Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams is a 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time.
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams is a 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time.
This presentation speaks to Native people’s dynamic and powerful relationship with land, home, and sanctuary. While they have beliefs and practices as wide and vast as this continent, Native communities share a recognition that humans exist as part of a larger ecosystem that must stay in balance. As the pressures of colonization and contemporary life have assaulted traditional lifeways, the works in this exhibition demonstrate the resilience and versatility with which Native artists maintain their cultures, community connections, and sense of home.
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) presents one new and two existing sculptural works from her Carry series. Each Carry piece, composed of a large copper bucket and ladle adorned with glass beads, bears extravagantly long fringe whose draping emulates arboreal root structures. Alongside the artist’s works, White Hawk selected historic Lakota belongings from the BMA’s collection. Through these works, White Hawk insists upon an interdependence between art and function—and by extension art and life—effectively calling into question art history’s tendency to devalue craft.
This exhibition reflects upon the buffalo as essential to Indigenous lifeways on the Plains since time immemorial. Euro-American colonizers and the United States government attempted to eradicate the species in a calculated strategy to subdue Native people and force them onto reservations in the late 19th century. This effort fundamentally transformed Native artmaking, both historically and presently. The critical importance of the buffalo within Plains Indigenous cultures can be felt across artworks that pre- and post-date the attempted eradication of the species.
For this new solo site-specific installation, Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) interweaves inspiration from eel trap pots made by Indigenous people of the Chesapeake Bay watershed along with traditional Anishinaabe longhouses. The artist responds to the Museum’s architecture as a departure point for her distinct aesthetic vocabulary, which inscribes traditional Anishinaabe motifs and cultural practices within contemporary forms and materials. Optically vibrating and resonating outwards, the forms forcefully claim space while also reflecting both a sense of reception and transmission.
This installation highlights the ways in which Native artists have increasingly asserted agency—the exertion of one’s own power—over representations of their communities and identities over time. In the early 20th century, white arts educators encouraged Native artists to create “authentic” art—as defined by settlers—that embraced traditional subject matter while often neglecting present realities. In the decades that followed, generations of artists have shrugged off settler expectations by depicting their community on their own terms.
“Blood is a gift and the land is a gift and our past is a gift. In the questions they ask and in the wandering they do, the short films in this program uncover and explore generational memory. They give thanks to those who are gone and those who are yet to be born, and to those who are here living right now. They drift through time, movement, memorial, and landscape towards some unknown and neverknown place and serve as a much-needed reminder that we’ll all get there together, just not at the same time.” —Sky Hopinka, Guest Curator
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.
Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore presented by Northrop Grumman, is a week-long celebration that brings together "Fleet, Flights, and Festivals" from June 12-18, 2024. This event honors the dedication of service members who defend our freedoms at sea and in the air, both past and present. It offers a chance for the public to board contemporary naval ships to see sailors' work up close and to explore historical vessels, providing a window into naval life across history.
Join us on June 13th for performances at Maryland Art Place! The doors open at 5:30PM and the show starts at 6PM. The daily performance of life and living is one that has become more omnipresent as the relationship that we have to each other is often layered with masks: mediated through technology, social media personas, and algorithms. Artists are able to see the smoke and mirrors and through these ways of seeing are able to present the audience with alternative realities that are not dependent on technology.
Baltimore’s best late-night art party is back celebrating the work of Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time. Art After Hours features late-night access to the galleries, free admission to Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, and one free food or cocktail item with the price of admission. Enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment, specialty cocktails and appetizers, artmaking, and music.
As Juneteenth approaches, Sagamore Pendry Baltimore is gearing up to honor the spirit of freedom and empowerment with an unforgettable evening of celebration. Hotel guests and locals alike are invited to step into The Courtyard and immerse themselves in the vibrant energy of a Juneteenth Artist Talk with Mixed Mediums, where art, culture, and community come together in a beautiful tapestry of expression. Partnering with Mixed Mediums, we are proud to spotlight black artists and the dynamic Baltimore art scene.
Baltimore County’s premier cultural event is back to kick off summer! Rain or shine, 7,000+ people are expected to gather for this free two-day festival presented by the nonprofit Baltimore County Arts Guild (BCAG) and featuring curated artist vendors, live music, fun activities for all ages, and specialty food & beers from host sponsor, Guinness Open Gate Brewery.
Maryland Art Place in collaboration with COFAC CoLab Directors Dr. Kalima Young and Ada Pinkston, are excited to present "Invisible Architectures Social Contracts." This exhibition explores the impact of geographic, economic, social, and institutional structures on personal relationships. This dynamic interdisciplinary art festival and Co-Lab sponsored project (Spring 2024) investigates the past, present and future directions social contracts may take. Join us on June 25th from 6PM-8PM for the Closing Reception of Social Contracts VII.
Join us for special Summer Scouts Workshops that are both educational and fun! Summer Scouts Workshops are great for Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts. But you do not have to be a scout to participate in the workshop! This is a great opportunity to learn more about scouts and get a taste of the activities your child could participate in.
Learn more about Silly Slime Company and our other workshops.
Pricing:
$30.00 – Scouts
$15.00 – Adults
In her latest exhibition Power Aesthetics, E. Brady Robinson will exhibit a series of portraits of Baltimore-based Creatives, including SK8 GRLS and ICONS, all-powerful individuals depicted, and empowered, through action.
Join us for an afternoon of cocktails and casual conversation with Baltimore artists Ed Istwan and Curator Kristen Hileman. Ed and Kristen will discuss the exhibit FLOWERS. FLOWERS is a show of visual art comprised of a deceptively simple exploration of color and form, gesture and scale across several different media. This show features over 300 individual works that create an environment when placed together. Istwan highlights the quiet nuance between “similar” and “the same,” and “related” but also “different”.
Explore the enduring mystery surrounding Poe’s tragic end on a special Bus Tour of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and Death in Baltimore. The 90-minute tour ticket includes stops at four important Poe Places around Baltimore, including Poe’s graves (he has two!) plus the sites where Poe was found and passed away. Bus ticket also includes tour of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. Please note that Poe House is an historic site and not ADA accessible (there is no elevator or ramp to the second floor.)
Help send Mando for Kids to Italy for the International Mandolin Accademia with Maestro Carlo Aonzo!
$20 suggested donation.
Beer, wine and appetizers
Mando for Kids promotes and teaches classical mandolin to young students in the Baltimore area - it’s the only program of its kind in the United States! It was started by a group within the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra and continues under the direction of Laura Norris, a Classical Mandolin Society fellow, member of the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra and Baltimore Mandolin Quartet.