Mary Frick Jacobs Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
May 1, 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Johns Hopkins University, Gilman Hall 132
This study day, organized in conjunction with the BMA exhibition Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, invites conversation and reflection on the environmental, economic, social, and political consequences of the Dutch Republic’s engagement with the water. This convening aims to address how artists, their contemporaries, and the objects on view reveal both an awareness of and an ambivalence toward the relationship between humans and their environment in the early modern period.
Speakers include Lara Yeager-Crasselt (Baltimore Museum of Art), Stephen Campbell (Johns Hopkins University), Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University), Melanie Gifford (retired, National Gallery of Art), Sarah Mallory (Morgan Library & Museum), and Celia Rodriguez Tejuca (Johns Hopkins University). The afternoon will be moderated by Mitchell Merback (Johns Hopkins University) and Arielle Saiber (Johns Hopkins University).
Following the end of the afternoon presentations, guests and participants are invited to visit the exhibition at the BMA. Free and open to the public.
*This event will be held at Johns Hopkins University, Gilman Hall 132.
For more information on the exhibition, see Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, on view until 27 July, 2025.