Dean's Greeting
Dear Friends,
Welcome to this guide to the public programs presented this semester by the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums!
As ever, the offerings are many and varied and span our locations and venues in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Exhibition subjects range from Evergreen's John Work Garrett's adventures in the American West to avant-garde art and graphic design in post-war Europe. Talks and workshops touch on everything from dinosaurs to podcasting while performances include world premieres and works by master and emerging composers.
New events are added all the time. Please scan the QR codes in this booklet to access the most up-todate information, RSVP for events, join our vibrant Friends community of supporters, and connect with us on social media.
I wish you the best this spring and hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Elisabeth M. Long Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors
Evergreen Museum & Library | FREE–$5
In addition to boyhood summers at Evergreen, diplomat John Work Garrett’s (1872–1942) character was formed by numerous trips to the American West. This exhibition examines these formative experiences through archival photography, diary entries, artifacts, and sculptures, asking visitors to consider the idea of the American West from multiple perspectives and reflect on their own experiences in nature.
RELATED PROGRAMS
APRIL 24, 6–8:30 P.M.
Dinosaurs and Drinks Happy Hour
$20–35 / RSVP Required
Amy Balanoff and Gabriel Bever from the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will give a talk on the “Origins of the Bird Brain: How Fossils Inform the History of Evolutionary Transformations," exploring the rich history of fossil discovery in the American West. A reception will follow with craft cocktails from Dutch Courage Gin Bar and after-hours exhibition viewing.
JUNE 6, 7–9 P.M.
Around the Campfire
FREE–$10 / RSVP Required
Join us for a last look at Leave No Trace , featuring a performance by soprano Teresa Ferrara followed by learning stations exploring the secret lives of nighttime wildlife, make-your-own s’mores, and exhibition viewing.
THROUGH MARCH 2
Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life & Writing
George Peabody Library | FREE
Showcasing the Sheridan Libraries’ Robert A. Wilson Collection of rarely exhibited first editions, drafts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera linked to Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), this major exhibition documents how the pioneering American writer fostered avant-garde connections throughout her lifetime and explores Stein’s ongoing legacy as a beacon for artists, writers, and LGBTQ+ communities. An illustrated gallery guide accompanies the exhibition and is available for free in the gallery and on the Sheridan Libraries website.
RELATED PROGRAM
MARCH 2, 4 – 5:30 P.M.
Gertrude Stein in Circles: Friends, Lovers, Rivals, and Comrades
FREE / RSVP Required
We get a better sense of Gertrude Stein when we examine her through the social and artistic connections that shaped her work and life. Join exhibition curator Gabrielle Dean for a last look at Gertrude Stein in Circles , featuring the Ann Street Trio performing works by French composers Germaine Tailleferre and Louise Farrenc, and a tour that will focus on Stein’s relationships. These include her family, the teachers who influenced her education as a scientist, the artists she befriended in Paris, her literary comrades and rivals, and her wife and ally Alice B. Toklas.
TTHROUGH FEBRUARY 21
Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes
Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, Hopkins Bloomberg Center / FREE
his exhibition brings together more than 75 works to illustrate how European avant-garde artists engaged in an international exchange of ideas to develop new visual vocabularies in response to a world transformed by the modern, post-war age. The rare books, prints, photographs, and ephemera on display are drawn from the rarely seen private collections assembled by Irene and Richard Frary and include many recent gifts from the collections to the Sheridan Libraries.
THROUGH AUGUST 31
History Through Poetry
Homewood Museum / FREE
Considering material culture while honoring the lives of enslaved people who once lived and worked at Homewood, this exhibition features sitespecific poems that bring to light overlooked stories embedded in the art, artifacts, and furnishings on display throughout the museum.
RELATED PROGRAM
APRIL 10, 5:30–6:30 P.M
Poetry Workshop
$5-7 / RSVP Required
Hopkins poet-professor Dora Malech will lead an ekphrastic poetry workshop inspired by Homewood's collections.
FEBRUARY 10, 6–7:30 P.M.
Discovering Jewish Heritage: Rare Treasures from the Sheridan Libraries
Online / $6–$30 / RSVP Required
Sheridan Libraries librarian Mack Zalin and Sophia Shoulson, a Hopkins doctoral candidate in Jewish Languages and Literatures, will offer a fascinating overview of recent special collections acquisitions that complement teaching and research in the Krieger School's Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, from Holocaust memorial books to captivating Jewish folk art and rare documents detailing Jewish life in Baltimore.
FEBRUARY 11, 13, 18, 20 & 27, 6–8 P.M.
The History of “Fake News” from the Flood
to the Apocalypse
Online / FREE–$240 / RSVP Required
In our digital age of hacking, online bots, and trolls stealing, faking, and confounding information across the Internet, it is often forgotten that “fake news” has always been with us. In this five-session course, Stern Center Director Earle Havens will explore specific examples of historical and literary forgeries from the biblical flood to the future apocalypse, drawing from the Sheridan Libraries’ Bibliotheca Fictiva collection— the world's premier library collection dedicated to textual fakery and imposture.
Above, top to bottom: Mickey Ma’oz. Issue 2. Tel Aviv: P. Neidt and Son Press, 1947, Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; “Medieval” illumination of the Tiburtine Sibyl by the Spanish Forger, c. 1890. Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, Sheridan Libraries Special Collections. Opposite, top to bottom: Alexander Sinn / Unsplash; Scott Akerman
FEBRUARY 10–14
Love Data Week 2025: Whose Data Is It Anyway?
Online / FREE / RSVP Required
For the fifth consecutive year, the Johns Hopkins Libraries will host a series of events to mark Love Data Week, an international celebration of data highlighting topics, opportunities, and services relevant to data in research. This year’s talks, panel discussions, and workshops will address the theme of “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” by exploring the legal, ethical, and technical dimensions of data ownership, including artificial intelligence and big data, community-centered research, and data licensing. Keynote speaker Stephanie Russo Carroll from the University of Arizona will kick-off the week-long celebration following opening remarks by Dean Elisabeth Long.
FEBRUARY 27, MARCH 10 & 26, APRIL 11, 12–1:30 P.M.
What Makes
Podcasting Accessible?
Hybrid; Homewood and East Baltimore campus locations and online / FREE / RSVP Required
Are you an active podcaster or an enthusiastic listener? Are you curious about how podcasts can be a tool for improving access in teaching, research, and other activities inside and outside the university? Join the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center for a series of roundtable conversations about accessible podcasting, featuring creators from across Johns Hopkins and other universities.
FEBRUARY 27: Aaron Henkin, Shruti Jain, Le Li, Mamen Rodriguez Galindo, Lisa Yun
MARCH 10: Lindsay Smith Rogers, Tamar Rodney, Matt Seybold
MARCH 26: Rahne Alexander, Dylan Selterman, Ulrich Baer, Amanda Martin-Hardin
APRIL 11: Sarah Stern, Robin McGinness, John Plotz
Lunch with the Libraries & Museums
MARCH 7, 12– 1 P.M.
Illuminations: Exploring Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Online / FREE / RSVP Required
From world-class illuminated books to humbler scribal fragments and many points in between, Stern Center Director Earle Havens and Hopkins history doctoral candidate J.J. Lopez Haddad will explore some of their favorite pre-1600 manuscripts at the Sheridan Libraries and discuss how the collection has grown and evolved.
APRIL 25, 12– 1 P.M.
More than Words, More than Birds
Online / FREE / RSVP Required
Drawing from the John Work Garrett Library’s renowned natural history collection, Special Collections Materials Manager Amy Kimball will discuss an array of stunning drawings and prints through the lens of ornithology and botany, as well as different methods of illustration.
Above, top: Detail from Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, c. 1425. Bottom and front cover: Detail from John Gould, A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds. London, 1861. John Work Garrett Library, Sheridan Libraries Special Collections (2)
FEBRUARY 27, 5:30–6:30 P.M.
By Freedom or Willpower: Artists in Early Maryland
Homewood Museum / $5–7 / RSVP Required
Brittany Luberda, Anne Stone
Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, will share groundbreaking research on previously undercelebrated artists in Colonial and Federal Maryland who were enslaved, indentured, or barred from access to training and advancement. Disrupting art histories that privilege workshop owners and formally educated painters—often white men—she'll reveal that early Maryland artists came from all economic, gender, racial, and national backgrounds.
FMARCH 4, 6–8 P.M.
What If Fungi Win?: A Conversation with Dr. Arturo Casadevall
Hopkins Bloomberg Center | FREE | RSVP Required
rom the delicious to the deadly, fungi—which share 50% of our DNA—present a wide range of benefits, and threats, to human health, many of which remain unexplored. Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? World-renowned infectious disease researcher and inventor Dr. Arturo Casadevall from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will take up this question and discuss his latest book, What If Fungi Win?, with Emily Kwong, founding reporter and co-host for NPR science podcast Short Wave.
Above, top to bottom: Hugh Finlay, Center Table, Baltimore, 1820-30. Top attributed to Della Valle Brothers. Baltimore Museum of Art, Friends of the American Wing Fund, BMA 1992.214; Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press
BMARCH 6, 6–7 P.M.
Illuminating Homewood: Understanding the 19th-Century Lighting Revolution
Homewood Museum | $5–7 | RSVP Required
altimore was the first city in America to have an outdoor gas streetlight, firmly cementing a tie between the city and the lighting revolution that took place in homes and cities during 19th century. University Museums Curator of Collections Michelle Fitzgerald will discuss the transition at Homewood from candlelight to oil and gas lamps and illuminate how the lighting evolution changed how the house's original residents experienced the furnishings of their home and daily life.
APRIL 13, 11–4 P.M. ON THE HOUR
Glassblowing
Workshop
Evergreen Museum & Library / $50, FREE for spectators / RSVP Required
Inspired by Evergreen’s collections of art glass by Tiffany, Durand, Steuben, and others, the museum will host McFadden Art Glass for a day of introductory glassblowing workshops. Led by the studio's resident glass artists, participants will learn the basics of working with 2100-degree molten glass and create a one-of-a-kind piece. No prior experience is needed. Five, one-hour sessions, each limited to four participants (aged 5 and over) with additional space for spectators. Participants will be able to pick up their art glass creation 48 hours after the workshop.
Bottom: Courtesy of McFadden Art Glass. Opposite: Mark Pollei
APRIL 25, 5:15–6:45 P.M.
Renaissance Paper Sundial Workshop
George Peabody Library / FREE / RSVP Required
During the Renaissance, paper sundials were made as a way to measure time using the sun's position, although fewer survive today compared with those made of metal, wood, and other more durable materials. Stern Center Director Earle Havens and paper conservator Jennifer Jarvis will share rare examples from the Sheridan Libraries’ special collections and provide hands-on instruction in making and using a facsimile 17th-century paper sundial. Participants will take home their sundial creation.
MAY 3, 12–2:30 P.M.
Linocut Printing Workshop
Homewood Museum / $55–60 / RSVP Required
Baltimore printmaker Nikita Yogaraj will introduce the hands-on fundamentals of linoleum block printing, including how to design an image, carve and ink a block, and print the image onto paper. No prior experience is needed. Participants will take home their carved block and artworks. Space is limited.
MAY 29, 5:30–6:30 P.M.
Baltimore’s Culinary History
Homewood Museum / $5–7 / RSVP Required
Maryland cookbook author Kara Mae Harris, the mind behind the Old Line Plate blog, will share stories and histories behind Baltimore’s culinary trends, recipes, and traditional foods.
In the Stacks
FEBRUARY 13, 7:30–9:15 P.M. (BALTIMORE)
FEBRUARY 14, 12:30–2:15 P.M. (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
Songs from Inside
Hybrid; George Peabody Library, Hopkins Bloomberg Center, and online / FREE / RSVP Required
Peabody Institute artist-in-residence Juliano Aniceto will direct the icarus Quartet and NEXT Ensemble in a program of choral works honoring the individual voices of imprisoned people: the premiere of Elijah Daniel Smith’s Neither Persons Nor Property , inspired by currently incarcerated writer Brian Fuller, paired with Luigi Dallapiccola’s Canti di Prigionia , set to prison texts by Mary Stuart, Boethius, and Savonarola. Centered around the American Prison Writing Archive, the two performances will each be followed by a panel discussion and display of related special collections from the Sheridan Libraries.
APRIL 22, 6:30–7:30 P.M.
QUEEN-tet Project
George Peabody Library / FREE / RSVP Required
Inspired by banned books and queer histories from the Sheridan Libraries’ collections, this symphonic drag story hour features award-winning drag queen Tara Hoot and wind quintet District5 showcasing the premiere of Gorgeously, You! , a whimsical take on life advice from a drag queen’s perspective by Maryland composer Christen Taylor Holmes, paired with Carrie Jacob-Bond's rarely heard Half-Minute Songs.
Above, top: Matthew Petroff. Opposite, top to bottom: Abigél Králik; Courtesy of Guarneri Hal; Courtesy of Israeli Chamber Series
Music at Evergreen
FEBRUARY 16, 2025, 2–4 P.M.
Vision Duo: Moxie
Evergreen Museum & Library / $10-20 / RSVP Required
The ambitious young marimba and violin duo Vision Duo will present a program exploring musical genres and sonic possibilities for violin and percussion, featuring works and arrangements by Georges Bizet, Erroll Garner, Connor Chee, plus a Bach mashup and other selections. Ariel Horowitz and Britton-René Collins are recipients of the 2020 Concert Artist Guild Competition’s Ambassador Prize. A meet-the-artists reception will follow the performance.
MARCH 2, 2025, 2–4 P.M.
Tanner Menees, viola
Kobi Malkin, violin
Evergreen Museum & Library / $10-20 / RSVP Required
American violist Tanner Menees and Israeli violinist Kobi Malkin will collaborate on a program of cherished classics and a few surprises to close out the 71st season of Music at Evergreen. This dynamic duo has performed together under the auspices of the Music from Copland House ensemble, which focuses on past and present American musical creativity. Both are making their marks as exciting soloists and perceptive chamber musicians. A meet-the-artists reception will follow the performance.
COMING THIS SPRING
A Jazz Romance
AMAY 15, 6–8 P.M.
Evening of Flamenco
Evergreen Museum & Library / $20-25 / RSVP Required
Whether you’re an avid flamenco lover or seeing it for the first time, join us to witness firsthand the raw power of this captivating Spanish art form. This soul-stirring evening of fiery dances, intricate rhythms, and intense emotion will feature performances by the Flamenco Workshop, Downtown Tumbao, and flamenco masters Estela de Vélez de Paredez and Daniel Paredez. See a display of related objects from Evergreen’s collections and enjoy a reception following the show.
s the repostory for Ethel Ennis's and Earl Arnett's archival collections, the Sheridan Libraries are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis , Baltimore, and Me . This personal account by Earl Arnett of his life, career, and 51-year marriage to Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz chronicles his and Ethel's love, hopes, setbacks, and accomplishments over the course of several profoundly significant decades in our collective history.
Stay tuned for a book launch concert and signing event you won't want to miss!
Above, top: Miguel Covarrubias, Alice Warder Garrett as a Spanish Gypsy, c. 1928. Evergreen House Foundation Collection, Evergreen Museum & Library. Opposite, top: Dominique Zeltzman
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Above: John James Audubon, Bell’s Vireo, 6 May 1843. John Work Garrett Library, Sheridan Libraries Special Collections