Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Artist Travel Prize

2025 MASB Artist Travel Prize Call for Artists 

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASB) Artist Travel Prize, sponsored by MASB. MASB was founded in 1899 as part of the City Beautiful movement. It is one of only two remaining societies to be operating under its original charter “to provide sculptural and pictorial decoration and ornaments for the public buildings, streets and open spaces in the City of Baltimore, and to help generally beautify the City.” Artistic contributions to the City span more than one hundred years.

In 2016 the MASB embarked on a path to provide new opportunities to Baltimore artists and art places within the City. This prize will award $7,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators, living or working in Baltimore City. Successful proposals will be selected from submissions that clearly articulate the artist’s reason for travel to the chosen destination and how it relates to their work, their use of or interest along with the support materials. The $7,000 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.

May 27, 2025: Call for Artists released

June 20, 2025, 11:59pm: Application due
August 2025: Prize recipient announced

Previous Artist Travel Prize Recipients:

2016: Stephen Towns

2017: Nate Larson

2018: Erick Antonio Benitez, Erin Fostel

2019: LaToya Hobbs, J.M. Giordano

2020: Hoesy Corona, Schroeder Cherry

2021: Rosa Leff

2022: Jackie Milad, Elena Volkova

2023: Jill Orlov

2024: Sherry Insley

(Image of Elena Volkova from "Transmission," a 2024 exhibition of past travel prize recipients at School 33 Art Center.)