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Events in Thursday Night

Thursday Night, Tours

Express and Explore Tour: The Spirit Within

Thu May 22, 2025 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Museum visitors on the sculpture court

Celebrations, Thursday Night

Through Our Eyes Exhibition Reception

Thu May 29, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Celebrations, Thursday Night

School Partner Showcase Closing Reception

Thu June 5, 2025 5 to 7 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Make a decorative bandana to convey who you are and what makes you unique.

Art-making, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu June 5, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Thursday Night, Tours

Express and Explore Tour: Let’s Play

Thu June 12, 2025 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

interior gallery of the Sondheim exhibition in 2024

Celebrations, Thursday Night

Sondheim 2025 Art Prize Finalists: Award Ceremony

Thu June 26, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

art making activity

Art-making, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu July 3, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Art-making, Thursday Night

First Thursdays: Make and Mingle

Thu August 7, 2025 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free for General Public Free for Supporters

Exhibitions and Installations

interior gallery of the Sondheim exhibition in 2024

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition

April 19–July 20, 2025

Mors (detail), An Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for the Use of a Deaf Youth, Netherlandish, ca. 1819. Museum purchase, 2023.

If Books Could Kill

December 18, 2024–August 3, 2025

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

Ongoing

Massie, Herbert, Reflections of Sybby Grant, 2018. Museum purchase, 2023.

Herbert Massie

January 8, 2023–November 30, 2025

Oculus window

Hackerman House at One West Mount Vernon Place

Ongoing

vases

Objects of Curiosity: What Will We Discover?

Ongoing

Flanders, Prayer Book, late 15th-century. Acquired by Henry Walters.

Paws on Parchment

August 6, 2025–February 15, 2026

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

Mann, Katherine Tzu-Lan, The Pocket, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

April 1, 2025–September 24, 2026

Mercedes, Stephanie, We Were Treated Like Numbers Rather Than Stars, 2025. On loan from the artist.

Stephanie Mercedes

March 6, 2025–February 28, 2027

Wiley, Kehinde, Saint Amelie, 2014.

Kehinde Wiley

April 1, 2025–April 19, 2029

Milad, Jackie, Abracadabra (Abuelita’s Bowl), 2025. Loan from the artist. Milad, Jackie, Ya Habibti, Ta’ala, 2025. Loan from the artist.

Jackie Milad

April 1, 2025–April 30, 2030

K’iché (Maya) (Artist), Burian Urn, 600-850 CE. Gift of John Bourne, 2009.

Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano

Ongoing

Lugo, Roberto, Frederick Douglass Food Stamp Jar, 2018. Museum purchase with funds provided by Constance R. Caplan, 2018.

Roberto Lugo

April 1, 2025–April 15, 2035

Makonnen, Tsedaye, Sacred :: የተቀደሰ :: Yetekedse, 2025. Museum purchase, 2024.

Tsedaye Makonnen

April 1, 2025–April 1, 2036

Adili, Golnar, Dust of Sorrow (Ghobar é Gham), 2019. Courtesy of Golnar Adili.

Golnar Adili

April 1, 2025–April 1, 2051

The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum