"TRANSMISSION" will be on view at School 33 Art Center from June 6–July 21, 2024, featuring the 11 artists who were awarded the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Artist Travel Prize from 2017–2023: Nate Larson, Erin Fostel, Erick Antonio Benitez, LaToya Hobbs, Joe Giordano, Hoesy Corona, Schroeder Cherry, Rosa Leff, Jackie Milad, Elena Volkova, & Jill Orlov.

Paint It! Ellicott City 2024 showcases artwork created by juried artists during our annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City’s historic district. The juror for this year’s exhibit is Abigail McBride, who will offer remarks and present juror awards at the reception on June 10 from 6-8pm.

Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. Please check hocoarts.org for up-to-date information of scheduled holiday and weather-related closures.

In Boundless, Christine Lee Tyler and Sookkyung Park explore themes of mortality and human emotion. Tyler layers various media and patterns to create complex compositions evocative of nature while Park’s intricate paper sculptures are a nod to her Korean culture and background. Please join us for an exhibit reception, free and open to the public, on June 10 from 6-8pm.

Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. Please check hocoarts.org for up-to-date information of scheduled holiday and weather-related closures.

Common Ground on the Hill Traditions Week includes workshops in the traditional arts, evening concerts, lectures, and more. Academic credit and scholarships are available. Register at www.commongroundonthehill.org. 

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.

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 and every Wednesday The Art of Comedy Comedy Open Mic happens in our West Bay Gallery! Join Comedian Ivan Martin Dark Mark Rules and Alejandro Labroda along with some of Baltimore’s funniest comedians for an evening of laughs! If you’re feeling up to the task, sign up and tell a few jokes yourself! It’s free to attend and always a good time. Sign up starts at 8, show starts at 9.

Pratt Street Market Presented by PNC Bank is back to shake up your lunch break and bring you outside! Returning to the corner of Pratt & Light Streets every Thursday, May-September, 2024. Enjoy vendors and food trucks offering delicious bites, unique gifts from local artisans, and more!

Ducky Dynamo presents COME THRU THURSDAYS

2nd Thursdays upstairs in Ottobar, join Ducky as she spins the jams while you dance and drink and play pool and watch what's on the big screen and party and vibe!

What does it sound like in there???? Idk. Expect some Baltimore Club at some point of course buuuuuuuuut expect EVERYTHING. WE POLYJAMOROUS so as long as asses is shaking and feets is two stepping, we in the zone.

21+. Upstairs. Free as frick. 2nd Thursday of every month.

Come to the opening reception for artist Doug Johnson's exhibit "Reeling in the Years", chronicling 30 years living and working in Baltimore in watercolors. The show will be up through July, 2024 on display during The Club Car Baltimore's business hours! Swing by Club Car to hang out, have a drink, and enjoy Doug's vibrant, sensual, and exciting paintings! All pieces are available for purchase.