Ten individual artists and 36 non-profits will receive grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, Mayor Brandon Scott announced on Wednesday.
Established in 2005, the fund awards grants every year to qualified artists and arts and cultural organizations based in Baltimore. Create Baltimore, the city’s arts council, administers the program.
“Congratulations to all of the selected artists and organizations, who represent the incredible talent of Baltimore’s creative community,” Scott said in a statement. “Each year, this grant opportunity is a chance for the city to support local art and creativity. I want to thank the teams at Create Baltimore and MOACE [the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment] for supporting this process, as well as all of the jurors who helped us choose the final recipients.”
“It’s always a hard decision choosing awardees given the caliber of talent and intentionality the artists and arts organizations in this city show in their applications,” said Create Baltimore CEO Robyn Murphy, in a statement. “From our perspective that’s a great problem to have. It shows continued growth in the ecosystem and fuels our advocacy on behalf of artists for more opportunities like the Creative Baltimore Fund.”
The Creative Baltimore Fund awards grants in two categories:
The Mayor’s Individual Artist Awards provide support for an artist’s individual practice or program that promotes public access and encourages the breadth of arts and/or cultural programming in the community. Each of the 10 recipients will receive $3,000.
General Operating Support grants provide core support for established arts or cultural organizations that benefit the public and are artistically or culturally vibrant. Organizations selected for General Operating Support funding will receive one grant of either $5,000 or $10,000.
The 2026 Mayor’s Individual Artist Award recipients are: Maria Gabriela Aldana; Nicoletta Darita de la Brown; Amelia Deloney; Savannah Imani Wade; Wallace Lane; Rob Lee; Shamari Pratt; Unique Robinson; Zola-Jourdan Savage and Louis Williams III.
The 2026 General Operating Support recipients are: Arena Players Inc.; Baltimore Black Dance Collective; Community Concerts at Second; Eubie Blake Cultural Center; Friends of Gwynns Falls Leakin Park; Intersection of Change; Magical Experiences Arts Company; Our Joyful Noise Baltimore; Strand Theater Company; Theatre Project; Arts Collective; ArtsCentric; AZIZA PE&CE Inc.; Bach in Baltimore; Baltimore Folk Music Society; Baltimore Improv Group and Baltimore Rock Opera Society.
Also, Baltimore Science Fiction Society; Beadly Speaking Jewelry; Black Cherry Puppet Theater, BRUSH Mural Fest; Creative Mornings/Baltimore; Dance Baltimore Inc.; Fells Point Corner Theatre; Full Circle Dance Company; Gallery Reimagined; Highwire Improv; Icarus Quartet, Making Space Bmore; Muse 360; R.I.S.E. Arts Center of Baltimore; Submersive Productions; The Arts Project Inc.; The Filmmakers Playground; WombWork Productions and Writers in Baltimore Schools.
