Galleries & Community Spaces
Previously known as The Fray Baltimore, House of Sedulō is both a space and a community for black creatives. Sedulous is a term that means to work consistently or with great care or concentration. House of Sedulō hosts shows, open mic nights, and other community events, as well as a one-to-six-month artist residency. The residency is for emerging or established black artists from any discipline who are interested in developing their art and immersing themselves in Baltimore’s black creative scene.
Establishes programs for young people but also exciting and expansive programs--activities, events and performances--for adults and seniors.
Establishes programs for young people but also exciting and expansive programs--activities, events and performances--for adults and seniors.
Builds communities by bringing together artists and audiences from diverse backgrounds to experience spectacular arts and education programs and engage in the creative process.
An artist-run gallery, studio, and outdoor performance space, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers.
An intersectional arts collaborative working to challenge the perpetual systems of oppression within and beyond the art world. They work to curate radical exhibitions; provide space and resources for local artists to create; and work with activist and cultural grassroots movements to organize through the use of screen printing, resource sharing, and art production.
Works to inspire, support, and encourage artistic expression through innovative programming, exhibitions, and educational opportunities while recognizing the powerful impact art can have on our community.
An artist-run organization. Our mission is to give opportunities to emerging and established artists by showing their artwork in untraditional gallery spaces. We bring the gallery environment to parking lots, city parks, trails, and more.
A multidisciplinary art gallery focusing on art created by people of color.
Notable for its promotion of art and culture within Baltimore and further afield, Goya Contemporary presents an innovative range of exhibitions, collaborations, and printed publications. Showcasing cutting-edge works of contemporary art and generating dialogue about contemporary practice.
MiB supports makers and manufacturers in Baltimore City. Their mission is simple: Encourage investment in Baltimore’s economy by growing the market for locally-made goods and supporting the people who make them.
Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc supports and advocates for a thriving and diverse arts community by promoting civic and cultural engagement, harnessing and directing resources, and preserving and enhancing the creative vibrancy of the district. SNAD works as a convener, connector and promoter to assist existing and recruit new artists and artistic entities.
Creative Labs, or The Labs, is a 28,000 square-foot warehouse in the Hampden neighborhood that serves as an incubator for creative entrepreneurship. The Labs offers a variety of creative resources including recording studios, offices, a dark room, a woodshop, screenprinting, a video studio, performance spaces, and more.
Baltimore Artists Union is a creative community that works in tandem with The Labs. The group meets to discuss issues in the community and collaborate on projects. Serving as an artist sanctuary, Baltimore Artists Union rents out affordable studio space in The Labs, and hosts workshops and weekly art-based events.
Online Collective Spaces
Archive Liberia / A site of collective memory
Founder, Bilphena Yahwon is concerned with the uses of memory for Black folks: how we inherit it, how we preserve it and how we pass it down. Yahwon is the curator of her online library and launched Archive Liberia as a personal memory project.
Space for the voices of BIPOC in personal or professional pursuits of creativity in the arts & humanities
A collective with the goal of helping artists find resources and opportunities to exhibit their work.
Fostering connection & growth for freelancers in Baltimore.
Online collective intended to bring attendees together in cities around the world and online via Virtual FieldTrips to enjoy creative connections, inspiring community, and generous opportunities.
Newspapers & Magazines
A publication focused on spotlighting Black photographers whose work speaks to the diversity of the global Black community.
To be an indispensable resource that strengthens, unites and inspires our Baltimore community. We will accomplish this through trustworthy, quality journalism that tells the varied stories of our people, delivers local news that readers are willing to support, and holds our leaders accountable.
A Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet. Our mission is to honor the tradition of the Black press and the spirit of alt-weekly journalism with reporting that focuses on community, questions power structures, and prioritizes thoughtful engagement with our readers.
BmoreArt is a leading resource for contemporary art and culture in the Baltimore region, a platform for creative and critical discussions.
Grants & Scholarships
Dr. Frankie Martin Diversity & Inclusion Grant
Each year funds are generated from ticket sales of the Annual Benefit Fashion Show (ABFS) sponsored by the Office of Culture and Identity (OCI). Profits from the show provide additional financial assistance for student participants in OCI and is on a needs-basis.
The Division of Student Affairs hosts resources to assist and support enrolled, full-time graduate or undergraduate students who experience a short term financial hardship.
Faculty and Staff Queer Alliance (FASQA) Scholarships
Faculty and Staff Queer Alliance (FASQA) is comprised of MICA staff and faculty members that meet on a regular basis for event-planning, fundraising, networking, and socializing. Broad goals include outreach, awareness, advocacy, and LGBTQ+ scholarship.
Spiritual Resources
IMAGINE: A Guide to Jesuit Prayer
An introduction to a new podcast from America Magazine.
AMDG Podcast: A Priest Locked Down in Italy during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Before Italy's national lockdown, Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ, traveled to Milan—the epicenter of Europe's coronavirus outbreak to this point. Host Mike Jordan Laskey talks to Paddy about the mood in the city plus how as Christians we can respond to fear with compassion and hope.
We strive to be compassionate in our love, excellent in our service, holy in our living, and passionate and relevant in our worship. We are Christian Life Church!
MCC Baltimore is a radically inclusive church and a priesthood of all believers. We do not all believe the same things. Rather, we celebrate our diversity and affirm our love for our communities through action. Metropolitan Community Church of Baltimore invites everyone seeking a diverse Christian Community. We are called to provide a place where individuals can be transformed by the living God and find identity in themselves.
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Mark's is a caring, inclusive assembly that prays, worships, learns, works, and plays together. St. Mark's has served the community since 1860. Ours is the first church in Baltimore whose interior has been designated an historical landmark.
At BHC, we believe that the synagogue can play many roles in one’s life. Over the course of their years as BHC members, our congregants find support, friendship, community, meaning, learning and much more. We take pride both in outreach to Baltimore’s Jewish community and in strengthening congregational connections of our current members.
Bolton Street Synagogue, a member of the Union for Reform Judaism, is an inclusive home for the diverse Baltimore community. Led by Rabbi Andy Gordon, we are known for our openness to inquiry and debate, culture of Jewish experimentation, commitment to social justice in the city of Baltimore, and uncommon warmth.
Kadampa Meditation Center Maryland
Kadampa Meditation Center Maryland is a Temple dedicated to bringing peace and happiness to the world, and to removing suffering, through offering the methods of meditation and modern Buddhism.
ISB is an organization that aims at providing services in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah and recognizes the nuances and challenges of the American Muslim experience. As such, we aim to invest in the next generation of American Muslim leaders and thinkers to continue to develop a Muslim community of great morals and excellent practices.