Baltimore Met Gala<\/a> is celebrating more than just fashion, it’s also putting the city’s art and culture center stage.<\/p>\nThis year, two people helping shape that creative community are being honored.<\/p>\n
Appearing Tuesday on WBAL-TV 11 News included Nancy Blackwell, the owner of Quid Nunc Art Gallery and this year’s art icon honoree and curator of the 2026 “Statement” art experience, and artist Demont “Peekaso” Pinder, this year’s impact culture honoree.<\/p>\n
2026 IMPACT + ICON HONOREES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Demont “Peekaso” Pinder | IMPACT Culture Award<\/li>\n
- Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, owner of The Afro Newspaper) | Media ICON Award<\/li>\n
- Brandon “Bleecasso” Lee | Unsung ICON Award<\/li>\n
- Yeiboh Kitchen, owners Ashlee Mack and Adeirdra Campbell | Culinary ICON Award<\/li>\n
- Nancy Blackwell, owner of Quid Nunc Art Gallery | Artist ICON Award<\/li>\n
- Kevin Scott, owner of Benedetto Haberdashery | Fashion ICON Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Met Gala honors Nancy Blackwell, Demont ‘Peekaso’ Pinder for shaping city art BALTIMORE \u2014 The Baltimore Met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[267142,595,41454,56454,267145,267139,267148,365,362,363,364,30348,267143,267144,267132,267137,267147,267138,267149,188464,267134,366,18,117,267146,19,267140,17,37080,39298,267133,7983,267135,267150,267136,79591,267141,209247,3257],"class_list":["post-632087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-2026-statement","tag-art","tag-art-culture","tag-art-gallery","tag-art-honorees","tag-art-icon-honoree","tag-artist-demont","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-art","tag-baltimore-culture","tag-baltimore-met-gala","tag-city-art","tag-creative-art-honoree-preview","tag-creative-community","tag-culture-center-stage","tag-curator","tag-demont-pinder","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion-and-art","tag-ie","tag-impact-culture-honoree","tag-ireland","tag-local-artists","tag-maryland","tag-nancy-blackwell","tag-owner","tag-peekaso","tag-pinder","tag-quid-nunc-art-gallery","tag-statement","tag-statement-art-experience","tag-wbal","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>BALTIMORE \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n