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 […]
ONLINE | ZOOM EVENT In the second lecture of the "It's More Than History" lecture series sponsored by the Baltimore National Heritage Area and presented by The Peale, we'll focus on a jazz icon! Who was Baltimore’s Billie Holiday? Professor Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of […]
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 […]
Join us for an IN-PERSON information session about the Grit Fund! Grit Fund was established in Baltimore in 2015 with generous funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as a part of the Regional Regranting Program—which “aims to support vibrant, under-the-radar artistic activity by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country.” Since […]
Join us for a workshop with artist, somatic movement educator, and therapist Michele Minnick. The Peale's exhibition, The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come, invites visitors to contend with the remnants of a culture of disposability and the many scars it leaves behind. This ruinous landscape provokes waves of environmental […]
The Peale's exhibition The Future of Here 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 the many things we leave behind could […]
The Peale’s exhibition on The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come is an invitation to engage with the human impact on the waterways of the Jones Falls watershed, while also imagining a more symbiotic and hopeful time to come for our watershed and the planet. The Jones Falls was once so polluted […]
The Future of Here, an ongoing exhibition at the Peale Museum, gathers and presents imaginary artifacts from the everyday life of a future people that might one day inhabit the landscape of this city. By assembling these artifacts from the trash and debris we leave behind, the exhibit raises questions about what we value and […]
Recent graduates of Towson University, baritone Kellen Johnson and pianist Joel Lingg will present a recital in celebration of both this legacy and of springtime: a season of love, loss, and nature. In the world of Western classical music, there is a category of vocal compositions known as art songs. An art song is a […]
Join us to imagine new futures for the Jones Falls at this collaborative workshop. No waterway has been more essential to the development of Baltimore than the Jones Falls. And yet this river has endured the effects of pollution and neglect for well over a century. The river was forced underground in the early twentieth […]
The Future of Here exhibition at the Peale Museum is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present: what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now, what artifacts people of that […]
The Black Print is a two-day exhibition that explores the intersection of art, textiles, and fashion, and draws inspiration from traditional African roots and contemporary conversations of Blackness. Through graffiti, photography, and garment performance art, The Black Print showcases the vibrancy of fashion as an artistic and cultural form. Organized by creative director, and curator […]
The Black Print is a two-day exhibition that explores the intersection of art, textiles, and fashion, and draws inspiration from traditional African roots and contemporary conversations of Blackness. Through graffiti, photography, and garment performance art, The Black Print showcases the vibrancy of fashion as an artistic and cultural form. Organized by creative director, and curator […]
The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What […]
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