BMA Stories
BMA Stories is much more than what's on view, though we cover that too! BMA Stories explores the questions art raises, the conversations it sparks, and the stories that surround it.
Challenge Accepted!
In 2023, Governor Wes Moore announced the goal of achieving 100% clean energy in Maryland by 2035. To support this critical and ambitious target, the BMA established a citywide eco-challenge, inviting civic and cultural leaders throughout the Baltimore region to commit to making one sustainably driven operational change and developing one program to raise environmental awareness in 2025.
In Conversation with Ekow Eshun, Guest Curator of Black Earth Rising
Black Earth Rising revels in nature’s beauty and reveals new ways of understanding social justice and climate change.
Shinah Solomon Etting: Jewish Matriarch of Early Baltimore
Polk’s portrait of Shinah Etting, which is currently on view in Jacob and Hilda K. Blaustein Gallery of the Dorothy McIlvain Scott American Wing at the BMA, illuminates the complexities and contradictions of Jewish identity in America during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Home Wherever I Go
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative. To learn about the diverse contributions needed to realize this expansive project, students convened weekly with a wide range of BMA staff from many departments.
Bodies of Water
For the fall 2024 semester, the BMA welcomed a graduate cohort in curatorial practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art to center a seminar class on a careful examination of the Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative.
Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?
Whom do we honor, and how? The powerful installation More than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 asks these questions while bringing attention to the efforts of many community health workers (CHWs) who heroically served Baltimore patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BMA at 110: A Selection of Milestones, 1914 to 2024
In the wake of the Great Fire that destroyed much of Baltimore in 1904, the city’s civic leaders rallied around the belief that a great city needed a great museum. From this beginning, the Baltimore Museum of Art has grown into a major cultural destination that cares for an internationally celebrated collection of more than 97,000 artworks and embodies a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity for the benefit of all communities throughout Baltimore and beyond.