# Past Exhibitions
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## [Past Exhibitions](https://museums.jhu.edu/?post_type=page&p=3725)
- [The Lifted Veil](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/past/the-lifted-veil/)
- [Gilman: A Pictured History](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/past/gilman-pictured-history/)
- [Baltimore Oval-Back Chairs Restored](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/past/chairs/)
- [A History of Houseplants](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/past/a-history-of-houseplants/)
## Art Glass at Evergreen
June 24 – December 7, 2025; June 23, 2023 – August 25, 2024
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/), North Wing Gallery**\
*Free for Friends of the JHU Museums & J-Card holders*\
*$5 General Public*
Evergreen Museum & Library possesses one of the world’s largest private collections of 19th- and 20th-century art glass, including many important pieces by American and European makers such as Tiffany, Steuben, Durand, Loetz, and Émile Gallé. This installation gathers these highlights, showing off the breadth and depth of the collection and contextualizing its history at Evergreen.
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## Ceramics Highlights at Homewood
June 24, 2024 – September 21, 2025
**[Homewood Museum](https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/visitor-info/), Housekeeper’s Room**
Free for all
Ceramics were among the most in demand goods in 18th and 19th century America, and the ceramics trade contributed to Baltimore’s growth as a prosperous port city. Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood is named after the port of Canton (present day Guangzhou), China, where export trade goods departed on ships bound for North America. This spotlight display features selected ceramic ware drawn from Homewood Museum’s own collections that reveal much about how life was lived at Homewood and contribute to our understanding of Baltimore’s significant role in the Chinese export trade.
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## New Perspectives of Historic Evergreen
April 1 – September 8, 2025
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/), Student Engagement Space**
What can happen when we look at a museum through the lens of a camera? Using traditional 4×5 land cameras, three Baltimore School for the Arts seniors—Kyndall Roots, Rose Jean-Gilles Joseph, and Hassan Hunt—under the tutelage of Baltimore photographer Joe Giordano, spent the past several months exploring Evergreen Museum & Library. The students played with different levels of lights, models, and angles to explore the site’s history and creativity, as seen through their eyes.
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Blackout poem by Leyun Kim, A&S '28 (detail)
## History Through Poetry
December 11 – August 31, 2025
**[Homewood Museum](https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/visitor-info/)**
Free for all
Installed throughout Homewood Museum’s period rooms, this exhibition features new original poems inspired by the collection. Considering decorative arts and material culture while honoring the lives of the enslaved people who once lived and worked at Homewood, the poems bridge creative imagination with historic research to bring paintings, furnishings, and other artifacts to life for visitors. The exhibition is the culmination of a Johns Hopkins [First-Year Seminar](https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBVQhh) that explores the study and practice of poetry to bring to light overlooked stories and give voice to the voiceless, materializing meaning out of absences and questions.
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## [Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/leave-no-trace-john-work-garrett-in-the-american-outdoors/)
September 25, 2024 to June 8, 2025
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/), North Wing Gallery**
John Work Garrett II (1872-1942) is best remembered today as a diplomat and book collector, who was a product of the privileged East Coast milieu in which he was raised. But in addition to his boyhood summers at Evergreen, his teenage travels in Europe and the Far East, and his university years at Princeton, Garrett’s character and imagination were formed by numerous excursions into the American West. *Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors* examines these formative experiences through archival photography, diary entries, artifacts, sculptures, and more, asking visitors to consider the idea of the American West from multiple perspectives and reflect on their own relationship to the great outdoors.
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## [(Re)Valuing Black Baltimore: Bare Hills, Cross Keys, and Hoes Heights](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/revaluing-black-baltimore/)
September 30, 2023 – June 2, 2024
**[Homewood Museum](https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/visitor-info/), Housekeeper’s Room**\
*Free*
Homewood’s new exhibition explores the history of three Black settlements in North Baltimore: Bare Hills, Cross Keys, and Hoes Heights. Drawing on historic maps, photographs, and oral histories of community members, the installation reflects upon the founders of these settlements and their descendants who faced and withstood the racial forces at play in the nation.
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Gilman Students, c. 1903, photograph, Homewood Museum HMPH2013.3.8
## [Gilman: A Pictured History](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/gilman-pictured-history/)
May 17 – September 17, 2023
**[Homewood Museum](https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/)\***Free*
Many in Baltimore and beyond know Gilman School as an esteemed all-boys private school located on a picturesque North Baltimore campus. Less well known is that Gilman traces its origins back to 1897 when it was called the Country School for Boys and located in what is today Homewood Museum. Inspired by archival photographs from over 100 years ago, current Gilman photography students working under teacher Sarah Sachs have created original art that merges the past with the present.
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Image by Subhasri Vijay
## [Evergreen as Muse 2023](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/evergreen-as-muse-2023/)
May 6 – August 27, 2023
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/)\***Guided Tour*
This exhibition showcases photographs by 12 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 are the culmination of the spring 2023 course *Evergreen as Muse: A Photographic Exploration* taught by fine art photographer Phyllis Berger.
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## [A History of Houseplants](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/a-history-of-houseplants/)
October 1, 2022-June 4, 2023
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/)**\
*Free*
This exhibition explores the forces that catalyzed the Victorian obsession with houseplants, reveals how the trend manifested at Evergreen and in Baltimore, and examines how today’s houseplant craze both recalls and differs from the Victorian version of 150 years ago.
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## [Baltimore Oval-Back Chairs Restored](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/current/chairs/)
September, 2021 – December, 2022
**[Homewood Museum](https://museums.jhu.edu/homewood-museum/)\***Guided Tour*
In 2019, Homewood launched a Dress-A-Chair fundraising campaign to outfit six Baltimore-made, oval-back chairs with custom reproduction slipcovers. Work on the chairs is now complete and can be admired in a small exhibit in the Reception Hall that includes information on the chairs, as well as an exhibit case exploring joinery and upholstery. Included with regular admission.
The oval-back frame is a particular favorite style that came out of Baltimore in the early nineteenth century. Each chair also features an example of the famous Baltimore bellflower, a carved motif favored by Baltimore furniture-makers.
The design of the slipcover was chosen based on early nineteenth-century period imagery and modeled off of reproductions produced recently by Colonial Williamsburg for similar chairs. We consulted with several Mid-Atlantic curators before determining that white dimity with a ruffled skirt would be an appropriate fit for a property used as a summer estate. The fabric was woven on a loom by Rabbit Goody up in New York and the slipcovers were made by Alan Ibello from Baltimore.
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## [The Lifted Veil](https://museums.jhu.edu/exhibitions/the-lifted-veil/)
April 29 – September 25, 2022
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/), North Wing Gallery**\
*Free*
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.
*Pictured: View from the Edge: Cliffs of Moher County Clare, Ireland*
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## Evergreen as Muse 2022
April 29 – June 26, 2022
**[Evergreen Museum & Library](https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/)\***Guided Tour*
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.
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