Exhibitions

The Peale is Baltimore’s Community Museum.

Spark VII: Industrial Afterglow

Industrial Afterglow is a multimedia exhibition exploring the afterlives of industry, technology, and environmental memory through the lens of contemporary art. Curated by Liz Faust, the show brings together 22 artists working across sculpture, video, installation, photography, textiles, and ecological media. 

Baltimore’s legacy as an industrial and cultural hub makes it a powerful backdrop for this exhibition. Industrial Afterglow invites public reflection on the city’s post-industrial transformations and highlights artists envisioning new models of ecological repair, technological ethics, and speculative futures. 

Organized in collaboration with Spark: Baltimore Arts & Innovation, UMBC, Towson University, PNC Foundation, and The Peale.  Industrial Afterglow is on view on The Peale’s second and third floors now through December 7, 2025. 

Events:

  • Opening Reception: November 6, 5-8 PM | An evening of art, conversation, and celebration.
  • Panel Discussion: November 8, 2PM | Residual Light
  • Online Panel Discussion: November 16, 11AM | Rewilding Futures
  • Film Screening: November 21, 3PM | Light, Memory, and Imagined Futures
  • Panel Discussion: November 21, 6PM | Kinship & Entanglements
  • Artist-Led Workshop: November 22, 11 AM | Listening to Data
  • Lecture: November 22, 3PM | Timothy Nohe & Charles Ichoku
  • Online Panel Discussion: December 6, 11:30 AM | Dreaming Forward

Where Light City Began

The Night Gaslight Changed Everything at The Peale On a fall evening in 1816, people gathered along Holliday Street, drawn by a strange new glow coming from inside a museum.  Baltimoreans crowd around the Peale

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Spark VII: Industrial Afterglow

Industrial Afterglow is a multimedia exhibition exploring the afterlives of industry, technology, and environmental memory through the lens of contemporary art. Curated by Liz Faust, the show brings together 22 artists working across sculpture, video,

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Sassy Toes

Come Meet Sassy Toes – The Peale’s Biggest Resident! “Sassy Toes” was created by artist Francisco Benavides for Submersive Productions’ 2017 immersive theater experience “H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum Presents: The Treasures of New Galapagos” There’s

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