Future Exhibitions
Don't miss these exciting exhibitions, coming to the Walters soon!
- The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition
- Saturday, June 29, 2013–Sunday, August 11, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Artists compete for top honors and a $25,000 fellowship in the Greater Baltimore area’s most prestigious arts competition. The prize assists in furthering the career of a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in this region. Held in conjunction with Artscape (July 19–21), America’s largest free arts festival, the finalists and semifinalists exhibitions are presented in partnership with the Walters and Maryland Institute College of Art.
- Site Unseen. Gregory Vershbow
- Saturday, July 06, 2013–Sunday, September 08, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This exhibition of photographs by contemporary artist Gregory Vershbow explores the interactions of art objects within environments and circumstances ordinarily beyond public view. In storage facilities and conservation laboratories, and at monuments under restoration, Vershbow photographs art objects wrapped in plastic, protected by foam, nested in boxes and set in surprising juxtapositions with other objects from different eras.
- Living by the Book: Monks, Nuns and Their Manuscripts
- Saturday, July 13, 2013–Sunday, September 29, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Today, medieval books are treated as works of art, untouchable treasures to be locked away in cabinets. Yet many were intended for regular use as vital components of everyday life for monks and nuns.
- Jacob Lawrence's Genesis Series
- Saturday, September 14, 2013–Sunday, December 08, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Painter Jacob Lawrence is known for using a series format to render in colorful expressive imagery and text the narrative stories of historical African American figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Each of the eight works on view in Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Series (1990) describes a passage from the book of Genesis in the King James version of the Bible.
- Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum
- Sunday, October 06, 2013–Sunday, January 05, 2014
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - The Book of the Faiyum is an exquisitely illustrated papyrus from Greco-Roman Egypt. One of the most intriguing ancient representations of a place ever found, the papyrus depicts the Faiyum oasis, located to the west of the Nile, as a center of prosperity and ritual. Egyptian jewelry, papyri, statues, reliefs and ritual objects will illuminate the religious context that gave rise to this enigmatic text, which celebrates the crocodile god Sobek and his special relationship with the Faiyum.
- Book Bindings from the Gilded Age
- Saturday, October 26, 2013–Sunday, May 18, 2014
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - During the late 19th and early 20th century, fine book binding enjoyed a golden age of creativity and lavish decoration. These handmade, individual and highly personal objects were made not only to protect the texts they contained, but also to be admired and appreciated as portable decorative masterpieces in their own right.
- Ikebana: Contemporary Japanese Vases & Flowers
- Sunday, February 23, 2014–Sunday, May 11, 2014
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - The Japanese art of flower arranging, or ikebana, has inspired the creation of extraordinary ceramic containers. This exhibition outlines the history of some of Japan’s major schools of ikebana and displays a wide variety of contemporary ceramics created in harmony with the most modern floral conventions.
- The Scottish Colourists
- Sunday, June 15, 2014–Sunday, August 31, 2014
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This exhibition of approximately 30 paintings showcases the work of the Scottish Colourists, who produced still lifes which, like their landscapes, show a mastery of dazzling color and pattern.
