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Initiatives at Center Stage and Creative Alliance Illuminate Oft-Overlooked Baltimore Creative Communities

Center Stage’s new Indigenous Art Gallery and the exhibition Taking Space at Creative Alliance authentically engage with and serve the communities of color in which they are based

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week: Bruce Willen's Ghost Rivers at B. Willow, MDVLA benefit at Peabody Heights, Christina Delgado's Pa Mi Gente opening at Motor House, Locally Grown Festival at Baltimore Center Stage, The Lost Weekend at Greedy Reads Remington, and more!

Susan Lowe’s Solo Exhibition is a Vivid Mosaic of the Tragedies and Triumphs of Her Life

Although the work was created out of loss and grief, there is little sadness to be found. Quite surprisingly, the paintings burst with energy and connection, with the promise that everything is a cycle; there isn’t really an end.

Things that happened: Israel-Palestine conflict, War, War Crimes, Misinformation, but also: Derecka Purnell, Banned Books, Drake, and Aliah Sheffield

The internet mirrored the events in the world this week and it was terrible.

Kara Mae Harris' New Cookbook is a Feast

In just 100 pages, the author, recipe developer, designer, and illustrator have made the case that there is a uniquely American cuisine: the story of migration, colonialism, and what comes after. 

Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media

Ghost Rivers public art installation, Locally Grown Festival at Center Stage, Buns and Roses bakery, Saint Amelie at the Walters, the Maryland Lyric Opera is closing, Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death, Little Donna's overwhelmed, graffiti artist Chris Stain, BROS "Gold Night," and more.

Shows at Mono Practice, Unit B Gallery, and Howard Community College

Three Baltimore exhibitions—whose initial themes and materials are varied between abstraction, surrealism, and fiber arts—are connected through the energized spaces that the works build and each artist's dedication to their chosen focus. 

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Curator Jessy DeSantis hosts a closing reception + artist talk at Motor House, Musica Spira performs at George Peabody Library, Deborah Patterson opening reception at JELMA, Philip Muriel, James ‘Alpha’ Massaquoi, and Laurel Stewart opening reception at Bromo Arts Tower, and more!

In "Pope of Trash" Cinema's Enfant Terrible Gets Cannonically Crowned by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles

Actress (on strike) and writer (no longer on strike!) Liz Eldridge on why John Waters' mainstream acceptance restores her faith in filmmaking.

Highlights: OceanGate's Titan, ‘Flat Places’, Dearica Hamby, the WNBA expands, Jimmy Butler, Offset v. Bobbi Althoff, ‘Love is Blind’, Morgan State, Bedbugs in Paris, and Jon Romano. 

The internet was a dramatic mess this week.

Highlights from the Fair, and Why We Should be Taking Notes

I so wish more art spaces from the Baltimore/DC region participated in smart, well-curated smaller fairs like this—putting local artists in dialogue with international peers and in front of international audiences and kingmakers.

Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media

Tola's Room, New Exhibits at the Rubell Museum DC, Baltimore Print Fair Postponed to 2025, NMWA reopens, Baltimore Book Festival returns in Waverly, MD Film Fest is back, and ongoing Artscape exhibitions.

Photos From the Stage and Behind the Scenes at the Baltimore Rock Opera Society's Gold Night

The Newest Production from the BROS features an adventure in a gold mine and a battle against a mysterious monster, in photos by Jill Fannon

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Mount Vernon + Bromo District First Thursdays, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Vision & Spirit at the Lewis Museum, Jacob Henry, Fanni Somogyi and Elena Volkova at Alchemy of Art, Christine Duckworth at The Walters, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, 2023 BJC Symposium, and more.

Histories Collide takes us from B.C. era Mediterranean, to 19th century Maryland, and back to modern day Baltimore.

“The histories that collide are not just the histories of the Greco-Roman civilizations and Egypt, but also art histories and ways of framing these moments."

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