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Overview

MAP offers a changing schedule of innovative and diverse programming throughout the year that is always made available to the public free of charge. This includes organizing and presenting an average of twelve exhibitions with gallery talks conducted by exhibition curators and participating artists, and a public reception for every exhibition. Other offerings include lectures by Mid-Atlantic based artists and historians, workshops catered to artists’ professional needs, and regular visits by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC) to area artists’ studios.

Two of MAP’s most recognized annual offerings include the Critics’ Residency and Curators’ Incubator programs. Now in its 23rd year, the Critics’ Residency program served as a pilot program for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Unique in its premise, the program invites two highly regarded US critics to work with selected artists and writers throughout the course of a year. This program culminates with an exhibition of work selected by the critics during studio visits made each fall; a catalogue containing writers’ contributions after several months of individualized mentoring from the critics; and a public forum where participants are invited back to MAP in the spring to exchange ideas about art criticism with the public.

The Curators’ Incubator program was developed to provide new and emerging curators with limited or no previous curatorial experience an opportunity to curate an exhibition at MAP. Through a competitive two-phase application process, a small number of curators are selected to work with MAP staff to strengthen their proposals throughout the course of a year in preparation for an exhibition within MAP’s galleries. Emerging curators are assisted in all major facets of the curatorial process, including receiving mentorship in their writing as they prepare for publication in a Curators’ Incubator catalogue.

To learn more about MAP’s offerings, please visit our Current and Upcoming Exhibitions pages.

Maryland Art Place's programming is made possible in part by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts along with the Maryland State Arts Council.