BmoreArt’s Picks: May 26 – June 1
This Week: Asia North 2026 closing event + Area 405 Pop-Up exhibition closing at The Club Car, Baltimore Design School + School for the Arts exhibition, Through Our Eyes teen photography exhibition at the Walters, Bria Sterling-Wilson JJC talk at the BMA, Baltimore Camera Club Photo-Culturalism panel discussion, BROS’ “American Vamp,” The Baltimore Film Summit at SNF Parkway, Unfinished Republic reception at Goya Contemporary, Greenmount West Open Studios, Everyman’s Founders Ball, and a performance by Stephanie Mercedes in PowerPlant Live! alley — PLUS The Galleries at CCBC call for curators 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!
Closing Event: Asia North 2026
Wednesday, May 27 :: 5-9pm
@ SNF Parkway Theatre
Celebrate the conclusion of Asia North 2026. Congratulate the artists featured in Shoes at the Door. Enjoy performances by Soul of Persia and the Sutradhar Institute of Dance. Conclude the evening with a selection of APIMEDA film shorts curated by filmmaker Zara Kahan. Performances curated by Kandi Wong.
Asia North 2026: AREA 405 Pop-Up Exhibition | Closing
Wednesday, May 27 :: 6-9pm
@ The Club Car
AREA 405 presents Queer Manifesto, a pop-up exhibition featuring poems and visual collages of twenty-one (21) East and Southeast Asian queers.The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Wishing Fountain Project, a virtual diasporic queer ESEA art book library (@the.wishing.fountain.project). Founded by You Liang and Zao Zao Zhang (MICA Class of 2024), the project began with a writing workshop that encouraged participants to transform poetry, prose, and diary entries into visual forms. Queer Manifesto was later published as a zine. Exhibition Queer Manifesto loyally exhibited selected pages of zines, with renewed visualization of words arraying themes from family relationships to immigration processes.
Queer Manifesto is part of Asia North 2026, an annual one-month public program celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the Station North Arts District. The exhibition will be on view at the Club Car, a beloved queer art and cocktail club located at the historic North Avenue Market.
BDS & BSA Joyce Scott Art Gallery Exhibition
Thursday, May 28 :: 10am-12pm
@ Baltimore Design School
You are warmly invited to join us for a special celebration honoring the talented student artists from Baltimore Design School and BSA’s Visual Arts students. This event brings together our creative community to recognize outstanding student work, highlight the power of arts education, and thank the partners like you who help make these opportunities possible.
