Unknown Studio Joins Baltimore Museum of Art Community Advisory Panel
Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre has joined the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Community 2024-2025 Advisory Panel. Part of the BMA’s 2025 landmark series of initiatives and exhibitions, Turn Again to the Earth (TATE), the Community Advisory Panel brings together notable national artists, anthropologists, craftspeople, academics, scientists, and environmental activists to advise the BMA on connecting their 2025 programming more meaningfully to the greater community.
Turn Again to the Earth, a title inspired by the writing of environmental activist Rachel Carson, will unfold over the coming year. The BMA’s environmental initiatives offer opportunities for more productive dialogues and actions within the museum context. The Museum will spearhead a series of exhibitions, campus sustainability study, city-wide eco-challenges, and expanded community programs. As the museum celebrates its 110th anniversary, it is fitting that it considers its future in part through the lens of this critical subject.
Included in the year-long series of initiatives, the BMA will open 10 exhibitions that engage with ideas and themes related to the environment. Among the exhibition highlights is Black Earth Rising, a group exhibition guest curated by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun that explores the complex ties between race, colonialism, and the climate crisis. Opening in spring 2025, the exhibition will bring together compelling works by African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American artists to consider and address questions regarding social and environmental injustices as fueled by the European settlement of the New World and its ongoing legacy. The BMA will also reinstall its Contemporary Wing in February 2025 with works that address environmentally related subjects such as social protest, ecology, and migration.
For more information: https://artbma.org/learn/turn-again-to-the-earth/
Reel Courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Art.
