Jim Lucio, who succeeded Gary Kachadourian as visual arts coordinator for Artscape in 2009, has resigned.

An imaginative artist, Lucio won praise for spicing things up at Artscape, the annual summer event in Baltimore billed as the country's largest free arts festival.

In his first year, he instigated interactive projects that involved an interactive video and a giant graphic novel. Since then, he was been credited with keeping the visual arts scene at Artscape invigorating.