The deadline to file personal income tax returns is just around the corner (April 15th). Are you a working artist with questions about income? deductions? exemptions?

Please join the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) and Station North Arts and Entertainment, Inc. (SNAE) on Tuesday, March 25th for a Q&A session for artists on filing income tax returns. Accountants Amy Prager-Taylor and Ken Prager of Ken Prager CPA will be on-hand to answer your questions based on their wealth of experience working with creative individuals. Live/work in Station North or one of the other arts districts? Ben Stone, executive director of SNAE, will also provide information on form 502AE for artists creating and selling work in Maryland’s Arts & Entertainment Districts.

This event is free and open to the public, but your RSVP is required. RSVP using this form by Monday, March 23rd. Bring your lunch and we’ll provide water and dessert.

Work in a creative field but not an artist? Unable to attend or need more extensive help? The Baltimore CASH Campaign offers free income tax preparation assistance for individuals and families that earned $52,000 or less. Sessions are by-appointment only and book quickly.

Event Details: Tax Prep Q&A for Individual Artists

Location:
Station North Chicken Box
1 West North Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201

Time: 12 noon

Parking: Metered street parking is available. There is also a parking garage located across from the Charles Theater (approximately 1-1/2 blocks south of the Chicken Box).

Please click here to RSVP.

Questions? Contact Melanie Robey at mrobey@baltimoreculture.org

Submission Period: March 1 – June 15, 2014
Acceptance Notification: no later than: July 15, 2014

Submission Fee: $20.00 for up to 6 images and/or 3 short films

Link: View Submission Process

Galerie Myrtis announces a call to artists for its juried exhibition “Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch” to be held September 14 – November 15, 2014. The exhibition will explore the renaissance of artistic expression and creativity in contemporary art from a global perspective. An exhibition catalogue will be published and participating artists will receive complimentary copies.

Jurors: Sharon Burton, Founder, The Artinista Art Advisory, Washington, D.C.; Robert Devereux, Founder, African Arts Trust and Chairman, Frieze Events & Magazines Ltd, London, England; Deana Haggag, Director, The Contemporary (Museum) of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland; and Makgati Molebatsi, Board Member, Bag Factory Artists Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Curator: Myrtis Bedolla, Founding Director, Galerie Myrtis

Artwork: The gallery seeks two and three-dimensional works of art and short films no longer than 15 minutes in length by emerging to mid-career artists. Consideration will be given for works created using digital technology, drawing, film, installation, painting, photography, sculpture, and works on paper in editions of 150 or less. No giclée prints.

The jurors will select works that are avant-garde and thought provoking, and serve to encourage, enlighten and inspire. All works must be original in both concept and execution, and completed within the last 2 years.

Eligibility: Artists 18 years or older from diverse ethnic backgrounds are encourage to participate. There are no restrictions on geographic location. Artwork and film must be available for purchase. Artists with gallery representation are eligible to apply.

Commission: Galerie Myrtis will retain a commission of fifty (50%) percent on the sale of artworks/short films sold during the exhibition. Galleries please contact Galerie Myrtis for commission policy at myrtis@galeriemyrtis.com

NURTUREart is currently accepting proposals from emerging curators and artists for the 2014/2015 exhibition season.

Guidelines with full information on how to send your proposal, and the gallery floor plan are available for download HERE.

The deadline has been extended to midnight on March 21, 2014.

All proposals must be submitted via online form on (or before) this date to be accepted and advanced to the selection process. A panel of respected curators, artists and gallerists will evaluate your proposal and determine who the winners will be. We do this to make sure that as many different voices and points of view are considered, and to give emerging artists and curators the chance to present their work to the attention of indisputable experts in the field.

Past members of our selection panels have included: Tyler Coburn, Amani Olu, Benjamin Sutton, B. Wurtz, Ajay Kurian, Ingrid Bromberg-Kennedy, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Kevin Reagan, Summer Guthery, Jackie Battenfield, Wallace Whitney, George Adams, George Adams, Paddy Johnson, Cornell DeWitt, David Cohen, Raul Zamudio, and Jose Ruiz.

As we did last year, we will organize a Curatorial Workshop, to give you the chance of showing us your c

uratorial proposal and offer meaningful feedback BEFORE you send your application. Stay tuned for more details on that initiative.

Begin your submission process HERE

Questions or concerns, please email submissions@nurtureart.org

Openings and activities in and around Baltimore- March 2014.

5th Prints and Multiples Fair at D center, organized by Open Space. 16 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218 March 8th and 9th, 12pm – 6pm Saturday and Sunday

Springsteen Gallery SPF: Steven Riddle and Val Karuskevich. The exhibition will be on view Friday, March 7, from 7 – 10pm. Held in conjunction with ALLOVERSTREET.

Current Gallery Find No Two Suns: Sophia Belkin and Suzanna Zak, curated by Ginevra Shay and Where We Remain: Twofold Secret, presented by ICA Baltimore. Both opening March 8, 7-10pm

Guest Spot Cookbook Dreams and Inflatable Futures, March 8, 2014 through April 19, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 7-10pm. Featuring Antoine Lefebvre, Robin Cameron, Cybele Lyle, Luca Antonucci, John Bohl, NOWORK, Lauren van Haaften-Schickn Curated by Arts & Sciences Projects

sophiajacob Image of the People: Megan Plunkett, opening March 8th. (for more info go to sj website)

Open Space 5th Prints and Multiples Fair at D:Center Baltimore, March 8-10

Maryland Art Place LIGHT TOUCH curated by Liz Wells,  February 12 – June 22, 2014, Public Reception: March 5, 11-3pm, International Pier of The Baltimore Washington Airport. The presenting artists are: Chrystel Lebas (France/UK), Heidi Morstang (UK), Marja Pirila (Finland), Lynn Silverman (Baltimore), and Frank Hallum Day (Washington, DC)

C Grimaldis Gallery Zhao Jing, March 12 – April 12, 2014 Opening Reception: March 12, 6-8pm

Lease Agreement wanting/waiting: Linda Yun, opening reception: Saturday, March 1, 6pm – 9pm ALSO open Saturday March 8, 4-8pm

School 33  Without Boundary a group exhibition featuring Kyle Bauer, Joan Belmar, Ben Boothby, Ruth Hiller, Andrea Joki, Alison Stigora and Jay Walker,  Roaming Around the Quadrangle a solo-exhibition of recent works by David Brown, and Sticky Fingers  a site-specific installation by Baltimore-based artist Lauren Boilini.  These exhibitions are on display in the galleries from Friday, March 21 through Saturday, May 31, 2014.  An opening reception takes place Friday, March 21, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm.

Contemporary CoHost Lecture Series, at the Baltimore School for the Arts: Mar 05: CoHosts // Brendan Fowler & Nudashank & Mar 27: CoHosts // Wayne White & Gallery CA

Baltimore Clayworks – INDELIBLE, Curated by Mary Cloonan. MARCH 1-APRIL 12, 2014 OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 6-8PM Free and open to the public. Indelible features ceramic artists who employ the techniques of mishima, scraffitto or wax resist underglaze etching. Regardless the method, the result is a design or line imbedded into the flesh of the clay, part of the object and not just on the surface. Invited artists: Elizabeth Benotti ( NH), Mariko Brown (IL), Chandra DeBuse (MO), David Eichelberger (NC), Linda Fahey ( CA), Brett Freund (MD), Rebecca Grant (IL), Bianka Groves (MD), Glynnis Lessing (MN), Laura Jean McLaughlin (PA), Shari McWilliams (WI), Brenda Quinn (NY), Mea Rhea (MD), Yoko Sekino-Bove (PA), Kevin Snipes (IL), Mike Stumbas (MO), Shoko Teruyama (NC), Julie Wiggins (NC) and more to be announced. SOLO GALLERY: CHEERS! An exhibition featuring vessels for brewed beverages and other elixers – traditional steins or pints to the more refined goblets and pilsners. COMMUNITY ARTS GALLERY: WISE WORKS. The artwork created between 2012-2013 during the Creative Aging Program at Zeta Center will be on display.

Jordan Faye Contemporary @ Grey Matter Transcending Place II This four person exhibition featuring works by David Herman, Jenee Mateer, Kate MacKinnon & Lat Naylor Opens at Grey Matter, 302 Federal Street & Guilford on March 15, 6 – 11pm. Show open March 15-April 18.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and PNC Bank announce the return of the annual PNC Transformative Art Prize (previously known as the PNC Transformative Art Project). The award supports communities in their efforts to improve their surroundings with long-term and lasting art projects. Neighborhoods are asked to partner with artists and/or arts organizations to permanently reinvent public spaces using art. New for 2014, the prize welcomes proposals that include transformative performance art. Qualified community-based nonprofits may be granted funding up to $30,000. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 2, 2014 at midnight. The 2014 PNC Transformative Art Prize is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and supported in part by PNC Bank. Additional support is provided by the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development.

Click here for the application and guidelines.

Interested community groups and artists are encouraged to attend the PNC Transformative Art Prize Information Workshop. The workshop will be held at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, located at 10 E. Baltimore Street, 10th floor on Monday, March 24, 2014 at 6pm. Topics will include details on the prize, visual examples of transformative art, and advice on artists and/or arts organization partnerships.

The winning neighborhood groups for the 2013 PNC Transformative Art Project were the Greater Remington Improvement Association and Upper Fell’s Point Improvement Association.

For more information on the PNC Transformative Art Prize, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.promotionandarts.org.

Deadline June 18:

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site is currently accepting proposals for its 2015 season of site-specific artist installations. Maximum funding is $7,500 per project. The deadline for proposals is June 18, 2014. For guidelines and to apply, visit easternstate.org/art.