City of Artists is the first full-length book from BmoreArt, Baltimore’s art and culture magazine, featuring 220 pages of personal reflections from leading writers alongside portfolios from the city’s most celebrated visual artists. In inspired text and rich visuals, the book offers a multifaceted and diverse perspective, where authors explore specific moments that shaped their creative vision and visual artists offer bodies of work inspired by materials, ideas, and experiences of their hometown.
Baltimore has fostered literary and artistic excellence for over a century, including writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Edgar Allen Poe, and W.E.B. Du Bois and visual artists like Charles Wilson Peale, Joshua Johnson, William Henry Rinehart, and Grace Hartigan. City of Artists chronicles this cultural legacy, collectively exploring why this city remains a verdant site for significant cultural production.
Watch our reading event with the authors at the Enoch Pratt Library.
See press for the book here:
• Baltimore Fishbowl: Inside the Gorgeous New Coffee Table Book City of Artists: Baltimore, Nov. 27, 2023
• NPR Midday with Tom Hall: "City of Artists: Baltimore" integrates writing & visual arts, December 4, 2023
• Le Figaro Newspaper, Weekend Magazine: Voyage à Baltimore, bientôt la destination la plus désirable des États-Unis, January 10, 2025