Winner of 2013 JJA Award
The Jazz Journalists Association has named Baltimore's Craig Alston as one of its 2013 "Jazz Heroes," JJA cited Alston and 25 other "activists, advocates, altruists, and aiders and abettors of jazz"...
Maryland recognizes 87 artists
The Maryland State Arts Council has announced its individual artist grant recipients for 2013. The grants, ranging from $1000 to $6000, were awarded for fiction, media/digital/electronic arts,...
Park School librarian Laura Amy Schlitz and her book, Splendors and Glooms, have won a 2013 Newbery Honor for excellence in children's literature. A Newbery Honor is basically an honorable mention...
Baltimore native Anna Deveare Smith will pocket $300,000 as this year's recipient of the Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize. Smith, a Western grad, appears in Nurse Betty, but she's best known for...
Americans for the Arts (AFTA) has given Governor O'Malley a Public Leadership in the Arts Award for state arts leadership. It's the first time a Maryland governor has been cited by the national arts...
OrchKids—the BSO-sponsored, after-school music program—has been awarded a Getty Education and Community Investment Grant. Here are the details from the BSO...
The grant of $17,500 has been awarded...
The results of the 2012 Rhapsody Jazz Critics' Poll were announced today, and Devin Gray's debut disc, Dirigo Rataplan, came in at #3 in the "Best Debut Album" category. A drummer and Peabody...
Last Thursday, Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace. Here's Kwei-Armah holding the medal...
Tim Handley, who produced Marin Alsop and the BSO's Mahler: Symphony No. 1 CD, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Classical Producer of the Year" category. it's an excellent...
The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is headed to The Walters next year. The BMA, host to the Sondheim Prize since 2005, will be unable to mount the exhibition because of onging...
