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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

Baltimore's annual arts festival needs to be relocated to spring or fall

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

Guilford neighborhood marks 100th anniversary

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.