Maryland
Artists
Public invited to celebrate Maryland
artists May 14
This year’s 106 Individual Artist Award recipients
will be honored at the Baltimore Museum of Art, May 14. More
than 800 artists submitted work samples to compete for awards
in choreography, crafts, music composition, photography, playwriting,
poetry and sculpture.
Seven panels of out-of-state jurors selected 106 artists to
receive awards after evaluating each entry through an anonymous
judging process. The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, headquartered
in Baltimore, administers the program for the Arts Council.
The reception and presentation at the Baltimore Museum of Art
is free and open to the public. To RSVP, e-mail or call the Arts
Council, 410-767-6555.
Backas Gallery exhibit extended
The James Backas Gallery features Hand
to Frame/Surface to Lens through June 5. (reviewed
by the Baltimore City Paper) Symmes Gardner is the curator of
the exhibit, which shows the work of Nino Leselidze, Hadieh Shafie, Karen Yasinsky
and Jeffrey Kent. Shafie recently received the inaugural Baker Prize of $25,000.
The gallery is free and open to the public.
Arts Council awardees selected for Baker Prize
The three winners of the inaugural Mary
Sawyers Baker Prize, announced March 25 on Maryland Public
Television, are well known to the Maryland State Arts Council
and the state’s arts community.
Carl Grubbs, John Ruppert and Hadieh Shafie each received a
$25,000 cash award for excellence in the visual or performing
arts. Grubbs is a Maryland Traditions award recipient. Ruppert
and Shafie have both received Individual Artist Awards.
Four of the seven “Baltimore’s Choice Prize” winners – selected
by the public – have also received Individual Artist
Awards.
Contact: Carla Dunlap, cdunlap@msac.org,
410-767-6494. |
