BmoreArt’s Picks: October 28 – November 3
This Week: BmoreArt ICONS Benefit Auction is live; Half Remembered, Half Made exhibition at CAC, Root Work: Practice Beyond Fear at Waller Gallery, Dresher Center for the Humanities and CADVC roundtable discussion + Shakespeare in Harlem at UMBC, Voices from the Margins at BLIFTD ART STVDIOS, Booktoberfest Fundraiser for The Book Thing at Peabody Heights, Merkin Dream III at MAP, Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror at BCS, Maryland Emancipation Day celebration at The Lewis, and American Sublime Community Day at the BMA — PLUS Call for Solo Exhibitions at VisArts 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!
BmoreArt Icons Benefit Auction
Ongoing through December 4
Baltimore-based artists are living proof that we exist in a City of Artists, brimming with creative excellence. Their vision extends far beyond studios, galleries, and museums. They capture our shared experience in diverse and beautiful ways, turn city blocks into magical discoveries, and remind us that everyone loves a soiree to share marvelous art. When given the opportunity, the art of our place and time brings a thoughtful beauty into our homes. It’s not decoration: it sparks conversations, it brightens our minds, it elevates our memories, it reminds us who we are. Their work reflects the stories, histories, and rhythms of the city, absorbing its energy, responding to its people, and leaving a mark on the places they move through.
For the past decade, BmoreArt has had the privilege of engaging with this magic through our magazines, online stories, books, partnerships, and exhibitions. As we grow and expand alongside these incredible artists, we are thrilled to celebrate ten years of print publications with Iconically Yours, a fall exhibition and benefit auction honoring the dedication, creativity, and collaboration that adds to Baltimore’s iconic reputation. This exhibit features twenty artists whose work has been featured by BmoreArt over the past decade, but more importantly, it offers a cross section across stylistic and conceptual barriers, of some of the very best artists making work in Baltimore today.
We encourage you to claim a piece of the city for yourself, revel in the magic these artists create, and remember that in Baltimore, creativity is everywhere you look. Iconically yours.
This benefit auction offers a rare opportunity to purchase artworks while directly supporting 19 artists in our community and BmoreArt’s work as an independent, regional platform for creative communities to share original, inventive works and ideas with new audiences.
All artworks are ready for your walls, shelves, pedestals, or for you to wear. The online auction can be found on BetterWorld using the QR code below. All bids must be made using the website. This is a silent auction.
Bidding is open now, and items close on December 4, 7:30 p.m.
Half Remembered, Half Made
Ongoing through November 6
@ Chesapeake Arts Center
This body of work explores the tension between cultural memory and the fragmentation of identity experienced by first-generation Americans. Rooted in the visual language of ancestral iconography, dance music culture, and the ritual of movement, the exhibition brings together murals, textile pieces, and paintings that function as remixed archives of personal and collective history. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of rave posters, Caribbean color sensibilities, and mythological motifs, the works reflect on themes of hybridity, healing, and transformation. By layering vibrant patterns, hieroglyphics, and symbols sampled from her Mexican, Cuban, and Guyanese heritage, Catherine Rupan Mapp creates immersive environments that invite viewers to reflect on their own connections to place, identity, and community. The exhibition becomes both a celebration and a reconciliation—honoring the past while navigating what it means to belong in the present.
This exhibition will be on display from September 30-November 9, 2025 in the Patricia Barland Gallery at Chesapeake Arts Center. To view more of Catherine’s work, visit her website at https://www.catherinemapp.com/
Root Work: Practice Beyond Fear
Ongoing through November 15
@ Waller Gallery
Exhibition Dates: October 10 – November 15 | Open Hours: Saturday, 1-5 pm
The exhibition “Root Work: Practice Beyond Fear,” showcases the works of former artists within OARA’s 2023 and 2024 fellowships. The exhibition expresses the grit required in building relationships with oneself and others, while maintaining faith that hard work and sacrifice will flourish into long-lasting beauty. Although we do not know the outcome of our struggle, we commit to learning by doing and trusting that showing up with consistency creates lasting growth, change, and transformation. OARA’s artists embody the truth that practice is the most fertile ground. (Written by: Savannah Wade)
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
