Summary
For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday...
For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway vocal contests. Highlights of Artscape include outdoor sculptures, art cars, Artist's Market, Art Park and the live music. Best of all, the outdoor arts festival is free.
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An Artscape debut for Zappa statue?
Kudos to Baltimore's Public Art Commission for voting to accept the statue so graciously offered by the group of Lithuanian Frank Zappa fans ("From Lithuania, with love of Zappa," May 8). I hope the commission will look at placing the statue outside the...Tags: Sculpture, Music Industry, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Dweezil Zappa
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Ethnic festivals celebrate cultures of Baltimore communities
Special to baltimoresun.comIn addition to HonFest, Artscape and the Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore's summer festival season includes some smaller ethnic festivals. Celebrate the city's diversity, as you taste the food, hear the music and play the games of the many cultures...Tags: Festive Event, Film Festivals, Christianity, Orthodoxy, Druid Hill
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Summer festival guide
Special to baltimoresun.comHairdos that mirror beehives, cars that drip with unfamiliar ornaments and books that came off the shelves years ago. It's time for Baltimoreans to tuck away their winter clothes and welcome the warm weather, and there's no better way to celebrate the...Tags: Equestrian, Cinema Industry, Beverage Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities, Metal and Mineral
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BSO plans playful summer
Sun music criticThe Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, video game theme music and Leon Fleisher -- not exactly your typical Baltimore Symphony Orchestra summer season. On the classical side of the eclectic 2008 lineup, the BSO will celebrate the 80th birthday of Fleisher, one...Tags: Classical Music, Game Playing, Video Games, Rock and Roll Music, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Spring in the wings
Sun reporterWith offerings that range from pop diva Mary J. Blige to NPR storyteller Ira Glass, the spring arts scene in Baltimore offers a spectrum of possibilities wide enough to satisfy even the most eclectic of tastes. True, things really heat up in the summer,...Tags: Film Festivals, Festive Event, Charles Theatre, Prince George's County, College Park
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A hit on the Baltimore scene
Special to The SunOver the years, Groove Stu has become a familiar Baltimore neo-soul group whose sound is gradually getting out to the masses. Since its arrival in 2000, the band has played at some local clubs and at some of Charm City's high-profile cultural events --...Tags: Festive Event, Hip Hop, Culture, George Clinton, Al Green
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Saara Sallinen
Sun ReporterThis year at Artscape, a man walked the festival covered from head to squishy foot in ketchup. He might have called that art. Maybe he considered it fashion. Neither was true, in his case, but the city's three-day comprehensive showcase of art in all...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Jewelry Trends, Fashion Trends, Shoes, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes
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Ripple effect
Sun Art CriticEach year the organizers of Artscape, Baltimore's annual outdoor arts festival, boast that the event has gotten bigger and better. But this year that growth wasn't found in a larger crowd or a big-name concert act, but at the core of the festival's...Tags: Festive Event, Venice, Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Duo crowned queen, king of sing
Sun ReporterSharon Clark was no longer a bespectacled 45-year-old receptionist yesterday. Dressed in a shimmering black-and-gold striped top, Clark stood onstage of the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall channeling Billie Holiday. With eyes shut and hips swinging, she sang...Tags: Jazz Music, Teaching and Learning, Ceremonies, Society, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Charisma of Fiasco, Cole is missing from Artscape stage
Sun Pop Music CriticIt was an interesting choice to have Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco and Oakland, Calif., soul singer Keyshia Cole share the main stage Saturday night at Artscape. Just two years ago, both generated almost deafening buzz before their debuts hit the streets....Tags: Popular Music, Hip Hop, Music Industry, Television Industry, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois)
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