BmoreArt’s Picks: October 13-19
This Week: ‘Out of the Picture’ film screening at UMBC, Out of Bounds exhibition opens at The Kreeger Museum, opening reception for Jones Falls 2076 at The Peale, reception for Paul Daniel at Goya, LUSMERLIN opening reception at Atrium Artspace, 2026/27 Indigenous Art Gallery opening at Center Stage, Stars and Stripes: Pride, Protest & Promise opening reception at Galerie Myrtis, (Un)Common Scholars Community Symposium at the BMA, David Herman’s Art Sale benefiting Art with a Heart, Make Studio’s Cordially Invited IX opening reception, Baltimore Clayworks Firefest 2026, and an opening reception for VILLAGER at Hotel Indigo — PLUS Gutierrez Memorial Fund Legacy Grant 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!
Out of the Picture | Film Screening
Wednesday, October 14 :: 7-9pm
@ UMBC Music Box
The Department of Visual Arts presents screening of Out of the Picture, the first documentary film to examine the vital world of American art criticism. The event will feature a post-screening Q&A and discussion with director Mary Louise Schumacher, offering audiences a unique look into the making of the documentary and the essential role critics play in shaping modern culture.
Directed by University of Maryland, College Park alumna and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel critic Mary Louise Schumacher, the film follows five influential writers — Carolina Miranda (Los Angeles Times), Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic), Jen Graves (The Stranger), Jeneé Osterheldt (The Boston Globe), and independent critic Seph Rodney — navigating a decade of profound cultural reckoning and historic transformation across both art and media.
Admission is free. RSVPs are not required, but will help us plan the event. Please RSVP here in advance.
Thursday, October 15 | Ongoing through December 31
@ The Kreeger Museum
Hamiltonian Artists and The Kreeger Museum are pleased to present Out of Bounds, an exhibition of the work of seven Hamiltonian Artists Alumni (Selin Balci, Larry W. Cook, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Christie Neptune, Allison Spence, Kyle Tata, and Jing (Ellen) Xu) on view at The Kreeger Museum from October 15 through December 31, 2026.
Borrowed from the language of sport, Out of Bounds refers to the space beyond the limits of play. Figuratively, it can describe actions, ideas, or behaviors that go against accepted rules or expectations. Working across painting, photo, sculpture, video, and installation, the artists presented in Out of Bounds consider what it means to question, cross, or redraw established boundaries.
The Hamiltonian alumni’s work will be exhibited alongside selected contemporary works from The Kreeger Museum’s permanent collection, including artists Sam Gilliam, Frank Stella, Simmie Knox, and William Christenberry. Each of these artists was an iconoclast in their day, rejecting rigid geometries and traditional methods of paint application, and pushing the limits of fine art mediums and subject matter. The Hamiltonian alumni bring a similar spirit of ingenuity to their anti-disciplinary practices—experimenting with materials and challenging conventions of figuration and representation.
Jones Falls 2076 | Opening Reception
Thursday, October 15 :: 5-7pm
@ The Peale
The Jones Falls 2076 exhibition at The Peale explores alternative futures for Baltimore’s Jones Falls River, as imagined by artists, designers, writers, and community members.
Baltimore’s founding river has been hidden below I-83 for over 50 years, overlooked and mistreated. This waterway made possible the rise of Baltimore as an American industrial powerhouse. And yet it is out of sight and out of mind for many residents of the city and region. As the elevated expressway covering the Jones Falls nears the projected end of its lifespan, more and more Baltimoreans are imagining and asking for a different future for the river.
Jones Falls 2076 centers on 14 newly-commissioned speculative works that envision a radically restored and reimagined Jones Falls in the year 2076. These works reframe the Jones Falls to come half a century from now through the lens of possibility, imagining the river unburied, reconnected, repaired, and recentered as the ecological, social, and civic heart of Baltimore. The works also ask deeper questions about our relationships to the river, its human and non-human neighbors, and to future generations.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
