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Local Art Organizations
Baltimore Arts Districts An arts overview by the City.
Baltimore Office of Promotion in the Arts [ BOPA ]
BmoreArt Local arts and culture 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.
Open Works has all the tools and resources you need to bring an idea to life, learn a new skill, find a space for your new business and so much more.
Art Centers and Galleries
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.
405 E. Oliver St., Baltimore, MD 21202
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.
422 South Highland Ave. 1511 Baltimore, MD 21224
The artist-run gallery dedicated to showing young, newly established, and critically engaged artists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5707 Smith Ave., Baltimore, MD 21209
Nonprofit ceramic art center and gallery that showcases ceramic works, as well as offering studio space and classes.
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.
523 N. Charles St.#1, Baltimore, MD 21201
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.
3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD
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.
3000 Chestnut Ave., Studio 214, Baltimore, MD
Goya represents major artists like Joyce J. Scott and Soledad Salame, and produces an impressive array of publications.
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.
218 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
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
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.
421 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Artist-run gallery and studio, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers.
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.
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.
2420 N Calvert St Baltimore, MD 21218
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.
2224 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218
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.
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
800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230
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.
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
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
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.
600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
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.
600 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024
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
801 McCulloh St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland
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.
3123 Walbrook Ave, Baltimore, MD 21216
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.
405 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
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
After celebrating 50 years of theater, the Spotlighters aggressively put on large-scale productions in their small, in-the-round theater.
45 W. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201
This group has been actively seeking experimental programming to show in its black box theater since the early 1970s.
700 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202
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).
315 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21201
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.
251 S. Ann St., Baltimore, MD 21202
Operating out of an old firehouse, this group brings theater to one of the city’s most historic districts.
12 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore, MD 21201
This stunning historic building hosts traveling Broadway shows, such as the recent production of The Book of Mormon.
806 S. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
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
Annual arts festival in Bolton Hill and Station North.
Fluid Movement is a group of volunteers that create joyous performance art in Baltimore City. We are best known for our synchronized swimming shows (that we lovingly refer to as water ballets) that take place in Baltimore City pools,
High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world.
Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) is Baltimore’s big-screen discovery engine—features, shorts, and boundary-pushing moving-image work that rewards curiosity and connection without requiring insider knowledge. Packed daily slates of feature films and shorts, spotlighting emerging and established filmmakers from Maryland and across the globe.
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
The mission of Sweaty Eyeballs Animation is to showcase unique, experimental and diverse voices in the field of animated filmmaking with a focus on innovation in craft, storytelling and work that questions preconceived notions of what animation can and should be.
Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest
A grassroots endeavor to connect Black Femmes throughout the African diaspora through the medium of film. A film festival that is quite possibly too future for its own good. Meaning we center Femme identifying Black people in our programing. The film and media industry has been historically centered around white males. This festival encourages filmmakers who are on the margins to come together and find community within ourselves.
SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial channels. SPX sponsors a number of events and charitable initiatives.
Global Art Scene
For Arts, Technology and Social Change
Making intercultural exchange happen through art
A multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley
Centering Africa in Higher Education