Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize
Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) and the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) have opened applications for the eighth edition of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize
2024 MASB Artist Travel Prize call for artists The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) is proud to announce the eighth edition of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) Artist Travel Prize, sponsored by MASB. The MASB was founded in 1899 as part of the City Beautiful movement. It is one of only two remaining societies to be operating under its original charter “to provide sculptural and pictorial decoration and ornaments for the public buildings, streets and open spaces in the City of Baltimore, and to help generally beautify the City.” Artistic contributions to the City span more than one hundred years. In 2016 the MASB embarked on a path to provide new opportunities to Baltimore artists and art places within the City.
This prize will award $7,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators, living or working in Baltimore City. Successful proposals will be selected from submissions that clearly articulate the artist’s reason for travel to the chosen destination and how it relates to their work.
The $7,000 prize is intended to function as funding for travel essential to an artist’s studio practice that an artist may not otherwise be able to afford.
2024 MASB Artist Travel Prize Winner : Sherry Insley
We are thrilled to announce this year’s winner of the 2024 MASB Artist Travel Prize: Sherry Insley.
Insley plans to travel to several locations to continue her work documenting the emergence of ghost forests. The majority of the locations she hopes to visit are along the Mid-Atlantic Coast and Chesapeake Bay Watershed. She will also travel to Nienhagen, Germany, to photograph the “Gespenterwald” (meaning ghost forest in German) which is situated along the Baltic Sea.
Insley’s Ghost Forest series is an ongoing photographic and light sensitive material exploration of the quiet crisis of rising salinity, coastal erosion, and climate change. This project includes large scale black and white digital photography, video and sound installation, and historic photographic processes such as lumens, cyanotypes, image transfers, and anthotypes.
Ghost forests are created when salt water is pushed inland into freshwater ecosystems due to storms, rising sea level, and climate change. The salinity of the soil becomes too high, resulting in species of trees that die off leaving their skeletal trunks behind. It is a startling visual experience. Insley’s hope for this project is to bring visibility to this pernicious consequence of climate change.
About The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore (MASB)
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore was founded in 1899 as part of the City Beautiful movement. It is one of only two remaining societies to be operating under its original charter “to provide sculptural and pictorial decoration and ornaments for the public buildings, streets and open spaces in the City of Baltimore, and to help generally beautify the City.” Artistic contributions to the City span more than one hundred years. In 2016 the MASB embarked on a path to provide new opportunities to Baltimore artists and art places within the City, including this Artist Travel Prize and an annual Public Art Prize.
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Previous Artist Travel Prize Recipients
2023: Jill Orlov
2022: Jackie Milad, Elena Volkova
2021: Rosa Leff
2020: Hoesy Corona, Schroeder Cherry
2019: LaToya Hobbs, J.M. Giordano
2018: Erick Antonio Benitez, Erin Fostel
2017: Nate Larson
2016: Stephen Towns
QUESTIONS?
Have questions about the Artist Travel Prize? Please contact Prize and Competition Manager Lou Joseph at ljoseph@promotionandarts.org or 410-752-8632 x 4339.
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