Featured Exhibition
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
October 4, 2009–January 17, 2010
FREE
Baltimore's legendary storyteller inspired artists such as Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, and others. See works by these famous admirers of Poe's chilling and unforgettable tales.
This dramatic exhibition brings together 80 prints, drawings, and illustrated books drawn largely from the BMA’s distinguished collection. These rarely shown works of art explore the enduring legacy of Poe's uniquely dark fiction through the themes of Love & Loss, Fear & Terror, and Madness & Obsession.
See how The Raven, The Black Cat, The Tell-tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and other Poe classics inspired some of the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Visit poestories.com for synopses of the stories.
Baltimore is celebrating 200 years of Poe with a citywide festival of chilling events. For information, visit nevermore2009.com.
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Additional support provided by The Dedalus Foundation, Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc., Hogan & Hartson LLP, and the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
Baltimore Inspired by Poe
October 4, 2009–January 17, 2010
FREE
Experience a powerful exhibition of drawings, collages, and paintings by Baltimore artists and community members, inspired by the themes in the BMA’s Poe exhibition. The works were created in a series of art workshops led by the Baltimore-based organization Art on Purpose at the Light Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast Anchor, and Waverly branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Teaching Artists
Andy Cook, Tonya Gregg, Valeska Populoh, Marty Weishaar
Workshop Participants
Sandy Anderson, Regina Boyce, Rose Bridger, Cindy Hartzler-Miller, A. Jarrell Hayes, Melanie Jacobs, Quazell Johnson, Brian Juliano, Mike Lang, Kathie McCleskey, Paul Mintz, Mitchell Pinkney, Jr., Val Seaberg
Visit Flickr to see more images from the Art on Purpose workshops.
Since its founding in 2005, Art on Purpose has provided free theme-based art workshops to over 1,000 Baltimore residents and presented dozens of exhibitions. For more information, call 410-243-4750 or visit artonpurpose.org.
The exhibition is made possible by the generosity of Robbye and Kevin Apperson, with additional support from Rosenberg I Martin I Greenberg, LLP. In-kind support for framing is provided by Fleckenstein Gallery & Archival Framing.
Mournful Maidens: Love & Loss in American Embroidery
September 9, 2009—February 21, 2010
FREE
Decades before Edgar Allan Poe wrote his dark romantic poems and novels, a preoccupation with love and loss was already engrained in the moral teachings worked with needle and thread on American schoolgirl embroideries. More »
Arthur Rackham, illustration for Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1935), opp. p. 84, Enoch Pratt Free Library.
