HYBRID IN-PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAM

Collecting the Art of Your Place and Time in Baltimore: Strong, Bright, Useful & True

Cara Ober, Artist, Arts Writer, Curator, and the Executive Director and Publisher at BmoreArt

Reception 1:00 - 1:30 pm 

Showcasing a broad spectrum of media—including painting, sculpture, time-based media, and photography — Strong, Bright, Useful & True includes works by globally recognized and emergent artists such as Derrick Adams, Jerrell Gibbs, and Joyce J. Scott, as well as Nakeya Brown, Se Jong Cho, Brandon Donahue-Shipp, Oletha DeVane, Erin Fostel, Phaan Howng, Kei Ito, Linling Lu, Edgar Reyes, Soledad Salamé, Bria Sterling-Wilson, and René Treviño. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the inaugural address of the first Johns Hopkins University president Daniel Gilman, who in 1876 proclaimed Hopkins’ simple aim “… to make scholars strong, bright, useful, and true.”

ASG welcomes Ober to discuss the exhibition at JHU's Frary Gallery, which features artists recently acquired by Johns Hopkins through a partnership with Cara Ober and BmoreArt’s Gallery Director Ines Sanchez de Lozada, who have designed and implemented a collecting initiative for a committee of JHU students, faculty, and staff. Over the course of several months, Ober and her team presented Baltimore-based artists on the cusp of global professional acclaim to the group, who select artists for studio visits, and ultimately for acquisition. This program is a deep investment on the part of JHU into Baltimore’s creative communities, unique in the region and reflective of the institutions desire to support and collect “the art of their place and time.”

$15 fee for guests and subscribers (no fee for members)