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Infinite Possibilities: Art and Hope (Refugee Art Project)

The Refugee Youth Project (RYP) is a comprehensive after-school program designed to support refugee and immigrant youth in Baltimore by providing academic assistance, social integration, and enrichment opportunities. Offered twice a week, RYP helps students develop English language skills, complete homework, and engage in activities that foster personal and academic growth. The program partners with local schools, community organizations, and universities to provide structured learning, mentorship, and cultural engagement tailored to students' unique needs.

Climas Malsanos | Hoesy Corona Exhibition

Climas Malsanos brings together a diverse collection of works from the artist’s Climate Immigrants (2017-Present) series that highlights the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns.

B’more Yoyo Club

The Baltimore yoyo club is a fast paced and vibrant hobby that combines insane yoyo tricks, with music, creativity, and problem solving skills! It is a vast and diverse hobby with room for everyone learn and try something new!

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Community Yoga w/ Free Baltimore Yoga

Free Baltimore Yoga is a safe space grounded in community movement. Our sessions aim to be accessible trauma-informed, nervous- system -focused, and breath- centered. All ages!

Classical Figure Drawing w/ Rebecca Scheuerman

This drop-in figure drawing course is suitable for all skill levels. Untrained new artists will learn multiple approaches to figure drawing while seasoned artists will have the opportunity to hone their skills and further train their eye. Each class will feature a nude model and begin with quick gesture poses. The remaining time will be spent on the artistry of longer poses. The goal is to train all artists to more quickly and fluidly capture the gesture of the entire figure.

Stars and Portals | Wale Ali and Villager Exhibition

On View: June 20 - July 19

In STARS & PORTALS, Nigerian-born artists Adewale Alli and VILLAGER unite in a transcendent visual dialogue between cosmos and spirit. Here, stars and portals form the conceptual framework: stars as celestial guides, markers of destiny, light, and cosmic navigation; portals as metaphysical structures, spiritual gateways, and temporal passageways of memory and ancestral possibility.

Together, their works create an immersive landscape where the metaphysical and the material intertwine. Alli’s star paintings explore the boundless expanse of the universe, drawing on the cosmic and emotional resonance of abstraction. Through fire, texture, and form, he channels the brilliance and chaos of stellar birth and death, using stars as symbolic language for resilience, destruction, and rebirth. His canvases become constellations of feeling, mapping the unseen emotional universes within and beyond.

In dialogue, VILLAGER’s portal series offers a rooted counterpoint grounded in Yorùbá spirituality and Afrocentric futurism–reaching through time and memory. These circular forms act as energetic vessels, temporal passageways, and visual manifestations of ancestral wisdom and nonlinear time. Interwoven with materials, cowries, and pigments, each portal pulses the energy of transition, possibility, and return. They are windows into different worlds, folding time upon itself and offering new visions for how we understand beginnings and endings; being, belonging, and becoming.

STARS & PORTALS is a sacred mapping that invites viewers to trace the lines between personal and cosmic, past and future, the terrestrial and the divine. Through this shared cosmology, Alli and VILLAGER illuminate a path for reimagining self, history, and possibility—through the guidance of stars and the passage of portals.

Artist Bio

VILLAGER (b. Abdul Rasheed Adekunle Adaranijo in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian-born International Artist, Cultural Producer, and African Spirituality Practitioner whose work exists to scrutinize, deconstruct, and redefine what it means to be a “Contemporary African" by exploring the complex yet evolving intersections of post-colonial identity, cultural heritage, material intelligence, and knowledge production. Trained as a Water Microbiologist and Environmental Researcher, VILLAGER earned a B.S. in Environmental Chemistry from Towson University in 2020. They have presented solo exhibitions ÀṢẸ: Embodying the Divine (2024), and BUSH BOY! (2022) in Baltimore, MD. VILLAGER's work has also been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including, Sou(l): Mostra de Arte Afro-Diaspórica, Artspace Vigidal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Diasporic Crossing, Southside Contemporary, Richmond, VA, BLAQ SHEEP, Superchief Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA, AFROFUTURISM: 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance, Papermill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ to name a few. VILLAGER's work has been featured in publications such as BmoreART, Baltimore Banner, and NUNAR, and has received several awards including the Baltimore Mayor's Office Individual Artist Award (2025). VILLAGER's artwork can be found in private art collections in Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Rio de Janeiro.

Adewale Alli

Adewale (b. 1993, Nigeria) is an artist whose practice centers on bringing the surreal beauty of space closer to humanity. Through sculptural forms and celestial-inspired paintings He creates works that evoke a sense of vitality and presence, inviting viewers to explore their own sense of divinity. Inspired by stars as cosmic engines of life, Adewale's work reimagines identity and existence on a universal scale.

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Community Yoga w/ Free Baltimore Yoga

Free Baltimore Yoga is a safe space grounded in community movement. Our sessions aim to be accessible trauma-informed, nervous- system -focused, and breath- centered. All ages!

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Kerplunk! Free Family Art Drop-In

Kerplunk! is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions!

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