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Natural Herstories

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Natural Herstories

Exhibition on View: September 10 - Nov 7, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sep 10, 2026 in conjunction with BROMO ART WALK

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present “Natural Herstories" exploring womxn artists’ complex relationships with the natural world, with a particular focus on artists who employ nature as an act of reclamation against colonialist narratives within their work.

“Natural Herstories” examines the intersections of patriarchy, colonialism, and systems of classification embedded within institutions such as natural history museums, the natural sciences, and the tradition of taxidermy. The exhibition draws parallels between the historical exercise of male power over nature, animal bodies, and female bodies alike. Through this framework, the exhibition proposes that womxn artists engage the natural world as both subject matter and a form of resistance, challenging histories of domination and subjugation imposed upon both the environment and the bodies that inhabit it.

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About Maryland Art Place:

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a nonprofit contemporary arts organization founded in 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland. It was created by a coalition of artists, community leaders, and supporters who wanted to expand opportunities for Maryland’s visual artists and increase public access to contemporary art. With early support from the Maryland State Arts Council, MAP officially incorporated in 1982 and quickly became an important cultural institution in the region.

MAP’s mission is to inspire people throughout the region by championing creatives and cultivating engagement between artists and the public. We imagine a world in which the arts are universally respected, freely expressed, and understood as culturally fundamental. Today, MAP is located at 218 West Saratoga St and remains a central force in the city’s BROMO Arts and Entertainment District, continuing its mission to connect artists and the public through innovative contemporary art programming.

VILLAGER | Hotel Indigo

On View: September 19 - November 13, 2026

Artist Talk: Sunday, November 8 | 2 PM - 4 PM

Hotel Indigo | 24 West Franklin Street | Free & Open to the Public

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist, VILLAGER . The exhibition is on view at Hotel Indigo, located at 24 West Franklin St. from September 19 - November 13, 2026. Please join us for an artists talk on Sunday, November 8 from 2 PM to 4 PM.

Artist Bio

VILLAGER (b. Abdulrasheed Adekunle Adaranijo), they/them, is a Nigerian-born contemporary transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer currently based in Baltimore, MD. Formally trained as a Water Microbiologist and Environmental Researcher, VILLAGER earned a B.S. in Environmental Chemistry from Towson University and is currently studying in the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Artist Statement

Actively investigating the liminal intersections of material memory and sensory intelligence, migration, Yorùbá knowledge production, and postcolonial African identity. VILLAGER synthesizes their paintings into a dynamic topography of critical inquiry into the poetics of relational interplay between objects, bodies, and spaces, utilizing layers and applications of color, movement, rhythm, layering, texture, pattern, scarification, and mark-making to examine how form, design (beauty aesthetic), function, and content intersect to produce alternate ways of seeing, being, and knowing rooted in the post-colonial Afro-futurist consciousness. Their work is often characterized by undulating and errant, neural-like, semi-circular woven patterned marks and gestural scars that take form through an amalgamation of abstraction, figuration, and collaging traditions, emerging as a creolized visual language that engages questions of culture, identity, consciousness, and belonging. Through their work, VILLAGER ultimately invites the viewer to reexamine what it means to be shaped and transformed by what we sense, experience, know, remember, and sustain.

Hotel Indigo is located at 24 West Franklin St.

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