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10/01/2026

Art News in Baltimore. This week’s news includes: BMA announces Open Call photography winners, a proposal to honor Divine at Towson High, new board chairs for MCHC + AVAM, cornrow controversy outs BROS’ Kelly Carnes, a review of Pyramid Atlantic’s Ruminations, two new NGA shows announced, Aja Roache appointed to Driskell Center Assistant Director of Exhibitions & Programs, David Simmons’ Baltimore horror stories, The Doll House Boutique’s 23rd anniversary, remembering former Hippo owner Charles “Chuck” Bowers, and Leon’s to reopen as Leon’s Homecoming.

This week’s news includes: BMA announces Open Call photography winners, a proposal to honor Divine at Towson High, new board chairs for MCHC + AVAM, cornrow controversy outs BROS’ Kelly Carnes, a review of Pyramid Atlantic’s Ruminations, two new NGA shows announced, Aja Roache appointed to Dri...

10/01/2026

Watch and be inspired: Gorgeous mini-documentary created by Wide Angle Youth Media featuring MD Quilters Catherine Wooten of Howard County and apprentice Suzanne Coley of Baltimore County! Presented by MSAC.

For over a year, mentor artist Catherine Wooten of Howard County worked alongside apprentice Suzanne Coley of Baltimore County in a 2021–22 Maryland State Arts Council Folklife Apprenticeship, passing down the techniques of sharecropper-style quilting—a tradition Catherine learned from her mothe...

09/23/2026

WATCH: Gorgeous mini-documentaries by Wide Angle Youth Media about MD-based Traditional Artists, produced by the Maryland State Arts Council !

Since 1967, the Maryland State Arts Council has supported artists a...

09/22/2026

Craft Collectors in the DC Area!

Based in Laurel, Maryland, Judith Chernoff and Jeffrey Bernstein are craft advocates and avid collectors. They focus on sculptural and turned wood but collect a range of other media, including baskets, ceramics, fiber and glass.

09/18/2026

Baker Artist Awards Is Moving to Creative Alliance!!!
Here's What Baltimore Artists Need to Know

Words: Cara Ober

The Baker Artist Portfolios and Awards, the Baltimore-born prize and online portfolio platform that gives artists working in Baltimore City and its five surrounding counties a free, professional home for their work—and distributes $90,000 in prize money each year to artists across disciplines from...

09/18/2026

This Saturday, before a sand dune and beneath the evening sky, dancers performing at the fourth annual Ballet on the Beach Festival on Assateague Island will take their bows just before sunset. This 5 p.m. curtain—midway between a matinee and an evening show—is mandated by stage lighting.

That lighting? The sun, just three days shy of the autumnal equinox. Overhead lights and light trees are out of the question on an island whose only permanent residents are a herd of wild ponies.

Vanessa Salgado, founder and director of Ballet on the Beach, has the show’s timing down to a science. Curtain—proverbially speaking—at five, wrap by 6:30 p.m. That will give the audience of 700+ just enough daylight to get back to their cars. The moon will rise. The tide will recede. And the stage that was assembled at 10 a.m. will be dismantled and driven back to Annapolis.

After hosting a night at the ballet, Assateague State Park will be left as it was found. That’s of utmost importance to Salgado, who long dreamed of bringing ballet to her favorite seashore.

09/18/2026

Last night at BLIFTD ART STVDIOS @ for the inaugural LIFTD, a new Baltimore series bringing visual art into conversation with storytelling, spoken word, music, and food.

The evening featured the work of Baltimore artist and BLIFTD resident E. L. Briscoe, with storytelling and spoken word by Marc LaVeau and Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields, music by DJ Tanz and The Sound Garden, and bites and an art-inspired cocktail from .

Founded by artist Jeffrey Kent Jeffrey Kent and co-founded with Nicole Clark, BLIFTD has created a space where artists, musicians, storytellers, and audiences can come together in unexpected ways. Last night’s gathering, in collaboration with , was a beautiful example of that spirit.

09/18/2026

Arts and Archives: DIY Publishing Panel
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 5:00pm - 7:00pm
George Peabody Library
Audience: Open to the Public

Join us for a conversation on the art of independent publishing in Baltimore, featuring three voices shaping the city's DIY print culture: Jess Jess Press, a comic and magazine press specializing in Risograph printing with a focus on publishing marginalized authors and artists; Momo Mullings, a Baltimore-based writer, artist, organizer, and archivist whose work spans zines, performance, and publishing; and Cara Ober, founding editor and publisher of BmoreArt, a platform for creative and critical discussion and a leading resource for contemporary art and culture in Baltimore.

Please RSVP here

https://jhu.libcal.com/calendar/events/diypublishing

09/15/2026

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly is the latest show composed by writer, curator and art historian Angela N. Carroll at UMBC’s Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Across a diverse presentation of 5 films, 5 photographic installations, two paintings, two sculptural pieces, and a large collaged piece, Carroll brings together thirteen artists from and deeply connected to Baltimore to tell a story—not just of the city—but about its people, its ideas, its failures, and its glories.

A young Black girl sits in the center of Briana Faulkner’s collaged work “Solitaire.” Her hair is in big twists and her eyes are full of wonder as she looks up at a blue bird with a brilliant plume of feathers, delicately perched on her outstretched hand. A wall of luscious palm trees stands j...

09/13/2026

The following photographs capture that portrait: the crowd singing along to “End of the Road,” the kids weaving between vendor tents, the dancers who never left the barricade all afternoon. Here’s Charm City Live 2026, as summer said goodbye to Baltimore for another year.
Photos by KT Kanazawich for BmoreArt
Mayor Brandon M. Scott
https://bmoreart.com/2026/09/charm-city-live-turns-five-a-summer-send-off-in-photos.html