BmoreArt’s Picks: August 12-18
This Week: In the Stacks performance at Peabody Library, Art with a Heart’s Shop & Bop, Baltimore Jewelry Center’s 2025 Graduate Exhibition opening reception, Black Is: Critique & Connect at CCCC, Common Thread at Motor House, Erotic Art Market at Night Owl Gallery + Mobtown Ballroom, copyright workshop with MdVLA and Devin Allen at BMA Lexington Market, closing reception for Colab at Eubie Blake, and Black Genius Art Show’s Who Failed the Kids? opening reception — PLUS apply for the BOPA Open Studio tour and more featured opportunities!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
In the Stacks: Chamber Encounters
Thursday, August 14 :: 6:30-7:30pm
@ George Peabody Library
Baltimore-based violinist Yonatan Grinberg and pianist Teodora Adzharova will present a performance exploring how generations of immigrants have shaped and enriched American music, literature, and art. Join us in celebrating the creative legacies immigrants have brought to American culture, from the concert hall to the library and beyond, in a program spanning the classical masterpieces of John Philip Sousa and Aaron Copland, to popular songs by Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, to performance art by Yoko Ono.
Art with a Heart’s Shop & Bop
Friday, August 15 :: 5-7:30pm
@ HEARTwares by Art with a Heart
Art with a Heart (AWAH) invites the community to Shop & Bop – its annual art sale and open house, Friday, Aug. 15, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. This year’s event will be the inaugural one in HeARTwares® – the nonprofit’s new social enterprise store located at 1104 W. 36th St., Baltimore, MD 21211 on The Avenue in Hampden.
Children are welcome, as the event will feature an interactive art activity, games, a DJ and food and drinks – including beer, wine and nonalcoholic options. Guests can shop with a purpose for hand-made and one-of-a-kind artwork, jewelry, houseware items, garden ornaments and assorted gifts with meaning. Each item is unique and was crafted with enthusiasm by community volunteers, and students and apprentices in AWAH’s HeARTworks workforce development program.
Shop & Bop will celebrate the 2025 summer HeARTworks students – youth, ages 14 to 24, who have created marketable art to sell in HeARTwares®. Overall, HeARTworks provides a collaborative space for youth to experience a structured work environment while building job readiness and life skills.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of HeARTworks, AWAH also will host an online auction leading up to Shop & Bop, from Aug. 1 to Aug. 14. Items include two Paul Reed Smith guitars, a private tour of the Latin American Art Exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery by curator Ellen Hoob; private tour, tasting and lunch at Old Westminster Winery; pottery class at The Clayground in Ellicott City, and more!
Admission to Shop & Bop is free. For more information about the event or the auction, visit www.artwithaheart.net.
2025 Graduate Exhibition | Opening Reception
Friday, August 15 :: 5-8pm
@ Baltimore Jewelry Center
The Baltimore Jewelry Center is excited to host its second annual Graduate Exhibition, a group show featuring 12 emerging jewelers and metalsmiths who have recently completed their formal education. Highlighting the depth and breadth of what is currently being created in the field, the Baltimore Jewelry Center Graduate Exhibition will be on view in the BJC’s gallery in Baltimore’s Station North Arts & Entertainment District (10 E. North Ave.) from August 15 until September 26, 2025 with an opening reception on Friday, August 15th from 5 to 8pm. The event is free and open to the public.
The work in this year’s exhibitions spans a broad range of materials and practices, with works that represent multiple styles and explore metalsmithing through different methods of abstraction. Sculptural pieces, reimagined objects, and multiple types of vessels contribute to a dynamic and multifaceted show. The artists, selected by the BJC’s 10-person exhibitions committee, represent both national and international programs. Participating artists include Cameron Howe, Cecelia Plympton, Debra Dowden Crockett, Ella Hamilton, Esther Park, Johanna Typaldos, Karin Chan, Katie Buchanan, Noah Kiehne, Sarah Bouchard, Sydney Chong, and Xiaohan Wu.
Founded in June 2014, the Baltimore Jewelry Center is the successor organization to the MICA Jewelry Center, which served the metalsmithing and art jewelry community in the Baltimore area for twenty-two years. Today, the nonprofit provides a rigorous academic program and robust studio access program for metal and jewelry artists. “The Baltimore Jewelry Center features one of a handful of art jewelry galleries in the Mid-Atlantic. Our exhibition program exposes the larger public to contemporary and traditional metal arts, and acts as a platform to promote and sell the work of local artists and national artists in the metalsmithing field,” said Shane Prada, Executive Director. “We’re excited to be hosting our second annual Graduate Exhibition and thrilled to be able to display new work that is coming out of a range of educational programs. This exhibition offers an inspiring look into the future of jewelry and metalsmithing.”
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