Category: Feature
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Challenge Accepted!
The BMA and more than 20 Maryland organizations take action for a greener future In 2023, Governor Wes Moore announced the goal of achieving 100% clean energy in Maryland by 2035. To support this critical and ambitious target, the BMA established a citywide eco-challenge, inviting civic and cultural leaders throughout the Baltimore region to commit […]
BMA Staff | 06.24.2025 -
Black Earth Rising
On view through September 21, 2025 The splendor of the natural world is explored by some of today’s most celebrated artists of color and Native identity in Black Earth Rising, named by The New York Times and ESSENCE magazine as a must-see exhibition. Each of these monumental paintings, sculptures, and films demonstrates a form of resisting […]
BMA Staff | 06.24.2025 -
Home Wherever I Go
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative. To learn about the diverse contributions needed to realize this expansive project, students convened weekly with a wide range of BMA staff […]
BMA Staff | 02.21.2025 -
Bodies of Water
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative. To learn about the diverse contributions needed to realize this expansive project, students convened weekly with a wide […]
BMA Staff | 02.14.2025 -
Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?
Whom do we honor, and how? The powerful installation More than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 asks these questions while bringing attention to the efforts of many community health workers (CHWs) who heroically served Baltimore patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The artist behind the installation, LaToya Ruby Frazier, was […]
BMA Staff | 01.22.2025 -
Infinite Weight
Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum is a wide-reaching project that proposes Indigenizing interventions to address and refuse the oppressive hierarchies of coloniality that pervade the realm of culture and serve as the underpinning of museums. The project encompasses community engagement, a series of nine monographic and thematic exhibitions, institutional interventions, public programs, and an untraditional catalog. In […]
Staff | 10.16.2024 -
Behind the Dust: Conservation of a Gitenga Mask
This Gitenga mask caused great excitement when it came to the BMA’s conservation lab for treatment, as the object is impressive both in size (33 ½ x 35 ½ x 19 inches) and in presence. But upon taking a closer look, conservators could see that the majority of the feathers, especially in the back, were deformed […]
Staff | 09.26.2024 -
New Acquisitions on View
This summer, 11 new additions to the Museum’s collection make their BMA debut. Read more about some of these recent acquisitions below and plan your next visit with a comprehensive list of new works on view and a map of where to find them. John Ahearn, Bashira, 1992 Charlie Ahearn, Bashira Walton Avenue 1992, 1992 […]
Colleen Kennedy | 07.12.2024 -
Designing Making Her Mark
In this interview, BMA Exhibition Designer David Zimmerman shares his experience transforming the galleries to present the 235 works on view in Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800. My name is David Zimmerman and I am the Exhibition Designer for the BMA. I am responsible for the physical design of […]
Staff | 12.26.2023 -
Making Her Mark: A History Of Women Artists In Europe, 1400–1800
For centuries, art historians have accepted the characterization of European women artists from the pre modern era as rare and comparatively less talented than their male counterparts. This assumption is now being turned on its head with a groundbreaking exhibition that presents a more accurate and expansive presentation of women’s creative accomplishments. A team of […]
Anne Brown | 10.16.2023