This Week: Globe Poster Story screening at MICA; opening reception for Randi Reiss-McCormack + Karen Klinedinst at Goucher galleries; Jeffrey Gibson lectures at the Bloomberg Center; Baltimore Clayworks Winterfest Preview Party; Madyha Leghari, Ghazal Mojtahedi, and Bao Nguyen in conversation with Tae Hwang at Creative Alliance; Sweaty Eyeballs: Sweaty Everything closing reception at Area 405; Flaunt AVAM Extravaganza; BMA Ball After Party; opening reception for Krista Gay at CCCC’s Outpost; Tea with Myrtis featuring Lavett Ballard; Sheila Crider opening reception + artist talk at UMGC — PLUS YNot Lot honorarium and more featured opportunities!
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See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story World Premiere
Wednesday, November 11 :: 7pm
@ MICA Falvey Hall
See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story explores the legacy of Baltimore’s Globe Poster and its impact on popular culture, music, and design.
Celebrate the world premiere of See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story. Filmmakers John Lewis and Rei Perri have captured the legacy of Globe Poster through interviews with famous music artists who commissioned these iconic posters, the printers who brought them to life, and those carrying its legacy forward at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Bobby Rush, John Waters, Solomon Burke, Chuck Brown, Wayne Coyne, Rosa Pryor, Ellen Lupton, and more talk about Globe’s impact on popular culture and the American visual landscape.
Screening is approximately 1 hour. Doors open at 6:30. Film screening at 7pm.
Before the screening, Super Fan ticket holders will have an early opportunity to shop posters from the Cicero Archives. Read below for more about the Super Fan ticket.
Following the premiere of See It Loud, you are invited to take advantage of a unique opportunity to shop original Globe posters from the Cicero Archives and view the exhibition, GlobePosters for the People in MICA’s Pinkard Gallery.
Fables, Foibles and Fallacies | Opening Reception
Thursday, November 12 :: 4-8pm
@ Goucher College Silber Gallery
Silber Gallery, November 12, 2026 – January 22, 2027
Goucher College Art Galleries presents Fables, Foibles and Fallacies: An Interactive Exhibition of the Senses, an immersive exhibition by mixed-media artist Randi Reiss-McCormack that brings together painting, sculpture, textiles, sound, and interactive technology. Extending painting beyond the wall, Reiss-McCormack transforms the gallery into a tactile, responsive environment in which visitors become active participants in the work.
Rooted in memory, intuition, and collective craft traditions, Reiss-McCormack’s practice explores the relationships between material, perception, and personal and shared narratives. The exhibition features large-scale mixed-media paintings and sculpture alongside two immersive installations that invite audiences to experience the work through touch, movement, and sound.
At the center of the exhibition is Interlude for a Stroll, an environment of oversized fiber-tufted forms intertwined with crochet, beads, and tactile sculptural elements. A 3D camera senses visitors’ movement through the installation, translating their collective presence through a generative sound system into an evolving composition of sounds drawn from the living and mechanical worlds. As audiences move through the space, they continually reshape its sensory environment.
A second installation, Magical Thinking, explores personal and collective myth through over-life-size textile forms and an interactive, touchable prayer wheel. Throughout the exhibition, hand-sized textile spheres encourage tactile exploration, while braille-inscribed beads incorporate tactile language directly into the artwork.
Phenology of Light: Ephemeral/Ephemerals | Opening Reception
Thursday, November 12 :: 4-8pm
@ Goucher College Rosenberg Gallery
Rosenberg Gallery, November 12, 2026 – January 22, 2027
Goucher College’s Rosenberg Gallery presents Phenology of Light: Ephemeral/Ephemerals, a solo exhibition by Maryland-based artist Karen Klinedinst. Featuring large-scale cyanolumen prints created with native spring ephemerals, the exhibition explores grief, renewal, memory, and the fleeting cycles of the natural world.
Klinedinst is a visual artist exploring place, our relationship with nature, and the environmental impact we have on the world around us. Working across digital, analog, and alternative photographic processes, she creates images that consider time, memory, and impermanence.
Walking has always been essential to Klinedinst’s creative process. Since the death of her husband in 2022, it has also become a vital means of processing grief. Each spring, she walks in search of signs of life after a long, dark winter, collecting native ephemerals such as Bloodroot, Dutchman’s Breeches, and Virginia Bluebells as they briefly emerge from the forest floor. Their annual cycle of emergence, disappearance, and return mirrors her own journey through grief and into new life.
Sam Gilliam Lecture Series: Jeffrey Gibson
Thursday, November 12 :: 5pm
@ Hopkins Bloomberg Center
This lecture series welcomes prominent artists and thinkers to reflect on the intersections between art, academia, and public policy.
Join the Hopkins Bloomberg Center for the next installment of the Sam Gilliam Lecture Series featuring Jeffrey Gibson.
A multidisciplinary Indigenous American artist who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw and is of Cherokee heritage, Gibson is renowned for blending Indigenous and Western traditions across painting, installation, video, and performance. In 2024, he became the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo presentation at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Through his vibrant practice, Gibson explores identity, community, and the vitality of Indigenous cultures.
A fireside chat following the Sam Gilliam Lecture will be moderated by Melissa Walls, a scholar of Couchiching First Nation and Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe heritage, a Bloomberg Associate Professor of American Health, and the co-director of the Center for Indigenous Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Thursday, November 12 :: 6:30-8:30pm
@ Baltimore Clayworks
The Winterfest Preview Party on November 12 is your festive, ticketed kickoff to the season — and your only chance to experience Winterfest before anyone else. You’ll enjoy first access to the Winterfest 2026 Exhibition, our nationally curated invitational featuring leading contemporary ceramic artists, as well as early entry to the Winterfest Holiday Market, where local and associated artists offer a wide range of work.
During the Preview Party, you can explore the galleries at your own pace, connect with fellow supporters and ceramics lovers, and purchase work from both the exhibition and the market before Winterfest opens to the public. Every piece is available for same‑day purchase and pickup, giving you the rare opportunity to secure your favorite works — from high‑caliber exhibition pieces to locally made treasures — all in one evening.
Momentum Award Conversation: Madyha Leghari, Ghazal Mojtahedi, and Bao Nguyen
Thursday, November 12 :: 6:30-8pm
@ Creative Alliance
The Baltimore Banner called the Patricia Massey Momentum Award Exhibition (PMMA) work that is “personal, material and unafraid of memory” and we think that says it all. Join us as one of our PMMA jurors, and moderator, Tae Hwang sits down with Madyha Leghari, Ghazal Mojtahedi, and Bao Nguyen to talk about their practices, their processes, and the experiences behind the work on view. Come and hear about it in their own words.
Sweaty Eyeballs: Sweaty Everything | Closing Reception
Friday, November 13 :: 5-9pm
@ Area 405
AREA 405 and Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival presents the exhibition Sweaty Eyeballs: Sweaty Everything, on view from October 9 to November 13, 2026. Curated by Baltimore-based artist collective Animation Love Affair, this exhibition celebrates the animators’ point of view—
When our ancestors painted in caves, they were interested in bodies in motion: charcoal deer raised and lowered their heads, herds of buffalo raced across walls in flickering firelight, hands crested high like a wave. Humans ran and danced, many-limbed. In 2015, Paleolithic researchers Marc Azéma & Florent Rivère speculated that these images served as an early form of cinema, entertaining and educating sleepy hunter-gatherers through allegory and observation. These proto-animators were able to capture life and narrative—their images breathing, performing, changing from moment to moment as the light did.
Alongside Sweaty Eyeballs’ 14th year as Baltimore’s premier animation festival, Sweaty Everything asks us to think of animation as a perspective rather than a medium. When looking at the world, we have an instinct to imagine its life: the ways in which the beings in it interact and move. A narrative emerges, a history. As animators, we see ourselves and our point of view reflected in other artforms. We push upon the walls of our medium, inviting others to expand our realm of possibility. There’s human behavior that connects all of this—sequence, story keeping, embodiment.
Flaunt: Werk of Art, an AVAM Extravaganza
Friday, November 13 :: 7pm
@ American Visionary Art Museum
Sashay over to AVAM’s Jim Rouse Visionary Center for a fashion-forward fling inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks! Join some of the most talented queens to unpack the artistry behind drag performance–from make up, hair, and the elaborate outfits—during this must-attend event.
Suggested Attire: Show Your Sass! Slip into your sauciest ensemble for a night of dance, dazzle, and high drama. Don’t be shy—this is your moment to flaunt your fiercest look!
Enjoy a night of flaunt-abulous fun, presented in partnership with Innova Talent Agency and SADBrunch, and all in support of your favorite museum… AVAM!
Saturday, November 14 :: 9pm-Midnight
@ The Baltimore Museum of Art
Join us for an incredible evening highlighting the power of art and artists in Baltimore, Maryland, and beyond.
The BMA Ball brings together artists, philanthropists, collectors, and civic leaders for spectacular celebration honoring some of the world’s most influential visionaries while enjoying an elegant dinner surrounded by iconic works spanning 5,000 years of human creativity.
This year, we proudly recognize Elissa Blount Moorhead, multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Lalibela, who works tirelessly to ignite creativity and community in Baltimore; Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, renowned poet and president of the Mellon Foundation, who has been a champion of arts and cultural experiences within Baltimore and beyond; Julie Mehretu, a groundbreaking global artist whose dynamic works capture the complexity, movement, and interconnectedness of our world; and the incomparable Joyce J. Scott, a lifelong Baltimorean whose virtuosic artistry in every medium helps build community in her hometown.
The evening also marks the opening of the new Anne and Ben Cone Galleries and the debut of Speaking Across Languages: Global Modernisms in the 20th Century, which highlights the movement of people, ideas, and artistic influences across borders with a stunning array of artworks—many shown for the first time.
More than a gala, the BMA Ball is a rare opportunity to be part of a defining cultural moment. Your presence on this unforgettable night will help amplify and champion the transformative power of art and the extraordinary artists who make Baltimore, and the world, more vibrant, connected, and inspired.
Krista Gay: The Tips of My Grandmother’s Finger Itch When I Say Her Name
Sunday, November 15:: 1-3pm
@ The Outpost at The Last Resort Artist Retreat
A collection of new works by Krista Gay, first shown at Sinkhole (NYC) that move through the intimate terrain of family archives, memory, and inherited presence. Drawing from photographs passed down through generations, Gay approaches the archive not as a fixed record but as a living, unstable site—shaped as much by absence and sensation as by what remains visible. Similarly, within this presentation the images purposefully evade your gaze, as elusive as their subjects, inviting a choreography of curiosity.
Images from her family’s archive are recontextualized, layered, and translated into new forms that resist straightforward documentation. Faces blur, information partially dissolves, and moments hover between clarity and erasure. Rather than tracing lineage through a linear narrative, the work meditates on how memory persists unevenly—through gesture, repetition, speculation, and longing. The exhibition’s title suggests an embodied kind of memory: a physical sensation triggered by invocation rather than direct experience. To speak a name is to activate a presence that exists between the living and the absent. Throughout the works, Gay attends to the tension between what can be seen and what must be felt, allowing images to become thresholds where personal memory meets collective inheritance.
Time in this body of work is folded rather than forward-moving, allowing multiple generations to occupy the same visual and emotional space. The repetition of forms points to the quiet persistence of familial patterns, while gaps within the archive register what has been lost to forgetting and silence.Through acts of re-seeing and re-making, The Tips of My Grandmother’s Finger Itch When I Say Her Name traces a lineage not only of images, but of feeling—revealing how memory survives as fragments and echo across generations.
Please RSVP to join us at the opening reception, November 15, 2026 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Organized by Alyssa Alexander and on view through January 2027.
Sunday, November 15:: 2:30-4pm
@ Galerie Myrtis
Tea with Myrtis is an ongoing series of intimate art salons featuring lively conversations with contemporary artists, collectors, and leading arts professionals. Guests enjoy a selection of teas and delectable treats while exploring the ideas and trends shaping contemporary art.
This special edition brings artist Lavett Ballard together with gallerist, curator, and art advisor Dr. Myrtis Bedolla for a conversation presented in conjunction with Lavett Ballard: a Rose is a Rose is a Rose. Experience the exhibition through the artist and curator’s perspectives as they share behind-the-scenes stories and explore the ideas and connections that shaped Ballard’s Grand Staircase installation.
Before or after the program, guests are invited to have a keepsake portrait taken by a professional photographer within the installation. Tickets include light refreshments with specialty tea and one keepsake portrait experience.
Presented by UPMC and UPMC Health Plan.
Sunday, November 15 :: 3-5pm
@ UMGC Arts Program Gallery
An independent artist based in Maryland, Sheila Crider began her career working with paper. This exhibition will focus on her fiber and painted canvas works, which provide a unique approach to the language of abstraction. Crider has received many grants, commissions, and awards, including Individual Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and residency fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Leighton Artist Studios at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada.
Please join the UMGC community for the opening reception and an artist talk, moderated by Leslie King Hammond, PhD, professor emerita, Maryland Institute College of Art.
Featured Opportunities
Nominations are Open for the 4th Annual Mac MacLure Spirit of Leadership Award
deadline November 24
posted by The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation (RWDF) and Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP)
Nominations are now open! The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and Central Baltimore Partnership are proud to announce the Fourth Annual Mac MacLure Spirit of Leadership Award — a $25,000 unrestricted award recognizing an exceptional community leader making a lasting difference in Central Baltimore.
Named in honor of Laurens “Mac” MacLure, a longtime Robert W. Deutsch Foundation staff member and beloved member of the Central Baltimore community, this award celebrates the kind of leadership that makes communities stronger: quiet, effective, collaborative, and grounded in integrity, empathy, and a genuine commitment to others. They are seeking someone whose work reflects these values and advances a more equitable, thriving community. The award is completely unrestricted, giving the recipient the freedom to pursue personal or professional goals, invest in a vision, or support a cause or organization they believe in.
Previous recipients include CJay Philip of Dance and BMore, Crystal Forman of Holistic Wellness and Health, and Jeffrey Griffin of the Franciscan Center.
Women Artist’s 2026 Art Competition
deadline November 24
posted by Fusion Art
Fusion Art is once again celebrating women artists with its 35th quarterly online art competition. For the Women Artist’s 2026 art competition, the gallery invites both 2D and 3D women artists, only, to submit their best artwork, regardless of their location or their experience or education in the art field.
Historically women artists have not received the respect and recognition that their talent deserves. Fusion Art wants to honor the greatness and talent of women artists. This is an international open competition so any subject matter and any media is acceptable. The work can range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all women artists, over the age of 18, are encouraged to submit their best representational and/or abstract in any media.
Call for Entries – Towson Courthouse: Celebration
deadline November 27
posted by Towson Arts Collective
Exhibit your work on the walls of the Old Towson Courthouse Art on Tour Program. The curation of this exhibit will be a focus on Celebrations. Celebration invites artists to explore the moments, traditions, people, and experiences that bring us joy. From holiday festivities and seasonal beauty to personal milestones, cultural traditions, and the simple pleasures of everyday life, we welcome work that captures the many ways we celebrate life and community. This does not exclude abstract works but is limited to wall hangings.
Ynot Lot: Art at Large Honorarium
deadline November 30
posted by Station North Arts District
Are you a talented performer, artist, or event organizer? Bring your creativity, community and innovation to the Ynot Lot!
Station North Arts District is thrilled to announce a new an honorarium series for the second half of our 2026.
Honorees will receive:
1. $250 honorarium for their event at Ynot Lot
2. Fully subsidized rental rates for your event (space and access to our gear library)
3. Promotional support from Station North Arts District
Juried Exhibition Grant Program | Art of Water and Waterways
deadline November 30
posted by DC Commission on Arts and Humanities
Juried Exhibition Grant Program
Art of Water and Waterways
The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) requests applications from qualified artists for its Fiscal Year 2027 Juried Exhibition Grant (JEG). JEG provides support for District-based artists to exhibit their work in a juried, themed visual art exhibition through grant awards and the use of CAH’s exhibition space located in the lobby of 200 I Street, SE (“Gallery”).
In a city defined (and divided) by its rivers, water functions not only as a natural force but also as a cultural one. This Request for Applications (RFA) seeks works for an exhibition that will bring together DC-resident artists whose work engages water and waterways as sites of stewardship, displacement, spiritual reflection, environmental injustice, recreation, adventure, and collective futures. CAH welcomes work that approaches water as subject, collaborator, force, or framework, expanding the conversation around how contemporary art can deepen public engagement with our shared ecosystem.
Of special interest are works about the Anacostia watershed, the Chesapeake region, and the many human and ecological communities shaped by our local waterways. Artists may also wish to engage with local, national and/or global tidal flows, stormwater systems, Indigenous water knowledge, climate activism, and the lived experiences of residents who navigate both environmental risk and environmental beauty. Public programs will activate partnerships with scientists, policy advocates, and community groups, situating artistic practice within ongoing conversations about restoration, resilience, and access.
The Artist Studio Program
deadline December 1
posted by Smack Mellon
The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis of available affordable space for artists living and working in New York City. We provide six NYC-based early career artists with a free private studio space access to our shared production facilities, and a stipend (funding dependent). The program runs for an eleven-month period from the beginning of September to the beginning of August. The studios, accessible to the artists 24/7, are located on the lower level of our building at 92 Plymouth Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn and range in size from 250 to 300 square feet. The program does not provide living space.
This Memory: Textiles Competition
deadline December 4
posted by The Responsa Foundation
The Responsa Foundation is dedicated to championing projects that create meaningful social impact and foster public engagement. For this open call, we are specifically seeking textile artists to submit work for This Memory, a group exhibition taking place in September 2027 at Burgh House in Hampstead.
Textiles hold memories. Through touch, making and use, fabric can carry our thoughts, emotions and personal histories. It is woven into everyday life – from the clothes we wear and the beds we sleep in, to the objects we keep and pass on to the next generation. Textiles can hold traces of people, places, rituals and experiences.
We invite you to explore how cloth carries these stories, often linking us to previous generations. Whether your practice is rooted in traditional craftsmanship or experimental textiles mixed media, we welcome your application.
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