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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Infinite Weight

  Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum is a wide-reaching project that proposes Indigenizing interventions to address and refuse the oppressive hierarchies of coloniality that pervade the realm of culture and serve as the underpinning of museums.

• Behind the Dust: Conservation of a Gitenga Mask

  This Gitenga mask caused great excitement when it came to the BMA’s conservation lab for treatment, as the object is impressive both in size (33 ½ x 35 ½ x 19 inches) and in presence.

• Fortune Justice’s Face Jug

  A 19th-century ceramic shows how a Black potter thrived in the post-Civil War South.

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  New Acquisitions on View

  This summer, 11 new additions to the Museum’s collection make their BMA debut. Read more about some of these recent acquisitions below and plan your next visit with a comprehensive list of new works on view and a map of where to find them.

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  Fragonard’s Fantasy Figures

  Fragonard is bold and rebellious in these paintings,” Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture explains about the life and work of Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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  Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams

  The summative career retrospective Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, co-organized with the Seattle Art Museum, features nearly 140 examples from the artist’s expansive career—including sculpture, garments and jewelry, performance footage, and ephemera from Scott’s personal archive, tracing the history of her practice through ten thematic sections.