This Week: Concentric Circles + Michael J. Iampieri opening receptions at Goucher’s Silber and Rosenberg Galleries, Built Objects at Library Nineteen, Making America Again public reception at MICA, Ben Egerman discusses “A Gay Little History of Maryland” at The Ivy Bookshop, Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly opening reception + artist panel at UMBC, Aquí Seguimos opening reception at Making Space Bmore, Baltimore Honky Tonk’s Dolly Parton tribute at Mobtown Ballroom, STATEMENT: Mahogany opening reception at Quid Nunc, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, and an opening reception for Ronald Jackson at Galerie Myrtis — PLUS apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship and more featured opportunities!
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image: William S. Dutterer, Mind Meld, Oil on canvas, 1986, 79 x 60.5 inches
Concentric Circles | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 4-8pm
@ Goucher College, Silber Gallery
September 3 – October 23, 2026
Concentric Circles is a group painting exhibition that places William S. Dutterer (1943–2007) at the center of an intergenerational story of painting, mentorship, and artistic influence. Bringing together works by Dutterer, his mentor Grace Hartigan, and artists Julia Stoops and Tom Kenyon, the exhibition examines how ideas, methods, and values move between artists and across generations.
A painter, draftsman, and influential educator, Dutterer developed a distinctive visual language that moved between abstraction and figuration. His work is characterized by bold forms, rigorous drawing, psychologically charged imagery, and an ongoing investigation of gesture, surface, symbol, and repetition. Resisting easy categorization, Dutterer absorbed the lessons of postwar abstraction while developing an increasingly personal and idiosyncratic approach to image-making.
Dutterer studied under Grace Hartigan, a major figure in postwar American painting and longtime director of the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later became an influential educator himself at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., where his teaching emphasized discipline, experimentation, observation, and fearlessness in the studio.
Rather than presenting influence as a straight line from teacher to student, Concentric Circles considers Dutterer as the center of an expanding network. The exhibition asks what artists truly inherit from one another: a style, a gesture, a way of seeing, a commitment to the work—or simply the permission to take risks.
Through these relationships, Concentric Circles offers an opportunity to reconsider Dutterer’s legacy as extending beyond the remarkable objects he created. Like circles expanding outward from a single point, an artist’s influence can travel through teachers, peers, students, and communities—and continue long after the artist is gone.
Curated by Caitlin Tucker-Melvin (Guest Curator) and Liz Faust. In partnership with the William S Dutterer Trust and Catalyst Contemporary.
Exhibitions Details:
- Opening Reception: September 3, 4–8 PM – Silber Gallery
- Lecture: Painting Process: Gesture, Surface, and Meaning, September 9, 5–6 PM – Hyman Forum
- Lecture: By Curator Caitlin-Tucker Melvin, October 10, 3–5 PM – Hyman Forum
- Closing Reception: October 23, 4–6 PM – Silber Gallery
Artists: William S. Dutterer, Grace Hartigan, Tom Kenyon, and Julia Stoops
Built Objects | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 5-8 pm
@ Library Nineteen
BUILT OBJECTS marks the first public presentation of REFERENCE: a collected view of material, form, utility, and experimentation across studios working in Baltimore and beyond. Join us for the opening of the showroom space within Library Nineteen.
Brought to you by @piklstudio@goodneighborshop and @cohere_co with curation by @koba.furniture / Poster design by @its.pronounced.astle and @navs.err
Michael J. Iampieri, Hoping to catch sight of what has never been seen
Michael J. Iampieri: Line into Form | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 4-8pm
@ Goucher College, Rosenberg Gallery
September 3 – October 23, 2026
Michael J. Iampieri: Line into Form marks the first exhibition dedicated to Baltimore artist and educator Michael J. Iampieri (1941–2024) since his passing. Spanning early works through drawings created near the end of his life, the exhibition traces more than five decades of sustained experimentation with the expressive possibilities of line.
For Iampieri, drawing was not simply preparation for something else—it was a complete and rigorous form of artistic thought. Lines merge, gather, and accumulate into shapes that hover between abstraction and suggestion. Some feel architectural or atmospheric; others carry an understated humor and playfulness. Throughout the work, Iampieri balances control with improvisation, allowing form to emerge through the act of drawing rather than imposing it in advance.
That immediacy also defined Iampieri’s remarkable engagement with Baltimore’s performing arts community. For more than three decades, he served as visual historian for the Baltimore Theatre Project, sketching thousands of performers while seated in the darkened theater (not included in the exhibition). He also drew performances at Center Stage, the Peabody Institute, Left Bank Jazz Society, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, using quick, intuitive marks to capture movement, gesture, and the fleeting experience of live performance.
Equally significant was Iampieri’s extraordinary legacy as an educator. After earning his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Catholic University of America and studying filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Iampieri joined Loyola Blakefield, where he founded the school’s Visual Art Department in 1966. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he introduced generations of students to drawing, photography, printmaking, filmmaking, and other forms of creative expression. His teaching emphasized observation, patience, curiosity, and the development of each student’s individual artistic voice.
Line into Form brings these interconnected aspects of Iampieri’s life together: artist, observer, teacher, and participant in Baltimore’s cultural community. Seen across decades, the drawings reveal a remarkable consistency of purpose. His marks are economical but never empty, capable of carrying movement, humor, restraint, and emotion with remarkably little.
The exhibition ultimately presents drawing as Iampieri understood it: a way of seeing, thinking, and being present. Individual marks gather into forms; moments accumulate into a practice; and a lifetime of looking becomes the portrait of an artist deeply attuned to the quiet power of creation.
Exhibitions Details:
- Opening Recepetion: September 3, 4–8 PM
Artists: Michael J. Iampieri
Monica Ikegwu, Open / Close (Diptych) 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches each. Courtesy of Dr. Myrtis Bedolla and Alex Hyman Collection
Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True | Public Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 5-7pm
@ MICA, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) will present Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True, an exhibition featuring work by a representative cohort of Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellows for Artists of Color (1985-99), whose careers have had a lasting impact on the contemporary art world. The exhibition runs August 28 to September 29, 2026, in the Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery at MICA’s Fred Lazarus IV Center, located at 131 W. North Ave. in Baltimore.
The Ford/Philip Morris initiative was the only program of its kind in the nation. Spearheaded by MICA and funded by the Ford Foundation and the Philip Morris Foundation, the initiative expanded to four additional independent art colleges—the Cranbrook Academy, the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale School of Art. Their combined effort enabled 200 artists of color to earn Master of Fine Arts degrees while providing the education, mentorship, and professional training needed to ensure they could become active contributors to the mainstream of American art and culture and beyond. The artists represent a variety of stylistic tendencies, and many are now prominent global forces in the art world with work in the collections of major museums.
Featured artists from the cohort include Candida Alvarez, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, and others. The exhibition also showcases work by artists who preceded the fellowship program, including Joyce J. Scott, Oletha DeVane and Lola Flash, as well as artists who came to MICA following the program, including Jerrell Gibbs, Monica Ikegwu, Jeffrey Kent, Amy Sherald and others.
The title of the exhibition—Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True—is inspired by Langston Hughes’ 1935 poem, Let America Be America Again, which contrasts the promise of the American Dream with the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities.
Dr. Leslie King Hammond and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims are guest curators for this exhibition. Dr. Hammond is the graduate dean emerita and founder of the former Center for Race and Culture at MICA. She also previously served as a senior fellow at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation in Baltimore. Dr. Sims is an independent curator and art historian and the curator emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design. In 2021–2022, she was the Kress Beinecke Professor at the Center, National Gallery of Art. She received an honorary degree from MICA in 1988.
The exhibition is free and open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A public reception will be held Thursday, Sept. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more information about the exhibition, visit mica.edu.
Ben Egerman: A Gay Little History of Maryland
Thursday, September 3 :: 6-7pm
@ The Ivy Bookshop
Picture this: A Baltimore librarian takes his research on Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history, presents it in a series of fundraisers at the Club Car cocktail bar, then turns it into a book with the help of Baltimore bookstore Red Emma’s!
From trans horse thieves in 19th century Baltimore to Southern Maryland’s 1960s secret gay getaway, these lovingly researched stories span 150 years and take place all across the state. The first book ever published on Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history, A Gay Little History of Maryland: Volume 1 proves that our state’s story is far less straight and narrow than you think.
We can’t wait for you to meet Ben Egerman, the librarian behind this project, at the Ivy on September 3rd.
Books will be available for sale at the event.
Ben Egerman is a public librarian, historian, and homosexual who has focused on local LGBTQ+ history research and education since 2018. Starting in 2025, Ben began turning his research into bite-sized, self-published zines, sold at local bookstores and at his popular “gay little history nights” at The Club Car, a queer bar and art gallery in Baltimore. In June 2026, working with Red Emma’s Bookstore, the first six of these zines were compiled together and published as volume one of a gay little history of Maryland.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Rowhomes, We Fly | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 6-8pm
@ UMBC CADVC
September 3, 6–8 pm
Opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with Shan Wallace, Kim Rice, Brianna Faulkner, and Jeffrey Kent.
Baltimore is a city of dreamers. The creative genius that pervades the region offers profound perspectives about the power of our collective imagination to transform our world. As the world grapples with myriad crises—forever wars, widespread economic insecurity, and threats against democracy—the artistic perspectives presented in Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, are radically optimistic about humanity’s ability to triumph over adversity. In the spirit of Duke Ellington, who regularly performed in jazz clubs on the historic strip of Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue and theorized that all creative practice is a form of dreaming, Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly invites audiences into a state of intentional, lucid, and restorative visioning.
This event is part of the exhibition Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, curated by Angela N. Carroll.
Aquí Seguimos: A Legacy of Love and a History of Resistance | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 6-9pm
@ Making Space More
A collaborative group exhibition honoring the connection between Mexican and Palestinian communities through contemporary art. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and performance, the exhibition explores cultural resilience, solidarity, and collective resistance.
Gallery Hours:
By appointment, plus all scheduled public programs.
Admission:
Free
Baltimore Honky Tonk Presents: A Dolly Parton Tribute Night
Thursday, September 3 :: 6:30pm
@ Mobtown Ballroom
Baltimore Honky Tonk is celebrating a true country music icon, the one and only Dolly Parton!
Join us at Mobtown Ballroom on Thursday September 3rd for a night of two-stepping, singing along, and honoring the songs that have brought so much joy (and honky tonk spirit) into our lives. Expect all your Dolly favorites: “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and more performed live by an incredible lineup of local vocalists and musicians.
Taking the mic for the night: Letitia VanSant and Talbot Mayo, joined by a rotating cast of guest vocalists ready to bring their own spin to the Dolly songbook.
Backing it all up, our house band:
Nick Kroll – Steel Guitar
Nick Norek – Electric Guitar
Chuck Navyac – Drums
Alex Lacquement – Bass
A portion of proceeds from the night will be donated to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which puts free books into the hands of kids across the country.
No matter your experience level, everyone is welcome on the dance floor. There will be a beginner friendly dance lesson at 6:45pm. Come dressed in your best rhinestones and western wear, and let’s honor the Queen of Country together!
A tribute to the one and only Dolly Parton
Live band + guest vocalists
Proceeds benefit Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
No partner or experience needed just bring your boots
Statement 2026: Mahogany – A Tribute to Diana Ross | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3 :: 7-9pm
@ Quid Nunc Gallery
Quid Nunc Art Gallery, in partnership with the Baltimore Met Gala, presents STATEMENT: Mahogany — A Tribute to Diana Ross, an exhibition celebrating the style, influence, glamour, and cultural legacy of an icon.
Join us throughout September to experience the exhibition and the artists’ interpretations of Mahogany.
On View: September 3–27
Opening Reception: September 3 | 7–9 PM
Wine Tasting: September 25 | 7–9 PM (Ticketed)
Closing Reception: September 27 | 3–5 PM
1007 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21213
If you caught a glimpse of the work at the Baltimore Met Gala, now’s your chance to experience the full exhibition at Quid Nunc.
Participating Artists:
Just Ro
The Groovy Vandal
Samad Onque
G. Pack
Serenity
Tyrone Wilkens
Alexis Brown
Aishwayra Chiara
Maurice Scarlett III
Mark West
Hassan Ayindé
Brianna Nave
Luther Wright
Sergio Neptuna
Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk
Friday, September 4 :: 5-9pm
@ Highlandtown Arts District
September’s First Friday Art Walk features 25+ galleries, shops and restaurants that teamed up with artists to create exhibits, performances, and pop-ups. This month check out a live artist painting demo, free beer tasting, improv shows, as well as karaoke and open jam sessions! Venue details coming soon…
The Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk is a free, self-guided walking tour of arts venues, exhibitions, performances, pop-up shops, and more! The neighborhood comes alive with incredible talent, vibrant vendors, and inspiring creations from local makers. Local businesses team up with DJs, musicians, and artists to turn the evening into a full-on celebration—come out, explore, get inspired, and be part of the fun!
Highlandtown hosts its Art Walk on the first Friday of every month, with the exception of January and July. Specific event details, such as participating venues and artists will be posted on our website: ihearthighlandtown.com and on our social media: @highlandtownarts on FB and IG.
Ronald Jackson: An American Fiction | Opening Reception
Saturday, September 5 :: 2-6pm
@ Galerie Myrtis
Galerie Myrtis is proud to present An American Fiction, a solo exhibition showcasing new paintings by Ronald Jackson. This presentation marks a compelling new chapter in Jackson’s ongoing exploration of identity, memory, and portraiture. The exhibit introduces a vibrant cast of characters drawn from a fictional narrative inspired by Percival Everett’s novel “Erasure,” alongside elements from its film adaptation directed by Cord Jefferson.
“Through detailed and cinematic titles, each figure is cast twice over: as a character holding a specific station in an untold narrative, and as a fictional actor playing the part. Some of these figures wear masks—a motif that has been central to my practice, suggesting that there is something to be discovered. I use the mask not to conceal, but to signal that a rich, unexcavated narrative exists beneath the surface. It asks the viewer to consider what lies beyond the visible role, prompting a question central to performance: are we admiring the superficial? Do we distinguish between the performer and the character being played? Do we recognize that there is likely a very different reality than the one being presented to us?“ – Ronald Jackson
An opening reception for An American Fiction will occur on Saturday, September 5th, from 2:00 – 6:00 pm. Registration is not required to attend this free program and all are welcome.
The exhibit will run September 5 – October 3, 2026, at 2224 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday by appointment, 2:00 – 6:00 pm. Hours extended during special events. To schedule a viewing, please contact the gallery at (410) 235‐3711 or Ky Vassor, Assistant Director, at [email protected]. For sales inquiries, please contact our Sales Director, Noel Bedolla, at [email protected].
Featured Opportunities
Arts in the Park Vendor Application
posted by Towson Arts Collective
Towson Arts Collective is bringing this beloved event to the beautiful grounds of the Historic Baltimore County Courthouse for three Thursday evenings of Art. Music. Community.
We’re now accepting applications for juried artists and artisan vendors. Connect with the community and showcase your original work in the heart of downtown Towson.
Event Details – Arts in the Park (name not determined make suggest below)
Date: Thursday, August 27th, September 24th, October 29 (sign up for 1, 2 or all 3)
Time: 4-7:30pm … (could change 3 to 7:70)
Place: 400 Washington Ave | Baltimore County Courthouse – Center Gardens
DC Print Fair
deadline September 14
posted by East City Art
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2026
Location: Eastern Market’s North Hall | Capitol Hill | Washington, DC
NOTE: This is a TWO DAY, INDOOR EVENT
NOTE: We are looking for original fine art prints.
What qualifies as an original fine art print?
We accept prints made using traditional fine art printmaking techniques such as relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, monotype, collagraph, and Risograph—as long as they are printed manually, in limited editions, and under the artist’s direct supervision.
Guggenheim Fellowship
deadline September 15
The Guggenheim Fellowship is a mid-career award supporting the work of individuals who have made notable contributions to more than fifty fields across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas.
Each year, roughly 200 Fellows are selected through a rigorous competition that assesses both past accomplishments and future plans. Recent success rates have averaged around 5%.
The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
deadline September 14
posted by The Gibbes Museum of Art
The Gibbes Museum and Society 1858’s Prize for Contemporary Southern Art is awarded to an artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the South. Presented annually, the Prize recognizes the highest level of artistic achievement and welcomes applications from artist working across any media. Artists who reside, work in, or are from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia are encouraged and eligible to apply (This includes the District of Columbia). Previous winners have subsequently received awards from the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Additionally, winning artists’ work has been received into the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Gibbes Museum of Art.
Queering Wood Craft Open Call
deadline September 15
posted by The Museum of Art in Wood
“Queer” is used today as both a descriptor of identity and a verb conjuring subversion. Both represent a challenge, whether to normative structures or conventional intimacies. This exhibition, with a working title, Queering Wood Craft, will highlight the work of queer-identified makers working in wood, and be both exploration and celebration of the dynamic intersections between contemporary work in wood and the multiple meanings of queer. We’ll explore the history of this craft through a queer lens, making us visible to ourselves and rendering more complex our understanding of queer lives, labor, and communal and familial relationships.
History: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Navva Milliken and the Museum for Art in Wood staff began to convene a group of makers online under the umbrella of Queering Wood Craft (QWC). Over more than a dozen sessions, we’ve focused on distinct aspects of the subject: education, queer aesthetics, kinship and sensuality, resistance, and self-definition. Taken together, these discussions form a matrix of questions and ideas from which this exhibition emerges.
Integral to humanity’s experience for centuries and across continents, woodworking has an essential role that is distinct and multifaceted. We invite artists and makers who work in wood—building furniture, turning, carving, or otherwise using wood as the primary material in their work—to submit their work for consideration. The exhibition will take place at the Museum for Art in Wood from April to late July 2027.
Note on our use of the word “Queer”: We understand that not all members of the LGBTQIA+ community choose to use this word. Recognizing its complex and sometimes divisive or derogatory history, we believe that today—after decades of joyful reclamation—queer is the most inclusive term we can choose to hold a powerful breadth of identities, presentations, and relationships.
RAIR Residencies
deadline September 27
posted by Recycled Artist in Residence
RAIR has 2 residency programs: THE STANDARD RESIDENCY and THE BIGGIE SHORTIE. Both are given access to Revolution Recovery’s waste stream as well as access to RAIR’s staff- who work closely with all residents.
WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE APPLICANTS TO REGISTER FOR A IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE SITE BEFORE APPLYING AND CRAFTING A PROPOSAL. It is important to understand the nature and operation of the recycling facility to craft a feasible project proposal. Q&A’s will occur at the end of each tour provided.
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