BmoreArt’s Picks: February 3-9 This Week: Teresita Fernández and Dolores Zinny in conversation at MICA, Tahira Chloe Mahdi talk at UMBC, opening reception and curator talk with Dr. Bibhakar Sunder Shakya at TU Center for Asian Art + Culture, TU Faculty Biennial and MFA Candidate Exhibitions, MICA Bicentennial Exhibition opening reception, Ouroboros opening recepiton at MICA, opening reception for Richard Cleaver and Cindy Cheng at Connect+Collect, Baltimore Crankie Festival at Creative Alliance, America Will Be! opening reception and performance at the Driskell Center, Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk, Gathering Act at 2640 Space, BJC’s Ornamenta Fundraiser, and Ancestors’ Marks artist talk at Eubie Blake — PLUS SAAM Internship applications 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 [email protected]! Teresita Fernández in Conversation with Dolores Zinny Tuesday, February 3 :: 4:30pm@ MICA Brown Center Join artist Teresita Fernández in conversation with Dolores Zinny on Feb. 3, 2026, at Falvey Hall on MICA’s campus. This event is a part of MICA’s Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Bicentennial Celebration. Reception to follow. Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations. Her luminous, sculptural works poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of Fernández’s work, which confronts these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense. Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a: Guggenheim Fellowship; Creative Capital Award; Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Award; Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; American Academy of Rome Fellowship; and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant. Her works have been shown both nationally and internationally at The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among others. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and is the first Latina to serve on the 100-year-old federal panel. In 2016, she conceived and directed the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium with the Ford Foundation. Dolores Zinny is a Whitney Museum ISP (1995-96) alumni, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a IASPIS Swedish Arts Grant , a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program Award, and 1st Prize for International Public Art Competition of Hessen, Goethe University, Frankfurt. As part of the artist duo Zinny Maidagan, her work has been exhibited internationally, in venues like the 50th Venice Biennial, the 2nd Sevilla Biennial, the 5th Berlin Biennial, the 8th Gwangju Biennial, with exhibitions at LACMA los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, MIT, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, Artist Space New York, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Museo Tamayo Mexico City, DAAD Galerie-Berlin, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Museo Nacional Bellas Artes Buenos Aires and Singapore National Gallery. Adjuncts, Artists, and Other Innovators Engaging Community from the In-Between Spaces Wednesday, February 4 :: 12-1:30pm@ UMBC CADVC What is the difference between having membership in a community and being of a community? How does one engage different communities while carving a career through the in-between spaces? Are belonging and trust necessary in our work? What do we do when belonging and trust are not possible? In this interactive workshop, participants are invited to explore and expand their perspectives on what it means to be in community with people outside of and between our boundaries. This program is led by Tahira Chloe Mahdi, and will be introduced by Kate Drabinski Transformations: Lain Singh Bangdel, Art, Nepal | Opening Reception + Curator Talk Wednesday, February 4 :: 7:30-9pm@ Towson University Asian Arts + Culture Center Join us for Transformations: Lain Singh Bangdel—a captivating journey through art, culture, and history from 1940s–80s Nepal. February 4 – May 16 (closed March 15-22) Monday – Saturday 11 am – 4 pm Explore the remarkable artistic journey and cultural legacy of Lain Singh Bangdel (1919–2002), widely regarded as the “Father of Modern Art” in Nepal. This collection of paintings—spanning the 1940s to the 1980s— reflects and reframes the cultural, political, and emotional realities of Bangdel’s time and traces his evolving vision as he navigated multiple worlds: colonial and postcolonial South Asia, cosmopolitan Europe, and an emerging modern Nepal. Opening Reception Curator Talk Dr. Bibhakar Sunder Shakya: Lain Singh Bangdel and the Making of Modern Nepali Art Wednesday, February 4. 7:30 p.m. Dr. Bibhakar Sunder Shakya, Founder and Chairman of the Bangdel Shakya Foundation, will present the opening talk for Transformations: Lain Singh Bangdel, Art, Nepal, offering insights into Bangdel’s artistic journey and the vision behind the exhibition. As Bangdel’s son-in-law, Dr. Shakya first came to know him as a distinguished novelist before discovering the depth of his artistic genius. During his time at The Ohio State University, Dr. Shakya met and married Professor Dina Bangdel, the daughter of Bangdel, an esteemed art historian and curator whose scholarship helped redefine the study of Himalayan and South Asian art. Following Dina’s untimely passing in 2017, Dr. Shakya dedicated himself to preserving and sharing Bangdel’s legacy. Through exhibitions, publications, translations, and films, he has become a leading advocate for modern and contemporary Nepali art. His work has brought Bangdel’s story to audiences around the world, ensuring that Nepal’s modernist heritage is recognized as an essential part of global art history. Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt. ...read more read less