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News & Opinion

Recovering the Past and Envisioning the Future in West Baltimore Through Photography

In fall 2021, the Black Arts District launched the Historical Photography Project (HPP), an online library of photos and oral histories, seeking to ensure that the cultural memory of the Avenue isn’t forgotten or erased.

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

This Week: Happenstance Theater Presents: Cabaret Macabre at Baltimore Theatre Project, States of Becoming curatorial talk with Fitsum Shebeshe at UMBC, Warp & Weft reception at Richard B. Talkin Family Art Gallery, Creative Alliance and Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror at BCS, and more!

Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: John Ellsberry's Iconic Remington alligator mural, Hopkins opens Bloomberg Center in DC, MD poet laureate Grace Cavalieri, Full Circle Dance Company, and Blacks in White opens at the Lewis Museum

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

Highlights: Marriage plots, Airlines, Colin Kaepernick, grief and love, “Black math,” Blueface and Chrisean, the WGA, pandas, WNBA expansions, and remembering Dianne Feinstein. 

The internet was FUNNY and engaging this week.

Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes:  The Walters acquires Kehinde Wiley and Herbert Massie, mulitple public art works go missing, Jill Orlov wins the MASB Artist Travel Prize, fiber artist Melissa Webb, Little Donna's named one of 50 best restaurants, looking back on Artscape, and more!

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

This Week: Fitsum Shebeshe, Jessica Bell Brown, and Rhea Beckett in conversation at UMBC, Baltimore Clayworks virtual artist talk with Clarissa Pezone, Charm City Burlesque and Variety Festival, Charm City Fringe, BROS' The Gold Night, and more!

Highlights: Florida Man, Kirk Franklin, Deion Sanders, Jann Wenner, Russell Brand, Clarence Thomas, James Ho, Jens Haaning, Diddy, and F-35s. 

I could not keep up with the internet this week!

Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media

This week’s news includes: What to know ahead of Artscape weekend, Baltimore's Arts & Culture Advisory Committee, John Waters' Hollywood star, High Zero and Charm City Fringe return, André De Shields honored, Derrick Adams in LA, 2023 Trawick Prize winners, and more.

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

This Week: Jacob Budenz's Big Queer Book Party, High Zero Festival, Kirby Griffin, the Guardians at The Peale, States of Becoming opening at UMBC, Artscape 2023, Kelly Walker + Rosa Leff at Night Owl Gallery, NoMüNoMü’s print fundraiser, and more!

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