Artist Travel Prize
The MASB Artist Travel Prize awards $6,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living in Baltimore City. The $6,000 prize is intended to function as funding for travel essential to studio practice that an artist may not otherwise be able to afford.
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is proud to announce Schroeder Cherry and Hoesy Corona as recipients of the 2020 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize. Each artist receives $6,000. The prize is intended to function as funding for travel essential to an artist’s studio practice that an artist may not otherwise be able to afford. Cherry and Corona were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. Due to COVID-19, BOPA and MASB will be flexible with the selected artists should travel restrictions continue further into 2021 than currently estimated. The fifth annual Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize is managed by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and sponsored by the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City.
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 Recipient
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is proud 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 Recipient
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) is proud to announce 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
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
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.