BmoreArt’s Picks: November 19-25
This Week: the first of BOPA’s Community Conversations, Arts Education Town Hall, opening celebration at Charm City Cultural Cultivation, Baltimore Clayworks hosts an artist talk with J.M. Giordano, panel discussion on community health at the BMA, Voyages: Chapter 6 at the Aquarium, LUNCH WITH SONIA at Baltimore Theatre Project, Under $2500 at MAP, opening reception for Devin N. Morris at CPM, artist conversation with Adam Himoff and historian Dr. Noelle Trent at the Lewis Museum, Maurice Scarlett III opening reception at Hooper House, writer’s talk with Devin Allen at Galerie Myrtis, and Transformer’s Transcendence Gala — PLUS apply for a fellowship at Folger Shakespeare Library 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!
Community Conversations with BOPA
Tuesday, November 19 :: 12:3-1pm
@ BOPA Office
These gatherings will be a space to hear from you — our valued supporters — and for you to share your vision for how we can collectively shape BOPA’s future and maximize its impact in Baltimore.
Location: Join Us at One of, 3 Different Locations, Baltimore, MD 21202
Date and time: Tue, Nov 19, 2024 12:00 PM – Wed, Dec 4, 2024 1:30 PM
Arts Education Town Hall
Tuesday, November 19 :: 6-7:30pm
@ Baltimore Unity Hall
The Baltimore Arts Education Initiative and Arts Every Day will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Arts Education on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 6PM. Dr. Sonja Santelises and members of her staff will share updates on the implementation of the Fine Arts Strategic Plan, speak about plans for expanding arts education opportunities, and take questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Baltimore City Public Schools Arts Education Town Hall
WHEN: November 19, 2024 at 6PM
REGISTER: https://lp.
WHO: Featuring Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO Baltimore City Public Schools, organized by the Baltimore Youth Arts Advocacy Council and featuring a performance by the Digital Harbor High School band, testimony from students, parents, and community members
ABOUT: The Baltimore Arts Education Initiative (BAEI) was launched in fall 2017 to address the diminishing and inequitable access to arts education in Baltimore City Schools. The long-term goal of the initiative is to build, align, and operationalize arts education policies, procedures and resources in Baltimore so that all students in Baltimore City Schools will experience and benefit from a “sequential standards-based arts curriculum, deep expertise and professional experience, and standards-based connections between the arts and other content areas” (Americans for the Arts, 2014). Since Baltimore City Public School System’s adoption of the Fine Arts Strategic Plan in 2018, the total # of certified fine arts teachers has increased by 57%. As of school year 2024-25, 95% of students have access to visual art instruction and 73% of students have access to general music. Less than 15% of students have access to instrumental music, theater, or dance.
The Bmore Youth Arts Advocacy Council (BYAAC) is composed of Baltimore City youth creatives in grades 10 – 12 who attend Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS). As arts advocates, they work to raise public awareness about the benefits of an arts education, identify barriers to equitable access to the arts, and outreach to potential allies who would be in support of policies that make the arts accessible to every student in, every grade, in every school no matter where they live in the city.
The Daily Hustle Exhibition | Opening
Thursday, November 19 :: 5-7pm
@ Charm City Cultural Cultivation
The Black Baltimore Digital Database is opening its first exhibition in collaboration with the I. Henry Phillips Photo Archive. The show, The Daily Hustle: Work, Joy and Community in Black Baltimore, showcases 21 images from the photographic archive of Irving Henry Phillips, Sr. (1920-1993), a prominent, Baltimore-based photojournalist. Featuring scenes from the 1940’s of oyster men, bricklayers, telephone operators, mechanics, shop owners, etc., this collection draws our attention to the ways in which labor, joy, and dignity intersect for cultural meaning in the African American community.
The Black Lens Project is a collaboration between the Black Baltimore Digital Database and the I. Henry Photo Project to showcase images and oral histories emerging from the extensive Phillips archive.
@3100 Greenmount Ave.
Join us to celebrate the opening of our new headquarters and our inaugural exhibition of archival images from the I. Henry Phillips Photo Archive, described below.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
