These individuals and organizations contributed significantly to making Maryland a better place this year and deserve recognition for their outstanding efforts.
Baltimore Museum of Art announces final 2020 Vision acquisitions
Loïs Mailou Jones. Untitled (Two Women). c. 1945. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
BALTIMORE, MD
.-The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today 33 new acquisitions made as part of its 2020 Vision initiative, which includes a commitment to only purchase works by female-identifying artists this calendar year. Among the highlights entering the collection are mixed-media sculpture and paintings by Theresa Chromati, Shirley Gorelick, Loïs Mailou Jones, Valerie Maynard, Betye Saar, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Kay WalkingStick; works on paper by Camille Billops, Margaret Burroughs, Lea Grundig, Joyce J. Scott, and Zarina; and photographs by Laura Aguilar, Zackary Drucker (with A.L. Steiner), Nona Faustine, Martha Rosler, and Ming
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Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday announced the distribution of $8 million in grants to 32 tourism-related nonprofits, the latest of more than $600 million in emergency economic relief Maryland has distributed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The grants were handed out under the Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative. The program provides grants of up to $500,000 to nonprofit and tourism-producing organizations like museums, zoos and aquariums.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on many of Maryland’s great cultural, educational, and historical institutions,” Hogan said in a statement. “We’re proud to dedicate this funding through our Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative to help our nonprofit partners weather this storm and keep Marylanders on their payrolls.”
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