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"The words ‘childlike wonder’ come up with all of them. That's what the artists want to invoke in attendees—inviting adults back to play, realizing the power in being in that space."
This week's news includes: GBCA announces the 2025 Baker Artist Awardees, several local arts organizations celebrate World Environment Day, Happy 50th Baltimore Pride, Tony Shore and Phaan Howng light up Station North, a Banner interview with Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives, and more!
The performances, and videos in 'Paradise Portals,' are illustrations of human struggle, which despite the many forms our storytelling takes as a species, is the thing our work always comes back to.
Bruce Willen was selected to receive the 2025 $40,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, the largest art prize in the region.
In curating CoatTails, Cornelia Stokes demands that conversations about fashion must reflect the nuances and diversity of Black experiences.
"I get angry at the Identity-Industrial-Art-Market-Complex forcing artists who could be free of that to just fucking make art!"
This week's news includes: Artscape 2025 reviews are in, Kimi Yoshino leaves Baltimore for Washington, The Driskell Center aquires a Megan Lewis painting, John Waters brings in the crowds, Good Contrivance Farm writer's retreat, Baltimore's first annual Puerto Rican weekend celebration, and more!
What does Baltimore investing intentionally in itself look like?
Artscape's New Downtown Footprint in Photos: Artisan Market, Food Lab, New Murals, Concert Stages, Performances, and Sondheim Semi-Finalists at The Peale
It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
This week's news includes: Artscape updates, Trans Visibility quilt displayed on the Mall, Preakness past and present in photos, Joyce J. Scott receives honorary doctorate from UB, John Waters weighs in on Carly Hayden's firing and how to (mis)behave at his book signings, Guns of Steel, and more!
In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations.
Camouflage renders beauty and material repurposing from the catastrophes of environmental degradation. The beauty here is not empty or slight, but deeply ethical, a slow product of intense labor and years of study and gestation.
This week's news includes: Honorary MICA degrees for Christopher Myers and George Ciscle, Baltimore turns up for Turnstile, reactions to Dr. Carla Hayden's firing, coleman a. jordan | ebo at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennial, the lasting legacy of Black Cherry Puppet Theater, and more!