BmoreArt’s Picks: March 25-31This Week: Jeffrey Yoo Warren lecture at JHU, IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition opening reception at UMBC, BIWA Films with Armina Howada Mussa at good neighbor, Jen White-Johnson artist-in-residence presentation at Stevenson University, MICA Grad Show II exhibition recepti on, The Black Print pop-up exhibition at The Peale, opening reception for Devin Allen, Joe Giordano, and Paul Abowd at Creative Alliance, the unveiling of Zoë Charlton’s installation at North Street Market, Art with a Heart’s 25 Anniversary Celebration, and Trans Day of Visibility celebration at SNF Parkway — PLUS two artist opportunities at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center and more!BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!Relational Reconstructions: Personal Reconnection, Creativity, and Immersive Counter-Archival PracticesTuesday, March 25 :: 5-6:15pm@ JHU Macksey Seminar Room (M2043), Brody Learning CommonsJeffrey Yoo Warren, a Korean diasporic artist educator, woodworker, illustrator, community scientist, and researcher, will give a talk titled “Relational Reconstructions: Personal Reconnection, Creativity, and Immersive Counter-Archival Practices” for the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center.Experiences with archives—their gaps and harms—can be both painful and fruitful for people of color, as despite themselves, these materials offer glimpses into possible pasts and futures. Drawing inspiration from Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation, Linda Sue Park’s craft-based reconnection narratives, and Adolfo Albán Achinte’s re-existencia, Yoo Warren and collaborators craft multisensory immersions to develop relationships with possible ancestors, using archival records as building materials. This approach, called “relational reconstruction,” involves working generatively around archival gaps to weave ancestral spaces into our lives through a variety of digital and print techniques.Advance registration is suggested.Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.About the SpeakerJeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean diasporic artist educator, woodworker, illustrator, community scientist and researcher in Providence, RI, whose work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. He has spent years creating collaborative community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. Jeffrey is an educator with Movement Education Outdoors and AS220, and part of the New Old art collective with Aisha Jandosova; he was also the 2023-4 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. His current artistic practice investigates how people build identity and strength through their interactions with artifacts and histories, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of in the present.The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition | Artists’ ReceptionThursday, March 27 :: 5-7pm@ UMBC CADVCUMBC’s INTERMEDIA AND DIGITAL ARTS (IMDA) Masters Program presents “The Only Way Out Is Through,” the 2025 IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition. Opening on Thursday, March 25th with a public reception with the artists on March 27th, 5-7 pm, the thesis exhibition features five artists with diverse artistic practices and approaches: McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber, and Mariia Usova.Since the inception of the IMDA MFA Program at UMBC in 1992, the exhibition is presented each spring semester. Past exhibitions have included installation, performance, film, video, photography, animation, interactive art, sculpture, audio works, painting, drawing, and print media.BIWA Films: Sculpting Time, A Cinematic Exploration of FormThursday, March 27 :: 5-9pm@ good neighbor Design GarageIn collaboration with good neighbor, sculptor Armina Howada Mussa presents BIWA Films: Sculpting Time, A Cinematic Exploration of Form, a thoughtfully curated collection designed to invite audiences into transformative cinematic experiences. This inaugural film series explores the emotional resonance of sculpture as portrayed in cinema, examining how sculptural forms transcend their physicality to evoke introspection, memory, and the interplay of permanence and impermanence in visual storytelling.Armina Howada Mussa is a sculptor and installation artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her practice delves into ancient and storied narratives, reflecting on inner and outer realms—both active and passive—as they relate to human existence. She engages with the physicality of sculpture in relation to the spaces it inhabits, creating contemporary interpretations of ephemeral forms found in nature. Her evolving body of work is a meditation on history and the infinite.You can experience Mussa’s sculptural work on display in the good neighbor guesthouse lobby.good neighbor was established on the concept of recreating the feeling of stepping into a loved one’s home. At good neighbor, every object, every sip, and every bite exists to inspire and nurture curiosity about the wider world and its shared community.Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt. ...read more read less