MAY ART WALK
Graphic Design by Yuling Zhang
Join us for Second Friday Art Walks in the artistic heart of Baltimore. Enjoy an evening of simultaneous exhibitions, special events, and open studios at multiple venues in the Station North Arts District.
Art Walk is FREE and open to the public*
Friday, MAY 8, 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Reserve your spot today!
‘ART WALK W'/’ DYLAN K. HILL
5:30pm, starting at SNF Parkway
‘Art Walk w/’ the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Becker Fellow + curator of the 2026 Asia North exhibition for a personal tour of ‘Shoes At the Door.’ Follow Hill from SNF Parkway to Currency Studio and then to opening of Katazomé at Gallery CA.
MAY ART WALK PARTICIPATING VENUES
AREA 405
405 E Oliver St
Opening Reception- Confluence: Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways
Confluence: Reimagining Baltimore's Waterways, the first of two exhibitions in 2026, explores the Jones Falls River and the city’s waterways as sources of creative possibility. By showing the work of contemporary artists who engage with Baltimore’s watersheds alongside speculative concepts from the Jones Falls 2076 River Reimagining Workshops, the exhibition sets the stage for radical approaches to the past, present, and future of Baltimore’s waterways. Visitors are invited to participate in the exhibition by contributing their own utopian or quixotic dreams for the Jones Falls.
Confluence was organized by Anand Pandian, Bruce Willen, Lee Davis, Steffanie Espat, Taro Cantú, Maks Rychlicki, Nic Amsel, and Julianne Chan.
@_area405_
ATRIUM ARTSPACE
2029 Maryland Ave
EXHIBITION: Mixed Perception
Atrium Artspace presents Mixed Perception, a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s second anniversary. Mixed Perception brings together a dynamic group of new and returning artists to explore the ephemeral space where artist and viewer meet. Within this shared moment, meaning is continuously formed and shaped by individual memory, experience, and interpretation. Through varied media and methods, these artworks invite the audience into active dialogue where perception becomes collaboration. Each piece exists as a living exchange of the artist’s intention and viewer’s interpretation. Mixed Perception celebrates the fluid intersection between what is created and what is seen.
BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
10 East North Avenue, STE 130
OPENING EXHIBITION: Tease
Tease is a solo exhibition by craft artist and educator J Taran Diamond, marking the culmination of her teaching fellowship at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. The artworks in this exhibition treat objects and their constituent parts as proxies for bodies, and strive to imitate both themselves and one another.
Entrance is on the ground floor of Centre Theater building (10 E North Ave). Look for the BJC mural on the Charles St side of the building; our entrance is to the left. Follow the walkway along the side of the building to the double doors past the mural. Ring the doorbell, and we'll let you in!
@baltimorejewelrycenter@jdiamondmetalsmith
BALTIMORE IMPROV GROUP
1721 N Charles
LOL ENTERTAINMENT: Experience the Unscripted Magic at Baltimore Improv Group!
Every show at Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) is a one-of-a-kind experience — created in the moment, never to be seen again. Our talented comedians spin audience suggestions into hilarious, heartwarming, and unexpected stories right before your eyes. Whether you love fast-paced games, character-driven scenes, or full-length improvised plays, there’s something for everyone at BIG. Join us for a night of laughter, creativity, and pure spontaneity. With a variety of shows every week and a welcoming atmosphere, there’s always a reason to come back for more. No scripts, no limits — just BIG fun.
@bigimprov
BLUE LIGHT JUNCTION
209 McAllister St
DATE NIGHT ACTIVITY: Art Walk Donate & Dye: Community Indigo Dye Vat
Blue Light Junction invites everyone to enjoy a guided indigo dye experience led in the dye lab from 6:30-7:30 pm during Art Walk with artist and dyer Rosa Sung Ji Chang.
This hands-on gathering invites participants to learn more about Rosa’s work while working directly with natural indigo, exploring basic dyeing and resist techniques to refresh and transform a beloved old item into something new. We’re offering this community indigo dye session as a way to support the studio through shared experience. Register to participate in this month’s Donate & Dye Sessionin with a $25 donation!
We also invite everyone to spend time in Studio Blue’s Alternative Library, artists’ studios, and Concept Store. Station North Art Walk runs from 5-9 pm and is open to all.
@blue.lightjunction | @rosaful_garden
STUDIO BLUE
209 McAllister St (Blue Light Junction 2nd Floor)
SHOPPING: Cool, one of a kind art objects
Browse our showroom BLJ's Concept Store and Alternative Library along with artists’ studios.
@blue.lightjunction | @laloupedesign
THE CLUB CAR
12 W. North Ave
DRINKS + ART: Queer Manifesto: Area 405 Asia North Pop Up Exhibition
AREA 405 presents Queer Manifesto, a pop-up exhibition featuring poems and visual collages of twenty-one (21) East and Southeast Asian queers. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Wishing Fountain Project, a virtual diasporic queer ESEA art book library. Founded by You Liang and Zao Zao Zhang (MICA c/o 2024), the project began with a writing workshop that encouraged participants to transform poetry, prose, and diary entries into visual forms and was later published as a zine. Queer Manifesto loyally exhibits select pages of zines, with renewed visualization of words arraying themes from family relationships to immigration processes.
Plus thirsty drink specials for Art Walkers that will trap your ass to dance and have fun with cool people!
@theclubcar
CO_LAB WORKSPACE & BOOKS
2209 Maryland Ave
DRINKS + BOOKS
CoLab will be serving boozy refreshments and having special discounts. Featured artist’s work will be on display. Join us from 5pm - 7pm
@co_labbaltimore
CURRENCY STUDIO
18 W North Ave
EXHIBITION: Shoes At the Door-Asia North 2026 Art Exhibition Site 2
Every household is familiar with the pleasures and pains of hospitality. Hours of unseen preparation yield specialty dishes and spotless interiors for strangers and family alike. For many of us who are part of the APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and Desi American) community, guests are not expected to do anything, but leave their shoes at the door. This simple act–rooted in respect and ritual–demonstrates the way in which hospitality creates space for communal exchange. Shoes at the Door brings together works by sixteen artists living in the greater Baltimore and DMV region whose artworks consider hospitality as a malleable practice shaped by diaspora, cultural tradition, inheritance, colonial commodification, and celebration.
@asianartsandculturecenter @currencystudio
GalleryCA
440 E Oliver St
OPENING EXHIBITION: Katazomé: A Multidisciplinary Visual Art Exhibition
Hiromitsu Hubbard and his mother, Donna R. Omata tell the story of Donna’s journey to Japan to study the ancient art of katazomé through a multi-disciplinary visual art exhibition. Hiromitsu will present a series of new paintings inspired by Donna’s artwork and photographs shown alongside her original katazomé work on handmade paper and fabric from the 1970’s and 1980’s. Through this exhibition, Hiromitsu and Donna share a personal family story of discovering cultural roots, intergenerational exchange, and transcending discrimination by finding identity through art and creativity. This exhibition is a program of the 2026 Asia North Exhibition and Festival and is supported by a 2025 Rubys Artist Grant, which is a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
@galleryca
GUILFORD HALL BREWERY x INVITING LIGHT
1611 Guilford Ave
BEER SPECIALS & INVITING LIGHT Happy Hour and Site Tour
Join us for an Inviting Light Happy Hour at Guilford Hall Brewery. 7-8 pm enjoy Happy Hour specials and tour the five Inviting Light installations at 8pm.
Happy Hour Prices on Guilford Lager & Baltimore Pilsner for anyone stopping in for Art Walk!
REGISTER HERE.
@guilfordhallbrewery@invitinglightbaltimore@theneighborhooddesigncenter @central_baltimore_partnership
IMPACT HUB BALTIMORE
10 E North Ave, Suite 5 | 5pm-8pm
FUN ACTIVITY: 🌿 Re-potting with a Purpose 🌿
It's finally Spring!! Come plant some seeds, or bring a plant from home to repot. 🌿 Free and open to the public. Register here to guarantee your spot!
MOTOR HOUSE
120 W North Ave
LIVE MUSIC + DRINKS : Spotlight Date Night
Motor House Motor House’s Music is a live music series that showcases Baltimore's solo acts, bands, ensembles, on 2nd throughout the year. This free, public program is designed to celebrate Baltimore’s diverse musical talent while providing artists with a platform in the heart of Baltimore’s creative hub. Light bites and curated cocktails and mocktails available for purchase.
7:00pm-9:00pm, 21+
Buy tickets in advance here.
@motorhousebaltimore
SCHULER SCHOOL OF FINE ART
7 E Lafayette Ave
EXHIBITION: Flora & Fauna
Check out the work of various artists that were juried into the exhibition of Flora & Fauna.
SNF PARKWAY THEATER
5 W. North Ave
MOVIE: SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (1981) + “A Movie: Obayashi’s Cinematic Life” visual essay with director Max Robinson
The SNF Parkway is proud to present a new 2K transfer of HOUSE director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS! In this stylish adaptation of the celebrated Japanese sci-fi novel, psychic Tokyo high schooler Yuka must face off against an evil alien invader as he schemes to turn her classmates into brainwashed fascists. With its eye popping visuals and timely message, SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS is a must-see for fans of HOUSE.
Film follows a screening of the visual essay “A MOVIE: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Cinematic Life” from film essayist Max G. Robinson and producer/editor Brandon Soderberg.
Reception 6:30pm
EXHIBITION: Shoes At the Door-Asia North 2026 Exhibition, Site 1
Every household is familiar with the pleasures and pains of hospitality. Hours of unseen preparation yield specialty dishes and spotless interiors for strangers and family alike. For many of us who are part of the APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and Desi American) community, guests are not expected to do anything, but leave their shoes at the door. This simple act–rooted in respect and ritual–demonstrates the way in which hospitality creates space for communal exchange. Shoes at the Door brings together works by sixteen artists living in the greater Baltimore and DMV region whose artworks consider hospitality as a malleable practice shaped by diaspora, cultural tradition, inheritance, colonial commodification, and celebration.
The works in this exhibition capture the breadth and diversity of hospitality customs and notions of home through installation, ceramics, painting, sculpture, drawing, and textiles, displayed throughout SNF Parkway Theatre and Currency Studio. Some of the featured artists engage explicitly with intergenerational practices associated with welcoming others into our homes, reimagining household objects that evoke familial gatherings and celebratory meals. While such works incite nostalgia and joy, they also excavate the gendered labor and colonial legacies that inform them. Select artists also offer meditations on hospitable conditions within our built and natural environments, gesturing to the complexities of diasporic placemaking.
Shoes at the Door offers a nuanced glimpse of what it means to prioritize the care of others through acts of hospitality, which have the ability to both strengthen our ties to distant homelands and subvert cultural expectation.
P.S. Unlike the title suggests, you will not be asked to take your shoes off at any point.
@mdffparkway
STATION NORTH BOOKS
34 E. Lanvale Street
SHOP: Collectible Books & Antiques
Looking for treasure? Come find it here!
@nedstationnorthbooks
