Here's the latest info from Baltimore's nonprofit arts council, events center and film office.
  
UPCOMING EVENTS
Light City: April 6-21, 2018
Light City, the largest, FREE light festival in the United States returns for its third year in 2018. We're back with “more love, more lights” as Light City expands to three weekends with Neighborhood Lights taking place April 6-8 in 14 neighborhoods, the art and music festival taking place April 14-21 , and Labs@LightCity , the daytime social innovation conferences taking place April 18-21 . This year brings 21 brand new light art installations along the BGE Light Art Walk on Baltimore's waterfront, 50+ free concerts and performances, a children's area, illuminated drone racing, delicious local food and beverages, an opening night parade and a closing night fireworks finale. Plus, Light City expands to reach 38 neighborhoods this year through its new Eye on Charlie and Brilliant Baltimore Community Showcase initiatives.
Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar: April 8, 2018
The Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar returns for its 41st season on Sundays, from April 8 through December 23, 2018 from 7am until noon. To celebrate opening day, the band Ebb & Nova performs their acoustic stylings live starting at 10am. The 41st season features new vendors such as Bottoms Up Bagels, Shore to Door Blue Crabs, Slate Farm Brewery, the Urban Oyster and Gundalow Juice, and returning vendors with new products including Farm to Face adding hummus and falafel and Migrash Farm adding certified vegan and kosher pantry items. A variety of new vendors will be joining the bazaar, including HomeGrown Glass Art, clothing from Tribal Season, artwork from Change Creations and more. "First Sundays," a program where a special theme takes place the first Sunday of every month, returns along with Chef Egg's cooking classes the first Sunday of each month. For a complete list of vendors and activities happening at the Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar, click the button below.
Just Announced: Finalists for the 2018
Sondheim Artscape Prize
Pictured: 2017 Sondheim Artscape Prize Winner Cindy Cheng
BOPA announces the finalists for the 13th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize.  The finalists are Erick Antonio Benitez, Nakeya Brown, Sutton Demlong, Nate Larson, Eunice Park and Stephen Towns. The competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to assist in furthering the career of a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. The prize also gives artists an opportunity to exhibit their work at The Baltimore Museum of Art Wednesday, June 20 through Sunday, August 5, 2018. Find our more about the finalists by clicking the link below.

CALLS FOR ENTRY
CREATIVE BALTIMORE FUND
DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2018

Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are now accepting applicants for the Creative Baltimore Fund, which provides support to artists and organizations through two grants: the Mayor’s Individual Artist Award and General Operating Support for arts organizations.

Pictured: Biological Controls: If It Bleeds We Can Kill It by Phaan Howng
SCHOOL 33 CALL FOR ARTISTS
DEADLINE: APRIL 2, 2018

School 33 Art Center is accepting proposals for its 165 square-foot Project Space, which is committed to providing opportunities for artists working in multiple forms of visual media to present intimate bodies of work, or to realize experimental installations for which they may not otherwise have the support. Open to video projections, sculptural installations, and/or any other ideas for which this would be an ideal space.

ARTSCAPE GALLERY NETWORK
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2018

The Artscape Gallery Network features artists and art galleries throughout Baltimore City and County. Gallery Network is designed to raise the visibility of and attract more visitors to Baltimore's thriving arts community. Participation is FREE! Participating galleries will be included in a highly visible, multi-media marketing campaign and can participate in the 2018 Baltimore Open Studio Tour for free. For rules and guidelines, click the link below.

BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL

The Baltimore Book Festival returns for its 23rd year Friday, September 28 through Sunday, September 30, 2018 from 11am to 7pm daily at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Applications are now open for the following:
  • Food and Beverage Vendors
  • DEADLINE: MAY 18, 2018
  • Literary Exhibitors and Booksellers
  • DEADLINE: JULY 13, 2018
  • Single-Day Tablers
  • DEADLINE: JULY 13, 2018

ARTSCAPE: ARTISTS' MARKET & EMERGING ARTIST PROGAM
DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2018

The heART of Artscape, the Artists' Market highlights visual artists who create and execute original, professional quality work. Categories include mixed media, clay, drawing/graphics/printmaking, fiber/leather, glass, jewelry, metal, painting, wearable art/fashion, wood and more. Local up-and-coming artists are encouraged to apply to the Emerging Artist Program.

ARTSCAPE: "THE FRED PRIZE
DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2018

Baltimore City high school student artists can apply to win The Fred Prize, featuring a $1,000 award along with a solo exhibition at Artscape.

ON VIEW AT SCHOOL 33 ART CENTER
BIG SEXY BY LYDIA PETTIT
ON VIEW: THROUGH APRIL 28, 2018

BIG SEXY is an exploration of what it means to live after experiencing abuse, and how to come to terms with and respect the body you’re given. After years of unhealthy and traumatic relationships resulting from warped self-image, the artist uses painting to construct worlds that describe the emotional shifts and waves that one goes through in recovery. Pettit’s compositions shift between confrontational and minimized figures, each representing the duality of the strength survivors of abuse are "supposed" to feel, and the fear and doubt they carry with them. 
THE DOMESTIC BY ZOE CHARLTON
ON VIEW: THROUGH APRIL 28, 2018

Black domesticity takes on layered meanings in  The Domestic , Zoë Charlton’s first solo exhibition in Baltimore. Charlton presents a series of works on paper inspired by reoccurring imagery in her drawings: suburban houses, African masks, and southern landscapes. Domesticity holds different social value depending on the body’s relationship with a place and how one belongs in it. From the privacy of a household to the publicness of national history, the domestic is interior, gendered, comforting, invisible, controlled, and integral to keeping the status quo.
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is the city's arts council, events center and film office.
BOPA is able to do all of its programs thanks to the support from a variety of public and private funders/donors.