The Walters Art Museum brings art and people together for enjoyment, discovery and learning. We strive to create a place where people of every background can be touched by art. General Admission is always FREE! Special Exhibitions and programs may require the purchase of tickets. Discover the stories behind the collection and use our mobile guide on your next visit. Simply bring your own device and go to mobile.thewalters.org to try it out.
The Walters Art Museum, located in Mount Vernon-Belvedere, Baltimore, Maryland, is a public art museum founded and opened in 1934. It holds collections established during the mid-19th Century. The Museum's collection was amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, a father and son: William Thompson Walters, (1819–1894), who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Southern/Confederate sympathizer at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861; and Henry Walters (1848–1931), who refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction of a later landmark building to rehouse it. After allowing the Baltimore public to occasionally view his father's and his growing added collections at his West Mount Vernon Place townhouse/mansion during the late 1800s, he arranged for an elaborate stone palazzo-styled structure built for that purpose in 1905–1909. Located across the back alley, a block south of the Walters mansion on West Monument Street/Mount Vernon Place, on the northwest corner of North Charles Street at West Centre Street.The mansion and Gallery were also just south and west of the landmark Washington Monument in the tony Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood, just north of the downtown business district and northeast of Cathedral Hill. Upon his 1931 death, Henry Walters bequeathed the entire collection of then more than 22,000 works, the original Charles Street Gallery building, and his adjacent townhouse/mansion just across the alley to the north on West Mount Vernon Place to the City of Baltimore, “for the benefit of the public.” The collection includes masterworks of ancient Egypt, Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi, medieval ivories, illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance bronzes, Old Master European and 19th Century paintings, Chinese ceramics and bronzes, Art Deco jewelry, and ancient Near East, Mesopotamian, or ancient Middle East items.
The Peale Museum, also known officially as the Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built specifically as a museum. The Peale Museum was created by Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) and his son Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860). After functioning separately as the Baltimore City's historical museum since the original structure was being rebuilt, restored, and renovated in 1930-1931, and then later merging in with other historic sites, houses and museums in the early 1980s under the expansive efforts of new executive director, with the name of the Baltimore City Life Museums and a new broader mission in conjunction with the other historical locations.After opening a new three-story exhibition gallery, uniquely using the old cast-iron façade of the razed (but placed in storage in a city yard for 30 years) of the old Fava Fruit Company and being re-assembled on the new structure facing North Front Street and the parallel new President Street Boulevard (between East Lombard and East Fayette Streets), the new gallery and the B.C.L.M. ran into financial difficulties in the first year in 1996-1997 after the grand opening, coincidentally during the Baltimore Bicentennial Celebration (of the City's 200th year after incorporation as a city), The Peale branch of the City Life Museums closed unfortunately with the other branches - historic houses and sites later in 1997 and its large collections from over 66 years of original existence were transferred and handed over to the Maryland Historical Society, founded 1844 on West Monument Street and Park Avenue. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Gallery CA is a contemporary arts space devoted to showcasing local, regional, national and international artists. The gallery also serves as an agent for community engagement by offering regular programming and creating sustainable partnerships with local arts institutions and community organizations. Gallery CA is located on the ground floor of the City Arts building, which houses 69 artist live/work spaces.
No challenge is too large. From oversized antique posters to three-dimensional works, works on paper to vintage photographs, the challenge lays in the judicious act of finding the necessary means to keep the work pure. My personal style is to keep the framing design very clean and simple. This enhances each individual piece, eliminating distraction from the work within. I feel the art should be the first thing you see, not the framing. Although, at times a more elaborate design is necessary to pull the entire look together. Custom framing is a delicate balancing act of what is enough versus what is too much. For me, it's a passion, not just a job...
Located in a 160 year-old artist-owned warehouse within Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District, AREA 405 is committed to showcasing and strengthening the vitality of the arts community within Baltimore. Our 66,000 square feet warehouse at 405 East Oliver Street provides a particular setting for exhibitions as well as studio space for the 40+ artists who work here (Oliver Street Studios). Our building's long history as a brewery, industrial equipment maker and as a window blind manufacturer has inspired both exhibitors and performers over the past 13+ years. AREA 405's mission is to produce, present and promote arts and cultural programming by offering a venue for artists from Baltimore and beyond. Collaborating with art, cultural and community organizations throughout the region, AREA 405 has hosted scores of events featuring thousands of artists and tens of thousands of visitors since opening its doors in 2003. Area 405 supports the visual arts, dance, theatre, film and more.
La Bodega is a collectively run studio, living, and gallery space. We are always interested in hosting diverse shows and events, so please approach us any proposals or questions you have! Typically we cannot host live music shows due to our location in the building and our lease agreement. However, this does not rule out all live performance. To make a special appointment just message us here or at [email protected], otherwise we'd love to see you at any of our events posted to our page!
Lil' Gallery (founded Feb. 2014 - closed Aug. 2015), was an artist-run space located in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District of Baltimore, Maryland. Directed by Claire Felonis and Sara Grose, Lil' Gallery exhibited over sixty emerging and established artists, while participating in events such as ALLOVERSTREET, the Publications and Multiples Fair and the Artist-Run Art Fair. co-directors: Claire Felonis, Sara Grose co-founders: Tony Auth, Claire Felonis, Sara Grose, Dan Scully photographer: Timothy Mahoney interns: Angela Heaps, Spencer Shope
New Door Creative is a fine art gallery located in the Station North Arts District of Baltimore, Maryland. Originated in 2004, the gallery has exhibited the work of prominent and emerging visual artists who explore and promote an aesthetic informed by a wealth of diverse culture, perception, and tradition.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore is a new roving institution founded in 2011 focused on identifying artists in the Mid-Atlantic region for career-spanning exhibitions of their work. Once chosen for their artist-directed retrospectives, these artists are encouraged to consider their whole body of work, under what conditions it would best be shown, and what resources would need to be marshaled. The ICA works with the artist to make this vision a reality. Together with occasional one-off projects by local, national and international artists, the ICA disregards the institution as cultural gatekeeper and asserts the primacy of the artist and the ability of the individual (or group) to achieve a singular vision.
The Koban Project creates a unique opportunity for artistic experimentation by curating artists who will transform the vacant police koban at the corner of N Charles Street and E Lanvale Street in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District with bi-monthly exhibitions throughout 2013. The Koban Project, a program of Station North Arts & Entertainment curated by Michael Benevento, Deana Haggag, and Chloe Helton-Gallagher, is generously sponsored by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
The Walters Art Museum brings art and people together for enjoyment, discovery and learning. We strive to create a place where people of every background can be touched by art. General Admission is always FREE! Special Exhibitions and programs may require the purchase of tickets. Discover the stories behind the collection and use our mobile guide on your next visit. Simply bring your own device and go to mobile.thewalters.org to try it out.
The Peale Museum, also known officially as the Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built specifically as a museum. The Peale Museum was created by Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) and his son Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860). After functioning separately as the Baltimore City's historical museum since the original structure was being rebuilt, restored, and renovated in 1930-1931, and then later merging in with other historic sites, houses and museums in the early 1980s under the expansive efforts of new executive director, with the name of the Baltimore City Life Museums and a new broader mission in conjunction with the other historical locations.After opening a new three-story exhibition gallery, uniquely using the old cast-iron façade of the razed (but placed in storage in a city yard for 30 years) of the old Fava Fruit Company and being re-assembled on the new structure facing North Front Street and the parallel new President Street Boulevard (between East Lombard and East Fayette Streets), the new gallery and the B.C.L.M. ran into financial difficulties in the first year in 1996-1997 after the grand opening, coincidentally during the Baltimore Bicentennial Celebration (of the City's 200th year after incorporation as a city), The Peale branch of the City Life Museums closed unfortunately with the other branches - historic houses and sites later in 1997 and its large collections from over 66 years of original existence were transferred and handed over to the Maryland Historical Society, founded 1844 on West Monument Street and Park Avenue. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.