BmoreArt’s Picks: December 2-8
This Week: Dara Lorenzo tour + lecture at Goucher Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore Cinematic Universe at SNF Parkway, Ernest Cole gallery talk + reception at MICA Meyerhoff Gallery, Samantha Sethi artist talk at Goucher Bond Gallery, Picturing Mobility panel discussion at UMBC, Monument Lighting events at Mount Vernon Place / The Walters / Maryland Center for History and Culture, Crushing Colonialism Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary at BCS, Making Spaces opening reception + Holiday Sale at BJC, BMA’s Art After Hours, Culturally Curated at the Lewis, Baltimore Resists at Crow’s Nest, and MICA Art Market — PLUS apply for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize 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!
Dara Lorenzo: IF UR LOST | Walking and Searching Tour
Tuesday, December 2 :: 2-3pm
@ Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College
From Medium to Meaning: Critical Perspectives in Art History–Printmaking as Protest, Ritual, and Reproduction
Saturday, December 6 :: 6-7:30pm
@ Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College
The Goucher Art Galleries is proud to present IF UR LOST, a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist Dara Lorenzo, on view in the Rosenberg Gallery from November 13, 2025 through January 31, 2026.
Through her layered, experimental printmaking practice, Lorenzo explores the fragile terrain of memory, self-discovery, and human connection. Combining photogravure, monotype, and chine-collé techniques, she weaves together personal photographic archives, handwritten diaries, and fragments of her book collection to create works that blur the line between image and text, presence and absence, memory and forgetting.
IF UR LOST continues Lorenzo’s investigation into how deeply private reflections—self-doubt, anxiety, longing, embarrassment—become shared experiences through art. Her process-driven works embrace vulnerability, exposing the fragments of inner dialogue and lived memory that shape how we navigate the world. In this exhibition, silence collides with laughter, fear with bravery, solitude with communion: an echo of what it means to exist among others in the city, in ritual, and in fleeting, fragile moments of human connection.
BALTIMORE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE Grand Premiere
Tuesday, December 2 :: 6pm
@ SNF Parkway
SNF Parkway Filmmaker Services is proud to host the Baltimore Cinematic Universe for this special FREE event.
The BCU starts now! Come out for a screening of all our current shows, get a preview of our upcoming shows, and learn how to join the BCU.
About The BCU
The Baltimore Cinematic Universe (BCU) is a socially responsible media company that produces original TV shows and films to promote positive images of Baltimore to worldwide audiences. We are a collective of filmmakers raising the local TV and film industry while influencing the media perception of Baltimore to encourage commerce, tourism and investment in the city.
About The Event
We are unveiling the BCU to the public with a screening of all our projects on the big screen and an in depth breakdown of the company by the founder Imani Muleyyar. After the presentation, we will have a Q&A to answer all your questions about the BCU. Finally, we will walk you through the process of joining the BCU.
After the presentation, we will have a Q&A to answer all your questions about the BCU and walk you through the process of joining as a filmmaker or a supporter.
- 6:00PM – Doors Open
- 6:30PM – Presentation & Screenings
- 7:30PM – Q&A
USA. 1971. © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos
The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole
Gallery Talk | Wednesday, December 3 :: 4pm
@ MICA Meyerhoff Gallery
Reception | Thursday, December 4 :: 5-7pm
@ MICA Meyerhoff Gallery
The True America features the work of Ernest Cole, a young, Black, South African photojournalist living in exile in America. Cole arrived in America in 1966 after “nearly seven tense, danger-filled years” spent documenting the conditions for Black South Africans under the brutal system of racial segregation known as apartheid. While enduring exile to publish his groundbreaking book House of Bondage, he turned his attention to his new home, producing tens of thousands of images looking sensitively at American life, in color and black-and-white. Thought to be lost entirely, the negatives of Cole’s American pictures resurfaced in Sweden in 2017.
The first stateside exhibition to bring together Cole’s extensive work from across America, The True America reflects both a new-found freedom that Cole felt in America, as well as Cole’s critical observations that his new home faced all too familiar struggles with racism and inequality.
Ernest Cole (born in Transvaal, South Africa, 1940; died in New York, 1990) is best known for House of Bondage, a photobook published in 1967 that chronicles the horrors of apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a “banned person,” settling in New York. He was associated with Magnum Photos and received funding from the Ford Foundation to undertake a project looking at Black communities and cultures in the United States. Cole spent an extensive time in Sweden and became involved with the Tiofoto collective. He died at age forty-nine of cancer. In 2017, more than 60,000 of Cole’s negatives—missing for more than forty years—resurfaced in Sweden.
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