Figaro Newspaper, Weekend Magazine: Voyage à Baltimore, bientôt la destination la plus désirable des États-Unis, January 10, 2025

 

Writers: Rafael Alvarez, Madison Smartt Bell, Doreen Bolger, Sheri Booker, celeste doaks, E. Doyle-Gillespie, Michael Anthony Farley, Kondwani Fidel, Lane Harlan, Lori Johnson, Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, Laura Lippman, Stanley Mazaroff, Scott Shane, Ron Tanner, D. Watkins

 

Visual Artists: Derrick Adams, Schroeder Cherry, Se Jong Cho, Alyssa Dennis, Oletha DeVane, Erin Fostel, Jerrell Gibbs, JM Giordano, Phaan Howng, Jeffrey Kent, Jackie Milad, Edgar Reyes, Joyce J. Scott, Jordan Tierney, René Treviño, John Waters

$60

Bmore Art