BmoreArt’s Picks: March 17-23 Art with a Heart’s 26th Birthday Community Art Project Wednesday, March 18 :: 11am-1pm // Thursday, March 19 :: 5-7pm // Saturday + Sunday, March 21 + 22 :: 12-2pm@ HeARTwares Art with a Heart (AWAH) is 26 years BOLD and still coloring outside the lines! To commemorate this milestone, the nonprofit will host a hands-on community art project at its social enterprise store, HeARTwares (1104 W. 36th St., Baltimore, MD, 21211). Supporters, volunteers, friends, families, neighbors and anyone wanting to join in the celebration are invited to pick up a paintbrush and leave their mark on the 26th birthday mural, which will become the permanent backdrop to workshops and other HeARTwares events. “Art with a Heart is always happy to bring people together to make beauty, share joy and connect through art, so of course we are incorporating this into our birthday celebration,” said Executive Director Megan Gatto. “This mural will serve as a lasting symbol of our mission to inspire, strengthen and heal through visual art.” Selected by staff and followers on social media, the wall-size mural features a playful pattern of a sun with bright colors reflecting the spirit, resilience and fun of Art with a Heart. Guests of all ages can stop by HeARTwares to paint the mural – and learn more about Art with a Heart’s programs – during four dedicated sessions: March 18, from 11a.m. to 1 p.m.,March 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., and March 21 and 22,from noon to 2 p.m. To learn more about the mural project, visit www.artwithaheart.net, call (410) 366-8886 oremail [email protected]. Jo Smail: Thinking Like an Oyster | Reception Wednesday, March 18 :: 6-8pm@ Goya Contemporary Reception: Wednesday, March 18, 6:00-8:00 pm Book Signing: Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5:00–7:00 pm On view at Goya Contemporary Gallery through April 25, 2026 Smail’s exhibition was recently featured on MEER, the international media platform and magazine that curates content on culture, science, art, architecture, and technology worldwide in six languages. Excerpt from MEER: “Thinking Like an Oyster marks the artist’s eleventh solo exhibition with the gallery, celebrating more than twenty-five years of representation. The exhibition will feature forty-six new works presented in dynamic groupings that emphasize the rhythms, accumulations, poetics, and transformations central to the artist’s practice. A new publication on this body of work will be released in late April, with essays by Louis Fratino, Amy Raehse, and Kristen Hileman. Baltimore-based South African artist Jo Smail (b. 1943, Durban, South Africa) is internationally celebrated for her abstract paintings, drawings, installations, collages, and prints. Her work evolves through layered processes of accumulation, erasure, repurposing, and revision—material transformations that echo the emotional and historical depth embedded in her practice…” Click to read the full article by MEER Click for more information on the exhibition Click here to view works by Jo Smail Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. Photo by James Prinz. A Conversation with Artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust Wednesday, March 18 :: 6:30-7:30pm@ Smithsonian American Art Museum Join artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust in conversation about the exhibition Nick Cave: Mammoth, their creative process, and collaboration. The program will be moderated by Sarah Newman, the James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art. Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt. ...read more read less