SCOUT

About Scout Art Fair

The Scout Art Fair, an affordable art fair, will be held in Baltimore, MD, at the War Memorial Building, from May 23-25, 2025, during the Artscape Festival. The fair is a collaboration between the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA), the City of Baltimore, Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s Downtown RISE Initiative, and curated by Derrick Adams and Teri Henderson. It will feature 40 solo artist booths and 6 gallery booths, with artwork priced between $150 and $5,000, and a portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will benefit BOPA programs.

Curators

Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and on occasion, independent curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Baltimore native who has focused his attention on promoting his hometown with opportunities both in the city and beyond. In 2022, Adams officially established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Black Baltimore Digital Database and Zora’s Den. He also serves several local boards and Committees such as The Compound and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Teri Henderson

Henderson is a Baltimore-based independent curator, the author of Black Collagists: The Book (2021), and the Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Washington Post, and numerous other publications. Henderson was a 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Resident, a 2024 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow, and a 2024 Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Fellow. In 2024, Baltimore Magazine named her a GameChanger for her role as a leading voice in Baltimore’s creative community. In 2023, she served as a jury member for the exhibition “Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett.” In 2024, she was a consulting curator for the exhibition “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Most recently, she co-curated LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage at Maryland Institute College of Art.