2026 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Travel Prize Recipient
The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore announces Chukwudumebi “Chuks” Amadi-Emina. as the recipient of the 2026 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize. Tony receives $7,000. 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. Tony was selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. The eleventh 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.
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Chukwudumebi ‘Chuks’ Amadi-Emina
Chuks is a Nigerian (Igbo & Yoruba) American contemporary photographer, digital & video artist, currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Using Photography, collage/montage theory, and digital editing and painting skills and techniques, Chuks tells stories that revolve around the duality of perspectives and experiences of being an individual raised in Africa (Nigeria specifically), as well as being a black individual in America through the portraiture. He plans to use the $7,000 prize to travel to Nigeria to trace his parents’ Yoruba and Igbo lineages, visit their birthplaces in Ogun and Delta states, and deepen his exploration of ancestry and identity through photography and storytelling.