The Creative Nomads

Something extraordinary is taking shape on West North Avenue.

Join Creative Nomads and WNADA for Cosmic Roots: Illuminating Our Legends, a community-powered public art project celebrating the Black Baltimore icons, visionaries, artists, advocates, and changemakers whose legacies continue to shape our city.

On Monday we're opening the doors to the studio and inviting the community to become part of the process.

✨ Open Studio
📅 June 15
🕐 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Meet the artists, explore works in progress, learn about the legends being honored, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how these large-scale portraits are being created.

🎨 Community Paint Day
📅 June 17
🕠 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

🎨 Community Paint Day
📅 June 22
🕒 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

No artistic experience needed. Artists will guide participants through the process as we collectively help bring these portraits to life.

📍 Carolyn E. Fugett Intergenerational Center
800 Poplar Grove, Baltimore

Every brushstroke helps illuminate a story. Every participant becomes part of the legacy.

What if summer wasn’t just a season Comrades, but a shift? A shift toward connection. Toward creativity. Toward showing up for each other in ways that feel intentional and real. Through art, we’re creating opportunities for families to bond, for artists to lead, and for communities to come together in spaces that feel welcoming and alive.

This is the work. And summer is when it shines.

Be part of it.

🚨 We’re LIVE at Artscape! 🎨☀️

If you’re out at Artscape today, come find us in Kidscape for a Community Paint experience where YOU get to help bring the artwork to life.

Kids, families, Comrades, creatives, curious folks who just like to touch paint 👀—this is for you.

Come add your color, leave your mark, and be part of something made by community.

Huge love to APG Federal Credit Union + Create Baltimore for helping make this happen 💛

📍 Kidscape at Artscape
📅 TODAY
🎨 Pull up + paint with us

See you outside.

Baltimoreeeee 🎨☀️

We’re headed to Artscape this weekend and bringing a Community Paint activation to Kidscape.

Translation? You get to be part of the art!

Bring the kids. Bring your festival crew. Bring that one friend who says “I’m not artistic” (they’re fibbin).

Come add your color Comrades, make something joyful, and create with us all weekend long.

Big love to APG Federal Credit Union + Create Baltimore for making this possible.

📍 Kidscape @ Artscape
📅 Saturday + Sunday

See you outside 💛

When it gets warm, we move differently Comrades.

There’s a rhythm to the sun:: one that invites us outside, into community, into shared experiences that feel alive.

Art meets us there. In the parks. On the walls. In the circle. On an art oasis in the middle of the crowds.

It becomes the way we connect, express, and build something together ... across generations, across neighborhoods, across stories.

This is what the warmer seasons can feel like when connection is made sacred and centered.

We’re creating space for all of it.

Creativity doesn’t fade, it evolves Comrades.

Through painting and shared creative practice, elders continue to explore, express, and connect.

Join us:
📍 The Intergenerational Center
📅 2nd + 4th Thursdays in May + June
⏰ 11AM - 12PM

Pull up and create with us.

ART LIVES HERE COMRADES 🎨

This week is the perfect time to support Creative Nomads year-round.

When you start a recurring monthly donation of $5 or more through our Givebutter link, Givebutter will contribute an additional $10 to Creative Nomads while matching funds last 👀✨

That means your small monthly gift goes even further in supporting:
🖌️ Community murals
🎨 Family Paint
🥁 Drumming experiences
🌱 Youth + family programming
🏡 Our vision for HOMEage
✨ Accessible art across Baltimore

Art lives in the neighborhoods, the gatherings, the paint-covered hands, and the moments we create together.

Help us keep it living here.

https://givebutter.com/artovereverything

Baltimore, it’s your turn again!

We’re hosting another Poe Community Paint at the Hollins Market Mural on May 16th, and we want YOU there.

This is what community looks like: hands on the wall, color in motion, people showing up to create something that lasts.

No art skills? Perfect.
Just bring your energy and we’ll take care of the rest.

📍 Hollins Market, during the Hollins Farmers Market
📅 May 16th
🎨 All ages welcome

Pull up. Paint with us. Be part of the story.

here are moments to watch… and moments to step in.

This is one of those moments.

Applications to engage with Creative Nomads are closing soon, and we’re inviting people who are ready to be part of what’s next:

🎨 Host Committees — help bring our programs to life
🧭 Board of Directors — help shape our future
🔊 Champion League — help power this work through fundraising

This work has always been carried by people who choose to show up—with intention, with care, and with community in mind.

If that’s been on your heart, don’t wait.

Apply now before the window closes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPP2fkcv3prhX390puIQ_2iPOp-d7rbusLjvUi7tqeLPxztA/viewform?usp=dialog

WHEN YOU GIVE $5 A MONTH OR MORE WE GET $10 FREE MONEY HUNNY FROM GIVE BUTTER! This week only Comrades!

Creative Nomads has spent the last 10 years bringing art, culture, and creativity directly into Baltimore neighborhoods through murals, Family Paint, drumming experiences, youth programs, community celebrations, and collaborative public art.

ART LIVES HERE but only with your help. Use the link in our bio or go to https://givebutter.com/artovereverything

This week is GiveButter's monthly giving campaign — they give us $10 for every $5 OR MORE that you donate as a recurring monthly gift.

$10/month: Helps keep supplies available for Family Paint + Culture & Crafts

$25/month: Supports snacks, materials, and youth participation in community programs

$50/month: Helps bring artists and cultural facilitators into neighborhoods across Baltimore

$100/month: Supports accessible arts programming for families year-round

ART LIVES HERE and stays vibrant with resources and support.

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