After Hours
Art After Hours: Solstice
Baltimore’s favorite late-night art party returns to the BMA on the summer solstice with an evening of celebration, rebirth, and renewal. Inspired by the Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative, Art After Hours: Solstice invites visitors to explore the galleries, including the new ticketed exhibition Black Earth Rising, and dance to the sounds of Afro-house, Latin, ambient, and Afrobeats curated by multi-hyphenate creative, DJ, and visual alchemist, MUSE(O)FIRE.
Meet artist Devin Allen and Lisa Snowden, Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Baltimore Beat, for an in-gallery talk exploring Heavy with History: Devin Allen and the Baltimore Uprising. Experience a capoeira movement ceremony led by healer, singer, and activist Sanahara Ama Chandra Brown and take part in an Ecological Fortune Cards session through Riparia with Valeska Populoh. Try a variety of solstice-themed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres by Baltimore’s own H3irloom Food Group. Learn about sustainable fashion and make a recycled brooch with fashion producer Caprece Ann Jackson and wearable artist Evette Monique Couture.
This event is for adults 21 or older. The price of admission includes one free food or drink ticket.
Tickets
$25 BMA Members | $35 Non-Members
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Schedule
8 p.m.
Doors open
8-11 p.m.
Afro-house, Latin, ambient, and Afrobeats by multi-hyphenate creative, DJ, and visual alchemist, MUSE(O)FIRE
Fox Court
8-11 p.m.
The Bonneau Caprece Recycled Brooch-Making Workshop with Fashion Designer | Wearable Artiste Evette Monique Couture
Joseph Education Center Studio
8:45 p.m.
Processional: Riparia and Sanahara Ama Chandra Brown
Fox Court to Joseph Education Center Insight Lab
9 p.m.
Ecological Fortune Cards Through Ripira
Joseph Education Center Insight Lab
10 p.m.
In-Gallery Talk with Devin Allen and Lisa Snowden
East Lobby 2nd level (Heavy with History: Devin Allen and the Baltimore Uprising Title Wall)
10:15 p.m.
Capoeira and blessings ceremony led by Sanahara Ama Chandra Brown
Fox Court
11 p.m.
Program ends
Participants
Muse(O)Fire
MUSE(O)FIRE (Muse Dodd) is a Baltimore-based Trans-disciplinary Artist, DJ, and Curator who creates work that moves, flickers, and rattles—condensing and stretching both time and space. Their work centers on the questions, ‘How do you remember and what do you choose to forget?’ Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America channeling ancestral trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a B.A. in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague, CZ. They were a 2023 Theater Mitu Hybrid Arts Lab Fellow and a 2019 Corrina Mehiel Fellow through Source Studio. Muse has performed locally and internationally, including residencies at Mirante Xique Xique in Bahia, Brazil, the ARoS Museum in Denmark, and a fellowship at the Leslie-Lohman Museum. They are also a recipient of the 2021 Art Matters Artist2Artist grant.
Lisa Snowden
Lisa Snowden is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Beat, a digital and print-based news outlet based in Baltimore City. Passionate about storytelling and community empowerment, Snowden has dedicated her life to journalism, seeking to elevate underrepresented voices and drive meaningful conversations around pressing societal issues. With over 15 years of rich experience in local journalism, she’s shaped Baltimore Beat into an innovative and inclusive platform, focusing on literary reportage and insightful, impactful reporting.
Snowden’s mission is to foster civic participation, combat misinformation, and uphold journalistic integrity while contributing to the resilience and awareness of Baltimore’s diverse and vibrant communities. She aims to create a news ecosystem that reflects Baltimoreans’ lived experiences and serves as a catalyst for positive change and community empowerment.
Devin Allen
Devin Allen is a self-taught photographer and Baltimore native who gained national acclaim when his photo of the 2015 Baltimore Uprising appeared on the cover of TIME—making him only the third amateur ever to earn that honor. In 2017, he became the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his debut book, A Beautiful Ghetto. His work was featured again on TIME‘s cover in 2020 with a striking image from a Black Trans Lives Matter protest. Allen has served as a Leica Ambassador and his photography—centering Black life and resistance—has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Aperture. His images are held in permanent collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2023, he won the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize. His next book, Baltimore, will be published in Fall 2025.
Valeska Maria Populoh.
Valeska Maria Populoh works as an artist, educator and cultural organizer in her adopted hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Embracing a wide array of tactics, from puppetry to participatory performance, Valeska’s work is motivated by an interest in healing and repair, in our relationships to each other and to the natural world.
Caprece Ann Jackson
Caprece Ann Jackson is a Fashion, Cultural and Events Producer, Host/Interviewer; and Sustainable Fashion Curator. She has produced Fashion programming, including Sustainable Fashion presentations, performance art installations; professional wardrobing, personal style, upcycling workshops; and industry-elevating platforms since 2011, including “Wear It Out Baltimore,” “Fashion Comes To Light,” and “The Fashion Block at ARTSCAPE,” to connect Baltimore Fashion Talent with the public at-large,
Caprece represented the Baltimore Fashion community in 2022 for VISIT Baltimore’s national Ad campaigns through 2024; and served the arts and cultural arm of Baltimore City as its 1st Fashion Programming Coordinator 2023-24. She is a Fashion Ambassador for Sustainable Fashion Week US, and the global @AdvancedStyle Movement.
The Fashion Institute of Technology graduate’s career highlights include: covering the Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks as a Paris-based journalist, staffing the launch team of ELLE Magazine’s U.S. edition; and serving a four-year stint as a press secretary for the Baltimore City Council.
Evette Monique
Evette Monique is a rising star on Baltimore’s Fashion Scene and beyond. Evette channels her creativity and conceptual perspective through fabric and accessories as a Wearable Artiste, Milliner, Wire Artist, Upcyclist and Sustainable Fashion Designer.
Baltimore born and raised, she is known by her growing clientele for her signature techniques including the use of unconventional and non-traditional fibers, material, and fabrics; 3-D embellishments; and elevating recycled and vintage clothing with a hybrid sensibility that merges haute couture, avant garde and fantasy mode.
Evette presented at Milan Fashion Week in 2024, London Fashion Week in 2023. She has been featured in British Vogue, Vogue Weekly, Swerv Magazine; and dozens of Bmore market showcases including Project ARTSCAPE and The Baltimore Met Gala.
Sanahara Ama Chandra Brown