Featured Exhibition
Baker Artist Awards 2009
April 29 - June 28, 2009
Free exhibition
The BMA celebrates the Baker Artist Awards with an exhibition of the inaugural winners in the West Wing for Contemporary Art. The competition attracted 656 Baltimore-area artists whose work was submitted online at www.bakerartistawards.org. The three $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes were selected by a jury and the seven $1,000 Baltimore’s Choice Prize winners were selected from among 8,500 votes cast by people from 118 countries. Click on the artist's name below to see their work.
MARY SAWYERS BAKER PRIZE
Carl Grubbs
A world-touring jazz musician, composer, educator, and recording artist, saxophonist Grubbs cut his chops with jazz legend John Coltrane and was close to many of the history-making jazz musicians of the 50s and 60s. He's also featured at the BMA Jazz in the Sculpture Garden concert on July 25!
John Ruppert
Ruppert creates wondrous sculptures inspired by his early memories of living in Amman, Jordan and participating in archeological digs. He also presides over the Art Department at the University of Maryland College Park.
Hadieh Shafie
An Iranian-born artist who immigrated to the United States in 1983, Shafie’s mesmerizing images explore the temporary nature of memory, history, and the intersection of personal experiences
related to the Iranian diaspora.
BALTIMORE’S CHOICE PRIZE
Becky Alprin - visual artist
Milana Braslavsky - photographer
Sarah House - visual artist
Adam Hopkins - musician and composer
Rob Levit - musician and painter
Jim Lucio - photographer
Vincent Thomas - dancer and choreographer
