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Off the Page Closing Reception

Celebrate the closing reception of Off the Page, an exhibition exploring the relationship between art forms through the Jessica Damen's work

EXHIBITS

Across Life-Worlds: A Family History of Soviet Jewish Emigration

Across Life-Worlds follows Soviet Jewish families who emigrated and settled in Maryland, pairing their personal stories and objects with the work of Maryland activists and with Soviet propaganda and KGB records. On view through March 17, 2027.

Diedrick Brackens: lights at the end of the world

November 8, 2026 @ 10:00 AM - February 28, 2027 @ 5:00 PM

Artist Diedrick Brackens presents eleven hand-woven tapestries and sculptural weavings that consider emancipation, labor and sanctuary in the Chesapeake Bay region, weaving together histories of Black life, water and the land. On view November 8, 2026 through February 28, 2027.

Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography

The first major exhibition to trace Baltimore’s role in the history and evolution of photography.

Flaunt: Werk of Art

November 13, 2026 @ 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

An evening event built around AVAM’s exhibition Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks. See AVAM’s calendar for tickets and details.

Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks

The American Visionary Art Museum’s year-long thematic mega-exhibition explores self-presentation, adornment and the ways appearance communicates who we are, through the work of self-taught and visionary artists. On view October 10, 2026 through September 5, 2027.

High School Juried Art Show 2026: Commemorating 250 Years of the Black Experience

Presented with the Maryland State Education Association, this juried exhibition celebrates young artists from across Maryland who interpret the African American experience through the lens of the nation’s 250-year history, in acrylic, oil, digital and mixed media. On view through February 28, 2027.

Interval: Hi-Fi Listening Room

November 8, 2026 @ 10:00 AM - January 10, 2027 @ 5:00 PM

Interval transforms the museum’s Long Gallery into an immersive hi-fi listening room exploring Jewish contributions to music, with programming by guest audio curators, musicians and DJs. On view November 8, 2026 through January 10, 2027.

Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me

Baltimore-based painter Jerrell Gibbs presents new paintings drawn from family photographs kept in his Aunt Ella’s Baltimore home, reflecting on memory, kinship and Black domestic life. On view September 16, 2026 through May 2, 2027.

Luxury & Loss: Feather, Shell, Tusk, Horn

November 7, 2026 @ 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Luxury & Loss: Feather, Shell, Tusk, Horn examines luxury objects made from wild animal materials across cultures and centuries, and the ecological impact of their trade, alongside contemporary artists responding to these histories. Opens November 7, 2026.

Raúl de Nieves: and imagine you are here

In the second presentation of The Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission, multimedia artist, performer, and musician Raúl de Nieves invites visitors to explore the wonder, beauty, and chaos of the natural world through the themes of emerging and becoming.

Born in 1983 in Michoacan, Mexico, and based in Brooklyn, de Nieves learned traditional Latin American sewing and beadwork in school and alongside family members, and uses those approaches in his work, which pays tribute to his family, his homeland, and Mexican folk art. He also accumulates and adorns every surface of his sculptural figures—both human and animal—to create fantastical creatures immersed in deeply narrative environments, imbued with both Catholic imagery and Mexican folklore motifs. The embellished figures also refer to another central tenet of de Nieves’ aesthetic: self-expression within queer club culture, such as the glitter and glitz of drag pageants.

Speaking Across Languages: Global Modernism in the 20th Century

November 14, 2026 @ 10:00 AM - December 30, 2029 @ 5:00 PM

A long-term installation in the BMA’s Anne and Ben Cone Galleries, Speaking Across Languages brings together about 50 works to show how artists around the world responded to an increasingly connected and rapidly changing 20th century. Opens November 14, 2026.

Woven Monuments: Tapestry and Identity in Senegal

Woven Monuments brings together twelve large-scale tapestries from the Manufactures Sénégalaises des Arts Décoratifs, showing how Senegal embraced tapestry to express a modern national identity after independence in 1960. On view October 25, 2026 through March 7, 2027.

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Off the Page Closing Reception

Across Life-Worlds: A Family History of Soviet Jewish Emigration

Diedrick Brackens: lights at the end of the world

Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography

Flaunt: Werk of Art

Flaunt: When Appearance Speaks

High School Juried Art Show 2026: Commemorating 250 Years of the Black Experience

Interval: Hi-Fi Listening Room

Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me

Luxury & Loss: Feather, Shell, Tusk, Horn

Raúl de Nieves: and imagine you are here

Speaking Across Languages: Global Modernism in the 20th Century

Woven Monuments: Tapestry and Identity in Senegal

Joseph U. Dorsch Sr., BSP ’39, Pharmacy Museum

Top-of-the-World Observation Level

Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures

S.S. John W. Brown

Lovely Lane Museum

Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum

James E. Lewis Museum of Art

G. Krug & Son Ironworks & Museum

Baltimore Tattoo Museum

Amaranthine Museum

School 33 Art Center

Fleckenstein Gallery

Baltimore Clayworks

Rita Church Technology Lab

Open Works Technology Lab

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