Workshops
Making Hours: Call to Light, Earth Responds
Embark on a scavenger hunt around Harriet Tubman Grove in Wyman Park Dell to identify plants native to Baltimore. Use natural watercolors made from native plants and those that Tubman used for making medicine, such as sassafras and geranium, to create a linocut painting inspired by your connection with their spiritual and holistic benefits.
Call to Light, Earth Responds is an ode to call-and-response music in African American culture and is inspired by Harriet Tubman’s relationship with nature and our innate connection to plants in how we grow, bend, and move in our attempts to thrive.
This outdoor workshop is offered in connection with the BMA’s Turn Again to the Earth initiative. Justen Leroy’s three-channel film installation Lay Me Down in Praise (2022), on view in Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection, is a source of inspiration.
Schedule
5:30-6 p.m. – Check-in at Harriet Tubman Grove
6-8:30 p.m. – Workshop
Please note: This program will take place outdoors at Harriet Tubman Grove adjacent to Wyman Park Dell, located across the street from the BMA at the intersection of Art Museum Drive and Wyman Park Drive. In the event of rain, please check in at the BMA’s Joseph Education Center Studio.
Tickets
$20 BMA Members
$30 Non-Members
About the Artist
Vetiver (formerly Vonne Napper) is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, printmaker, and land steward. Their practice centers on preserving Black queer and trans narratives, supporting social justice calls of resistance, and emphasizing spiritual and mental wellness. Identifying as nonbinary and trans-masculine, Vetiver pulls from their lived experience to highlight the challenges of existing at a particularly targeted intersection in today’s society and employs their spirituality and relationship with nature to establish connections between the communities to which they belong.