Winners of the Mayor's Portrait Competition are announced
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Baltimore City Hall is excited to receive new artwork for its walls this year. Five portraits of the most recent mayors will be painted by local artists. The last mayor to have a portrait painted for display in City Hall is Martin O’Malley, who was in office from 1999 to 2007. The city of Baltimore revealed the names of the five artists chosen to paint the portraits exclusively on Midday. The winners are Megan Lewis, Andrew Pisacane, Kennedy Ringgold, Earnest Shaw and Karen Warshal. Tonya Miller Hall, a Senior Advisor on Arts and Culture to Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joins Midday along with Cara Ober, the founding editor and publisher of BmoreArt magazine, to discuss the artists and their work. Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.
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