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Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott highlights Artscape 2025 success
Baltimore’s Artscape 2025 transformed the city’s downtown with music, art, and culture, drawing tens of thousands of attendees. The festival featured live performances, gallery exhibitions, and interactive discussions highlighting local and national artists.
Baltimore’s Artscape 2025 brought music, art, and culture to the city’s downtown corridor, with more than 100,000 attendees.
Artscape 2025: Defining a cultural moment
The inaugural Scout Art Fair, curated by Derrick Adams and Teri Henderson, featured over 40 solo artists and six galleries, with vendors reporting sold-out displays. Adams praised the event, calling it a “dream come true” and highlighting the support from the mayor’s office.
At Baltimore Center Stage, Artscape’s In Conversation & Beyond the Reel series hosted discussions on art, culture, and equity. Actor Kofi Siriboe, filmmaker DC Wade, and actress Lex Scott Davis led conversations, celebrating Baltimore’s storied artist and filmmaking community.
The Artscape After Dark programming drew packed crowds to Hotel Ulysses and Ikonic Live nightclub, where Frenchie Davis performed and poet Dr. Rebecca Dupas curated Femme Frequency. Musician Eze Jackson praised the mayor for DJing at the festival’s afterparty, calling the event a new era for Artscape.
Live performances featured Fantasia, Robin Thicke, Freeway, LeToya Luckett-Coles, Tanner Adell, Frenchie Davis, Gabby Samone, and more. Thicke reflected on Baltimore’s role in his early success, while Fantasia offered advice to rising artists, urging them to “just put out your music.”
Marking the success of the event
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Mayor Brandon M. Scott and the Mayor’s Office of Art, Culture and Entertainment, alongside the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, marked the success of Artscape 2025, reaffirming the event as a cultural and economic cornerstone in Baltimore’s revitalized downtown.
“Artscape this year was phenomenal, thanks to hundreds of hardworking public servants, volunteers, and event coordinators working around the clock. For the first time, we brought the festival to the heart of our Downtown Baltimore, where we enjoyed local art, national and local musical talent, great food vendors, and so much more together,” said Mayor Brandon M. Scott.
“I’m so proud of Artscape and the positive response we’ve heard from artists and attendees alike. We will make improvements, so stay tuned for next year!”