BmoreArt’s Picks: May 5-11 This Week: Imar Lyman at The Kreeger Museum, J Taran Diamond opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Confluence exhibition opening reception at Area 405, opening reception for Hiromitsu Hubbard and Donna R. Omata at Gallery CA, JHU Student Exhibition openin g, Overlea ArtsFest/CCBC Film Festival, Pharmaco/Liberation panel discussion with Albert Lacks Carter, Jr. at Making Space Bmore, public celebration for the opening of MICA’s gallery alley, Students of Raoul opening reception at Raoul Middleman Studio Museum, Stoop Reads with Javaka Steptoe at CCCC, and Asia North presents: “Love Has Never Been a Popular Movement” discussion at Impact Hub — PLUS apply for The Hopper Prize 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]! Photography by Vivian Marie Doering. Imar Lyman | Echo/Location: Exploring the Extra-Sensory Ongoing through July 11@ The Kreeger Museum a solo exhibition featuring the work of Imar Lyman, on view at The Kreeger Museum from April 17 through July 11, 2026. This exhibition is presented under The Collaborative, a program developed by The Kreeger Museum to support Washington-area artists. Echolocation is a form of biological sonic radar. Used as a tool for some animals to “see” and navigate their environments, sound waves are emitted to avoid prey and find their way in the dark. Echo/Location showcases DC-based artist Imar Lyman’s [Hutchins] (b. 1970) new body of abstract work. Bringing together mixed media collage, painting, sculpture and printmaking, his artistry is in conversation with artists Sam Gilliam and Frank Stella, masterworks that have anchored The Kreeger Museum’s Contemporary Gallery since 1994 when the Museum opened to the public. J Taran Diamond: Tease | Opening Reception Friday, May 8 :: 5-8pm@ Baltimore Jewelry Center Baltimore Jewelry Center Presents Tease, a solo exhibition of new works by J Taran Diamond culminating her three-year teaching fellowship at the Baltimore Jewelry Center.    BALTIMORE, April 23, 2026 – The Baltimore Jewelry Center (BJC) presents Tease, an exhibition of artwork by Baltimore-based artist J Taran Diamond. The exhibition consists of a mix of drawings, sculptures, and jewelry which use pattern and obfuscation to investigate themes of authenticity, legitimacy, intimacy, and belonging. The exhibition will be on view in the BJC’s gallery in the Station North Arts Entertainment District (10 E. North Ave.) from May 8, 2026 through June 19, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 8, from 5–8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Tease uses the relationships between objects, their component parts, and the body to reflect on the ways in which Diamond’s understanding of her own body as a queer woman of color aligns with universal concerns about bodies and appearances. Through her use of bright colors, repeating patterns, and layering, diamond creates an environment in which objects, despite the dense network of similarities by which they are linked, are each marked as the odd one out against their peers. Through her specific focus on freshwater pearls, precious metal, synthetic hair, and plastic, Diamond highlights that the line between what is “real” and what is “artificial” is often blurrier than we may think. Confluence: Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways | Opening Friday, May 8 :: 5-9pm@ Area 405 In collaboration with the the Jones Falls 2076 project, AREA 405 presents Confluence Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways, featuring visions from the Jones Falls 2076 River Reimagining Workshops, work by local university students, and contemporary artists Ann Margaret Morris, Ana Paula Teixeira María Luisa “Mussa” Marín, Bao Nguyen, Valeska Populoh, Rhea Beckett, Jess Keyes Patrick McMinn, Katie Kisiel, Jonna McKone, and Jordan Tierney. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 8, and close on Friday, June 12, with both events participating in the Station North Second Friday Art Walk from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Jones Falls 2076 is a year-long speculative design project that imagines the state of Baltimore’s Jones Falls River in the year 2076, half a century from now. Its first exhibition The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come was exhibited at the Peale Museum from February 13 to March 30 in 2025.  It presented works made by a collective of artists and researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 2024, anchored in a class co-taught by visual artist Jordan Tierney and environmental anthropologist Anand Pandian. In 2026, the Jones Falls 2076 project continues to encourage radical dreaming and summon collective action regarding the future of the Jones Falls through two art exhibitions, a series of River Reimagining Workshops, publications and upcoming events in the Fall. Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt. ...read more read less