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Local Art Organizations

Artscape Annual arts festival in Bolton Hill and Station North
Baltimore Arts Districts An arts overview by the City.
Baltimore Office of Promotion in the Arts [ BOPA ] has two websites, Baltimore Office of Promotion in the Arts [ BOPA ]
BmoreArt On-line local art publication
Bromo Arts and Entertainment District located in close proximity to the city’s main sports venues, the convention center, central business district, and the Inner Harbor.
Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower A studio space building for visual and literary artists.
Maryland State Arts Council Use the search to filter “Baltimore City” to see MSAC funded spaces in the City.
Station North Arts and Entertainment District An official arts and entertainment district.
Station North Tool Library Affordable access to tools, skills, and workspace.

Art Centers and Galleries

Metro Baltimore
1700 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
A multipurpose performance space, gallery, and bar that hosts esteemed touring and local musical acts as well as art shows with a focus on emerging artists.

Area 405
405 E. Oliver St., Baltimore, MD 21202
410-528-1968
This massive, artist-owned warehouse is the perfect place to go see a clandestine performance after dark or to see an out-there group show. Located in the Station North Arts District, it’s close to tons of other art spaces.

Springsteen Gallery
422 South Highland Ave. 1511 Baltimore, MD 21224
The artist-run gallery dedicated to showing young, newly established, and critically engaged artists.

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower
21 S. Eutaw St., Baltimore MD 21201
A studio space building for visual and literary artists. Open every Saturday for open studios and tours of the 15 story city landmark.

Black Arts District
12 W Madison St Baltimore, MD 21201
The Black Arts District through an anti-displacement framework empowers Black creatives and continues the community-based revitalization efforts in West Baltimore through culture, arts, and entertainment.

Baltimore Print Studios
18 W North Ave., Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore Print Studios is a public access, letterpress, screenprinting and Risograph studio in Baltimore, MD, owned and run by married team Kyle Van Horn and Kim Bentley. They offer workshops, hourly studio rental, design services, and commercial printing.

ICA Baltimore
16 West North Ave., Baltimore, MD
ICA Baltimore promotes the professional growth of early career artists through studio visits and solo artist exhibitions.

Evergreen Museum
4545 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210
Museum operated by Johns Hopkins University that holds a prestigious collection of fine and decorative arts, rare books, and manuscripts.

Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Ave., Baltimore, MD 21209
Nonprofit ceramic art center and gallery that showcases ceramic works, as well as offering studio space and classes.

Potters Guild of Baltimore
3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Meadow Mill – Suite 101, Baltimore, MD 21211
The Guild is a clay center dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation of the ceramic arts. Who offer juried membership opportunities, shared studio space and gallery space featuring curated exhibitions. 

C. Grimaldis Gallery
523 N. Charles St.#1, Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 539-1080
One of Baltimore’s only high-end, big-name, selling galleries, Grimaldis plays a unique role in the art scene here. The venerable nature of the gallery doesn’t take away its edge.

Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave.,
[ 410 ] 276-1651
This Highlandtown creative art center hosts something almost every night, from gallery shows to music performances to film screenings and more. They also do community outreach, offer workshops, host parties, and have a fantastic bar/restaurant on the premises. Seriously, this is the place to be on any given day.

Fox 2 & 3 Gallery, MICA
1300 W Mount Royal St., Baltimore MD 21217
As the hub of the GFA Department, the Fox 2 Gallery exhibits a wide variety of work by the GFA, Painting,  Printmaking and Drawing departments.

Goya Contemporary
3000 Chestnut Ave., Studio 214,
[ 410 ] 366-2001
Goya represents major artists like Joyce J. Scott and Soledad Salame, and produces an impressive array of publications.

Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute
1715 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202
Curator Rod Malin moved this gallery from his Fells Point home into the Station North Arts District with a radical idea. In addition to curating a wide variety of shows, Malin hopes that the Guest Spot can provide a kind of alternative art education with programming, lectures, and students.

Jordan Faye Contemporary
1601 Guilford Ave (Entrance @ 302 E. Federal) 5th FLR #10, Baltimore, MD 21202

Maryland Art Place
218 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 962-8565
Powerful curation of ambitious shows and the Curators’ Incubator program to help train new curators, MAP is redesigning the map of Baltimore’s cultural landscape.

Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217
[ 410 ] 669-9200
Spread across MICA’s Bolton Hill campus, on the edge of Mount Vernon, are a number of galleries featuring the works of graduate and undergraduate students, professors, and working artists. You have the chance to see art of every medium, from video to video game art, from high-caliber artists who know how to put on a show.

stationnorth.org
The new headquarters of Station North Arts and Entertainment Inc. acts as a welcome center for the district, an art gallery, and a theater.

Current Space
421 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Artist-run gallery and studio, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers.

The Peale Center
225 N Holliday St., Baltimore, MD 21202
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is restoring the oldest museum building in the United States in partnership with the City of Baltimore. Through its programs, the Peale Center aims to illuminate authentic stories of Baltimore’s people and places, while reinventing the urban museum in the creative and innovative spirit of its founder, artist Rembrandt Peale.

Gallery Blue Door
833 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201
Established in 2018, Gallery Blue Door is a boutique contemporary fine art gallery in Mount Vernon – The Cultural District and heart of Baltimore. We primarily highlight emerging and established artists, and regularly exhibit work from regional and East Coast artists, but are expanding our reach. From 2018 to the end of 2021 the gallery hosted six exhibits a year, with one of them being a two person exhibition. Gallery Blue Door is now divided to allow 3 rotating solo exhibits at once. This new format allows more artists to exhibit throughout the year with exciting crossovers. Our mission is to support artists, and bring joy to visitors and collectors through art. Bringing happiness into hearts and homes.

Waller Gallery
2420 N Calvert St Baltimore, MD 21218
[(443) 879-9731]
Conceived in 2017, by curator, scholar and UMBC alum, Joy Davis, Waller Gallery has a vision to support artists in Baltimore and beyond through collecting, exhibitions, programming, and collaborative projects.

Galerie Myrtis
2224 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218
[410-235-3711]
Galerie Myrtis is an emerging blue-chip gallery and art advisory specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century American art with a focus on work created by African American artists.

STABLE Arts
336 Randolph Place NE Washington, DC 20002
[202-953-9559]
STABLE is a space for artists to think and create, fostering an arts ecosystem in D.C. through our studios, residencies, projects and collaborations.

The Nicholson Project
2310 Nicholson St SE Washington DC 20020
The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program coupled with a neighborhood garden that works to support artists and serve as a creative and innovative cultural hub. We aim to become a community anchor that celebrates the community’s authentic identity while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC.

 

Museums

American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230
[ 410 ] 244-1900
Take care not to be blinded when approaching this building on a sunny day: it’s covered in mirrored mosaics bright enough to set a fleet of ships on fire. The inside is just as whimsical, featuring the weird works of self-taught artists on the fringe. The store on the first level has anything you could imagine ever needing, and several things you’ve never thought of.

Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
[ 443 ] 573-1700
Home of the billion-dollar post-Impressionism Cone Collection, the BMA also has a large sampling of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art, the last of which is housed in the museum’s impressive new Contemporary Wing. With its director, Doreen Bolger, arguably the city’s biggest booster of artists, the museum itself has once again become central to the city’s art scene. Sit with Rodin’s “The Thinker” before you go to the sculpture gardens on a journey through the figurative to the abstract. And it’s free.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202
[ 443 ] 263-1800
This museum, dedicated to African-American history, is distinguished by its powerful curation of shows, such as Growing up AFRO: Snapshots of Black Childhood from the Afro-American Newspaper, or Ashe to Amen African Americans and Biblical Imagery.

Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 547-9000
Since the Walters is free, we often slip away to spend a few minutes with one of our favorite pieces or in one of our favorite periods: the stunning sarcophagus with Dionysus and Ariadne, or maybe “Chamber of Wonders,” which recreates a cabinet of curiosities from the European Age of Exploration, filled with stuffed birds and giant beetles and curiosities of human ingenuity and the natural world. You could immerse yourself in the Mesopotamian, the ancient Egyptian, Greek, or medieval for days or weeks at a time. Check out the special exhibitions on rotation, students are often given a discounted rate.

The Smithsonian Institution
600 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024
[202] 6331000
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo—shaping the future by preserving heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

 

Theaters

Arena Players
801 McCulloh St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland
[(410) 728-6500]
Baltimore’s Arena Players Inc. is the oldest continuously operating African-American community theater in the United States. From its humble beginnings in 1953, by a small aspiring group of ambitious fledgling actors, Arena Players has a proud history of community service and outstanding dramatic achievements.

WombWork Productions
3123 Walbrook Ave, Baltimore, MD 21216
[(410) 258-1504]
WombWork Productions, Inc. brings together art and spirit through traditional art forms and showcases socially relevant productions that empower performers and youth in social change issues.

Annex Theater
405 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 443 ] 228-6745
This scrappy experimental theater does everything from adaptations of Philip K. Dick to gender-bending Macbeth.

Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
817 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21202
[ 410 ] 752-1225
After celebrating 50 years of theater, the Spotlighters aggressively put on large-scale productions in their small, in-the-round theater.

Baltimore Theatre Project
45 W. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 752-8558
This group has been actively seeking experimental programming to show in its black box theater since the early 1970s.

Center Stage
700 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202
[ 410 ] 986-4000
This professional powerhouse offers lively new seasons year after year; this year’s has a bit of everything, including classics such as Twelfth Night (March 5-April 6) and comedic musicals such as Animal Crackers (Sept. 4-Oct. 13).

Everyman Theatre
315 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 752-2208
With the slogan “Engage. Inspire. Transform.,” this professional theater company shapes the local theater landscape with a mix of time-honored classics and innovative programming in their gorgeous new location.

Fells Point Corner Theatre
251 S. Ann St., Baltimore, MD 21202
[ 410 ] 276-7837
Operating out of an old firehouse, this group brings theater to one of the city’s most historic districts.

Hippodrome Theatre
12 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore, MD 21201
[ 410 ] 837-7400
This stunning historic building hosts traveling Broadway shows, such as the recent production of The Book of Mormon.

Single Carrot Theatre
3001 Old York Road
Baltimore, MD 21218
[ 443 ] 844-9253
Single Carrot Theatre creates socially relevant theatre as a form of civic engagement in Baltimore by producing vibrant, experiential performances in traditional and non-traditional theatre venues; building cross-sector partnerships; and facilitating empowering education programs.

Vagabond Players Inc.
806 S. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
[ 410 ] 563-9135
Contrary to their name, this group is sticking around to produce some entertaining theater; it’s the oldest continuously operated community theater in the United States.

Festivals and Community Arts

Artscape
www.artscape.org

Fluid Movement
403 N. Paca St, Baltimore, MD 21201
fluidmovementbaltimore@gmail.com
fluidmovement.org

High Zero Festival
www.highzero.org

Maryland Film Festival
(410) 752-8083
info@mdfilmfest.com
www.md-filmfest.com

Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
https://www.sweatyeyeballs.com/

Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest
https://www.bfsfilmfest.com/

SPX Bethesda, MD
Small Press Expo

Transmodern Festival
transmodernfestival.com

Global Art Scene

Further Field
www.furtherfield.org
For Arts, Technology and Social Change

The Sacatar Foundation
https://sacatar.org/
Making interculutral exchange happen through art

Black Rock Senegal
blackrocksenegal.org
A multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley

Rose Pan African Education
https://www.rosepanafricaneducation.com/
Centering Africa in Higher Education