Collect the art of your place and time

Connect+Collect is a BmoreArt gallery and collecting initiative designed to engage new and established collectors to build relationships with Baltimore based artists and galleries through exhibits, talks, gallery tours, artist books, and studio visits. We help you collect the work of artists on the verge of global success while catalyzing a collective momentum around placing works by Baltimore-based artists in institutional, corporate, and private collections.

Connect+Collect operates out of an exhibition space attached to BmoreArt’s headquarters at 2519 N. Charles Street.

Email Gallery Coordinator Inés Sanchez de Lozada to make an appointment to visit: [email protected]

Become a Member at BmoreArt and receive special invites to attend C+C Receptions, Talks, and Events!

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C+C Gallery Exhibitions

Current Exhibition: City of Artists II
Featuring works by Se Jong Cho, Oletha DeVane, and Schroeder Cherry
May 1 – August 30, 2024 | Click here to learn more

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Previous Exhibition: City of Artists I
Featuring works by Erin Fostel, JM Giordano, and Phaan Howng
February 1 – April 25, 2024 | Click here to learn more

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Previous Exhibition: Liberty and Injustice
Featuring works by Kim Rice and Paul Rucker
August 10 – November 30, 2023 | Click here to learn more

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Previous Exhibition: Arcadia Futura
Featuring works by Alyssa Dennis and TLaloC
April 20th – July 13th, 2023 | Click here to learn more

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Previous Exhibition: Post-Consumption Benediction
Featuring works by Adam Stab and Jordan Tierney
November 1, 2022 – March 22, 2023 | Click here to learn more

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Co-Hosted Event: Seph Rodney, Vlad Smolkin, and Cara Ober in Conversation at CPM: A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural Implications. Read and learn more.

Co-Hosted Event: Cara Ober, Mera Rubell, Sylvia Snowden, and Jeffrey Kent in conversation at the Rubell Museum DC in March 2023. Watch a video trailer here.

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Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibition | Dynamic Range: Eight Baltimore-based Photographers
June 15, 2022 – October 1, 2023

This was the first show at C+C that explicitly included BmoreArt’s contributors. Our goal was to present each as a skilled and multifaceted artist, distinct from their ongoing work with the publication but also revealing overlapping concerns. For any photographer, the “maximum dynamic range” is the widest variety of light a digital camera sensor or strip of film can capture, measured in F-stops. Although we cannot offer a quantitative measure for the various selection of images offered within this exhibit, it was curated in the same way that we produce BmoreArt publications: collaboratively and in conversation with each individual artist.

To view the exhibition in a 3D Digital Scan, Click here.

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The Connect + Collect Speaker series included four in person lectures in 2019 and has resumed in 2021 on Zoom.

Archived images, text, and audio from each discussion is included from BmoreArt’s Vimeo page.

Artists Devin Allen and Bill Gaskins with BmoreArt’s Jeffrey Kent and Cara Ober, June, 2022

Artist Ernest Shaw Jr., Curator Kirk Shannon-Butts, BmoreArt’s Jeffrey Kent, and Cara Ober, March 2, 2022

From our 2019 Lecture Series at Motor House:

Connect + Collect IV: Philippa Hughes and Zoë Charlton from Wednesday, June 12, 2019 

Our fourth panel featured Philippa Hughes, a DC-based art collector, arts advocate, curator, and cultural leader with Zoë Charlton, a Baltimore-based artist, professor, and curator. Our conversation focused around relationship-building, preparing for a studio visit, live-work-art balance, and all the speakers, including moderator Cara Ober, shared anecdotes and lessons learned through trial and error. Our fourth event was hosted at The Motor House on North Avenue, and included a drink in the Showroom Bar after the talk. Check out audio and photos here.

Connect + Collect III: Relational Strategies for Artists and Collectors
Thursday, April 18, 2019, 7 PM – 9:00 PM at Motor House (doors open 6:30)
Our third panel featured Doreen Bolger, former director of The Baltimore Museum of Art and a serious collector of Baltimore-based art, with Taha Heydari, an Iranian-born painter and MICA graduate living in Baltimore. Topics include ethical relationships between artists, collectors, and galleries; strategies for exhibiting across the country and internationally; collecting at Baltimore-based art auctions and municipal galleries; and the great importance of showing up. Listen and check out photos here.

Connect + Collect II: Relational Strategies for Artists and Collectors
Thursday, February 28, 2019, 7 PM – 9:00 PM at Motor House (doors open 6:30)

Our second panel was with DC-based Art Collector, Patron, and Collaborator Darryl Atwell and NY-based Entrepreneur and Independent Curator Dexter Wimberly. Topics discussed included how to begin and then build your collection, to conduct a studio visit, and best practices for building ethical, respectful, productive relationships between artists and patrons.

Listen to audio from our second C+C here.

Connect + Collect: Relational Strategies for Artists and Collectors
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM at Motor House

If you missed it: Listen to a Podcast and check out photos from First C+C here.

Our first panel was with Art Collector, Consultant, and DC-based Lawyer Schwanda Rountree and Baltimore-based artist Mequitta Ahuja, a Guggenheim recipient whose work is in Rountree’s collection. Topics discussed included how and why to start collecting art, how to conduct a studio visit, and best practices for building ethical, respectful, productive relationships between artists and patrons.

PREVIOUS SPEAKER SERIES FROM BMOREART:

The Re-Model: Strategic Career Thinking from Art World Insiders  

A Speaker Series from BmoreArt

The Re-Model is a new speaker series designed to bring nationally recognized artists and arts professionals to Baltimore to challenge existing structures of success and to build awareness and diversity within current models for best professional practices. From insider tips to creating productive relationships with galleries to funding models for ambitious projects, Re-Model speakers will candidly discuss their art careers in conjunction with the projects and publications they have created.

Lectures will be free and hosted quarterly at The Motor House, located at 120 W. North Avenue in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District. Each talk will be followed by an informal reception for speakers and guests to network and purchase books and publications.

Last Event: Ethics and the Art Gallery featuring Amy Eva Raehse and Heather Darcy Bhandari

Tickets are free, but spaces are limited. RSVP available here.

Join us for a discussion on art galleries and ethics with Goya Contemporary Executive Director Amy Eva Raehse (Baltimore, MD) and Heather Darcy Bhandari (NY, NY), an Independent Curator and co-founder of The Remix, author of ART/WORK, and former director at Mixed Greens, a commercial gallery in NY.

Thursay, March 29 / Doors open at 6:30 / Lecture at 7
Motor House Theater

Free to the public with an RSVP! Seating is limited.
Join us for a drink before or after in The Showroom, Motor House’s new cafe and bar.

Previous Events: ARTS.BLACK at Motor House June 24 – with editors Jessica Lynne and Taylor Renee Aldridge.

ARTS.BLACK is a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives predicated on the belief that art criticism should be an accessible dialogue – a tool through which we question, celebrate, and talk back to the global world of contemporary art. The journal is edited by Taylor Renee and Jessica Lynne.

Join BmoreArt for a lively discussion with Arts.Black founding editors Jessica Lynne and Taylor Renee Aldridge at The Motor House on Saturday, June 24.

Doors open at 5 pm for a 5:30 lecture followed by Q&A.

Tickets are free but limited so please reserve yours here.

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a Detroit based writer and curator. Taylor is the 2016 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing. She received her M.L.A from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and a B.A from Howard University with a concentration in Art History. Taylor has worked at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art (Harvard University), and has been awarded the Goldman Sachs Junior Fellowship at The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institutions). She has written for the Detroit MetroTimes, ARTNews, ContemporaryAnd, SFMoMA’s Open Space and Hyperallergic.

Jessica Lynne is a Brooklyn-based arts administrator and critic. She received her BA in Africana Studies from NYU and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Art21 and The Cue Foundation, Callaloo, and The Center for Book Arts. Jessica contributes to publications such as Art in America, The Art Newspaper, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Pelican Bomb. She’s co-editor of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives, and a founding editor of the now defunctZora Magazine. Currently, Jessica serves as the Manager of Development and Communication at Recess.

FORMER RE-MODEL SPEAKER SERIES:

BmoreArt’s The Re-Model is designed to bring artists together to discuss the vital issues that really matter to them, like sustainability, best practices, funding models, and community. For this reason, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions of the guests and linger afterwards during the reception. Although tickets are free, the audience is limited to 150 seats per event to ensure an intimate and comfortable environment in the Motor House Black Box Theater.

These speaker series are generously supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

We look forward to resuming small, in person events in the gallery in summer of 2021.