Baltimore, MD – Make Studio is excited to announce the highlight of our fall programming season, the 8th installment of Cordially Invited! Cordially Invited is our annual invitational exhibition featuring artworks created in innovative U.S. and international studios serving disabled artists.

Celebrate the holiday season with the gift of art for your loved ones! Our annual utilitarian ceramics holiday invitational, Winterfest 2025, features 13 established and emerging ceramic artists. This exhibition is perfectly paired with our Annual Holiday Sale where resident and associated artists join together to fill the galleries and the Shop with hand-crafted gifts.

Christmas Village in Baltimore returns to the Inner Harbor for its 12th season. From November 22 to December 24, 2025, the waterfront along the Baltimore Visitor Center through the Maryland Science Center will transform into a magical winter wonderland, bringing over 65+ local and international vendors with unique holiday giftware. They will be located both inside the huge heated festival tent and along the waterfront promenade in traditional wooden booths with a great view over the wintry Inner Harbor and West Shore Park.

More than 50 works on paper investigate how artists working in Europe and French-occupied northern Africa watched and participated as nature became a resource for people to hoard or share.

Drawn from the BMA’s George A. Lucas Collection, this exhibition of 19th-century art foregrounds the many ways that human relationships, including imperialism and capitalism, affect the environment. Deconstructing Nature is organized thematically, focusing on five environments and the ways artists explored them in their work: The Desert, The Forest, The Field, The City, and The Studio.

This focus exhibition of 10 works explores the relationship between burning fossil fuels—namely, coal—and the emergence of European modernism. Drawing on research conducted by climate scientists and art historians, the exhibition presents a range of paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, and others to explore the ways that their artistic practices and style emerged, in part, in response to widespread pollution in London and Paris.

The Baltimore Museum of Art is open until 9 p.m.on Thursdays.

UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents the exhibition Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era, on display from September 2 through December 19.

In this focus exhibition of approximately 20 photographs, prints, drawings, and textiles, the natural environment is a source of creative inspiration worth celebrating and protecting.

For thousands of years, East Asia’s cultures have viewed human life as part of a much larger system that encompasses the natural world. Drawn from the BMA’s collection, this exhibition boasts more than 40 objects—from magnificent ink drawings to beautifully crafted stoneware and poignant contemporary photographs and prints. They bring into the galleries the mountains and seas, wild and supernatural animals, and plant life that are extensive across East Asian imagery and often carry symbolic meaning.

Santa at the Visitor Center

When?

November 28th - December 23rd, 2025

Starting the day after Thanksgiving, Santa will make his home at the Baltimore Visitor Center, welcoming families for photos and holiday cheer. Visits will be available Wednesdays through Sundays either by walk-in or by reserving a time online through the booking link on the Christmas Village website under the Events section.

A juried exhibition of nearly 100 watercolor and aqueous media paintings presented by the Baltimore Watercolor Society from October 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026. The FREE exhibition is at two neighboring locations, Kentlands Mansion and the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg, MD. The two buildings have different hours; both are open Tuesday-Friday 1-4 p.m.

Ugly Sweater Day

When?

December 19th, 2025, all day long

Ugly Sweater Contest starting at 6:00 PM

It’s Ugly Sweater Day at Christmas Village! Visitors and Vendors alike are invited to wear their Sweaters best. From kitsch to festive: all sweaters are welcome.