Finding home: How Baltimore artists are reimagining our city’s landscape
UMBC’s Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) has opened its fall arts season with a Baltimore-focused exhibition, Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, curated by Angela N. Carroll ’06, visual arts.
On view through November 24, the show features a powerful group of artists based in or connected to Baltimore, including Brianna Faulkner ’11, visual arts, Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, as well as a collaborative film work by NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.
Through serial compositions, photographic triptychs, poetic floating installations, and kaleidoscopic cinema, the exhibition’s artists contemplate themes of home, memory, and community. In the spirit of Duke Ellington, who regularly performed in jazz clubs on the historic strip of Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue and theorized that all creative practice is a form of dreaming, Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly invites audiences into a state of intentional, lucid, and restorative visioning.
Kelvin Bulluck: In Pursuit of Courage, Knowledge & Love, 2024. (Photo: Tedd Henn for UMBC.)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly offers insights into the power of collective imagination to transform the world—the artistic perspectives are radically optimistic about humanity’s ability to triumph over adversity.
“The exhibition celebrates and affirms alternate conceptions of reality through speculative and abstract anti-representational expressions and forms,” shares Carroll. “Glitch, distortion, rupture, and defiant challenges to traditional technical and material applications offer prescient responses to the tumultuousness of the 21st century.”
Kim Rice: American Quilt, 2025. (Photo: Tedd Henn for UMBC.)
On September 3, about 125 people gathered for an opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll with Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, and Margaret Rorison.
Accompanying the exhibition are several additional events:
Thursday, October 15, 6 – 8 p.m.
A free outdoor concert by Brandon Woody alongside public projection of The Unveiling of God / a love letter to my forefathers by NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.
Thursday, November 5, 6 – 8 p.m.
An artist roundtable on experimental praxis, moderated by Ernest Shaw.
Thursday, November 19, 6 – 8 p.m.
An artist talk on memory, communal and familial photographic archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington.
The CADVC’s exhibition gallery is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 to 5 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, visit UMBC’s Arts & Culture calendar.
Jeffrey Kent: Justice, Peace, and Genuine Respect for All People, 2012. (Photo: Tedd Henn for UMBC.)
(Header image by Tedd Henn for UMBC.)