BmoreArt’s Picks: October 7-13
This Week: BmoreArt Happy Hour at True Chesapeake, Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Hall in conversation with Teri Henderson at UMBC, closing reception for VILLAGER at Eubie Blake, Subscape Music Festival, BROS Garbage Quest, Station North Art Walk, Parol Lantern Making workshop with Anna Divinagracia at Creative Alliance, Motor House 10 Year Celebration, Glenn Walker closing reception at The Peale, artist talk + book signing with Jackie Milad at Goucher College, and Lumbee Living Legacies exhibition launch at Eastpoint Mall — PLUS MAP’s Under 2500 call for entry 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 Happy Hour
Wednesday, October 8 :: 5-7pm
@ True Chesapeake
Join the BmoreArt team for an informal happy hour at True Chesapeake. Find out more about our upcoming 20th issue, our Ball and Benefit, and upcoming books! Meet other creative colleagues, slurp delicious oysters, and have a drink with us.
Pedagogy Study Hall: Opening Conversation
Thursday, October 9 :: 5:30-7:30pm
@ UMBC CADVC
Artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst Nia K. Evans in dialogue with Teri Henderson of the “Baltimore Beat.” The talk will take place from 6-7 PM.
About Teri Henderson
Teri Henderson is a Baltimore-based independent curator, author, and editor with a distinguished talent for crafting compelling narratives and shaping critical discourse in contemporary art and culture. As the visionary behind the @blackcollagists platform, which she launched in 2020, she established a vital global hub for artists of the Diaspora, fostering community and re-charting art historical narratives. Her authority in the field is cemented by her acclaimed book, Black Collagists: The Book (Kanyer Publishing, 2021).
As the Arts and Culture Editor of the Baltimore Beat, a Black-led Black-run, nonprofit newspaper, Henderson consistently provides insightful and critical perspectives through diverse storytelling. Her writing regularly is featured in leading publications such as Artforum, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. Her extensive curatorial practice includes co-curating “LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage” at Maryland Institute College of Art in January 2025, serving as a consulting curator for “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024″ at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and notably, curating the inaugural Scout Affordable Art Fair with Derrick Adams in May 2025. She also served as a jury member for the 2023 exhibition “Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett.”
Henderson’s influence in media and journalism is further recognized through her participation in prestigious programs, including the 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Resident, the 2024 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow, and the 2024 Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Fellow. In 2024, Baltimore Magazine honored her as a “GameChanger” for her leadership in Baltimore’s creative community, underscoring her commitment to empowering artists of color.
DEVOTION, DREAMS AND DESTINY: solo exhibiton by VILLAGER | Closing Reception + Performance
Thursday, October 9 :: 6-9pm
@ Eubie Blake Cultural Center
Eubie Blake Cultural Center is pleased to present Devotion, Dreams, and Destiny, a solo exhibition of works by the Nigerian–born Transdisciplinary Artist, VILLAGER (b. A. Adekunle Adaranijo) on view from September 11 to October 11, 2025. VILLAGER’s work explores the intersections of post-colonial identity, material intelligence, and ancestral/indigenous knowledge production through a spiritual, anthropological, and visual-material-based inquiry that uncovers and interprets the sublime, intangible forces shaping the evolution of culture, identity, and consciousness.
Inspired by the mythological and time-bending metaphysical landscapes of The Famished Road by Ben Okri, the works in Devotion, Dreams, and Destiny span across painting, site-specific installation, experimental film, and collage, tracing a journey through a liminal terrain where the real and the supernatural, living and the dead, seen and the unseen, past and present, traditional and contemporary coalesce and unfold into what is forgotten, remembered, and what is yet to be known. The exhibition explores object and material memory, mythology, and speculative storytelling, inviting meditation and reflection on what it means to be in service of something greater than the self—the land, the ancestors, and the collective. Together, these works elicit the revelations that await us at the crossroads where we dream with devotion–glimpsing, listening, and holding the whisperings of our destiny.
Devotion, Dreams, and Destiny is a reckoning with the memories of the past we have been asked to carry, and those from the future currently being forged in the present. This exhibition invites the viewers to open their senses and search for what is not directly visible— to reconsider what constitutes the essence of our humble and magical relationship with reality and the supernatural. It asks: What necessary reverence and remembrance are required to dream up new worlds? And how can the sacred act of devotion sustain us in a world where destiny is never fixed but continually made through the act of dreaming?
The exhibition is on view from September 11 to October 11, 2025 at 847 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. The Artist talk will be held on September 27, 2025 from 1 PM – 3 PM followed by a closing Reception and performance on October 9, 2025 from 6 PM – 8 PM. Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM, and Saturday, 12 PM to 3 PM.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
