Featured Exhibition
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Programs
Urban Anxiety: Fear & Terror in the City
Sunday, October 11, 3-4 pm
BMA Meyerhoff Auditorium | FREE
What do we fear, why do we fear it, and when are our fears based on reality or not? WEAA radio host Marc Steiner leads a discussion on fear in the city with guest speakers Dr. Christopher Leighton, Executive Director of Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, and Ralph E. Moore, Jr., Director of the Community Center at St. Frances Academy. Joining them are Baltimore residents Wallace Farmer of Harlem Park, Kathie McCleskey of Federal Hill, and Ede Taylor of Belair-Edison. A reception follows at 4 pm. For more information, call Art on Purpose at 410-243-4750.
A collaboration between Art on Purpose and the BMA.
Addiction & Art: Flip-sides of Madness & Obsession
Sunday, November 1, 3-4 pm
BMA Meyerhoff Auditorium | FREE
Artists, performers, and medical experts explore the connection between art and addiction, and how art has the power to shed light on addiction and recovery. Featuring guest speaker Dr. Jack E. Henningfield, Director, Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Awards program. A reception follows at 4 pm. For more information, call Art on Purpose at 410-243-4750.
A collaboration between Art on Purpose and the BMA.
48 Hours of Madness: A Cinematic Celebration of Poe
Friday, December 4 & 11, 8 pm
BMA Meyerhoff Auditorium | FREE
Filmmakers had just 48 hours to create a film using only one Poe character, one Poe line of dialogue, and one of the three exhibition themes: Fear & Terror, Love & Loss, Madness &: Obsession. Don't miss their whirlwind adaptations of Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, MS. Found in a Bottle, and other Poe classics. More ››
In collaboration with the Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project.
The Lonely American
Sunday, January 10, 3 pm
BMA Meyerhoff Auditorium | FREE
Are Americans becoming lonelier? This thought-provoking question is addressed in an insightful conversation about loneliness and isolation in today's society. Harvard psychiatrists Dr. Jacqueline Olds and Dr. Richard Schwartz, authors of the evocative book The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century (featured in O, The Oprah Magazine), lead the discussion moderated by WYPR radio's Tom Hall. A book signing follows.
Media sponsor WYPR 88.1 FM
Andy Cook. Untitled. 2009. Courtesy of the Artist. Image from Art on Purpose
