BY ABRAHAM STORER SEP 27, 2023

PROVINCETOWN — The DNA residency, situated in a cavernous, barnlike space above the Provincetown Tennis Club, has hosted artists on the Outer Cape since 2012. In previous years it was a gallery run by Nick Lawrence, who now owns the Freight + Volume Gallery in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and runs the residency for artists from his expansive network to come and work for one or two weeks from June through October. Until now, the public hasn’t had much opportunity to interact with these artists working above the tennis courts in Provincetown’s East End...

by Aria Brent

April 28, 2023

Earlier this year Gov. Wes Moore made history by becoming the first Black man to be the governor of the state of Maryland. Moore is now a part of the rich, Black history in the state that is being preserved and told by local artists like Will Watson. 

Watson is a visual artist and native of Indianapolis, Ind. However, he’s been in Charm City for about seven years. The art that he’s creating is telling decades worth of Baltimore history. 

Watson’s painting “For Posterity” portrays St. Sen. Cory McCray speaking in a Baltimore City Public School about the first four Black state senators in East Baltimore.

September 11, 2022

Written By

Katie Freeman

Photography by Mikaela Helane

For artist Will Watson, who got his start in Indianapolis, last weekend’s BUTTER 2 Fine Art Fair was a full-circle moment. Though currently based in New York and working from a studio in Baltimore, Will made the trek back to his hometown to display his art during Labor Day Weekend. He’s been creating art his entire life and featured in galleries across the US, including some in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC. Learn more about Will’s work in his Q+A with PATTERN below. 

Painted: 8/9/2022

About the Bird: This 250-foot-long mural on the eastern edge of Montefiore Square is a visual “love letter” from youth artists to the Hamilton Heights neighborhood where it is located. The design includes a Yellow Warbler, a welcome springtime sight in New York City and across the United States...

by Cheryl Edwards

I first met Will Watson at a Howard University Basketball game, when my son Oliver was playing on the team.  Will would often stop by my studio at that time in Brookland, D.C.   I have watched him continue his artistic journey beginning with his arrival on the east coast from Indiana through his completion of his M.F.A. at Maryland Institute of Contempary Art (MICA) up to the present time...

by Santiago Nocera

Photo By DJ Impulse

Murals have transformed the streets into canvases in 2020. Will Watson, a Baltimore-based artist, wanted to make sure his own street mural echoed the messages of the many others seen throughout the country this year. At Topside Outside, a new outdoor dining space at Hotel Revival in Mount Vernon, Watson’s mural opens with a Black fist raised high in the air.

“I wanted the mural to speak directly to the Black Lives Matter street murals, without the literal text,” says Watson. The resulting mural, Watson’s largest to date, does just that while also honoring many elements and landmarks of Baltimore...

Thomas James Interview for Urban Walls Brazil
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“The work I am making is based on my experience of ‘right now' in history. As an artist, having the ability to creatively document that desire for change in my own way, is an immensely powerful thing.”

The next artist activist I have the pleasure of highlighting is Will Watson (@will_theartist). An artist, an educator, a muralist, and I’ve personally seen him directing traffic during a protest. He is doing great things! Check out our interview on the @urbanwallsbr platform.

Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (PGAAMCC) is proud to announce The Elements that Define Us, a Black contemporary portraiture exhibition, presented in conjunction with the University of Maryland David C. Driskell Center’s exhibition: Portraits of Who We Are. The Elements that Define Us exhibition at PGAAMCC will be on display from Feb 2nd-May 26th, 2018.

MICA Grad Show III combines thesis works students from five MICA MFA graduate departments: Community Arts MFA, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Mount Royal School of Art, Photographic and Electronic Media, and Rinehart School of Sculpture. Located across multiple galleries on and off campus, curators Doreen Bolger and Seth Adelsberger arranged the works in broad themes to reflect the interests and concerns of the artists and the time in which they are working.

Molette Green sits down with local artists to discuss the importance of black art. Joining News4 Your Sunday are Preston Sampson, a local artist, Chanel Compton, board member of the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Will Watson, an MFA candidate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. (Published Sunday, Mar 25, 2018)