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Tangential Realities at BmoreArt’s Connect + Collect Gallery - Bmore Art
Tangential Realities at BmoreArt’s Connect + Collect Gallery - Bmore Art

Tangential Realities features Rashida Bumbray, Red Rae, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, and Ada Pinkston, four artists who root their practices in recognizable reality before venturing into the speculative, the utopian, and the unknown. Organized with Alex Ebstein, the exhibition highlights recipients of the Rubys Artist Grant—a program dedicated to nurturing innovative new work in the Baltimore region—whose practices take the everyday as a point of departure and transform it into the unexpected, mapping the terrain between what is and what could be.

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Ian Madrigal
Pikesville Armory embarks on a new life - Baltimore Sun
Pikesville Armory embarks on a new life - Baltimore Sun

The maker space will provide artists, entrepreneurs and the community access to tools, other resources and a shared space to create. It will be a part of Open Works, the makerspace that began in Baltimore’s Greenmount West/Johnston Square. Another Open Works is due for the Walbrook Mill on West North Avenue near Coppin State University.

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Ian Madrigal
Foundations look to new leaders to tell their story in a time of skepticism - Chronicle of Philanthropy
Foundations look to new leaders to tell their story in a time of skepticism - Chronicle of Philanthropy

This year a number of large foundations have undergone leadership changes. Philanthropy veteran Fay Twerskey announced her departure from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in May. Earlier in the year, Heather Gerken replaced Darren Walker, who led the Ford Foundation for a dozen years. Three leaders who served in their positions for more than a decade, Drew Altman at KFF, Jane Brown at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and Mike Pratt at the Scherman Foundation, announced their retirements.

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Ian Madrigal
State grants totaling nearly $1M benefit Open Works, Patterson Park, others - Capital Gazette
State grants totaling nearly $1M benefit Open Works, Patterson Park, others - Capital Gazette

The decade-old Open Works maker space in East Baltimore has moved a step closer to opening a second city facility, becoming one of several dozen recipients of nearly $1 million total in state economic development grants. Open Works in Greenmount West, which has helped hundreds of artisans and entrepreneurs build small businesses and seen record memberships and enrollments, plans to break ground in early 2028 in West Baltimore in partnership with Coppin State University. A $50,000 state Housing and Community Development grant, announced Monday, will go toward staff oversight of the project, planned for the former site of a lumber yard at 2620 W. North Ave. already redeveloped with apartments and a food hall.

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Ian Madrigal
Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True - MICA
Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True - MICA

Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True, includes artwork by a representative cohort of Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellow for Artists of Color (1985-1999), whose careers have had a decided impact in the global art world. The upcoming exhibit was guest curated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims and Dr. Leslie King Hammond, former Senior Fellow for the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

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Ian Madrigal
Rubys Alumni Jung Yun Publishes New Novel - GW Today
Rubys Alumni Jung Yun Publishes New Novel - GW Today

Jung Yun, an associate professor of English at the George Washington University, released her new novel, “All the World Can Hold” (Simon & Schuster, 2026). Yun is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Baker Award for Literary Arts, sponsored by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance; a Rubys Award from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; Individual Artist Fellowships from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council; and artist residencies from MacDowell, Ucross and the Virginia Center for the Arts, among others.

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Ian Madrigal
Book Talk and Musical Performance with Kristina Gaddy - Style Weekly
Book Talk and Musical Performance with Kristina Gaddy - Style Weekly

Join author Kristina Gaddy for an evening of music and history as she plays tunes and songs from 18th and 19th century Virginia and speaks about early banjo history… For her writing and research, Gaddy has received the Parsons Award from the Library of Congress, the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, residencies at Hedgebrook and The Mastheads, and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys artist award.

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Ian Madrigal
Baltimore Center Stage Invites Community to Shape Change At First Ever Forum Festival - CityBiz
Baltimore Center Stage Invites Community to Shape Change At First Ever Forum Festival - CityBiz

Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen and Maryland State Delegate Stephanie Smith, alongside George Hopkins, Director of Community Innovation at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and Chrissy Thorton, CEO and President of Associated Black Charities, will join Baltimore Center Stage (BCS) for its first ever Forum Festival on Friday, May 22, at 6:00 p.m., inviting community members to participate in an interactive theatrical experience designed to spark conversation and inspire action around issues impacting Baltimore communities.

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Ian Madrigal
MFA alum Edgar Kunz named Guggenheim Fellow - Vanderbilt University
MFA alum Edgar Kunz named Guggenheim Fellow - Vanderbilt University

MFA alum Edgar Kunz (’15) was named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which the Washington Post called “a gritty, insightful debut.” Kunz has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Hawthornden Foundation, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and Stanford University

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Ian Madrigal