Events: Celebrations at the Walters Art Museum

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Events in Celebrations

Image: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Objects of Desire (installation view), 2018, custom wall painting, works on paper, custom linoleum flooring; Hellen Ascoli, We Shaped Soft Gods Here (collaboration with Karl Williamson), 2022, brick molds made of wood, digitally printed components, hand woven bands; Sam Mack, yellow safety cone, 2021, earthenware, porcelain, majolica, glaze, underglaze. All artwork © the artists.

Celebrations, Talks & Lectures, Thursday Night

Sondheim 2024 Art Prize Finalists: Award Ceremony

Thu August 22, 2024 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free

a group of adults making art together

Art-making, Celebrations, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu September 5, 2024 6 to 7 p.m.

Free

City of Artists: Baltimore, the first full-length book from BmoreArt

Celebrations, Talks & Lectures

Artists Inspired by Place and the Past, Connecting to the Present

Sat September 7, 2024 2 to 4 p.m.

Adults collaborate on a paper cutting activity

Art-making, Celebrations, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu October 3, 2024 6 to 7 p.m.

Free

Aio “Blue Heron” Sifu

Celebrations, Performances

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Performance: Aio “Blue Heron” Sifu

Sun October 13, 2024 2 to 3 p.m.

Free

Overhead view of revelers at the Walters Gala

Celebrations

An Evening at the Walters

Sat October 26, 2024 7 to 11:59 p.m.

Art-making, Celebrations, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu November 7, 2024 6 to 7 p.m.

Free

Exhibitions and Installations

Left: Roberto Lugo, Frederick Douglass Food Stamp Jar, 2018. Museum purchase with funds provided by Constance R. Caplan, 2018. Right: Nicolas-Marie Moriot Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, One of a Pair of Vases, 1844. Acquired by Henry Walters.

Reflect & Remix: Art Inspiring Artists

May 4–September 8, 2024

Image: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Objects of Desire (installation view), 2018, custom wall painting, works on paper, custom linoleum flooring; Hellen Ascoli, We Shaped Soft Gods Here (collaboration with Karl Williamson), 2022, brick molds made of wood, digitally printed components, hand woven bands; Sam Mack, yellow safety cone, 2021, earthenware, porcelain, majolica, glaze, underglaze. All artwork © the artists.

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition

July 17–September 8, 2024

Duncanson, Robert Seldon, River Scene, 1868. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Eddie and Sylvia Brown Challenge Grant, and matching funds, for the acquisition of African American Art, 2012.

Selections from the North American Collection: People and Places

January 13–September 30, 2024

Saints Cosmas and Damian, Patron Saints of Doctors, Almugavar Hours, Spain, ca. 1500. Bequest of Henry Walters, 1931. W.420, fol. 279r

Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe

June 20–December 15, 2024

vases

Objects of Curiosity: What Will We Discover?

Ongoing

assorted ceramics

Hackerman House at One West Mount Vernon Place

Ongoing

Jean-François Millet, The Sower, ca. 1865. Acquired by William T. Walters, 1884, acc. no. 37.905

Art and Process: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures from the 19th-Century Collection

October 23, 2024–March 9, 2025

René Lalique, Fern Leaves Brooch, 1903-1904. Acquired by Henry Walters, 1904

Distinctive Design: European and North American Decorative Arts

Ongoing

Triptych of faces depicted in artworks throughout Asia

Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World

Ongoing

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