Somewhere Over The Rainbow Of Row Homes, We Fly

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC) presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll and featuring artists based in, or deeply connected to, Baltimore. On view from August 25 through November 24, 2026, the exhibition considers the city’s fertile cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practices. Its title is inspired by the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

Baltimore is a city of dreamers. The creative genius that pervades the region offers profound perspectives about the power of our collective imagination to transform our world. As the world grapples with myriad crises—forever wars, widespread economic insecurity, and threats against democracy—the artistic perspectives presented in Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, are radically optimistic about humanity’s ability to triumph over adversity. In the spirit of Duke Ellington, who regularly performed in jazz clubs on the historic strip of Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue and theorized that all creative practice is a form of dreaming, Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly invites audiences into a state of intentional, lucid, and restorative visioning.

The exhibition brings together a range of artists and artistic mediums with works by Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice,  Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and a public presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective  NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate. Through serial compositions, photographic triptychs, poetic floating installations, and kaleidoscopic cinema, these artists contemplate themes of home, memory, and community.

“CADVC is honored to host UMBC alumna Angela N. Carroll’s timely survey of Baltimore’s contemporary artistic imagination,” said Dr. Rebecca Uchill, director of CADVC. “This exhibition illustrates the extraordinary experimentation, connection, and cultural vision in the city and region.”

“The exhibition celebrates and affirms alternate conceptions of reality through speculative and abstract anti-representational expressions and forms,” said Carroll. “Glitch, distortion, rupture, and defiant challenges to traditional technical and material applications offer prescient responses to the tumultuousness of the 21st century.”

Thursday Evenings at CADVC

The exhibition will be accompanied by the following free public programs.

September 3, 6–8 pm: Opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison and Shan Wallace.

November 5, 6–8 pm: Artist roundtable on experimental practice, moderated by Ernest Shaw

November 19, 6–8 pm: Artist roundtable on memory, communal and familial archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington

More events will be announced.

The exhibition is supported by the UMBC Arts+ initiative and other sponsors, including the Maryland State Arts Council and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly will be on view at CADVC, August 25–November 24, 2026, with an exhibition reception and artist panel moderated by the curator on Thursday, September 3, 6–8 pm. Admission is free.