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Artscape festival-goers pitch in to paint murals in community art project called "10,000 brushes," creating 10 mini-murals that will be displayed around Baltimore. - This 32nd annual Artscape is expected to attract more than 300,000 people before wrapping up Sunday night. A good many of them are likely to wend their way to the Art Car Show, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the festival.
- Baltimore motorists should be aware of a series of road closures in effect for Artscape 2013.
- Allot caterers will be at Artscape 2013 with a selection of Mediterranean salads
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- Elissa Goetschius, a director and dramaturg, takes helm at female-centric Strand Theater, succeeding writer/performer Rain Pryor, who has stepped down after one season.
- Road closures will begin Monday in advance of this weekend's Artscape festival in the area around the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Baltimore Department of Transportation said.
- Gabriela Bulisova, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate whose photographs depict the return to freedom of a woman imprisoned for half her life for a double murder, is the winner of this year's $25,000 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize.
- Photography dominates this year's exhibit, with powerful imagery from Gabriela Bulisova, Larry Cook, Nate Larson and Louis Palu.
- Edward Supplee Terry, Jr. former head science librarian for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a decades-long stalwart of Baltimore's Arena Players, died July 1 of leukemia. He was 77.
- The Walters' new director will emphasize the permanent holdings, community outreach and might even collect contemporary art
- Edward Henry Weiss, a retired marketing executive who put the name Wacky Noodle on a children's flotation device used in swimming pools, died of a stroke.
- Full lineup and schedule for this year's Artscape in Baltimore includes Bridget Kelly, the Wailers
- Barbara Shapiro, a Roland Park resident and patron of the arts, recalled attending the city's annual outdoor art festival at the Druid Hill Reservoir in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Retiring MICA president Fred Lazarus saw the future of art education in America and built it in Baltimore
- Longest-serving head of art school has overseen significant growth in enrollment, campus size and endowment
- In its eighth year, the prestigious award is edging more toward alternate media than ever before
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- Carole Lynn Maier, a stained-glass artist and former House of Ruth board president, died of an auto-immune lung ailment Feb. 24 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Kingsville resident was 60.
- Some 650 artists will be displaying and selling their creations at American Craft Council show.
- Two Baltimore artists, Chris Attenborough and Sean Naftel, converted a vintage Winnebago van into a rolling man-cave.
- 'I Used to be Darker' to be shown as an example of 'innovative, forward-thinking' storytelling
- A 30-foot, 2-ton yellow statue of a crash test dummy installed at MVA headquarters in Glen Burnie has drawn stares and mixed reviews.
