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Artist : James Luna ( Luiseño / Puyukitchum , Ipai , and Mexican American ) b . 1950 , Orange , California , U . S . A .; d . 2018 , New Orleans , Louisiana , U . S . A . End of the Frail , 1993 , Mixed media , Overall : 31 x 42 inches ( 78.7 x 106.7 cm ). Tia Collection , Santa Fe , NM perform8 .
Guest Artist Corner : Figurative Paintings on Canvas by Kyle Hackett
The James E . Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University OCT . 10 — FEB . 28 , 2025
Kyle Hackett , a Maryland native and graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art , presents a selection of figurative paintings that explore race , class and social standing through approaches to selfrepresentation . Informed by 19th- and 20th-century portraiture — a genre commonly associated with European artists — Hackett ’ s paintings often feature his own image in black and white , sparking questions about Black identity and the genre ’ s history .
Preoccupied : Indigenizing the Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
NINE SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS SHOWING THROUGH FEB . 2025
Preoccupied is a widereaching project that seeks to address the historical erasure of Indigenous culture by arts institutions . It emphasizes that Native people have created meaningful art since time immemorial and that Native communities thrive to this day . While Preoccupied currently encompasses nine solo and thematic exhibitions , the project also includes public programming , an untraditional catalog and institutional interventions like staff training and updated labels of objects across the BMA ’ s permanent collections .
Collective Action : Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum of Industry THROUGH 2025
Featuring stories of working Baltimoreans , Collective Action examines the roots of the organized labor movement to understand why this generation of activists has reinvigorated the fight . Visiting with a group ? Take your education one step further by adding the BMI ’ s Forging Progress tour to your visit . You ’ ll leave the museum with a deeper appreciation for the intertwined legacies between Baltimore ’ s labor and civil rights movements , which left indelible marks not only on the city but the entire country as well .
Moses Williams : Cutter of Profiles
The Peale PERMANENT EXHIBITION
This exhibition tells Williams ’ s remarkable journey from enslavement under Charles Willson Peale to having his works displayed in Baltimore ’ s community museum , founded by Peale ’ s son Rembrandt . Despite working in Peale ’ s Philadelphia Museum and being denied an arts education , he became an accomplished entrepreneur and silhouette artist ( or “ cutter of profiles ”). This expanding project sheds light on his distinctive craft and shares a story previously hidden in the shadows .
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Passion and Purpose : Voices of Maryland ’ s Civil Rights Activists Maryland Center for History and Culture PERMANENT EXHIBITION
Marylanders have long been at the forefront of the national Black freedom struggle , from filing lawsuits that revealed the lies of the “ separate but equal ” doctrine in the 1930s and ’ 40s to leading massive protests in the 1960s . Passion and Purpose shows how this legacy persists today with oral histories and photographs that link the past to the present — offering personal perspectives from activists contributing to the ongoing fight for civil rights across Maryland and the United States . The exhibition also shares oral histories collected by Baltimore City high school students in the 2000s and recordings from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising .
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