Art in Baltimore will be covered in full detail for you today and our opening section will discuss the best art galleries and museums near you.
After that we will get into a variety of other topics like local art supply stores, events, festivals, dealers, appraisers, walking tours, sculptures and statues, art classes, studios for rent, and the top frame shops in your area.
If you are after any specific section you can jump straight to it using the table of contents on the left and we are also including a Baltimore art map with all of the various places we mention throughout the post pinned on it.
The Northeast is an area we have written many guides on in the past which you can look through at this link.
Best Art Galleries & Museums In Baltimore
In our opinion the best art galleries and museums in Baltimore would be:
You can find free after school workshops at the American Visionary Art Museum who keeps regular hours of 10am to 5pm Wednesday through Sunday and their Kinetic Sculpture Race event in May is a can’t miss.
There are nearly 100,000 works at The Baltimore Museum of Art which is open from 10am to 5pm Wednesday through Sunday while staying open late until 9pm on Thursday including over 1,000 from Henri Matisse and it is highly recommended that you check out their Sculpture Garden while you are there.
The Walters Art Museum is free for everyone and has a massive collection that spans from 5,000 BCE to the current day with over 36,000 objects from all around the world that you can view Wednesday through Sunday. They also offer local art lessons and art-making workshops for all ages and experience levels.
Anyone that wants to rent a studio in your area can try do so at Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower.
The Crystal Moll Gallery is open from noon to 6pm Wednesday through Saturday offering art consultations, custom framing, installations, conservation, and some of the works on display are for sale.
From 10am to 6pm Monday through Friday and until 5pm on Saturday you can visit Renaissance Fine Arts where you can enjoy the largest collection of fine art in the Mid-Atlantic including original works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, and Warhol. You can also try out their art consultations and they provide custom framing too.
The Rellim Collection is happy to do in-home consultations if you are serious about buying a new piece for your collection.
Materials & Supplies Near You
You should be able to find all of the materials and supplies you need at these art stores in your area:
Each summer as many as 300,000 people gather for the free Artscape Festival in Midtown and the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
The first Saturday of June you can also go to the annual Overlea ArtsFest.
The Little Italy Madonnari Arts Festival is a free outdoor chalk festival where you will find live music, street performers, participatory art, an art market and al fresco dining every September.
The first Friday of each month it is highly recommended that you check out the Highlandtown Arts District First Friday Art Walk.
The Baltimore County African American Cultural Festival features great pieces of art created by African Americans all over the Northeast and is held each September.
Each summer the fun Columbia Festival of the Arts goes down for 2 weeks.
The Kinetic Sculpture Race is a very unique race of human powered sculptures through land, sea, and mud that runs each May and is presented by the American Visionary Art Museum.
Art Dealers & Appraisers
If you want to add a new piece to your collection or find out how much a piece is worth you can go to art dealers and appraisers near you like:
You also won’t want to forget about the Highlandtown Arts District First Friday Art Walk in your area that we linked to in the shows and events section.
Sculptures & Statues
You can also find some interesting sculptures and statues around the city like:
BMA Sculpture Garden at 10 Art Museum Dr
Brooks Robinson Statue at 422 Eislen St
Joseph Beuys Sculpture Garden at 1000 Hilltop Cir
Frank Zappa Statue at 3601 Eastern Ave
Cache #1 Matthew Gray at 2230 Reisterstown Rd
Marquis de Lafayette Statue at 699 S Washington Pl
We mentioned the sculptures at the Baltimore Museum of Art earlier and it deserves the top spot on this list so head over Wednesday through Sunday when it is open.
The Brooks Robinson Statue was created by Joseph Sheppard and put up in 2011 to honor a true legend of this great town.
The Marquis de Lafayette Statue was created by Andrew O’Connor and was dedicated back in 1924.
Baltimore Art Classes
Some of you may be interested in private lessons while others may want group classes for kids, teens, or adults but either way the best Baltimore art schools are:
School 33 Art Center offers classes for all ages and all skills levels and is also a place to rent out studio space.
The instructors at Schuler School of Fine Arts will teach techniques used by European Old Masters and they also specialize in drawing, oils, sculpture, and watercolor.
Not only can you take graduate or undergraduate courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art but they also have seasonal classes.
Expect to find workshops and classes for all ages at the Painting Workshop in addition to summer camps, school break camps for kids, and private tutoring.
Another fun kid’s summer camp is available at the Mitchell School of Fine Arts and on Wednesdays they do half or full day art enrichment camps.
Center for the Arts has graduate, undergraduate, and summer courses.
The Walters Art Museum, Plaza Artist Materials, and Scrap from our prior lists also offer art lessons in your area.
Studios For Rent Near You
Those of you who are ready to start a big project can find art studios in Baltimore like:
You can choose from over 4,000 varieties of frames at Framin’place and they also provide expert art restoration and conservation services.
The Fleckenstein Gallery and Archival Framing is where to go for traditional French mats and they are also well known for 12 inch and 16 inch ply mats.
More Than Fine Framing can provide fine art photography printing services in addition to art and frame restorations and installations.
More places to find framing services near you are Crystal Moll Gallery, Renaissance Fine Arts, Plaza Artist Materials, Blick Art Materials, and Michaels.
Some of you may also want to read about the local art scene in other nearby cities like:
Hopefully you were able to learn something about the best galleries, museums, events, shows, supply stores, dealers, appraisers, walking tours, sculptures, classes, studios, and framers in your area.
If you made it all the way to the end then you probably love art as much as we do. Feel free to use the comments to share your own local art tips, or to let us know if you noticed anything on this page that is no longer correct.
Have fun going to the galleries, museums, buying supplies or doing anything that has to do with art in Baltimore!
This post and all of the posts on our site are edited by Dan Soloman who has been a huge fan of art since he was a little kid. His mother was a good local artist, and she taught him the trade from a very early age. He studied art and its history in both high school and college, has worked at multiple galleries, and recently has begun creating and editing online content for this site and some other online media platforms.
