BmoreArt’s Picks: April 1-7This Week: UMBC hosts a webinar with Levester Williams, 35th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium at Howard University, Hai-Wen Lin talk at JHU/CVA Film Centre, Helina Metaferia Visiting Artist Lecture at Goucher College, 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition reception + lecture f rom Bria Sterling-Wilson at Towson University, Afro House’s ‘Cloud Nebula’ performance at The Voxel, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, opening reception for Ainsley Burrows at Quid Nunc Art Gallery, public reception for Lite Zhang & Pavlos Liaretidis at Atrium Artspace, 2025 CityLit Festival, and the Ford Lecture at The Walters — PLUS applications close soon for the JJC Artist-in-Residence at the BMA, and more featured opportunities!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!Image: A drone image of the Texas Quarry in Cockeysville, Maryland, one of the locations where Cockeysville marble is mined. (Photo courtesy of Levester Williams.)Cockeysville to Baltimore: Levester Williams | WebinarTuesday, April 1 :: 6-7pm@ UMBC CADVCCenter for Art, Design and Visual Culture artist resident Levester Williams was recently featured in all matters aside, a survey exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman. The exhibition featured a selection of works produced during Williams’s artist residency research into the histories and mythologies of Cockeysville marble, a material used in both the Washington Monument in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and the iconic exterior steps of local rowhomes. The exhibition was accompanied by a number of public-facing activities, including the publication of Cockeysville to Baltimore.On Tuesday, April, 1, the CADVC presents a webinar featuring Levester Williams in conversation with sound designer Dan Shields, moderated by Lisa D. Freiman.This online event is free and open to the public. Please register here in advance.35th Annual James A. Porter ColloquiumThursday, April 3 | Ongoing through April 5@ Howard UniversityIn partnership with the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Association of Critical Race Art History, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Howard University Gallery of Art, the Department of Art in Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts invites the public to convene to examine new developments in the area of critical race art history.Visiting Artist Talk: Hai-Wen LinThursday, April 3 :: 12-1pm@ Saul Zaentz Screening RoomHai-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist whose work explores constructions of the body and its surrounding environment. They are an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a MacDowell fellow, a LeRoy Neiman Fellow at the Ox-Bow School of Art, and earned a Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where they were selected as a Fashion Future Graduate by the CFDA upon graduating. Lin has published research on smart textiles and taught workshops at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and MIT. They have performed publicly at the Chicago Cultural Center and MU Gallery, and have exhibited work in a variety of places including the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 3S Artspace in New Hampshire, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, the walls of their home, their friend’s home, on a plate, on a lake, and in the sky.April 3rd, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pmSaul Zaentz Screening RoomJHU/CVA Film Centre, 2nd Floor10 E. North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202 United StatesFor more information or ADA accommodations contact cva@jhu.edu.Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt. ...read more read less