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T H E B A L T I M O R E M U S E U M OF A R T
BMA
TODAY
W I NT E R –S P R I N G 2 018
DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Our Tomorrows
One of the most important artists working today, Mark Bradford is renowned for his gestural paintings
made of paper, many of which are now in museum collections around the world. Alongside his studio
practice, Bradford is also committed to supporting the work of community nonprofits and collaborating
with them to open new pathways to contemporary art and ideas.
MAXIMILIAN FRANZ
This artist-driven philanthropy is best exemplified by Art + Practice, a nonprofit Bradford co-founded that
delivers vital social services to foster youth in South Los Angeles while also presenting exhibitions of con-
temporary art. These shows, co-organized with eminent museums, bring stellar artists to LA’s Leimert Park,
the same neighborhood where the artist worked side by side with his mother in a hair salon for decades.
Art + Practice codified Bradford’s foundational concept for his nonprofit work: Need/Access. If it is the
central aim of a museum to foster and serve new audiences, then first one must recognize the basic needs
in that community, needs so pressing they might prevent that group from engaging with art at all. If those
basic life needs are met, then openness to contemporary art and thought might follow.
In this spirit, we are very excited to announce a new community partnership in Baltimore initiated by Bradford.
In conjunction with his Venice Biennale exhibition, Tomorrow Is Another Day, opening at the BMA in fall
2018, Bradford will partner with Greenmount West Community Center, a vital gathering place for children,
youth, and adults living two miles south of the museum. Through a program of structured activities and
open dialogue, the community center provides a safe and positive environment for underserved local youth
to create, learn, and share. Working together, Bradford and the BMA will aid and enhance the activities of
the center to help the organization meet and exceed its already lofty goals.
To provide social services to better our community and serve underrepresented audiences represents
a new vision for the BMA, and indeed museums more broadly. Our most immediate focus is on the needs
of Greenmount’s constituents. Acknowledging and meeting those needs is the necessary gateway
to a world of art and ideas, and to the possibility that the elite culture of museums will finally permeate
mainstream culture and become available to all. This partnership promises to transform the BMA.
COVER: Stephen Towns.
Detail, Special Child. 2016.
The Baltimore Museum of Art:
Alice and Franklin Cooley Fund, Christopher Bedford
BMA 2017.144. Courtesy of the
artist. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSEPH HYDE BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director
BMA BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Clair Zamoiski Segal, Chair
TRUSTEES
Virginia K. Adams
Patricia H. Joseph
Barbara Katz
OF TRUSTEES James D. Thornton, Vice Chair William Backstrom Susan B. Katzenberg
Ann Allston Boyce Heidi Berghuis Frederick Singley Koontz
OFFICERS Diane Cho Ann Allston Boyce Robyn Brenza Kress
Clair Zamoiski Segal, Chair Ellen R. Dame Diane Cho Daniel Leraris
James D. Thornton, Vice Chair Nancy L. Dorman Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Brooke Lierman
Frederick Singley Koontz, Nupur Parekh Flynn Ellen R. Dame Amy Frenkil Meadows
Immediate Past Chair Patricia H. Joseph Nancy L. Dorman John Meyerhoff
Nancy L. Dorman, Vice President Susan B. Katzenberg Amy Elias David H. Milton
Susan B. Katzenberg, Vice President Frederick Singley Koontz Nupur Parekh Flynn Fiona Ong
& Treasurer Amy Meadows John A. Gilpin Rhonda Overby
Amy Meadows, Vice President Donald J. Peters Martha Glenn Adam Pendleton
Donald J. Peters, Vice President David Warnock Amy Gould Donald J. Peters
Ann Allston Boyce, Secretary F. Mackey Hughes Scott Schelle
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Young people at the lively
Greenmount West Community
Center participate in a variety
of activities, including robotics
classes, building with Legos,
and reading.
Alan Schwartz Suzanne F. Cohen Ellen W.P. Wasserman EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES
Clair Zamoiski Segal Stiles Tuttle Colwill Calman J. Zamoiski Jr. The Honorable Barry Glassman
Wilma Bulkin Siegel Janet E. Dunn The Honorable Larry Hogan
Jean Silber Sandra Levi Gerstung The Honorable Doug Howard
William Taylor IV Katherine M. Hardiman NATIONAL TRUSTEES The Honorable Kevin Kamenetz
James D. Thornton Margot W. M. Heller Bernice Barth The Honorable Allan H. Kittleman
Mark Wagner Louise P. Hoblitzell Sylvia de Cuevas The Honorable Joan M. Pratt
David W. Wallace Freeman A. Hrabowski III Monroe Denton The Honorable Catherine E. Pugh
David Warnock Mary B. Hyman Barbara Duthuit The Honorable Steven R. Schuh
Leana S. Wen Jeanette Kimmel Brenda Edelson The Honorable Bernard C. “Jack”
Jeffrey A. Legum Phillips Hathaway Young
Charles W. Newhall III Joseph Holtzman
HONORARY TRUSTEES James S. Riepe Stephen Mazoh
Alexander C. Baer Frederica K. Saxon Edward S. Pantzer
Constance R. Caplan Louis B. Thalheimer
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SPECIAL TICKETED EXHIBITION
ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN
SCULPTURE, 1963–2016
April 22–July 29, 2018
Jack Whitten made his sculpture privately in Greece—even after he became one of the most
important artists of his generation. For the first time ever, these revelatory works will be
on view in Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2016, co-organized by The Baltimore
Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This ticketed exhibition features 40 sculptures Whitten has proven to be a boundary-breaking an African American. His prolific sculptural
carved from a diverse spectrum of materials— artist and a major influencer of younger practice became a means to claim his Black
including wood, marble, copper, bone, and per- African American artists. His paintings range American identity and grew in unexpected
sonal mementos—contextualized with African, from figurative work addressing Civil Rights in ways. In Crete, Whitten was inspired by the
Minoan, and Cycladic sculptures and other ex- the 1960s to ground-breaking experimenta- ancient Cycladic and Minoan work of the
amples of objects that inspired Whitten across tion with abstraction in the 1970s and 80s, region, recognizing the sculptures’ functional
the years. A gallery dedicated to Whitten’s Black to recent work, the Black Monoliths series, role in society as repositories of power, memory,
Monoliths, a series of paintings honoring African which memorializes the giants of Black culture sensuality, and spirituality, much like the
American figures, reveals the connection such as Ralph Ellison and W.E.B. Du Bois. African works he had seen in New York
between Whitten’s paintings and his previously institutions early in his career.
unknown sculptures, and marks the first time Whitten began carving wood in the 1960s
these works have been exhibited together. to understand African sculpture, both aes- Whitten believes African sculpture is a vital
thetically and in terms of his own identity as inheritance for artists working in the African
Born in Alabama in 1939, Whitten’s work was diaspora and sees his own work as just the
informed by growing up in the Jim Crow South latest episode in a long history of exchange
and experiencing historical and personal between Africa, the African diaspora, and the
struggles for freedom. He originally planned a Mediterranean. His sculpture renders a new
career as an army doctor and began pre- understanding of American culture as the
medical studies at Tuskegee Institute, where product of intertwined rather than opposed
he was inspired by George Washington African and European traditions, and in doing
Carver’s legacy as a scientist, inventor, and so, it positions Black identity as central to a
artist. Whitten became increasingly involved broad, cosmopolitan humanism.
in the growing Civil Rights Movement,
attending the Montgomery Bus Boycott to This exhibition is curated by Katy Siegel,
hear Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision for a BMA Senior Programming and Research
changed America. He also participated in the Curator and Thaw Chair in Modern American
Civil Rights demonstrations in Baton Rouge, Art at Stony Brook University, and Kelly Baum,
Louisiana. Whitten moved to New York in Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky
1960 and remained there following gradua- Curator of Contemporary Art at The Met.
tion from Cooper Union in 1964, studying his
LEFT: JackWhitten carving wood on the beach in
first art dealer’s African art collection and em- Aghia Galini, Crete, Greece, Summer 1971.
bedding himself both in the downtown New PAGE 4:
Jack Whitten. The Tomb of Socrates,
York City painting scene and in the uptown 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
PHOTOGRAPH BY GENEVIEVE HANSON
circles of Black artists like Romare Bearden.
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ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN SCULPTURE, 1963–2016
TICKETS ON SALE MARCH 22
MEMBERS MEMBER EVENTS
SEE IT FREE Council Talk & Private Preview
Reserve your FREE tickets at the
Saturday, April 21, 6–8 p.m.
BMA or online at artbma.org. And don’t
miss the complimentary audio tour Explore the career of contemporary master Jack Whitten and join us for a private preview
included with the exhibition. celebrating the artist’s monumental exhibition. Arrive early to hear insights from Katy Siegel,
BMA Senior Curator for Research and Programming. Invitations will be mailed.
Ticket allotments vary according to
Membership level. Members at the Dual/
Family level and above also receive FREE Members Preview Party
tickets for their children and grandchildren Saturday, April 21, 8–10 p.m.
(ages 18 and under).
Enjoy an evening of art and inspiration. Invitations admit two and will be mailed.
To RSVP, call 443-573-1810 or email members@artbma.org. Guest tickets may be
Member Tickets purchased online at artbma.org or at the door for $25.
Individual Members
1 FREE adult ticket per day Members Preview Days
Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21
Dual/Family Members
2 FREE adult tickets per day Two days of Members-only access to Odyssey have been combined with Member Spring
Shopping Days. Enjoy 20% savings at the BMA Shop!
Contributor Members
4 FREE adult tickets per day
BMA Council Members
8 FREE adult tickets per day PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Opening Celebration
Non-Member Tickets Sunday, April 22, 1–5 p.m.
Adults $10 Join us for a fun afternoon of activities for all ages. Free admission to Odyssey,
art making, fascinating demonstrations, and lively performances!
Seniors (ages 65+) $8
Teacher Workshop
Students with I.D. FREE
Saturday, April 28, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Groups (10+) $7 $20 Members | $25 non-Members
Children/Youth 18 and Under FREE Explore the sculptural works of Jack Whitten in conversation with African and ancient
Greek art. Participants will enjoy a tour of the exhibition, engage in an art-making project,
and find ways to connect the ideas and forms of Whitten’s work to the classroom
Purchase Your Tickets curriculum. For more information, visit artbma.org/educators/workshop.html.
IN PERSON at the BMA
ONLINE at artbma.org
(service charges may apply)
GROUPS (10 or more)
443-573-1701
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NEW ON VIEW
STEPHEN TOWNS: RUMINATION AND A RECKONING
March 7–September 2, 2018
This is the first museum presentation dedicated to the stunning textile work
of Baltimore-based artist Stephen Towns.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the art-
ist’s monumental installation, Birth of a Nation
(2014), which represents the abstracted
figure of a black woman nursing a white
infant against the backdrop of the first official
flag of the United States. Suspended above
a mound of earth, the quilt is surrounded by
Towns’ ongoing Story Quilts series (2016–),
a cycle of seven works in luminous fabrics
and glass beads that narrate the life of
Nat Turner and his 1831 rebellion. A pair
of quilted oval portraits of Nat and Cherry
Turner adds a significant dimension to this
narrative, considering the role of a marriage
in the course of historic events. Towns’ quilt-
ing practice delves into the perspectives of
women and people of color and draws on that
knowledge to interrogate the institution of
slavery in American history.
Trained as a painter with a BFA in studio art
from the University of South Carolina, Towns
(American, b. 1980) has also developed a
rigorous, self-taught quilting practice. Towns
draws visual inspiration from medieval altar-
pieces, Impressionist paintings, and Dutch
wax print fabrics, in addition to African
American story quilts. His work has been
exhibited at Arlington Arts Center, Galerie
Myrtis, Gallery CA, and Goucher College’s
Rosenberg Gallery, among other venues.
Towns won the inaugural travel prize of the
Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City in
2016, traveling to Ghana and Senegal to visit
historical sites that mark the Transatlantic
Slave Trade, and was the recipient of a Ruby
Artist Project Grant in 2015.
This exhibition is curated by Cecilia Wichmann,
Stephen Towns. Birth of a Nation. 2014. Courtesy of the artist. Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art.
PHOTO BY STEPHEN TOWNS
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SPENCER FINCH:
MOON DUST
Opening February 21, 2018
Moon Dust (Apollo 17), shown below at the 2009 Venice Biennale, will illuminate
the BMA’s majestic Fox Court for the next seven years.
GERHARD KASSNER, BERLIN
The glow from Spencer Finch’s stunning light Finch (American, b. 1962) lives and works in Spencer Finch: Moon Dust is curated by
installation, a complex mapping of molecules, Brooklyn, New York. The internationally known Senior Curator of Contemporary Art
creates a sense of wonderment, drawing artist has had extensive solo and group exhibi- Kristen Hileman with Assistant Curator of
visitors to it. Moon Dust (Apollo 17) ’s 150 tions. Among his most recent projects are Contemporary Art Cecilia Wichmann.
chandeliers and 417 lights represent the Cosmic Latte at the Massachusetts Museum
chemical composition of moon dust gathered of Contemporary Art, A Certain Slant of Light Moon Dust (Apollo 17) is on extended loan from
during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Each at The Morgan Library & Museum, The Skies the collection of Joanne Gold and Andrew Stern,
light bulb stands for an element: the smallest can’t keep their secret at Turner Contemporary, who are generously sponsoring its presentation
bulbs represent oxygen; the largest signify and Painting Air at the Rhode Island School at the BMA in loving memory of Lenore E. Gold.
both iron and chromium. The work was first of Design Museum of Art. His work has been
presented at the 2009 Venice Biennale and a part of Baltimore’s cityscape since 2012, ABOVE: Spencer Finch. Moon Dust (Apollo 17). 2009.
will be on view at the BMA for seven years. when Johns Hopkins Hospital unveiled the Installation view at Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice
Biennial, 2009. Collection of Joanne Gold and Andrew
artist’s 25,000-square-meter glass façade for Stern. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/
its medical center. Stockholm. © Spencer Finch
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SACRED SPRING: VIENNA SECESSION POSTERS
FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEROY E. HOFFBERGER
AND PAULA GATELY TILLMAN HOFFBERGER
March 25–July 29, 2018
More than a dozen turn-of-the-century prints and posters celebrate the varied styles
of the international Art Nouveau movement and the generosity of the late Baltimore
philanthropist LeRoy E. Hoffberger.
Sacred Spring highlights the Viennese
Secession, an influential group of artists
who sought to break free from the academic
art of the past. Founded in 1898, the group
shared their ideas through public exhibitions
and images and texts for journals, including
Ver Sacrum or Sacred Spring. Two calendar
pages made by Gustav Klimt and Kolomon
Moser for the 1901 issue of Ver Sacrum are
featured as well as three posters by Klimt,
Moser, and Egon Schiele that advertise the
Viennese Secession’s exhibitions in 1898,
1899, and 1918 respectively.
One of the images most frequently associ-
ated with the Art Nouveau style—Peter
Behren’s influential 1898 color woodcut
The Kiss—is among the beguiling works on
view, as is Jan Toorop’s striking 1894 color
lithograph poster advertising Delft Salad Oil.
Toorop’s design was so influential that the Art
Nouveau movement in the Netherlands is of-
ten referred to as the Slaolie (Salad Oil) style.
The Hoffberger bequest is a major and
important addition to the Museum’s collection
of late 19th-century and modern works on
paper. Austrian, Dutch, and German posters
expand upon and add a new dimension to the
Museum’s holdings of French and American
posters, including deep pockets of works by
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret.
Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters
from the Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger
and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger is
curated by Rena Hoisington, Senior Curator
of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Koloman Moser. Poster for the Fifth Secession Exhibition.
1899. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Collection of
LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger,
BMA 2017.26
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MARY REID KELLEY AND PATRICK KELLEY:
WE ARE GHOSTS
April 4–August 19, 2018
Docked at the Inner Harbor, the USS Torsk inspired the mise-en-scene
of the new film, In the Body of the Sturgeon.
MacArthur “Genius Grant” awardee Mary Reid These recent works reveal the breadth of the profound investigations of language and
Kelley and her husband and collaborator, artists’ interests. This Is Offal is inspired by death invite us to think about the ways that
Patrick Kelley, take painting, poetry, perfor- English poet Thomas Hood’s 1844 poem history is told.
mance, and filmmaking into new territory. The Bridge of Sighs. It retells the tragic tale
The distinctive films on view in We Are of a woman who commits suicide by jumping This exhibition is the latest in a series
Ghosts, a project for the BMA’s Front Room, into the Thames from the perspective of her of projects in partnership with The Center
are suffused with literary references, intensive bickering internal organs as they find them- for Advanced Media Studies at The Johns
research, and a sharp sense of humor. We selves on the dissecting table. In The Body Hopkins University.
Are Ghosts, co-organized by the BMA and of The Sturgeon takes as its source Henry
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are
Tate Liverpool, brings together two films— Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song
Ghosts is curated by Senior Curator of
the newly commissioned work In The Body of Hiawatha, collaging distinctive verse to tell
Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman.
of The Sturgeon and This Is Offal—alongside an entirely new story about the deprivations
a series of portraits of the films’ characters, of a young submarine crew in the closing
ABOVE: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley.
which appear in the form of large-scale moments of the Second World War. Leaping Harry S. Truman. 2017. Lightbox. Courtesy the artists,
lightboxes. from history to fiction and back again, these Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, and Pilar Corrias Gallery
10HEAD BACK & HIGH:
SENGA NENGUDI,
PERFORMANCE OBJECTS
(1976–2015)
Through May 27, 2018
“My works are abstracted Twisted, knotted, and stretched pantyhose with artist Maren Hassinger, who will be
weighted with sand sag onto the floor in the subject of a BMA exhibition opening
reflections of used bodies— Head Back & High: Senga Nengudi, the in summer 2018. Nengudi’s work explores
latest exhibition in the gallery adjacent to themes that range from claiming public space
visual images that serve my the East Lobby. Senga Nengudi (American, for creative action to examining the dynamics
aesthetic decisions as well b. 1943) chooses familiar, inexpensive of intimate relationships.
materials loaded with symbolic resonances to
as my ideas.” construct intimate environments. Interacting Head Back & High: Senga Nengudi,
Performance Objects (1976–2015) is curat-
— Senga Nengudi with the installation and observing the works,
ed by BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director
performers and audiences are invited to con-
sider how they move through the world and Christopher Bedford and Assistant Curator
the factors that influence their distinct experi- of Contemporary Art Cecilia Wichmann.
ences. The installation features performance
ABOVE RIGHT:Senga Nengudi. Performance Piece (detail).
The exhibition is co-organized by The
photography and a video documenting more
1978. © Senga Nengudi; Thomas Erben Gallery, New Baltimore Museum of Art and Art + Practice.
York; and Lévy Gorvy, New York, London than 40 years of collaborative performances
BEYOND FLIGHT:
BIRDS IN AFRICAN ART
Through June 17, 2018
Inspired by the Museum’s recent acquisition
of a rare Gitenga mask, Beyond Flight
illustrates the honored place of birds within
numerous African cultures.
From the common crow in western Cameroon humans and animals. Sub-Saharan
to the vibrant Great Blue Turaco in central artists from Burkina Faso,
Democratic Republic of Congo, the birds Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic
represented in this exhibition are as diverse Republic of Congo, Guinea, Nigeria, and
as the types of works that feature them. Uganda are represented.
Nearly two dozen masks, headdresses, staffs,
and other objects reference birds by material Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art is co- ABOVE: Gitenga Mask. Mid-20th century. Pende
or motif. Some of the objects played a role in curated by former Associate Curator of region, Democratic Republic of Congo. The
Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchased as the gift
the spiritual life of their creators. Others were African Art Shannen Hill and Interim of Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island,
simply made to be beautiful. All reflect on the Associate Curator of African Art Kevin Tervala. Maryland, BMA 2015.148
deep and meaningful relationship between
11TOMORROW, GUNS ONLY EXIST IN MUSEUM EXHIBITS.
SPECIAL PROGRAM
A CONVERSATION SERIES ON ART, RACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE,
AND IMAGINING THE FUTURE(S) WE WANT.
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PHOTOS BY GLENWOOD R JACKSON
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More than 600 people gathered at the Union A recording of the November 11th event is
Baptist Church in West Baltimore on Satur- available at youtube.com/artbma. Share your
day, November 11 for the inaugural event ideas for the future at bmatomorrows.org
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in the BMA’s new series, The Necessity of and check your inbox in the coming weeks
Tomorrow(s). Mark Bradford, one of the most for an exciting announcement about the
accomplished artists of his generation, spoke final two Necessity of Tomorrow(s) events.
about creating paths to power where none
exists and his Venice Biennale presentation, The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) is generously
Tomorrow Is Another Day, on view at the BMA sponsored by Suzanne F. Cohen and
in fall 2018. the Cohen Opportunity Fund.
An integral part of Bradford’s engage-
ment in Baltimore will be his partnership
1. The historic Union Baptist Church graciously hosted
the popular event. with Greenmount West Community Center
2. Participants mapped the future of Baltimore with artist (GWCC), which provides a safe and positive
Graham Coreil-Allen. environment for underserved local youth to
3. Artist Mark Bradford and Honorary Trustee
create, learn, and share. There, Bradford and
Suzanne Cohen, former chair of the BMA Board and
sponsor of The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) series. his studio will provide skills-based training
4. BMA Director Christopher Bedford, Greenmount West and equipment for GWCC youth to begin a
Community Association President Kisha Webster,
Mark Bradford, and BMA Senior Programming and
silk-screening project.
Research Curator Katy Siegel
13PUBLIC PROGRAMS
THE STOOP SPECIAL
PHOTOS BY MAXIMILIAN FRANZ
ENGAGEMENT AT THE BMA
INTERCAMBIO: STORIES ABOUT
INSPIRATION AND EXCHANGE
ACROSS THE BORDER
Friday, March 9
7 p.m. Doors open with live music, cash bar,
and after-hours access to the exhibition
8 p.m. Show
$25 Members | $30 non-Members
For the last weekend of Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist
Prints, we’re hosting a Stoop Special Engagement. The popular
Stoop Storytelling Series has partnered with the BMA to present
seven great, true, personal tales about creative exchange across
the U.S./Mexico border. Enjoy after-hours access to the exhibition,
live music, and a cash bar.
ART AFTER HOURS:
MOON DUST & STARGAZING © JOERI THIRY / STUK - HOUSE FOR DANCE, IMAGE & SOUND
Friday, March 23, 8–11 p.m.
$20 Members | $25 non-Members
Come to the BMA to dance to cosmic beats, star gaze on the
front steps, and explore Spencer Finch: Moon Dust and other
astronomically inspired artworks during this fun-filled event.
Come dressed up or down, sip a signature cocktail, make your
own celestial art with René Treviño, and chat with Stephen Towns
about the astronomical symbols in his new exhibition. Tickets
include evening access to the galleries, entertainment, and a free
ticket for food or drink. Cash bars with beer and wine, as well as
light bites, are available for purchase. This event is for adults age ARTIST CONVERSATION
21 and older. MARY REID KELLEY
AND PATRICK KELLEY
Wednesday, April 4, 6 p.m.
Free
Join Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman for an
in-depth conversation with Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley.
Hear about their dynamic process of incorporating poetry, paint-
ing, and digital editing into their fiercely compelling videos. Learn
how they mine literature to develop characters that operate at the
margins of history and challenge established narratives.
The artists’ films are on view at the BMA April 4 through
August 19. See page 10 for more information.
Presented in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University’s
Center for Advanced Media Studies.
14OPEN HOURS
Select Saturdays, 2 p.m.
Commons, Joseph Education Center
Free
Open Hours is a monthly program hosted at the BMA with topics
proposed by the public. Events promote community and connect
to the theme of home as explored in the ongoing exhibition Imagin-
ing Home. For more information or to propose a program, please
contact Dave Eassa at deassa@artbma.org or 443-573-1828.
January 20 – Youth Artists and Allies Taking Action in Society
Hear a creative presentation from a new nonprofit on their program
that partners refugee youth from Patterson High School with
Towson University graduate students for an eight-week artistic ex-
ploration. Through art, the students find their own sense of agency
as they make their home in the U.S. THE NEW BMA OUTPOST
February 17 – Carpet Company The BMA’s improved and expanded mobile museums pop up in
Osama and Ayman Abdeldayem, brothers, designers, and co-founders and around Baltimore, engaging communities through art-making
of Carpet Company, fuse Egyptian and Muslim imagery with and conversations. Visit artbma.org for updates on locations and
contemporary skate culture in their designs. Hear how they bridge hours. January through March 2018, find us at:
worlds through their artistic choices while designing, producing,
packaging, and printing customized skateboards. Cherry Hill Town Center
606 Cherry Hill Road, Baltimore
In collaboration with Catholic Charities, the Outpost invites visitors to
share their art and stories about the importance of home, the many
ways a home can look, and their dreams for the future. Catholic
Charities offers 80 programs, supporting children and families in
crisis, people living in poverty, individuals with intellectual disabilities,
new neighbors in the immigrant community, and older Marylanders.
Loch Raven Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic
3901 The Alameda, Baltimore
March 17 – Baltimore Dance Crews Project The Outpost will be in residence at the Loch Raven VA Outpatient
Watch moving performances from the Baltimore Dance Crew Clinic, a division of the VA Maryland Health Care System, working
Project’s middle and high school students as they perform Call on with veterans to explore through art-making what home means
Me and other original choreography to bring attention to the grow- to them, in their personal identity as well as a part of a larger identity
ing homicide rate in our communities and the change we hope to of the United States. The VA Clinic offers outpatient services to our
see. Through hip-hop dance, the BDCP initiates and strengthens nation’s veterans in the local community.
relationships that support youth from school to career.
The Outpost project is generously sponsored by the
April 21 – B. Willow
T. Rowe Price Foundation.
Join B. Willow for a demo and conversation on what home can
mean when it’s reimagined as being part of, not separate from,
the natural world around us. B. Willow offers a wide variety of indoor
plants and terrariums as well as nature-inspired goods made by
local vendors. In addition, they host weekly plant-making and guest-
led workshops, fundraisers, and community events. Their mission
is to provide meaningful, insightful, and beneficial ways of experi-
encing nature in the home.
15PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSEPH HYDE, 2017.
COMMONS
COLLABORATION
Join us for a suite of programs that
explore the art and ideas in the
Commons Collaboration with
artist Phaan Howng and her non-
profit partner Blue Water Baltimore.
Programs continue through August.
RIGHT: Artist Phaan Howng in her installation
The Succession of Nature.
WATERSHED ECOLOGY RAINWATER MAPPING
IN OUR COMMUNITIES Saturday, April 7, 1 p.m.
Saturday, January 27, 1 p.m. Free
Free Celebrate April showers with Blue Water Baltimore staffers
Blue Water Baltimore educator Michel Anderson will unpack the Michel Anderson and Ashley Traut. In this interactive session,
basics of watershed ecology and its connection to the climate crisis. participants will explore the museum’s topography and map out
We will look at the natural history of water and how human activities how rainwater moves over the landscape. Visualize the best site-
impact the Earth’s natural water cycle. We will brainstorm solu- specific ways to harvest rainwater and learn about innovative green
tions and visitors will come away with a fresh toolkit of ideas to be technology, including rain gardens, bioswales, and rain barrels. Make
ecological change agents. maps and explore how to create a more eco-friendly landscape in
your neighborhood.
FREE FAMILY JANUARY MARCH
SUNDAYS BIRDS OF AFRICA MOON AND STARS
January 7 Construct Your Own Wings March 4 Constellation Mobiles
Drop-in workshops: 2–5 p.m.
FREE; no registration required January 14 Make Clay Birds March 11 Pop-up Planets
Ellis A. Gimbel Children’s Studio, January 21 Fashion Your Own Headdress March 18 Construct a Rocket Ship
Joseph Education Center
January 28 Sculpt a Bird Totem March 25 Print Your Own Star Map
Join us every Sunday for activi-
ties the entire family can enjoy.
FEBRUARY APRIL
Explore your creative side with
hands-on art-making workshops AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS NATURAL WONDER
in response to works on view. February 4 Paint a Portrait April 1 Camouflage Collage
Family workshops are held in February 11 Collage a Scene April 8 Make a Zine
the beautifully renovated studio February 18 Wild Spirals April 15 Paint Landscapes
in the Joseph Education Center, In memory of Ethel B. Novey April 22 Odyssey Opening Celebration:
located on the first floor of the
February 25 Mixed-Media Pins See page 6 for details
Museum. Space is limited.
April 29 Build a Mixed-Media Sculpture
16MEMBERS CONTRIBUTORS
EVENTS BRUNCH & TALK
Saturday, March 3
Buffet brunch available 8:45–11 a.m.
MEMBERS FAMILY Lecture: 9:30-10:15 a.m.
VALENTINE’S PARTY Enjoy a buffet brunch at Gertrude’s before
or after the talk on Crossing Borders:
Saturday, February 10, 10 a.m.–noon
Mexican Modernist Prints by Senior
Tickets available January 10 Curator Rena Hoisington.
Adults free; child ticket $5
This exclusive event is open to Contributor
Bring your little loved ones to the BMA for some Members ($165+) and above. Invitations
Valentine’s fun! Join us for a Members-only morning will be mailed. To upgrade to the
with special treats, art activities, and more! Children Contributor program or to RSVP, call
will be able to take home a hand-cut silhouette in a 443-573-1800.
decorated frame as a Valentine’s gift to treasure.
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reservation early by visiting artbma.org or by is generously sponsored by Wilmington Trust.
calling the Members Hotline at 443-573-1800.
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Friday, April 20 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Saturday, April 21 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Sunday, April 22 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
MEMBERS PREVIEW DAYS
Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Enjoy 20% savings at the BMA Shop plus exclusive, Members-
only access to Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2016.
17MEMBER 1 2
EVENTS
SEE & CELEBRATE
October 28, 2017
1. Charlas Wise and Gail Ostergaard gaze
at Tomás Saraceno’s installation.
2. Jennifer O’Hara Martin and Trustee
3 4
Rhonda Overby
3. Chezia Thompson, artist Annet Couwenberg,
and Dan Meyers
4–6. Members filled the galleries for four newly
opened exhibitions and enjoyed a special
reception with autumn-themed fare and
music by The Witches.
TOMÁS SARACENO
OPENING 5 6
September 28, 2017
7. Board Chair Clair Zamoiski Segal,
Director Christopher Bedford, and Trustees
PHOTOS BY MAXIMILIAN FRANZ
Sue Cohen and Kathy Hardiman
8. Artist Tomás Saraceno greets Trustee
Jean Silber and Constantine Grimaldis
9. Council Members admire the new installation
by Tomás Saraceno as they ascend the
East Lobby steps
7 9
8
PHOTOS BY GLENWOOD R JACKSON
18SUMMER
PHOTOS BY MAXIMILIAN FRANZ
SUNDAE SOCIAL
Sunday, September 10, 2017
At the Summer Sundae Social, Members
gathered for a lovely afternoon in the BMA
Sculpture Gardens. Guests enjoyed picnick-
ing, art talks and activities, live music, and
the debut of an ice cream flavor inspired by
Paul Gauguin’s Woman of the Mango.
MEMBER The final stop is Kilkenny, a well-preserved
medieval city and Ireland’s cultural capital, be-
TRAVEL fore returning to Dublin. An optional four-day/
three-night post-tour extension to Northern
Ireland is available. First-class accommoda-
tions, many meals, and expert tour guides, as
ENCHANTED IRELAND well as round-trip airfare, are all included in
this deluxe tour.
June 24–July 6, 2018
Ireland charms on this full yet well-paced small Exclusively for the BMA, we will tour the Hugh
group tour. Begin your 13-day journey touring Lane Gallery in Dublin, the first modern art gal-
the intimate capital of Dublin, including Trinity lery in the world, as well as Butler Gallery and
College and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Proceed Medieval Mile Museum in Kilkenny, both exciting,
to Galway, stopping at sixth-century Clonmac- contemporary art spaces that add to the cultural
noise and continuing through the legendary richness of this ancient, medieval city.
Connemara to beautiful Kylemore Abbey. Next
This tour is available for $5,072 per per-
destination: Inismor, largest of the dramatic
son (based on double occupancy), with air
Aran Islands. Travel County Clare’s fabled
included from Washington, D.C.
coastline, passing through The Burren and
visiting the majestic Cliffs of Moher. Ferrying
to County Kerry, you’ll tour charming Killarney
Enchanted Ireland is open to $550+
and travel by boat to historic Muckross House.
Sponsor Members. Upgrade to the
Experience the Ring of Kerry’s stunning
Sponsor level to enjoy international
mountain and coastal scenery; then it’s on
travel with the BMA. For more informa-
to Blarney, where you see its 15th-century
tion, call 443-573-1809.
castle, and to the celebrated Rock of Cashel.
19COUNCIL
TOURS
BMA COUNCIL
AND CORPORATE
COUNCIL TOURS
In thanks for their generous support of the
Museum, donors to the BMA Council and
Corporate Council Campaigns are invited to
enjoy these private tours and receptions this fall.
Spencer Finch: Moon Dust –
Wednesday, February 21 – 5:30 p.m. –
Be among the first to see Spencer Finch’s
awe-inspiring installation in Fox Court. Hear
Kristen Hileman, Senior Curator of Con-
temporary Art, discuss the details of Finch’s
breathtaking hanging light piece at this
exclusive Council Preview and Reception.
Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art –
Tuesday, March 27 – Tour 11:30 a.m. –
Kevin Tervala, Associate Curator of African
Art, shares his insights on Beyond Flight,
an exhibition that illustrates the honored
place of birds within numerous African
cultures.
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture,
1963–2016 – Tuesday, April 24 – Tour
11:30 a.m. – Discover a previously unknown
trove of work by contemporary master Jack
Whitten. Katy Siegel, Senior Curator for
Research and Programming, shares her
thoughts on this extraordinary exhibition and
the remarkable artist it showcases.
Join the BMA Council
Upgrade your contribution to the $1,500
GERHARD KASSNER, BERLIN
Spencer Finch. Detail, Moon Dust (Apollo 17). 2009. BMA Council level and enjoy unique
Installation view at Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice benefits. Council Members receive in-
Biennial, 2009. Collection of Joanne Gold and Andrew
Stern. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/ vitations to exclusive Council tours and
Stockholm. © Spencer Finch receptions, and FREE parking. Call the
Member Hotline at 443-573-1800 to join
the BMA Council.
20TRUSTEE
SPOTLIGHT
JAMES D. THORNTON communities we serve and to the communities
MITRO HOOD
that we want to do a better job of reaching,”
James D. Thornton, co-founder and principal Thornton said. “As Chair, it’s very important to
of Thorwood Real Estate Group, LLC, has me that we engage in extensive consultation
served on the BMA’s Board of Trustees since with stakeholders—Members, underrepre-
2004. During his tenure, he has held numer- sented audiences, BMA staff at every level,
ous leadership positions including Chair of local artists, Trustees and the many others
the Governance and Finance Committees, and connected to the area and the Museum.”
Chair of the Major Gifts Committee during In a
New Light, the most successful philanthropic A series of focus groups and surveys will
campaign in the Museum’s history. He currently be conducted in the spring of 2018. A com-
serves as Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of prehensive strategic plan with a clearly
the Strategic Planning Committee. In this later defined mission, vision, and action plan is
role, he is leading the development of a new expected to be completed by fall 2018.
strategic plan that will guide the BMA for the
next three-to-five years.
“We are at a pivotal point in the Museum’s
history where we need to answer the question
how do we make the BMA more relevant
in meaningful and significant ways to the
Chair’s Council Trip to Venice
October 21–26, 2017
Director Christopher Bedford and BMA travel-
ers gathered in front of Mark Bradford’s
Go Tell it on the Mountain in the United States
Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Christopher Bedford, Commissioner of the
U.S. Pavilion, and Katy Siegel, BMA Senior
Programming and Research Curator and
Thaw Endowed Chair of Modern American
Art at Stony Brook University co-curated
Mark Bradford’s presentation in the U.S.
Pavilion, Tomorrow Is Another Day. The exhibi-
tion will be on view at the BMA in fall 2018.
21BMA FRIENDS GROUPS
Friends Group Members enjoy exclusive access to FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN WING
(FOAW)
private collections, museums and galleries, artists’ studios, For more information, call 443-573-1768.
and much more. For information, call 443-573-1800.
FRIENDS OF THE ARTS OF AFRICA, THE
PACIFIC, AND THE AMERICAS (FAPA)
For more information, call 443-573-1745.
PRINT, DRAWING & PHOTOGRAPH SOCIETY (PDPS) Behind-the-Scenes at the BMA: Curatorial
CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY Talk by Kevin Tervala – Saturday, February 3,
11 a.m.–1 p.m. – Join Associate Curator
For the past 50 years, the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society has played a major role at Kevin Tervala for a discussion about the future
the BMA, educating its Members, helping to build the Museum’s collection, and supporting of the BMA’s African collection and a look at
important exhibitions and programs. PDPS Members are art lovers, artists, collectors, scholars, how artworks are selected for display in the
Museum’s galleries.
docents, teachers, and students—all united by their shared enthusiasm for works on paper.
Since 1968, PDPS’s programming has given FRIENDS OF MODERN AND
participants the opportunity to learn together; CONTEMPORARY ART (FoMaCA)
to share common interests; to enhance their For more information, call 443-573-1761.
appreciation and knowledge of prints, draw-
ings and photographs; to start or improve Save the Date: Collection Visit
their own collections; and to appreciate the Sunday, May 20, 2–4 p.m.
importance of supporting the BMA.
JOSHUA JOHNSON COUNCIL (JJC)
A special edition Newsletter published in
For more information, call 443-573-1816.
the fall chronicles the Society’s five decades
of accomplishments, specific historical
events, important accessions, and some of PRINT, DRAWING & PHOTOGRAPH
PDPS’s most significant programs. SOCIETY (PDPS)
For more information, call 443-573-1789.
In this its golden anniversary year, the PDPS will
celebrate its history and its many contributions to the Winter Seminar – 50 Years of PDPS
Department of Prints, Drawings & Photographs and to the Acquisitions – Saturday, February 17,
10:30 a.m. (Snow Date: February 24) –
BMA. PDPS will also celebrate its guiding lights: the curators who have been friends and
In celebration of the PDPS’s 50th Anniver-
mentors for half a century. Anniversary programming will include visits to the homes of sary, join us for a lecture on a selection of
longtime Members whose collecting was encouraged and influenced by the curators, a winter works on paper that the Society has helped
seminar and fall 2018 exhibition both dedicated to works on paper that PDPS helped the the BMA acquire since PDPS began in 1968.
Museum acquire, and special access to the new MICA printmaking facility. And the crown PDPS Members only—please see forthcom-
jewel of its 50th anniversary celebration is the gift to the Museum’s collection of Joan Miró’s ing invitation for further details and instruc-
Plate 6 from the Black and Red Series. PDPS is currently engaged in a campaign to raise the tions on how to RSVP.
funding needed to purchase this spectacular work of art. If you would like to contribute to this
wonderful effort, please call Judy Gibbs at 443-573-1796. MICA Printmaking Open Studio Demo
Celebration – Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m. and
noon – Faculty and students will showcase
multiple printmaking techniques in their new
facilities at 1515 Mount Royal Avenue, includ-
ing intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, and
MICA’s own Globe Letterpress. Each session
can accommodate 20 PDPS members. PDPS
Members only—please see forthcoming
invitation for further details and instructions
on how to RSVP.
22BMA AT A GLANCE
ONGOING NEW
EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS
Annet Couwenberg: Head Back & High: Senga Nengudi, Spencer Finch: Moon Dust
From Digital to Damask Performance Objects (1976–2015) Opening February 21, 2018
Through February 18, 2018 Through May 27, 2018
Stephen Towns:
Crossing Borders: Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art Rumination and A Reckoning
Mexican Modernist Prints Through June 17, 2018 March 7–September 2, 2018
Through March 11, 2018
Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters
Front Room: Jacobs Wing: Through April 1, 2018 from the Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger
Njideka Akunyili Crosby East Lobby: Through July 8, 2018 and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger
Through March 11, 2018 March 25–July 29, 2018
Imagining Home
Black Box: Kara Walker Through October 7, 2018 Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley:
& Hank Willis Thomas We Are Ghosts
Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature
Through March 18, 2018 April 4–August 19, 2018
Through October 7, 2018
Spiral Play: Loving in the ’80s Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture,
Through April 15, 2018 1963–2016
ABOVE: Tomás Saraceno. Entangled Orbits. 2017. Courtesy
the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Esther April 22–July 29, 2018
Schipper, Berlin; Pinksummer Contemporary, Genoa;
Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar,
Buenos Aires
23BMA AT A GLANCE
JANUARY FEBRUARY 18 SUNDAY
Free Family Sunday: Wild Spirals,
2–5 p.m. In memory of Ethel B. Novey
3 W E DN ES DAY 2 FR IDAY
21 WEDNESDAY
Collection Tour: Contemporary Art, First Friday Curatorial Tour: Cecilia
Collection Tour: Tiffany and Friends,
2 p.m. Wichmann on Head Back & High:
2 p.m.
Senga Nengudi, Performance Objects
Council Opening Reception:
5 F RI DAY (1976–2015), 2 p.m.
Spencer Finch: Moon Dust, 5:30–
First Friday Curatorial Tour:
7:30 p.m. *
Kevin Tervala on Beyond Flight: 4 S UNDAY
Birds in African Art, 2 p.m. Free Family Sunday: Paint a Portrait,
25 SUNDAY
2–5 p.m.
Free Family Sunday: Mixed-Media
7 S U N DAY
Pins, 2–5 p.m.
Free Family Sunday: Construct Your 7 WEDNESDAY
Own Wings, 2–5 p.m. Collection Tour: African American
28 WEDNESDAY
Art¸ 2 p.m.
Collection Tour: Asian Art, 2 p.m.
10 W E DN ES DAY
Collection Tour: African Art. 2 p.m. 1 0 SATURDAY
Member Event: Family Valentine’s
14 S U N DAY
Free Family Sunday: Make Clay
Party, 10 a.m.–noon $ H
MARCH
Birds, 2–5 p.m. 1 1 S UNDAY
Free Family Sunday: Collage a
2 F RIDAY
17 W E DN ES DAY Scene, 2–5 p.m.
First Friday Curatorial Tour:
Collection Tour: Cone Wing, 2 p.m.
Oliver Shell on the Saidie May
1 4 WEDNESDAY
Collection, 2 p.m.
20 S AT U RDAY Collection Tour: European Painting,
Open Hours: Youth Artists and Allies 2 p.m.
3 SATURDAY
Taking Action in Society, 2 p.m.
Contributors Brunch & Talk:
1 7 S ATURDAY
Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist
21 S U N DAY Open Hours: Carpet Company, 2 p.m.
Prints, 8:45 a.m. *
Free Family Sunday: Fashion Your
Own Headdress, 2–5 p.m.
24 W E DN ES DAY
Collection Tour: Imagining Home, 2 p.m.
27 S AT U RDAY
Commons Collaboration: Watershed
Ecology in Our Communities, 1 p.m.
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28 S U N DAY
Free Family Sunday: Sculpt a Bird
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31 W E DN ES DAY Share the Museum Experience with a gift of Membership. Your friends and
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4 S U N DAY
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Members Shopping Day,
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Members Preview Day:
1 S UNDAY
7 W E DN ES DAY Odyssey, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Free Family Sunday: Camouflage
Collection Tour: Henri Matisse, 2 p.m.
Collage, 2–5 p.m.
21 SATURDAY
9 F R I D AY Members Shopping Day,
4 WEDNESDAY
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Intercambio: Stories about inspiration Members Preview Day:
Artist Conversation: Mary Reid
and exchange across the border, Odyssey, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Kelley and Patrick Kelley in conver-
7 p.m. Doors open with live music, Open Hours: B. Willow, 2 p.m.
sation with Senior Curator Kristen
cash bar, and after-hours access to Members Opening Celebration:
Hileman, 6 p.m.
the exhibition. 8 p.m. Show $ Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture
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6 FR IDAY
11 S U N DAY Members 8 p.m.
First Friday Curatorial Tour: Rena
Free Family Sunday: Pop-Up
Hoisington on Sacred Spring, 2 p.m.
Planets, 2–5 p.m. 22 SUNDAY
Members Shopping Day,
7 S ATURDAY
14 W E DN ES DAY 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Commons Collaboration: Rainwater
Collection Tour: Imagining Home, 2 p.m. Opening Celebration:
Mapping, 1 p.m.
Odyssey, 1–5 p.m.
17 S AT U RDAY
8 S UNDAY
Open Hours, Baltimore Dance Crews 24 TUESDAY
Free Family Sunday: Make a Zine,
Project, 2 p.m. Council Tour: Odyssey, 11:30 a.m. *
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18 S U N DAY 25 WEDNESDAY
1 1 WEDNESDAY
Free Family Sunday: Construct a Collection Tour: Sculpture Garden,
Collection Tour: European Art, 2 p.m.
Rocket Ship, 2–5 p.m. 2 p.m.
1 5 S UNDAY
21 W E DN ES DAY 28 SATURDAY
Free Family Sunday: Paint Land-
Collection Tour: Contemporary Art, Teacher Workshop: Odyssey: Jack
scapes, 2–5 p.m.
2 p.m. Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2016,
8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
1 8 W EDNESDAY
22 T H U RS DAY
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Tickets on Sale: Odyssey: Jack 29 SUNDAY
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23 F RI DAY
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Birds in African Art, 11:30 a.m. * of the BMA’s collection in this 45-minute, Docent-led tour.
28 W E DN ES DAY Sundays @ 2:30 p.m. – Sunday Shorts: Discover the wonder of a single work
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