This Week: Young Blood opening reception at MAP, High Zero fundraiser at Current, Baltimore, The City of Accessible Arts Public Convening + Disability Pride Arts Fest at Pratt Central Branch, Station North Art Walk, The BIG Show +BIG Party at Creative Alliance, Emergence panel discussion + studio tours with Galerie Myrtis, opening reception for Schaun Champion at Gallery CA, Wickerham & Lomax closing reception at Current, and three exhibition openings at Baltimore Clayworks — PLUS tell stories with The Stoop and more featured opportunities!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
16th Annual Young Blood | Opening Reception
Thursday, July 10 :: 6-9pm
@ Maryland Art Place
On View:
Thursday, July 10 – Saturday, August 24, 2025Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 10 | 6 pm to 9 pm
Maryland Art Place is proud to announce the return of Young Blood marking MAP’s 16th Young Blood program which has, to date, provided an important post-graduate artistic platform for transitioning Masters of Fine Arts students. Since 2008 Young Blood has continually brought recent graduates together to make new connections and present special selections from their thesis project(s). The exhibition will highlight exceptional works ranging in media.
YOUNG BLOOD EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
McCoy Chance | UMBC
Lolo Gem | TU
Huxley Green | MICA
Trevon Jakaar Coleman | UMD
Mariia Usova | UMBC
Dooree Kang | MICA
Ahlam Khamis | UMBC
Cody Pryseski | TU
Rida Yawar | MICA
Current Space Fundraiser for High Zero
Thursday, July 10 :: 7pm
@ Current Space
We all want more High Zero in our lives, right? The throw-it-at-the-wall and see-what-sticks. The serious concentration with a smirk. The unplanned sudden eruption of genius from people who aren’t in a band together.
Current Space will be holding an outdoor summer fundraiser for the High Zero Festival. You get more music from your local favorites and we get a little more money to help us continue to challenge audiences with performance of the present moment.
We’ve got an incredible roster for July 10th, including but not limited to:
• Hunter Batchelder drums
• Dave Benham flutes, electronics
• Samuel Burt bass clarinet
• Ami Dang sitar
• John Hoegberg, computer
• Shelly Purdy, percussion
• Jamal Moore, reeds
Come chill with us under the shade of Current Space’s tent, grab a drink, and listen to so many reminders how Baltimore is the best city in the United States for improvised music.
Baltimore, The City of Accessible Arts: Public Convening
Friday, July 11 :: 10am-4pm
@ Enoch Pratt FREE Library
Space for this program is limited; registration required.
Please join us at the Central Branch of Enoch Pratt Free Library for a Public Convening hosted by Baltimore, The City of Accessible Arts. This convening kicks off a two-day series of events; for more information about Baltimore’s 3rd Annual Disability Pride Arts Fest, click here.
All are welcome to attend this accessible event, in person or virtually, with ASL interpreters, audio description, sensory breaks, and more. The convening is designed to propel Baltimore towards becoming the City of Accessible Arts. Share this day with museums, public art spaces, artists with disabilities, disability-focused organizations and disability justice activists. You will enjoy a film screening, panel discussions and conversation, and an exhibition of artwork by artists with disabilities.
Are you a person with a disability, a caretaker or family member of a person with a disability who wants to experience the arts but you can’t because of all the barriers that get in your way? Come join us on July 11th so together we can move our City towards becoming barrier-free, the City of Accessible Arts.
Lunch will be provided.
Convening Agenda:
• Exhibition by Make Studio and VisAbility Art Lab resident artists
• Screening: “Seeing without Sight” by Alyscia Cunningham
• Keynote by Robin Marquis (Senior Inclusion Strategist, Prime Access Consulting, Content Lead – Museum of the Blind Peoples’ Movement)
• Convening Communities: Presentations by Arts and Disability Organizations and Disabled Artists
• Access Consortiums: Arts and Access Network (DC), Museums, Arts and Culture (NYC), Cultural Access Collaborative (Chicago) and Art-Reach (Philadelphia)
• Next Steps – facilitated by Dr. Sheri Parks, Community Strategist and Research Associate at the National Center for Smart Growth
• Closing Reflections by Dr. Schroeder Cherry, curator, James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA)
:: Related Event ::
Baltimore’s 3rd Annual Disability Pride Arts Fest
Saturday, July 12 :: 10am-2pm
@ Enoch Pratt FREE Library
Program registration is recommended but not required.
Make Studio, a nonprofit art center and collective of disabled artists, is proud to present Baltimore’s 3rd Annual Disability Pride Arts Fest! In partnership with the Maryland Department of Disabilities and Enoch Pratt Free Library, over a dozen disability and arts organizations, as well as individual exhibiting artists, will present performances, free and inclusive arts experiences, and resources at the Central Library for Disability Pride Month. Disability Pride Month marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and disability pride is all about accepting each person’s uniqueness and honoring the history, achievements, experiences, and struggles of the disability community.
All are invited to come together to learn and to celebrate creativity, human diversity, and people with disabilities and their many contributions to society.
For more information visit: https://make-studio.org/disabilityprideartsfest.html
This event is the second of a two-day series; for more information about Baltimore, The City of Accessible Arts: Public Convening, click here.
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