This Week: MICA Grad Show IV reception, BMA Violet Hour, Chesapeake Arts Center 25th Anniversary celebration, Creative Mornings with Jeffrey Kent, Inconspicuous Interference opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Faith & Hope McCorkle closing + zine release at Creative Alliance, Tangential Realities group exhibition opening at Connect + Collect, Great Blacks in Wax street fair, 410Fest at Baltimore Center Stage, Stephanie Mercedes performance at The Walters, Trust the Paint opening reception at The Peale, closing reception for Nicholas Wisniewski and Bradley Milligan at Red Giant, Hamilton Gallery’s final reception, Joseph Sheppard’s opening reception at UMGC, and performances at The Compound — PLUS summer volunteer opportunities with AIA Baltimore and more featured opportunities!
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Tuesday, June 23 :: 5-7m
@ MICA Riggs & Leidy Galleries
MICA Grad Show 2026 features the work of the College’s MFA and MA students across 14 internationally renowned graduate programs. Several exhibitions and events highlight a wide range of student work. In collaboration with the Office of Graduate Studies, the programs host exhibition receptions, screenings, and public programs celebrating the ability of these students to harness art’s power to disrupt, awaken, and inspire.
MICA Grad Show IV showcases the student work of our Studio Art, MFA program. The exhibit is on view in our Riggs & Leidy Galleries (Lazarus Center, Floor 1 + Lower level) from June 23 – July 13, 2026. Join us for a reception Tuesday, June 23rd from 5:00-7:00pm.
Please see mica.edu/gradshow for a complete schedule of exhibitions, receptions, film screenings, public programs, and student-curated installations throughout Baltimore City.
BMA Violet Hour: The Evening Ritual Listening Experience
Thursday, June 25 :: 5:30-8:30pm
@ Baltimore Museum of Art
Join us for a special BMA Violet Hour edition of The Evening Ritual at the BMA. This experience invites guests to disconnect from the algorithm, relax, and engage fully with music in the beautiful setting of the BMA Sculpture Gardens.
The evening begins with a curated soundtrack of music inspired by a featured album as guests find their perfect space and socialize with others. As we unfold into the evening, the host, Basement Selector, will give a brief introduction to the Ritual, the practice of active listening with a background and history of the artist and album.
The album is then presented and played on vinyl, uninterrupted, in hi-fidelity sound. Guests quietly listen in community as the album plays. Immediately following the record, guests have an opportunity to reflect, discuss, and share stories related to their experience. We invite you to join the Ritual with us.
Legacy & Light: Chesapeake Arts Center’s 25th Anniversary Exhibitions | Reception
Thursday, June 25 :: 6-8pm
@ Chesapeake Arts Center
As part of the Chesapeake Arts Center’s 25th Anniversary celebration, Legacy & Light honors the artists, stories, and creative vision that have shaped CAC over the past quarter century—while looking ahead to the next generation of artistic expression.
This special anniversary exhibition brings together past CAC artists working in a wide range of disciplines, including oil, photography, ceramics, woodworking, textiles, mixed media, watercolor, and acrylic. These works reflect the depth, diversity, and lasting impact of the artistic community that has grown alongside CAC since its founding in 2001.
In contrast and conversation with these works, the Light Exhibition, offering a contemporary and immersive experience that represents innovation, experimentation, and the evolving future of the arts at CAC.
Connecting the two galleries, visitors will experience a curated display of Chesapeake Arts Center history, featuring archival photographs, posters, playbills, and a timeline highlighting major milestones from the past 25 years. This historical installation recognizes the founders, long-time staff, artists, and supporters whose dedication and vision helped build CAC into the vibrant cultural center it is today.
Legacy & Light is both a celebration and a reflection—an invitation to honor where we’ve been, celebrate who we are, and imagine what’s next.
Creative Mornings: Jeffrey Kent
Friday, June 26 :: 8:30-10am
@ Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Jeffrey Kent is a Baltimore-based American multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, collage, drawing, installation, object-making, moving image, and performance. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Baltimore City’s Park Heights Belvedere neighborhood, Kent grew up undiagnosed with dyslexia, an experience that created profound insecurities during his youth and contributed to a series of difficult and often dark paths before ultimately leading him toward becoming an artist. This lived experience continues to inform his use of language, material, and structure, including his recurring use of mirror-image reverse text as both a formal and psychological device rooted in perception, memory, and navigation. His artwork resides in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the National Academy of Sciences, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and other public and private collections.
8:30a Doors open! Breakfast from blacksauce, Wight Tea Co, and Black Acres Roastery! Chit chat! Community Building!
9:00a Program starts
9:10a Jeffrey’s talk!
9:30a Q&A
10:00a Have a great Balti-morning!
Inconspicuous Interference | Opening Reception
Friday, June 26 :: 5-8pm
@ Baltimore Jewelry Center
Join us in the gallery from 5-8pm on Friday, June 26 for the opening reception for Inconspicuous Interference!
When so much of our material environment is made in far-distant factories, intended
to be quickly discarded, craft acts as an inflection point and interrupts this mindless
cycle of consumption. Through the thoughtful making, repair, and use of objects, we
are presented with an opportunity to re-shape the world we live in, both in the broader
communities and economies to which we contribute and in the microcosm of our own
daily lives. Hand-crafted objects that are carried on the body hold the potential to serve
as both personal talismans and tools for social and political change. In Inconspicuous
Interference, the Baltimore Jewelry Center presents small artworks that investigate the
role of objects carried on the body as instruments for resistance, protest, and change.
Participating artists include: Adam Atkinson, Elisa DeLorme, Shaunia Grant,
Oi Ying Valerie Ho, Hyue Huang, Allison Jefferies, Maria Konschake, Callisa Lawn, Rikke
Lunnemann, Meredith Moore, Bridget Parlato, Mary Raivel, Jess Tolbert, and Carrie Yodanis.
Pictured: artwork by Adam Atkinson
You Can Always Come Back Home | Exhibition Closing + Zine Release Celebration
Friday, June 26 :: 6-9pm
@ Creative Alliance
Please join us for the closing of You Can Always Come Back Home and the celebration of the release of Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief! Culminating all of the themes embedded in Hope & Faith’s work, this community zine features works from the Baltimore community to underscore the collective consciousness in our means to transcend and move through grief as Black bodies. Designed by Blackberry Zine Collective, the zine features works from:
Michele Blu
Lynore Routte
Tavair Tapp
Jordan Carter
Lehna Huie
Muse Dodd
Dez Thaniel
Unique The Word
Phillip Muriel
Jade Flower Foster
Rest Easy Bby
Vetiver
Amaka Korie
Damon Walker
Mathilde Mujanayi
Troy LaShawan Norris
Chin-Yer
Sanah Brown-Bowers
Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief is a community zine and collaborative portal into the spiritual and esoteric landscapes of Black grief, healing, and transformation. Curated by Hope & Faith McCorkle and designed by Blackberry Zine Collective, this publication gathers sacred narratives from Black artists in the Baltimore region, offering a layered exploration of how loss is navigated, alchemized, and transformed through creative practice.
Metaphysics, the study of existence beyond the physical, guides the spirit of the zine. It considers how unseen forces such as memory, spirit, and ancestral wisdom shape the Black experience and live within everyday rituals of survival, care, and creation. Through testimonies, intimate documentation of artworks, poetry, reflections, and process imagery, contributors manifest the metaphysical by channeling their stories onto each page. Each spread becomes a vessel and conversation for spiritual restoration, holding space for what cannot be easily named yet is deeply felt.
By exploring the profound ways Black artists use creation as both sanctuary and catalyst for transformation, Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief affirms that healing through grief is not bound by time. It lives on these pages and in the hands of the community as an ongoing journey held gently in our shared existence.
Zines are free, and this event is open to the public. One zine per person, and you must be present to receive it.
This event is supported in part by GritFund, CreateBaltimore, and the City of Baltimore.
Tangential Realities | Opening Reception
Friday, June 26 :: 6-8pm
@ Connect + Collect
Join us on Friday, June 26, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the BmoreArtConnect+Collect Gallery for the opening of Tangential Realities, featuring works by Rashida Bumbray, Red Rae, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, and Ada Pinkston.Tangental Realities unites four artists who root their practices in recognizable reality before venturing into the speculative, the utopian, and the unknown. Organized with Alex Ebstein, the exhibition highlights recipients of the Rubys Artist Grant — a program dedicated to nurturing innovative new work in the Baltimore region — whose practices take the everyday as a point of departure and transform it into the unexpected, mapping the terrain between what is and what could be.
Bumbray’s multidisciplinary practice channels family history and traditions into meditations on community, memory, and the ritual dimensions of movement. Red Rae, a multimedia artist and performer, imbues their projects with hopeful prompts while examining ideas of perception and transformation through the lens of trans futurity. Hertzler creates hybrid documentary films shaped by her background in psychology, fine arts, and the American South, exploring interpersonal relationships, isolated landscapes, and the symptoms of the climate crisis — works that collapse real and imagined time into a single, haunted frame. Pinkston’s practice explores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies, using performance, digital media, and mixed-media installations to conjure spaces where architecture, memory, and identity are inseparable. Alex Ebstein is an artist, curator, and the Senior Program Manager of the Rubys Artist Grants.
The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum’s Annual “Voices of History” Street Fair
Saturday, June 27 :: 11am-6pm
@ 1601-1649 East North Avenue
The Street Fair is more than a festival; it’s a celebration of Black history, community resilience, and the power of collective healing through arts and culture. The Street Fair started in 2015 as the end-of-year celebration for the Growing Griots Literacy Learning Program, a long-time initiative supported by the museum. Over the years, it has grown into a yearly celebration honoring Juneteenth, Pinkster, and the Museum’s anniversary, highlighting the creativity, wellness, and resilience of Baltimore’s Black communities. This year, TEACH, DiscoverMe/RecoverMe, and Growing Griots serve as lead partners, providing programs and resources that engage attendees of all ages.
Saturday, June 27 :: 11:30am-7pm
@ Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore Center Stage is proud to present the second annual 410Fest! An all-day celebration of THREE NEW PLAYS written here, in our city! Our festival of new works will present three readings of plays written by the second cohort of Lab410 playwrights-in-residence. Join us for a day filled with food, fun, and storytelling as we celebrate our playwrights and the new plays they’ve developed with us this season!
Velvet Rage (Act 2) by Stephanie Mercedes
Saturday, June 27 :: 1-4pm
@ The Walters Art Museum
On Saturday, June 27, Mercedes will perform Act 2 of Velvet Rage at the Walters. In Act 2, queer opera singers, dancers, sound designers and percussionists will be scattered through the museum, hammering bullets into bells, using sounds and forms created in Act I and responding to the artist’s work commissioned by the Walters, We Were Treated Like Numbers Rather Than Stars (2025), now on view in the atrium of the Centre Street building.
Trust The Paint | Opening Reception
Saturday, June 27 :: 2pm
@ The Peale
Join us at The Peale to celebrate the opening of Francine Halvorsen’s solo exhibition, Trust the Paint: Paintings, Works on Paper.
Be one of the first to experience Trust the Paint: Paintings, Works on Paper, a new exhibition by artist Francine Halvorsen, brought to you by The Peale.
On Saturday, June 27th, join us for light refreshments, engaging conversation, and a chance to meet the artist of this new exhibition..
Francine Halvorsen on her works:
“I want to canvas to be a place of convergence of the source of light and the habitable present. A clearing, a breathing space where each viewing is a new and direct experience. I make paintings not as signs but places”.
Join us at the Opening Reception for the first of many visits to Trust the Paint, each visit offers a new experience with the works.
Bradley Milligan and Nicholas Wisniewski: Shoring | Closing Reception
Saturday, June 27 :: 6-8pm
@ Red Giant
Saturday, 6/27, 6-8pm: Please join us to celebrate at the closing reception of ‘Shoring,’ a show where Nicholas Wisniewski and Bradley Milligan push the gallery’s physical limits with Milligan’s full size minivan made from scrap wood and Wisniewski’s intricate carvings of beloved Baltimore addresses, viewed through openings cut into the exterior wall. Together, they share how structures and vehicles offer the means to build artistic community. Here’s to many more projects that do just that.
Hamilton Gallery Final Reception
Sunday, June 28 :: 1-3pm
@ Hamilton Gallery
Hamilton Gallery | Hamilton Arts Collective is celebrating 20+ years of hosting arts events at 5502 Harford Road, Hamilton, Baltimore, MD.
Hamilton Gallery will cease operations and close on June 30, 2026.
It has been a great run!
Thank you for your patronage.
We do not have plans to reopen at this time. If things change we will let everyone know.
Sincerely, Hamilton Arts Collective Board of Directors and artist members.
Sunday, June 28 :: 3-5pm
@ Leroy Merritt Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard
Join the UMGC Arts Program and acclaimed artist Joseph Sheppard for the opening reception of this new exhibition, which explores Sheppard’s talent as a draftsman and painter. The drawings featured in the exhibition were completed over the past six decades of Sheppard’s remarkable career. Some showcase the artist’s love of anatomy, while others depict full cultural experiences. All reflect Sheppard’s mastery of the medium.
Archives are Under the Table: Performance & Screening
Sunday, June 28 :: 5pm
@ The Compound
Featuring theatrical performance and live collaborations by Claire Alrich, edgy body movement performance by Anh Vo, and film screening of ‘Foot Stretcher” by Inbar Hagai
In this chapter, the archive refuses containment. It slips off the table, dispersing into movement, sound, and embodied encounter. Rather than a site of preservation, the archive becomes a live circuitry—activated, distorted, and redistributed across bodies, space, and time. Claire Alrich’s theatrical participatory performance unfolds as a through-space fabric embodiment, treating the body as both carrier and rupture of recorded experience. Anh Vo will carry megaphones over the queue barriers’ obstructions, leading to a reckoning with the invisible power that looms over us and penetrates our very flesh.The screening of Foot Stretcher by Inbar Hagai extends this logic into a durational, intimate discipline: a year-long, near-impossible attempt to become a ballerina, where the body is subjected to regimes of aspiration, failure, and transformation. The archive here is a force that molds—stretching flesh, rehearsing desire, and exposing the violence embedded in ideals of form.
Featured Opportunities
Call for Volunteers for Morgan State Design Camp
posted by AIA Baltimore
AIA Baltimore’s Future Architects Resources Committee is looking for volunteers to participate in a “Day in the Life of an Architect” Panel and design activity for the 2026 Summer Design Camp at Morgan State University. This camp for local K12 students is run by Dean of the Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), Abimbola Asojo.
We are searching for panelists with design careers (not limited to architecture) to share what they do in a typical day, why they decided to pursue architecture/design work, and what they find most fun about their job. Panelists will also help lead a fun design exercise with the campers.
Where: CBEIS Building at Morgan State University
When: Wednesday July 1 from 1-3 pm
Bmore NOMA’s Project Pipeline Seeking Volunteers
posted by AIA Baltimore
The 2026 Baltimore Architecture Summer Camp is a 2-day camp for middle school students. The camp is designed to expose youth to the built environment and architectural profession. As one of the few initiatives in the nation connecting youth and architecture, the camp introduces youth to the people, professions, and ideas that make up the architecture and design profession. Please fill out the form to have your student on our list for this years camp. If you have any questions about Project Pipeline, please contact [email protected].
Tell Me BaltiMORE: Help us write a song about (greater) Baltimore!
posted by Late Bloomers
Hello! We (Allie Lamb and Jerome Goosman) are Late Bloomers, a country-folk duo from Nashville. We have had the pleasure of performing in the greater Baltimore area for the past few summers and will play our very first ticketed “headline” show in Monkton this August.
Please take just a few minutes to “co-write” a song with us by responding to the following quick questions.
AlterWork Residency Program
deadline June 30
This residency was designed to allow emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. Artists may submit a proposal of how they intend to utilize the space as a studio to create new work or a specific project. The residency will culminate in a solo closing reception that is promoted across our extensive network. Proposals should have a contemporary art focus showing experimentation and career reach for the artist. We are especially interested in projects that involve conceptual art, practice or theory or involve the public in their creative process.
Program Goals: To offer support and space to artists and encourage them to experiment and explore their concepts amongst a community of artists as they move their work forward in the contemporary art world.
Eligibility: The residency is open to emerging artists from US or abroad.
Wassaic Project 2027 Artist Residencies
deadline July 1
The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. We nurture connections between our artists and our neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries. The Wassaic Project exists to provide a genuine and intimate context for art making and strengthening local community by increasing social and cultural capital through inspiration, promotion and creation of contemporary visual and performing art.
The Wassaic Project produces exhibitions, an arts education program, and a competitive residency program that brings artists and writers into the hamlet of Wassaic to live and work.
Arts & Agriculture Residencies
deadline July 6
posted by Pine Meadow Ranch Center
Our vision at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture (PMRCAA) is to connect sustainable agricultural practices, conservation, arts and sciences with traditional and contemporary crafts and skills integral to ranching life including: metal, glass, wood and leather work, ceramics, fibers and textiles, writing, painting and drawing, photography, film and music.
Efforts consist of offering a space where cultural practitioners, ecological scientists and creative thinkers can immerse themselves in their work and/or research through access to studios, open space, and beautiful scenery, working alongside PMRCAA staff, volunteers and community members to preserve the natural biosphere and historic buildings of the ranch for years to come.
At PMRCAA, we strive to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures to find creative solutions to unique challenges. We hope to serve as a platform that fosters the exchange of knowledge between creative people from in- and outside of Central Oregon.
Residents are asked to contribute to the ranch or the local community by helping around the ranch and/or by presenting a workshop or artist’s talk in the community. At the same time, residents are given time and space for their own artistic practice.
The Abstract Vision
deadline July 15
posted by SE Center for Photography
The SE Center for Photography is looking for non-representational imagery, though it can be from found objects in nature, man made or figurative works. We’re seeking images that do not attempt to represent external reality, but seek to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and texture. Black-and-white or color, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.
Nomad Art Prize
deadline July 30
The Nomad Art Prize is open to artists of all nationalities, aged 16 and above. Both emerging and established artists working in any visual medium are welcome to apply — painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, digital art, and mixed media are all accepted. There are no restrictions based on professional status or career stage.
“Nomad Art Prize” — Artists are invited to explore the concept of displacement, journey, and the tension between roots and movement. Works should engage with the idea of art as a living, traveling entity that transforms in relation to its surroundings. The theme is open to broad interpretation; conceptual, formal, and narrative approaches are all equally welcome.
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