Johns Hopkins University Museums

Art Glass at Evergreen
2021-10-15 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Evergreen Museum & Library, 4545 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Evergreen Museum & Library possesses one of the world’s largest private collections of art glass, including many important pieces by Tiffany, Steuben, Loetz, and other leading glass manufacturers. For many years, these objects were displayed throughout he museum, integrated with all the other masterpieces and curiosities in the museum’s sprawling collection. Now, museum curators have gathered many of the most significant pieces of art glass for a permanent installation in the museum’s North Wing Gallery that gives these luminous works the spotlight they need to really shine.

Brice Brown: Proscenium
2022-01-29 11:00 - 16:00
Contemporary Artist Brice Brown presents a site-specific video installation inspired by Evergreen’s Bakst Theatre. Supplemented by sculptures and printed materials, the installation is a multimedia experience that collapses boundaries between viewer and participant. On view with regular museum admission.
Exhibition Opening with Artist Talk: Saturday, January 29, 2-4:30 p.m. FREE; advance registration required. Click here to register.

Evergreen as Muse 2022
2022-04-29 - 2022-06-26
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition showcases photographs by 10 Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who were inspired by the history of Evergreen, its inhabitants, and its world-famous library, art collection, and grounds. Their photographs will be located throughout the museum in areas that prompted their work. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, June 26, 2022 and can be seen via a guided tour of the museum.
Student Artists
Mason Cole
Louie DiBernardo
Sophie Dunn
Victor Galindo
Bella He
Cera Huffman
Sanddhya Jayabalan
Sarah Lee
Eleanor O’Callaghan
Mitchell Pavlak

Evergreen Spring Photography Exhibitions Opening
2022-04-29 18:00 - 20:00
Evergreen Museum & Library invites you to an evening celebrating the opening of two photography exhibitions! Meet the artists, peruse the exhibitions, and enjoy light refreshments.
The Lifted Veil
For many years, fine art photographer Phyllis Arbesman Berger saw the world through a cloudy veil because of cataracts. During that time, she concentrated on making images in black and white. And then a miracle: cataract surgery and the world came alive in blazing color, full of intensity, as well as dreamy subtlety.
This group of photographs, ranging from infrared to color, shows how her view of the world has changed by revisiting photographs of her favorite places in Ireland; Brittany, France; and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and reimagining them in glorious technicolor through the magic of Photoshop. The exhibition will remain on view in Evergreen’s North Wing Gallery through September 25, 2022.
Pictured: View from the Edge: Cliffs of Moher County Clare, Ireland
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Phyllis Berger BFA, MFA Maryland Institute college of Art is the Photography Coordinator for the Center for Visual Arts at the Johns Hopkins University where she has been an instructor for the past 26 years.
As a practicing fine art photographer Berger is a recipient of two artist residencies in Rochefort en Terre, Brittany, France, where she pursued her love of the landscape, and she has shared this passion with JHU students with courses in Ireland and Australia. Berger has been a lecturer for JHU Alumni Journeys in Croatia, The Galapagos Islands, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama.
Her work is in numerous private collections and has been shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Rochefort en Terre, the Hopkins Review (where she was a photo editor), and in the collection of the Banneker-Douglass Museum.
Evergreen as Muse
This exhibition showcases photographs by 10 Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who were inspired by the history of Evergreen, its inhabitants, and its world-famous library, art collection, and grounds. Their photographs will be located throughout the museum in areas that prompted their work. The exhibition will remain on view through June 26, 2022.

Sketching at Evergreen: Bakst Theatre
2022-05-05 14:00 - 15:30
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Calling all budding artists! Evergreen Museum & Library is now offering multiple sketching sessions throughout the museum each month. Each 90-minute session focuses on a single room (check different dates for new room offerings). A docent will be on hand to answer any questions about the room, collections, and history of the house and its inhabitants
In order to protect our collection, we ask that only pencils or colored pencils be used when sketching inside the house. **Any type of water pens are not allowed. Supplies are not provided with purchase of ticket.
ABOUT THE ROOM
This session will focus on Evergreen’s Bakst Theatre, which began as a gymnasium in the 1880s and then was converted to a theater in the 1920s by Léon Bakst,the Russian painter, set designer and costumer for the Ballets Russes. A docent will be on hand to answer any questions about the room, collections, and history of the house and its inhabitants.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Masks are now optional
Due to the historical nature of the building, accessibility is limited, and some parts of the museum can only be reached via stairs.
Stools are available for the duration of the session.
Free self-guided tours of the gardens and grounds are included in admission. Full guided house tour is not included in admission to sketching session
Free parking is available

Jazz: America's Secret Sonic Weapon
2022-05-12 18:00 - 20:00
ABOUT THE EVENT

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government recruited jazz icons such as Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington to tour the world as cultural ambassadors and burnish America’s reputation as a beacon of multi-cultural freedom and creativity. While this projection often obscured a far more complicated reality, the tours proved incredibly effective, inspiring one reporter to dub them “America’s secret sonic weapon.” At Evergreen—once the home of Ambassador John Work Garrett and his arts patron wife, Alice Warder Garrett—diplomacy and jazz have long co-existed. They will once again harmonize at this outdoor concert and talk co-sponsored by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance and featuring music by Peabody jazz sextet Kenyatta and narration by Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars professor Anna Harwell Celenza. Staged on Evergreen’s newly renovated historic terrace, this program will illustrate the power of jazz to seduce the world even as it remained a source of cultural dissonance for some Americans.
Light refreshments will be served.
