The Peale's exhibition on The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come is an invitation to extend our senses into the landscape around us and the other futures it may promise, to turn our attention from the commotion of city streets to the vibrant yet unseen riverscape at our feet. By imagining what […]

A public conversation with Michael Harrower, Aja Lans, and Anand Pandian of Johns Hopkins University at The Peale. Archaeology relies on materials from the past to make sense of human history and even the circumstances of the present. But what would it mean to do an archaeology of the future? The question may seem paradoxical, but […]

What remains possible when so much seems to be coming apart at the seams? What does it mean to live in the shadow of the ruined promises of the past? Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many […]

What might a language for the future - or for this very moment, shapeshifting as it is - look like when imagined from the bodies, experiences, desires, of the other-than-human world, as it stands and as it may yet be? Join this all-genre workshop to explore the materials of our local landscape and their possible […]