Turn Again to the Earth

Turn Again to the Earth will bring the environment into the galleries, offering opportunities to touch sample materials alongside related artworks, localized sound stations that combine the sounds of nature with stories of climate change through art, and new interpretive text for 40 artworks in the collection.

Eight Turn Again to the Earth community advisory members, including environmental activists, academics, and artists, selected a work from the BMA’s collection and shared personal perspectives on climate justice inspired by their chosen artwork. The audio guide is available as a BMA Digital Guide and on the Bloomberg Connects app.

The Community Gallery, created for you and your community, encourages quiet patience, like that of a growing plant. Maryland-based artist V Walton invites you to discuss your relationship with the natural world and to envision new ways of living grounded in care, sustainability, and reciprocity—with the soil, plants, animals, and environments that sustain us.

On view September 21, 2025–March 1, 2026 on the Contemporary Wing’s 3rd floor.

Did you know that a normal grass lawn isn’t actually very green? Conventional turf consumes a lot of fossil fuels and offers a minimal habitat for non-human life. So, the BMA is exchanging a section of our West Lawn for a biodiverse, carbon-sequestering, native plant-hosting landscape—a meadow! Check back often to see its progress, created in partnership with Unknown Studio.

Dreamseeds, an ongoing, socially engaged project and workshop series by artists Hannah Brancato and Sanahara Ama Chandra, is a new addition to our Turn Again to the Earth initiative located at the Contemporary Wing entrance. This immersive, interactive installation, constructed from handmade paper, will invite visitors to share their wildest dreams for the earth, contributing to a vision for our collective future.