Below are some galleries at UMB as well as others that are near campus. All offer inspiration. Each gallery on this list is well worth the visit, offering a rich and rewarding experience.
Art Exhibits and Galleries
UMB Art Galleries
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Arch Gallery
West Side of UMB’s Pearl Street Garage Adjacent to Arch Street
Arch Gallery features artwork from the third issue of 1807, published in autumn 2021. Jennifer Litchman, MA, who is editor-in-chief of 1807 and UMB’s senior vice president for external relations, said, “UMB is an urban university ... and now we’ve added all this gorgeous art to the concrete. ... We have one more place to go where we can see the beauty in our everyday life.”
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Pearl Gallery
Pearl Street Underpass
Located in the Pearl Street underpass on the UMB campus, this exhibit was inspired by the spring 2019 issue of 1807, which encourages students, faculty, staff, and community members to submit unpublished artwork in the categories of visual arts (painting, drawing, illustration, digital art), photography, varied media (sculpture, clay, metal, glass, textiles, jewelry, wood), and the written word (short story, essay, narrative, poetry.
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Weise Gallery
First Floor of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) at UMB
Since its opening in 2003, the gallery has hosted both individual and group shows featuring local and national artists. Mediums include photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, mixed-media pieces, and traveling exhibits from institutions such as the National Library of Medicine, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Baltimore schools also have collaborated with HSHSL to show student artwork in the Weise Gallery.