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08/31/2026

There comes a moment when the book stops feeling like a collection of files and starts behaving like a single object.

I am doing the final layout review of In Light and Verse listening to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker pas de deux. A final layout review is one of the few moments when a designer experiences the whole book at once, and it is the last threshold before the book becomes a physical object. It is the last m...

08/31/2026

This week’s news includes: Nia Hampton’s “The Labor/The Luxury” documentary, Bisa Butler exhibition opening at SAAM March 2027, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Maryland, the DC arts exodus benefits Baltimore, artist Jason Patterson’s portraits documenting the Eastern Shore, MoCA Arlington announces Assembly 2026, Tephra ICA announces Mary B. Howard Invitational artists, Fall/Winter programming for Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh, sculptor Peter Machen wins 11th-annual Metal My Way contest, and deadline for ‘Design Baltimore: Gateways’ extended to September.

This week’s news includes: Nia Hampton’s “The Labor/The Luxury” documentary, Bisa Butler exhibition opening at SAAM March 2027, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Maryland, the DC arts exodus benefits Baltimore, artist Jason Patterson’s portraits documenting the Eastern Shore, MoCA Ar...

08/30/2026

Bye bye, summer! At least we have these gorgeous photos though. "Across two countries, the same logic repeats: doors propped open, chairs dragged outside, a city’s private life spilling into its public one for a few months. Different places, same gesture."

Read: Analog Summer: Photo Essay, As the World Spirals into a Digital Dystopia, J.M. Giordano Returns to Film

Words: Cara Ober
Photos: J.M. Giordano

Summer doesn’t belong to any one city. It shows up in the same loosened postures wherever it lands—shoulders down, sleeves rolled, plans made loose and casual. In a new photo essay, JM Giordano tracks that feeling across five cities that otherwise share little: Baltimore, New York, Amsterdam, Ut...

08/28/2026

Read at BmoreArt.com:: Baltimore County’s New Arts Hub Makes Its Debut at Lillian Holt Park
Art Fusion Lands at Lillian Holt Park This Saturday, With Sun Ra Arkestra Headlining

Art Fusion at Lillian Holt Park Saturday, August 29 · 12–7 p.m. · Free

Headliner Sun Ra Arkestra performs at 6 p.m. in the amphitheater, with sets throughout the day from Afro House, Mind on Fire, Kevin Sherry, Amy Reid, and Herald. Expect outdoor sculpture installations, a juried indoor gallery show, roughly 20 art vendors, food trucks, and family activity tents.

Parking is limited on-site; a shuttle runs from Overlea High School every 15 minutes

08/28/2026

This Saturday, that fifty-year-old wish takes a major step forward. From 12 to 7 p.m. on August 29, Baltimore County Recreation and Parks debuts Art Fusion, a free festival built around the theme “Earth, Moon, and Stars,” and the first major public event under a new push to turn Holt Park and Center for the Arts into a year-round arts hub.

For decades, the 12-acre estate tucked beside the Overlea neighborhood has been one of Baltimore County’s best-kept secrets — a pond, a scatter of cabins, a grand main building, and the grave of the woman who gave it all away. Lillian Holt, born a McCormick, of the McCormick spice family, bequea...

08/28/2026

With the Arts Under Fire, DC's Loss Has Been Baltimore's Gain...

Amy Sherald, Phillip Glass, The Washington National Opera, and more artists and audiences are sheltering here—and it’s raising our cultural profile.

08/27/2026

Congratulations to Thea Canlas, the 2026 Sondheim Art Prize Award winner! Thea Canlas Create Baltimore The Walters Art Museum

Canlas asks viewers to consider how migration becomes normalized within global capitalism and what happens when cultural identity is shaped by the expectation of departure. Who benefits from these systems of exchange, and who disappears within them? Suspended above piles of sand, pearls, sugar, and human teeth, the uniforms become haunting reminders that labor itself is one of the Philippines’ greatest exports. The work asks an uncomfortable question: What does it mean when a nation’s most valuable commodity is its people?

08/26/2026

“Across four countries, the same logic repeats: doors propped open, chairs dragged outside, a city’s private life spilling into its public one for a few months.”

Read at BmoreArt.com:: Analog Summer: Photo Essay 📸
As the World Spirals into a Digital Dystopia, J.M. Giordano Returns to Film

Words: Cara Ober caraober
Photos: J.M. Giordano Joseph Mario Giordano

08/25/2026

“Art is one of the most enduring ways we record the stories and concerns of our time. I want an audience to experience that feeling, seeing these practices as the culmination of research, documentary and imaginative leaps that universalize the stories being told.” — Alex Ebstein Alex Ebstein

Read at BmoreArt.com:: Tangential Realities at BmoreArt’s Connect + Collect Gallery Connect+Collect
An Interview with the Exhibition’s Featured Rubys Artist Grant Recipients Rubys Artist Grants

Words: María Sánchez María Sánchez Olarte
Photos: Vivian Marie Doering Vivian Marie Doering

Tangential Realities is on view at BmoreArt’s Connect + Collect Gallery through September 30 by appointment.

08/23/2026

UMBC’s Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Rowhomes We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll and featuring artists based in, or deeply connected to, Baltimore. On view from August 25 through November 24, 2026, the exhibition considers the city’s fertile cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practices. Its title is inspired by the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

The exhibition brings together a range of artists and artistic mediums with works by Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Nia Hampton, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and a public presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Thursday, September 3, 6–8 p.m.
Opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with Shan Wallace, Kim Rice, Brianna Faulkner, and Jeffrey Kent.