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06/17/2026

Baltimore Pride 2026: A Photo Essay of the Annual Parade and Celebration on June 13th

Words: BmoreArt Team
Photos: Devon Rowland

Charm City showed up in all our rainbow colors to celebrate Pride this June 8-14. Block parties, skate parties, dance parties, and more took place across the city. While some changes to the traditional Pride events and leadership are being debated, the energy of the annual parade on Saturday, June 1...

06/12/2026

NEWS! Hamilton Gallery will close later this month, CityLit and The Phillips Collection receive major funding, Voyages returns to The National Aquarium led by Tim “Chyno” Chin, Baltimore Children & Youth Fund (BCYF) Community Exhibition, Jodi Picoult will headline Carroll Book Festival, remembering Anita Novak Klein and Muriel Hasbun, Submersive Productions announces The Pansy Hour, the end of Camp John Waters, art and society in Hyperallergic, Dr. Steven Nelson appointed to Sam Gilliam Foundation Executive Director, Robert Blackson takes over at Kent Cultural Alliance, and Folger Shakespeare Library announces exhibition surveying Black women in Shakespeare.

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

Words: Rebecca Juliette

This week’s news includes: Hamilton Gallery will close later this month, CityLit and The Phillips Collection receive major funding, Voyages returns to The National Aquarium led by Tim “Chyno” Chin, Baltimore Children & Youth Fund (BCYF) Community Exhibition, Jodi Picoult will headline Carroll ...

06/10/2026

Congratulations to all the 2026 Baker Artist Awardees!!!!

READ:: Six Artists or Artists Duos Recognized with Support Totaling $90,000

https://bmoreart.com/2026/06/gbca-announces-2026-baker-artist-awardees.html

06/09/2026

Read:: Fetcher: Charm City Dreampunk
Local Band Touts Baltimore's DIY Music Scene and Is Ready for What Comes Next
Words: Eliza Tebo

When Jason Jones discovered that the man sharing a Sykesville duplex with his bandmate had vanished, he did what anyone else would do—wrote a song about it. “The guy just ups and disappears. What would cause somebody to do that?” Jones says.  He and his bandmate, fellow Fetcher frontman Louey...

06/09/2026

Get Issue 21 via the BmoreArt shop or at local booksellers: BMA Shop, Atomic Books, Ivy, Greedy Reads, & Viva Books!!!!

BmoreArt Issue 20: The Icons celebrates John Waters, Ultra Naté, and Bishme Cromartie.

06/09/2026

BmoreArt’s Picks: June 9-15
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

Words: Rebecca Juliette

This Week: Elena Volkova’s Pride Portraits at Current Space, Vital Beauty opening reception at TU Center for the Arts, Station North Second Friday Art Walk, Bethesda Painting Awards public reception at Gallery B, Objects at Hand opening reception at XOXO Gallery, PR Weekend 2026, Baltimore Claywor...

06/09/2026

MUST SEE PRODUCTION of PRIDE MONTH!!!! 🌈🌈🌈

Read: Of Ghosts and Glitter and Gay Bars: “The View Upstairs”
Iron Crow's Time-Warping Musical is the Must-See Production this Pride Month

Words: Tim Paggi
Photos: Wilson Freeman
Iron Crow Theatre

Walking into the theater for Iron Crow’s new production, The View Upstairs, is more akin to entering a bar than a black box. Or, if you’re, say, two negronis deep after just visiting the nearby Owl Bar, you’re practically on a pub crawl. That’s because glasses are clinking as audience member...

06/03/2026

“The Baltimore Rock Opera’s American Vamp is arguably the companies’ darkest—and strangest—production in over a decade.“ American Vamp runs May 29th through June 20th. Tickets are available on the Baltimore Rock Opera Society’s website.

Read at BmoreArt.com:: BROS’ Latest Musical Bares Fangs and Draws Blood 🩸 In ‘American Vamp’ the Baltimore Rock Opera Society Skewers Creepy Capitalism

Words: Tim Paggi
Photos: Lyon van den Oord

06/01/2026

“Over Memorial Day weekend, thousands of visitors streamed through downtown Baltimore for Artscape 2026, filling War Memorial Plaza, Guilford Avenue, Gay Street, and surrounding blocks with music, performances, food vendors, exhibitions, and public programming.”

Read at BmoreArt.com:: Artscape 2026: Bigger Crowds, Bigger Questions. Baltimore’s Signature Arts Festival in Photos.

Words: Cara Ober
Photos: Mollye Miller