In collaboration with the the Jones Falls 2076 project, AREA 405 presents Confluence Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways, featuring visions from the Jones Falls 2076 River Reimagining Workshops, work by local university students, and contemporary artists Ann Margaret Morris, Ana Paula Teixeira & María Luisa “Mussa” Marín, Bao Nguyen, Valeska Populoh, Rhea Beckett, Jess Keyes & Patrick McMinn, Katie Kisiel, Jonna McKone, and Jordan Tierney. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 8, and close on Friday, June 12, with both events participating in the Station North Second Friday Art Walk from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Jones Falls 2076 is a year-long speculative design project that imagines the state of Baltimore’s Jones Falls River in the year 2076, half a century from now. Confluence: Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways — the first of the two exhibitions in 2026 — explores the Jones Falls River and the city’s waterways as sources of creative possibility. By showing the work of contemporary artists who engage with Baltimore’s watersheds alongside speculative concepts from the Jones Falls 2076 River Reimagining Workshops, the exhibition sets the stage for radical approaches to the past, present, and future of Baltimore’s waterways. Visitors are invited to participate in the exhibition by contributing their own utopian or quixotic dreams for the Jones Falls.
Confluence was organized by Anand Pandian, Bruce Willen, Lee Davis, Steffanie Espat, Taro Cantú, Maks Rychlicki, Nic Amsel, and Julianne Chan.
Jones Falls 2076 is co-organized by author, designer, and social entrepreneur Lee Davis (co-Executive Director of the Center for Creative Impact at MICA), anthropologist and author Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University, co-founder of the Ecological Design Collective), artist and designer Bruce Willen (creator of the Ghost Rivers public art project, founder of Public Mechanics studio).
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