Partner Cities Wanted.

Nosreme is building a network of partner cities for our residency exchange program. If your organization is interested in joining, we'd like to talk.

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The offer

We pair a Baltimore artist with an artist from your city to co-create public work rooted in both places. You bring the artist, the local context, and a partner institution in your city. We bring curatorial support, production infrastructure, community engagement, a Baltimore residency placement for your artist, and a public commission outcome that lives in both cities' cultural records.

Who We Partner With

Arts organizations with a public art mandate
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Foreign cultural institutes and embassies
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City cultural affairs offices
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The Exchange

What you contribute
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Selected artist from your city or program
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Local context, research, and relationship support
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Partner institution introduction
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Local production support during the partnership year
What you receive
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Baltimore residency placement for your artist
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Public commission delivered in Baltimore
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Co-curated programming and public engagement
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Documentation, press, and exhibition rights for use in your city
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Network access and future Nosreme exchange cohorts 
Current Partnership

Baltimore-Rotterdam Art Bridge

Our inaugural international partner is [Rotterdam organization placeholder] in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Our 2026 exchange pairs Baltimore artist kolpeace with Rotterdam artist Naomi King on the Baltimore Black Sox mural project.

See the current partnership →

Our Process

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We meet
Initial conversation — typically 30–60 minutes via video. We learn about your organization, your artists, and your goals. You learn about Nosreme and how we work.
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We co-design
If there's mutual interest, we move into a 4–8 week scoping period. Together we draft a partnership memorandum: artist selection process, timeline, budget split, and outcomes.
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We commit
Signed partnership agreement, public announcement, artist selection begins, and the residency season starts.

What We're Looking For in 2027 and Beyond

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Why This Model

The history of international artistic exchange has, for most of the last century, flowed in one direction — American artists abroad, finding in other cultures the creative and social conditions that allowed them to do their work. Josephine Baker in Paris. James Baldwin in Istanbul. Lois Mailou Jones in Haiti. Augusta Savage in Paris. That history produced extraordinary work. It also reflected what wasn't possible at home.

Nosreme is built to reverse the direction. We bring international artists to Baltimore — not as guests, but as peers — and we pair them with Baltimore artists in collaborations that belong to both cities. Our partnerships are structured so that the artist your organization sends receives real residency infrastructure in Baltimore (housing, studio, community, commission) and so that your organization gets documented cultural production, exhibition rights, and a standing collaborator for future cohorts.

This is the case we're making. We welcome partners who share it.

Partnership Prospectus

Download our 2-page Residency Partnership Prospectus to share with your director or board.

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START A COMMISSION

Bring us in early.

If your organization is interested, the next step is a conversation. Use the form below and we'll respond within a week to set up an initial scoping conversation with your project team.