Baltimore Museum of Art

Buildings & groundsopened in 1929 as a single building adjacent to the campus of the johns hopkins university, the bma now comprises 10 contiguous buildings and wings (210,000 sq. Ft.), one historic structure, and two outdoor sculpture gardens (3 acres). The Museum works diligently to maintain and preserve our building envelope to protect its priceless collection. The mechanical and electrical systems which received significant upgrades during multiple renovations are now achieving important economies in energy management. The bma's engineering staff followed a detailed schedule of preventative maintenance to ensure the longevity of these systems. Security was assured through a trained security.

Education & interpretationeducation and public programs served 60,967 families, visitors, students, teachers, and community residents throughout the region in the Museum. Among the programs they participated in were: close encounters student tours, artist talks, family art-making workshops, and scholarly discussions. Over 200 children and adult visitors received art-making kits at the Museum and the bma lexington market location. The art-to-go educator resource was distributed via email to 3,251 educators around the world. Free family sundays at home, virtual artmaking kits were downloaded 1,117 times via the bma website and email.as a result of construction and the rebuild of the joseph education center, in-person family art-making workshops were re-envisioned as monthly free family sundays pop-up workshops which welcomed 578 children and adult visitors. 140 family visitors participated in the in-gallery docent led activities during the free family sundays pop-up workshops. Online programming included joshua johnson council (jjc) talks and past episodes of Baltimore Museum of Art x national Museum of women in the arts (bma x nwma).bma makers, a series of adult art-making kits, were distributed to 922 visitors during the Museum's late-nights on thursday evenings.the bma is a resource for college and university teaching at institutions in the baltimore-washington metropolitan area, where there are 200,000 college and university students. Marketing and communications staff promoted these bma exhibitions, publications, and educational programs to a broad audience across social media, the Museum website (www.artbma.org), print publications, and digital publishing.

Collection care & exhibitionsthe Baltimore Museum of Art (bma) cares for and interprets a collection of over 97,000 works of Art, carefully monitoring its storage, preservation, documentation, and exhibition. In fy23, the bma continued its active program of exhibitions and events geared towards increasing diversity, access, and inclusion for its audience in Baltimore, Maryland and beyond. The Museum's exhibition offerings centered on the expansion and continuation of our core themes, including the commitment to excellence, fairness, relevance, and social justice by bringing forward underrepresented voices and stories that resonate both locally and globally. Such projects included a movement in every direction: legacies of the great migration, a major exhibition that illuminated the stories of the great migration-the movement of millions of african americans from the rural south to major city centers during the first decades of the twentieth century-through quilts, photographs, films, paintings, and installations. Additionally, the bma celebrated the culture: hip hop and contemporary Art in the 21st century, which explored the extraordinary influence hip hop has had on contemporary society through Art and fashion. Other important projects included: darrel ellis: regeneration, which featured the multifaceted, poignant body of work-merging painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing-ellis created before his death of aids-related causes at 33; omar ba: political animals, which included 15 paintings by the geneva and dakar based painter that explore and exercise of power in all its guises; and beatrice glow: once the smoke clears, in which the artist explored and critiqued the global use of tobacco through digitally printed and embroidered silk textiles, vr-sculpted and 3d-printed objects, watercolors, and scent experiences.thalheimer and may galleriesthe great migration: a movement in every directionoctober 30, 2022-january 29, 2023the culture: hip hop and contemporary Art in the 21st centuryapril 5, 2023-july 16, 2023 jacobs galleryelle perez: devotionsapril 24, 2022-march 19, 2023 contemporary wingbeatrice glow: once the smoke clearsmay 15, 2022-october 2, 2022william cordova: on the lower frequencies i speak 4 umay 15, 2022-october 2, 2022baltimore, addressed: baker artist awardsnovember 13, 2022-march 12, 2023omar ba: political animalsnovember 20, 2022-april 2, 2023american wingscott galleries 2 & 3 reinstallationjuly 17, 2022 - currentcone focussalman toor: no ordinary lovemay 22, 2022-october 23, 2022darrel ellis: regenerationnovember 20, 2022-april 23, 2023berman galleryarctic artistryjuly 17, 2022-may 14, 2023pdp galleryshapeshifting: transformations on papermay 8, 2022-october 2, 2022coming attractions: the john waters collectionnovember 20, 2022-april 16, 2023fisher gallerymatisse: the sinuous linemay 8, 2022-october 23, 2022stanley whitney: dance with me henrinovember 20, 2022-april 23, 2023except for a movement in every direction and the culture, all exhibitions listed above were presented free to the public.