IT'S A SNAP! 2023

SEEKING ASPIRING PHOTOJOURNALIST AND SHUTTERBUG! No matter your level of expertise. Bring it on.

*** Minors (16 and up) are encouraged to participate with parental consent. ***

This year we are looking for what makes Charm City - the PEOPLE. Here’s your chance to share your special photographs that reveal the best of Baltimore. No professional models, please.

Sookkyung Park’s immersive installation of large-scale sculptures and smaller works includes a merging and expansion of her two seminal pieces, “Blooming” and “Rise Up,” to simultaneously underscore the interconnectedness of life and bring people together. This airy and colorful dreamscape—saturated with symbols of hope, strength and harmony—inspires awe and optimism.

Gallery Hours: September 13 – December 16 (closed October 13 and November 22-25)

Monday – Saturday 11 am – 4 pm

Christmas Village in Baltimore will transform West Shore Park at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor into an authentic German Christmas Market. From November 18 to December 24, 2023 over 55 local and international vendors will offer their unique Christmas giftware. They will be located both inside the huge heated festival tent and outdoors in traditional wooden booths – with a great view over the wintry Inner Harbor. Don't miss the famous vendor Käthe Wohlfahrt with genuine German ornaments and Christmas gifts.

2023 Highlights:

Learn to use a sewing machine at the Govans Branch! You can bring your own or learn on one of the sewing machines available. After the machine orientation, you will be eligible to reserve a time on the sewing machines to work on your own project. By appointment only , please call 410-396-6098 to make an appointment.

UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), on view at the CADVC from September 22 through December 9.

Members of the Maryland Department of Labor can help you refresh your resume, make a career change, or apply for a job online on Mondays and Thursdays.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s genre-defying work, Play Me Home (2021), is a four-channel video with sound and sculptural objects (two horns, a leather-bound script, and seeds) blending narrative fiction and nonfiction. This installation reflects the Philadelphia-based artist’s three-year journey of delving into her family history and funerary traditions in the South.

Following an open call to artists based in Maryland and neighboring states, Nekisha Durrett of Washington, D.C. and Jackie Milad of Baltimore were selected by a jury to create new works in dialogue with Fred Wilson’s Artemis/Bast (1992). The sculpture joins the body of Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt, and the head of Bast (also known as Bastet), the more ancient Egyptian cat goddess. The black feline head sits atop the white plaster body, asserting Africa as a vital source of knowledge across the ancient world.

Warm up at MCHC during the historic Washington Monument lighting! Organized by the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, this annual tradition has taken place in Baltimore since 1971.

Visit MCHC during the lighting to enjoy holiday postcard decorating, hot chocolate, and warm cider to commemorate the unofficial opening of the holiday season in Baltimore. Free Museum admission between 5 and 8 pm

You are invited to attend the LASPED Heidi Neff closing reception on Devember 7, 2023. The event will take place between 5:00-6:30pm.

This exhibition installaiton features several of Neff's experimental animations and installations that were created during the COVID-19 lockdown.

FEATURING
Daneil Adegbesan | Raina Allmond | Gen Fraser | Mackenzie Foy | Ben Kantt Brian Menifee | Eduard Osterom | Shaquan Pearson | Iya Jackson
Claudia Watts

Step into a transformative journey with WATCH YOUR STEP, an exhibition and community programming of events featuring the vibrant works of twin artists Hope & Faith McCorkle. Transcending the boundaries of time, the duo guides us through a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between past and present. This immersive experience is an ode to the conscious decisions we make, paying homage to the lineage of ancestors who have paved the way.

The John Fonda Gallery at Theatre Project now showing ‘False Idols’ an installation by Isabel Pardo from December 8th, 2023 to February 4th, 2024.

Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore. A self-taught photographer, Badertscher (American, born 1936) worked on the fringes of the polite society into which he was born as an upper-middle class white Baltimorean.