Projections at The Peale

Phil Davis curates Projections at The Peale, an illumination of The Peale’s second-floor galleries with video projections viewed from outside.

In 1816, artist and innovator Rembrandt Peale created a breathtaking sight in his museum building in Baltimore: Using gas and a “Magic Ring of Fire,” Peale created a glow inside the building that was strikingly visible from the street outside. It has been said that people would stand on Holliday Street in front of the Peale Museum just to marvel at the brightness of the light coming from its windows — an unprecedented sight in a world of candles and oil lamps.

Shortly after the grand re-opening of The Peale in 2022, artist Kelley Bell curated Window 26, the first installation of video projections emanating from the second-floor windows of The Peale during the SPARK: New Light exhibition. The Window 26 title for the event referenced the curatorial project she originated during the pandemic, presenting projections from the front window of her home.

Once again video and animation works by UMBC and Towson University artists will light up The Peale!

Gallery hours will be extended on these evenings to 9 p.m. (with the exception of the front gallery on the second floor which will be close at 7 pm for the projections) and light refreshments served.

SPARK programming is made possible by a partnership with PNC Bank.

Here’s the order each artist’s work will appear in the approximately 24-minute program of short video and animation works (which will loop):

1. Corrie Francis Parks – Pandooric, UMBC Animation class project 
2. Erik Millikin – Dance of the Nain Rouge 1,
   Dance of the Nain Rouge 2,
   Ravens 
3. Eva Grandoni
4. Jason Charney
5. Jim Doran
6. Lisa Moren – Murmurs and Waves 
7. Lynn Tomlinson – Towson University Visual Effects class project 
8. McCoy Chance
9. Phil Davis – Towson University Animation class project 
10. Rieko Chacey – Towson University Visual Effects class project 
11. Ryan Murray
12. Sofie Clemmensen – BodyScopy
13. Taylor Goad