BmoreArt’s Picks: February 25 – March 3
This Week: UMBC hosts Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans, Jonna McKone + Elena Volkova opening reception at Connect + Collect, artist lecture with Stephanie Garmey at Towson, a conversation with Michael Harrower, Aja Lans, and Anand Pandian of Johns Hopkins University at The Peale, panel discussion moderated by Laure Drogoul at MICA, Ami Dang w/ Eyas performance for ‘Scene Seen’ at good neighbor, Urban Oasis closing reception + artist talk at Stem & Vine, DA LOVE WE SHARE closing reception + artist talk at Gallery CA, and the 3rd annual 28 Days of Black Futures campaign at SNF Parkway — PLUS apply for MSAC Folklife Apprenticeship 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!
Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall”
Tuesday, February 25 :: 6-7pm
@ UMBC CADVC
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program.
In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity.
Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts education and community development through the arts. It also provides an important model for exploring informal cultural economies that support local art education and production in the interstitials between, and in the absence of, major financial investment.
Public programs associated with this residency:
February 25, 6–7 p.m.: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans, Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore.
Sign up for limited spaces will be available via this link.
April 8, evening (time to be announced): Conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson, at the Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore.
Registration details will be announced.
April 15, live online, evening (time to be announced): Panel on public funding in arts and education.
Registration details will be announced.
In Silver and Earth :: Jonna McKone and Elena Volkova | Opening Reception
Wednesday, February 26 :: 6-8pm
@ Connect + Collect
Join us on Wednesday, February 26th, from 6-8 pm at the Connect+Collect gallery to view the new exhibition In Silver and Earth featuring works by Jonna McKone, and Elena Volkova.
Photographers Jonna McKone and Elena Volkova explore the intersections of time, memory, and history through distinct but resonant photographic practices. Both artists turn to slow, meticulous processes to interrogate how place and identity are inscribed and reinterpreted through personal and collective experience.
In Silver and Earth reflects the materials central to their practices. Silver, the foundation of traditional photographic processes, and earth, a marker of place and history, serve as essential elements in crafting their imagery. These materials ground their work in both the tangible and symbolic, highlighting delicate landscapes and portraits.
Together, McKone and Volkova reframe traditional modes of seeing, offering works that blur boundaries between past and present, land and body, resilience and impermanence. McKone’s delicate landscapes and nuanced explorations of human interaction with nature remind us of the enduring imprint of the past, while Volkova’s quiet moments of stillness in everyday life and visceral portraits evoke an innate resilience that persists through time. Both artists ask us to witness not just the beauty and fragility of our world, but also the unseen forces that have shaped it—forces that, like memory itself, are often obscured yet undeniable.
Through their collaboration, McKone and Volkova offer an invitation to sit in the quiet tension of these fragile truths, acknowledging the violence and the beauty that emerge when histories are reexamined through new lenses.
Stephanie Garmey :: Reverie&Alchemy | Artist Lecture
Thursday, February 26 :: 6:30pm
@ Towson University Center for the Arts
Each object in a Cabinet nods towards epic adventure, and taken as a whole, tells a symbolic story that presents the viewer with essential questions about the transience of human life and our place in the world. The artists and collections in this exhibition together tell a wondrously complicated and contradictory tale about this particular place and its inhabitants, both current and in the past. Who are we, who were we and who do we want to be?
Garmey, featured in Reverie&Alchemy, creates work in a variety of media approaches including sculpture, encaustics, book arts, embroidery, and cut paper. She explores the natural world with a sense of whimsy, curiosity, and love towards all things natural, and is inspired by her collections of natural objects and taxidermy. Garmey received a BFA and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MA in painting from Purdue University of Indiana. She teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art.
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