Baker Artist Awards Celebration

Baker Artist Awards Celebration

Scads of art lovers descended on the Baltimore Museum of Art to celebrate this year’s winners of Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artists Awards.

After hearing which Baltimore area artists would be receiving a total of $90,000, guests had a chance to congratulate them in person at a free reception in the lower lobby.

Pictured (LtoR) John Hendricks, The St. Paul’s Schools dead of arts/GBCA board member; Sheri Parks, Maryland Institute College of Arts vice president of strategic initiatives/GBCA board president; and Kibibi Ajanku, GBCA director of equity and inclusion

Pictured (LtoR) Joyce Dowery, Baltimore City Public Schools para-educator, with her daughter, Keira Fallin

Pictured (LtoR) Bonnie Jones, musician/Baker Artist Award nominee; David London, GBCA Baker Artist portfolios manager; and Lafayette Gilchrist, pianist/composer/Baker Artist Award winner

Pictured (LtoR) Don Palmer, retired arts grantmaker; Beth Frederick, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health advance family planning executive director; Eduardo Rodriguez, Baltimore bon vivant

Pictured (LtoR) Michael Ross, Center Stage executive director; and Ken Skrzesz, Maryland State Arts Council executive director

Pictured (LtoR) Phylicia Ghee, portrait photographer/visual artist; Jenny Wohl, Working Wohl owner/holistic consultant; and Ernest Wright, Holy Frijoles cook

Pictured (LtoR) Baltimore Museum of Art colleagues: Mercedes Lopez, visitor experience manager; Kaylyn Gray, lead visitor services associate; Emily Crawford, events house manager; and Katie Cooke, assistant director of advancement events

Pictured (LtoR) Natanya Sheva Washer, Baltimore-based opera singer; Lisa Muscara Brice, Baltimore-based content & communications specialist; and Monica Henderson, Baltimore-based human resources & finance consultant

Pictured (LtoR) Susan Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art board member; and Anne Stone, retired librarian (September 12, 2018 – Baltimore Museum of Art)

Sloane Brown

Baltimore's longtime fashion and social scene reporter, Sloane is the founder/managing editor of Baltimore Snap.

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