Organizers say Artscape won’t return in 2022 after all, but Baltimoreans will get ‘preview’ of 2023 competition
by Ed Gunts
Posted April 5 in Baltimore Fishbowl

Excerpt: Baltimore is heading to have to hold out a minor lengthier to working experience the “bigger and better” Artscape festival that Mayor Brandon Scott promised on Sunday.

The Baltimore Business of Promotion and the Arts contradicted the mayor when it place out a media advisory Monday afternoon, indicating Artscape will not return in 2022 even although Scott stated it would.

BOPA’s advisory claimed Artscape will return in 2023 and what Baltimoreans will see this calendar year is a “preview” of the 2023 model, not the celebration by itself. The advisory was titled: “BALTIMORE Place of work OF Marketing & THE ARTS IS Setting up THE RETURN OF ARTSCAPE.”

Monday’s information from BOPA was a contradiction of the one particular it posted final week with the subject matter line “Artscape 2022,” and the headline “Artscape is Shifting to September.” The earlier information gave the impact that Artscape was coming back again in 2022 following a two-calendar year, COVID-similar hiatus, and that it was going from July to September.

“We’re getting more time to collaborate on a daring new vision for America’s largest free of charge festival,” mentioned the very first message, which was posted on BOPA’s web-site and shared greatly on social media. “It’s a big hard work, and we want to do it correct, so we’re using far more time.”

That was adopted by a statement from Scott on Sunday, stating he wants Artscape to return in 2022.

“We want all of our festivals to come back this 12 months,” he claimed all through an visual appearance at the American Visionary Art Museum. “Not just Artscape, but we’re likely to have Afram. We want to provide all of all those items again, to get us back to some normalcy in the city…. We’re bringing them back again. We want to be even bigger and greater.”