Arts Every Day

Angela Koukoui is the Outreach Engagement Librarian at RLB Library and Archives at the University of Baltimore. Angela received an MLIS from the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and a BA in Integrated Arts from the University of Baltimore. After a career in communications finance, she founded her own community arts program to teach dance to Baltimore youth. Her choreography work has been showcased at the African American Festival (AFRAM), ArtScape, Baltimore Light City, and the Baltimore City Book Fair. Angela is co-director of the Community Archives Program for Inheritance Baltimore, which collaborates with Johns Hopkins University to preserve African American art and culture. She worked on the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising project at the Maryland Historical Society and curated the Baltimore Cultural Arts Program, 1964-1993 photography exhibit at UB in 2016. An updated version of The Baltimore Cultural Arts Program, 1964-1993, was featured as a digital exhibit in 2020. Currently, her curatorial work is part of an exhibition called, “All the Arts for All the people, The History of the Cultural Arts Program”, at the Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center.