Visual Art

Visual Art

A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural Implications

Seph Rodney, visiting curator, at CPM Gallery, talks about Chakaia Booker, Leonardo Drew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock

Four Years in the Making, Celebrate the Completion of One of Baltimore's Geographically-Longest Artworks with Film Screenings in Wyman Park this Thursday, Aug 1

As we walk through Remington, the blue squiggles of “Ghost River” zig and zag through traffic, bike lanes, and—somewhat disconcertingly—dead end in front of an awful lot of housing, implying that the ground beneath highrises and heavy brick rowhomes might not be as solid as we would like to think.

A Water Ballet of Imaginary Sports

Baltimore's favorite water ballet is back with a clever riff on the Olympics.

Dismantling the Monolith

Multiplicity is not a show about Black collage, it’s about Blackness in American collage which is entirely different.

A Community Remembers A Prolific Artist and Writer After His Sudden Passing on July 7

Friends and Colleagues of the BMA Museum Guard, a prolific artist and writer, share their memories

Joan Poncella at Waller Gallery Through July 27

A conversation with artist about her relationship with her grandmother, her archival process, and turning the unfolding of Joan Poncella Sterling's life into an exhibition. 

May Pang's 1970s Photos Capture an Intimate Side of Celebrity, Opening July 26th at Winkel Gallery

In October of 1973, Pang accompanied Lennon to Los Angeles to promote his album "Mind Games." What followed was an incredible 18 month adventure of star-studded parties, road trips, and unparalleled (if not uneven) creative output leading to Lennon’s comeback success. All the while, she took photos.

Lumpy, Dazzling, Amorphous Forms: and imagine you are here at the BMA

The sophomore Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission

Transformer’s tiny square footage to outsized contemporary art presence is its own genre-defying artistic practice

Transformer hosts about six exhibitions every year, transmogrifying its 14th & P street shoe-box space each time as far as these artists’ imaginations can push it.

Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area

How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?

2024 Rubys grants provide $270,000 to 16 new projects across 4 disciplines, plus an annual alumni grant and 2 microgrants

The Rubys support artists in Baltimore City and Baltimore County working in performing, media, visual, and literary arts.

Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative

These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.

New Mural Project Slated to be One of the Longest Artworks in Baltimore

Hamidi's 500-foot mural will stretch along both walls of the Maryland Avenue bridge between Lanvale and Oliver Streets midtown. 

Remembering the Multiplicity and Influence of Early Twentieth Century Cultural Trailblazers 

Brilliant Exiles comprises nearly eighty artworks depicting sixty American cultural influencers who went to Paris on the eve of World War II.

A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure

This month, Kathy O'Dell takes readers on a ride through, above, below, and behind Pat Alexander's beloved "Geometro" mosaic in the Lexington Market Metro station. Plus, the sad stories of two Alexander works that Baltimoreans can no longer enjoy.

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