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An artist who works in multiple media was awarded the 2012 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize — a $30,000 purse — at a ceremony Saturday evening at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Sara O. Leizear, a former housekeeper and active church member, died Monday from complications of a stroke at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 80.

The summer exhibits at Baltimore's two largest museums are very different in nature, but both emphasize local input.

Peach cake with Rainier cherry ice cream marks the occasion

A D.C. wedding with be followed by a big celebration in the sculpture garden at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Chef John Shields of Gertrude's prepares the crab dishes, cocktails are courtesy the Wine Source and Heavy Seas, and inevitable Mambo Combo performs live in the Baltimore Museum of Art¿s Sculpture Garden. It must be the Crabaret.

DLA Piper chairman leaves Johns Hopkins University and Medicine posts

Baltimore's Art on Purpose program helped city residents transform the way they see their world.

BMA unveils exhibit of finalists for the 2012 Sondheim Artscape Prize.

A small but growing number of Baltimore artists are helping challenge hip-hop's homophobia

During her long career as a sculptor and painter in Baltimore, Amalie Rothschild developed a distinctive take on geometric abstraction. You can follow the arc of that career in a gallery-filling retrospective at Towson University's Center for the Arts Gallery

This schedule will be in effect Monday, May 28.

Richard Paul Sullivan, former chairman and CEO of Easco Corp., who was active in Republican state politics and civic affairs, died Sunday of cancer at his Owings Mills home. He was 79.

Recently, the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland celebrated its 50th anniversary and honored the young women who had been selected to "shadow" local executives and politicians. Brianna Simkins was selected to shadow Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Artwork on display through May 13

Artwork at Baltimore Museum of Art.

Alice Pinkham Davies, who helped thousands of clients compose their business careers as the co-owner of a resume writing service, died of Alzheimer's disease Thursday at the Gilchrist Hospice Center. She was 85 and lived in Towson.

Open Table is out with the 2012 Diners' Choice Award winners for Best 100 Restaurants for Brunch in the United States. Gertrude's, the restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is on it.

With eye-catching sculptures and other works, Hopkins joins a growing number of hospitals with art collections

With eye-catching sculptures and other works, Hopkins joins a growing number of hospitals with art collections

Event features cutting edge works for more affordable prices

Three Baltimore-area artists awarded $25,000 each, will have their work featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Fine furnishings show

$30,000 prize to be awarded to Baltimore-area artist as part of Artscape.

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Friends School senior Emilio Martinez wins a 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing gold medal. This kid is the real deal artistically, according to school officials.

Friends School senior Emilio Martinez wins a 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing gold medal. This kid is the real deal artistically, according to school officials.

Elizabeth Catlett's work confronted the most disturbing injustices against African-Americans.

This schedule will be in effect Friday, April 6.

How to grow Baltimore was a theme of the 5th annual Greater Homewood Neighborhood Institute on Saturday, this year titled "Love Where You Live." Panelists including Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano and BMA director Doreen Bolger called for more attention to renters as the city's future homeowners and to more cultural and arts opportunities for young residents.

Twenty-one years after they bought the 1830s farmhouse, Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff have completed a glass-and-steel addition that allows them to take full advantage of the panoramic vistas that drew them to the property in the first place.

Alice C. Steinbach, an award-winning Baltimore Sun feature writer and columnist who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for her account of a 10-year-old boy, died Tuesday evening of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 78.

Elizabeth M. "Betty" Dugan, a volunteer and World War II veteran, died Feb. 29 of heart failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson.

Led museum for 18 years, now eager to try other pursuits

WESTMINSTER — The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts has announced that Steve Pearson, an associate professor of art and art history at McDaniel College, and a Westminster resident, has been named among 24 semifinalists for the seventh annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize.