Art Centers and Galleries
Metro Gallery
1700 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201
www.themetrogallery.net
A multipurpose performance space, art gallery, and bar that hosts hosted esteemed touring and local musical acts as well as art shows with a focus on emerging artists.
The Windup Space
12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201
www.thewindupspace.com
A multipurpose performance space, that hosts events by bands, artists, and _lm makers.
Springsteen Gallery
1511 Guilford Ave, B303, Baltimore, MD 21202
www.thewindupspace.com
Artist-run gallery located dedicated to showing young, newly established, and critically engaged artists.
Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower
21 S. Eutaw St, Baltimore MD 21201
www.bromoseltzertower.com
A studio space building for visual and literary artists. Open every Saturday for open studios and tours of the 15 story city landmark.
The Contemporary
Nomadic Pop Up Museum!
www.contemporary.org
A nomadic, non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Commissions site-specific and subject-oriented projects and events.
Evergreen Museum
4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210
www.museums.jhu.edu/evergreen.php
Museum operated by Johns Hopkins University that holds a prestigious collection of fine and decorative arts, rare books, and manuscripts.
Sophia Jacob
510 W. Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
www.sophiajacob.com
A contemporary art space dedicated to a continuous program of exhibitions, lectures,
and publications by emerging and established artists.
Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
www.baltimoreclayworks.org
Nonprofit ceramic art center and gallery that showcases ceramic works, as well as offers studio space and classes.
Unexpected Art
1205 W. Mt. Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217
www.unexpectedartspace.com
Unexpected Art Space is an itinerant, pop-up gallery project that occupies otherwise vacant spaces with artworks. They have a second location in the Silo Point building in Locust Point.
D Convo
16 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
www.dcenterbaltimore.com
An academic center fostering a cross-section of disciplines and individuals invested in improving and encouraging design, in all its iterations in the Baltimore region.
Current Gallery
421 N Howard, Baltimore, MD 21201
www.currentspace.com
Artist-run gallery and studio, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers.
Museums
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway, [ 410 ] 244-1900
avam.org
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 never thought of.
Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive, [ 443 ] 573-1700
artbma.org
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., [ 443 ] 263-1800
rflewismuseum.org
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., [ 410 ] 547-9000
thewalters.org
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.
Area 405
405 E. Oliver St., [ 410 ] 528-1968
area405.com
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.
C. Grimaldis Gallery
523 N. Charles St., [ 410 ] 539-1080
cgrimaldisgallery.com
One of Baltimore’s only high-end, big-name, selling galleries, Grimaldis plays a unique role in the art scene here. But the venerable nature of the gallery doesn’t take away its edge.
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave., [ 410 ] 276-1651
creativealliance.org
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.
Goya Contemporary
3000 Chestnut Ave., Studio 214, [ 410 ] 366-2001
goyacontemporary.com
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.
guestspot.org
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.
H&H Building
405 W. Franklin St.
The H&H Building hosts several different galleries and performance spaces, including Nudashank and Gallery Four (two of the best galleries in town).
Load of Fun
120 W. North Ave.
The former home of Single Carrot and Glass Mind theaters and a number of artists studios. Is closed right now. We keep the listing, knowing that this address will be valuable to you. Something cool will be there.
Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place, Power Plant Live, Suite 100, [ 410 ] 962-8565
mdartplace.org
Maryland Art Place, or MAP, feels like a bit of Station North snuck into David Cordish’s Power Plant Live complex. With 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., [ 410 ] 669-9200
mica.edu
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.
School 33 Art Center
1427 Light St., [ 443 ] 263-4350
school33.org
There’s always something different going on at this Federal Hill space. The former brick-and-brownstone building is home to everchanging gallery shows and studio and classroom space for artists and the community.
Station North Chicken Box
1 W. North Ave.
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.
Theaters
Annex Theater
1 W. North Ave.
baltimoreannextheater.org
This scrappy experimental theater does everything from adaptations of Philip K. Dick to gender-bending Macbeth.
Center Stage
700 N. Calvert St., [ 410 ] 986-4000
centerstage.org
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., [ 410 ] 752-2208
everymantheatre.org
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., [ 410 ] 276-7837
fpct.org
Operating out of an old firehouse, this group brings theater to one of the city’s most historical districts.
Glass Mind Theatre
307 W. Baltimore St., [ 443 ] 475-0223
glassmindtheatre.com
This group of young artists strives to connect theater to the Baltimore community.
Hippodrome Theatre
12 N. Eutaw St., [ 410 ] 837-7400
france-merrickpac.com
This stunning historic building hosts traveling Broadway shows, such as this year’s production of The Book of Mormon.
Mobtown Theater
3600 Clipper Mill Road
mobtownplayers.net
This theater, in the former London Fog factory at Meadow Mills, hosts the Mobtown Players, who present stunning reimaginings of classics along with original fare.
Single Carrot Theatre
1727 N. Charles St., [ 443 ] 844-9253
singlecarrot.com
This troupe moved to Baltimore from Colorado en masse. Having left their longtime home in the Load of Fun, they now occupy the former Everyman, but plan to move to a new home in Remington next year.
Spotlighters Theatre
817 St. Paul St.,[ 410 ] 752-1225
spotlighters.org
After celebrating 50 years of theater, the Spotlighters aggressively put on large-scale productions in their small, in-the-round theater.
Theatre Project
45 W. Preston St.,[ 410 ] 752-8558
theatreproject.org
This group has been actively seeking experimental programming to show in its black box theater since the early 1970s.
Vagabond Players
806 S. Broadway, [ 410 ] 563-9135
vagabondplayers.org
Contrary to the meaning of their name, this group is sticking around to produce some entertaining theater; it’s the oldest continuously operated community theater in the United States.