As artistic compositions, quilts—most frequently made by women—are imbued with memories. Last year, MCHC acquired Elizabeth Talford Scott’s quilt Abstract #1 (1983) for its permanent collection. Abstract #1 is the first quilt in the collection documented to an African American maker. Talford Scott’s work as the centerpiece of this collaborative exhibition engages the crazy quilt form in dialogue with responsive works by the African American Quilters of Baltimore and the antique quilts in MCHC’s collection.

CREATIVE ALLIANCE | Baltimore, MD
Exhibition Opening: THU SEP 26 | 6-9PM
On View: THU SEP 26 – SAT NOV 30

TENT | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Spring 2025

Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance presents
Baker Artist Portfolios: Off The Web
At The Peale
November 7, 2024 - January 19, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 4pm - 8pm (rsvp here)

Over 200 Baltimore-area artists bring some of the region's newest art to America's oldest museum building.

Come celebrate the holiday season with the gift of art for your loved ones! Our annual utilitarian ceramics holiday invitational, Winterfest 2024, features 14 established and emerging ceramic artists from 11 different states. This exhibition/sale is perfectly paired with Baltimore Clayworks’ Annual Holiday Sale, where resident and associated artists join together to fill the galleries and Shop with hand-crafted gifts. All items are available for immediate purchase and can be taken home right away—no need to wait until the end of the show.

Get ready to jingle and mingle at our Christmas DJ Night, hosted by DJ Crome! Dress naughty or nice, it doesn’t matter – Santa’s not watching when the bass drops! ~NO COVER!

Call (410) 647-5200 to reserve a table or VIP area.

This exhibition puts Laura Ortman’s (White Mountain Apache) My Soul Remainer into conversation with a historic Apache violin by Amos Gustina. Ortman’s video work features the artist playing the violin against the dramatic backdrop of the Southwestern landscape, while her collaborator Jock Soto (Diné) assumes reverential postures. Ortman’s original score builds upon then radically departs from the overwhelmingly white, male canon of classical music—her score samples a classical Mendelssohn piece, which bleeds into an atmospheric and ethereal composition.

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning installation is the first of a series of exhibitions presented as part of the BMA’s Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative. The installation celebrates Baltimore’s community health workers during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine through a series of portraits and related narratives mounted on 18 socially distanced, stainless-steel IV poles. This powerful and deeply evocative artwork offers an alternative approach to monument-making that challenges us to consider the nature of how and who we honor.

Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations) presents a solo exhibition of her large-scale, backlit, color transparency photography, which she terms “fireboxes.” Works from her Lasso and Headdress series, including a newly commissioned Headdress portrait, draw together contemporary Native subjects with regalia and items from the subject’s own cultures. The exhibition situates many of the objects depicted in the firebox images alongside objects from the BMA’s historic Native art collection.

Nicholas Galanin’s (Lingít and Unangax̂) exhibition presents existing works alongside new work inspired by his continued critical examination of cultural appropriation, colonization, and the complexities of Indigenous identity in the contemporary world. His work in Baltimore finds root in his conversations with the local Native community, which sparked directions for his sculptural installations and interventions.

This exhibition pairs Henri Matisse’s compositions with those of 19th-century Japanese woodcut artists to explore the global appeal of color and pattern across space and time. The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists features several paintings and prints by Matisse from the 1920s, with posed models and heavily patterned interior backgrounds, reflecting the artist’s interest in layering his works from this period with decorative items from around the world.

Kerplunk! is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions!