Artist Travel Prize
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize awards $7,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living in Baltimore City. The $7,000 prize is intended to function as funding for travel essential to studio practice that an artist may not otherwise be able to afford.
Guidelines
Artists living in Baltimore City are eligible; Artists must live in Baltimore City during time of application and during the entire granting period.
Artists must be at least 21 years old, and may not be full-time students or enrolled in a degree-granting program at the time of the granting period.
Funds are intended for travel expenses only. Artist award may not be used for the purchase of equipment or materials for art production.
Submissions are made online through the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
Estimated Timeline
June, 2025: Call for entries
Artist Travel Prize Recipients
2024 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Sherry Insley
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is thrilled to announce photographer Sherry Insley as the recipient of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Sherry Insley plans to travel to several locations to continue her work documenting the emergence of ghost forests. The majority of the locations she hopes to visit are along the Mid-Atlantic Coast and Chesapeake Bay Watershed. She will also travel to Nienhagen, Germany, to photograph the “Gespenterwald” (meaning ghost forest in German) which is situated along the Baltic Sea.
2023 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Jill Orlov
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is happy to announce metal miniaturist Jill Orlov as the recipient of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Jill Orlov will research gallery or library spaces in cities of the City Beautiful Movement. Her proposed travel includes the Field Museum in Chicago; the Public Library in Boston; the Grand Parkway in Philadelphia; Union Station in Washington DC; and the Parks & Boulevards in Kansas City, Missouri.
2022 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Jackie Milad and Elena Volkova
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is pleased to announce Jackie Milad and Elena Volkova as the recipients of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Jackie Milad will use her prize to support a research trip to London to visit the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt at The British Museum. Participating in the museum’s Study Program, she will have the unique opportunity to handle and draw antiquities from life.
Elena Volkova’s travel project, “Ukrainian Portraits” is a community arts project aiming to create an archive of portraits using a historic photographic process to bear witness to the Ukrainian people affected by war. Her goal is to engage the community in the creation of artifacts and facilitate an artistic experience which focuses on empowerment and healing.
2021 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Rosa Leff
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) announces Rosa Leff as the recipient of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Rosa Leff will spend a week in New York and three in Mexico learning traditional papercutting from masters. In Mexico cutting is done with hammers and chisels. I use a knife. I’ll combine what I learn with my own urban style and present my work in English and Spanish here in Baltimore.
2020 Artist Travel Prize Recipients: Schroeder Cherry & Hoesy Corona
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is proud to announce Schroeder Cherry and Hoesy Corona as recipients of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Schroeder Cherry plans for six days of travel to Salvador, Brazil to study African diaspora in paintings, murals and assemblage art. The experience would expand Cherry’s knowledge of Black images, historic and contemporary, in the city with the largest African diaspora population outside Africa. Cherry’s work depicts Black diaspora experiences in the US.
Hoesy Corona plans to travel to Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico and the surrounding rural town of Tierra Blanca to inform a new body of work tentatively titled “Acts of Liberation”. The series will draw from Corona's personal experiences as a queer-Mexican-immigrant to poetically consider how immigrants thrive in a new place despite their unique circumstances.
2019 Artist Travel Prize Recipients: Latoya M. Hobbs and J.M. Giordano
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is pleased to announce Latoya M. Hobbs and J.M. Giordano as recipients of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Latoya Hobbs will use the award to fund travel to Marrakech, Morocco where she will conduct research to expand the recurring elements of the figure, pattern, color and texture present in her work.
J.M. Giordano will use the award to support the third and final phase of the project All For Thee in Czech Republic. All For Thee is a 15 year photographic project documenting the aftermath of the steel industry in Baltimore and similar cities left behind by both Capitalist and Communist systems.
2018 Artist Travel Prize Recipients: Erin Fostel and Erick Antonio Benitez
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) announces Erin Fostel and Erick Antonio Benitez as recipients of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize. The MASB board of directors awarded a $6,000 prize to two Baltimore-based visual artists for 2018.
Erin Fostel will use the award for a three-week trip to Japan, where she will research and draw. She plans to focus on the cities of Tokyo and Hiroshima and surrounding areas. Her concentration will be on urban architecture as well as the architecture, rites and rituals of Shinto, a main religion in Japan.
Erick Antonio Benitez will use the award to conduct research on the Amazon city of Iquitos, exposing him to a vast biodiversity landscape and the native culture. The project will be a lasting source of material for his practice, including sound field recordings, video footage, photographs, drawing studies and found objects.
2017 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Nate Larson
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is happy to announce Nate Larson as the recipient of the second annual Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Nate Larson will use the $6,000 award to work on his project “Centroid Towns,” a long-term photographic project documenting towns that have been the mean center (meaning the geographical point that describes a centerpoint of a region's population) of the United States. This travel grant will facilitate travel to two towns in Indiana to continue his work focusing on issues of immigration, incarceration and their relationship to national identity.
2016 Artist Travel Prize Recipient: Stephen Towns
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) announces Stephen Towns as the recipient of the first Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize.
Stephen Towns took his first trip abroad to Ghana and Senegal to visit important historical sites that mark the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Images and research from this trip will inform a future body of work exploring the history of colonialism and its effects on modern society.