Mayor Scott creates Arts and Culture Advisory Committee

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With Baltimore’s Arts and Culture Week underway, Mayor Brandon Scott on Tuesday issued an executive order establishing the Mayor’s Arts and Culture Advisory Committee to support the local arts community.

The committee will have 23 members and will “serve in an advisory capacity, providing guidance, recommendations, and support to the Mayor, City Council, and Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture in Baltimore City on matters involving and pertaining to arts and culture,” according to Scott’s office.

There are already 18 confirmed members of the Mayor’s Arts and Culture Advisory Committee. They include:

• Derrick Adams, Contemporary Artist and the Last Resort Artist Retreat

• Sean Brescia, Mission Media

• Nicholas Cohen, Maryland Citizens for the Arts

• Terri Freeman, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

• Amy Burke Friedman, PROFILES

• Stacy Handler, Bloom Arts Strategy

• Jeannie Howe, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance

• Eze Jackson, Artist

• Mary Ann Mears, Sculptor and Public Art Advocate

• Robyn Murphy, JRM Consultancy

• Cara Ober, BmoreArt

• Wendel Patrick, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute

• Ernest Shaw Jr., Contemporary Artist

• Jessica Solomon, Art in Praxis

• Eric Souza, Midtown Community Benefits District

• DJ Tanz, DJ, Event Producer, and Baltimore Influencer

• Thea Washington, Thea Washington Casting

• Jenenne Whitfield, American Visionary Art Museum and The Heidelberg Project