B stands for Baltimore and best whilst 24 is the year of 2024. The B artists series was created in 2019 by curator, Kirk Shannon-Butts, to place a spotlight on emerging contemporary artists in the burgeoning Baltimore art world and what he deems “The Baltimore Arts Movement.”
B stands for Baltimore and best whilst 24 is the year of 2024. The B artists series was created in 2019 by curator, Kirk Shannon-Butts, to place a spotlight on emerging contemporary artists in the burgeoning Baltimore art world and what he deems “The Baltimore Arts Movement.”
The B series has grown into a juried exhibition open to all Baltimore based artists creating in all mediums across a multitude of artistic disciplines. B24 is our largest exhibition to date and features the work of 41 of the best Baltimore City artists and the surrounding regions. Featured artists work in painting, textiles, mixed media, photography, film, video, mixed media, and animation. Artists are in various stages of their career.
Today, B24 is Artscape’s signature indoor art exhibition offering a national platform for our local and regional artists. For you, our viewer, B24 provides you with a glimpse, a peak into 2024’s best and brightest artists working in our creative community. Our mission and challenge are for you to continue to get to know this year’s artists and follow, like, and support them in their Art Practices.
Included among our 2024 artists are Xavier Hardison, whose sculptures presents an ancient Egyptian motif yet are modern and made from stones found in Baltimore landscape, there is the installation work of Deja Richardson, whose bold weaving cocoon an environment like a giant gentle spider creating a space of dynamism to contemplate, Julia Glatfelter paints vignettes deep in spirituality with a tranquil gravitas, Noreen Smith’s intergalactic collage work explores the intersectionality of gender and racial inequality of the feminist art movement of the1960s and 1970s through the retooling of comic book imagery and superheroes, and there is the haunting video art from Timothy Nohe who works manipulates the mediums of film, video, and digital art.
As we celebrate and honor the 40th edition of Artscape we present our 2024 roster of artists which unfolds and conveys a strong personal narrative which resonates with Artscape.
The exhibition will be held at the Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery (Lazarus Center, Floor 1), 131 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
Kilolo Luckett, Executive Director & Chief Curator : ALMA|LEWIS
Carol Rhodes-Dyson, Community Curator: Social Impact ARTS Collective
Sheena M. Morrison, Independent Curator
Kirk Shannon-Butts
On View: August 1 – August 5, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2nd at 7PM-10PM.
Location: Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery (Lazarus Center, Floor 1)
Closing Celebration: Sunday, August 4th at 3PM-5PM.
Hosted by Kevin Brown with Snacks from Nancy by SNAC.
Location: Nancy by SNAC 131 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
Gallery Hours:
The Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery will be open Artscape dates/hours: Aug 2, 5-10pm; Aug 3, 11am to 10pm; Aug 4, 11am to 5pm. All other hours are M-F 10am-5pm. Campus galleries are open to the public.
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