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).

Jones Falls 2076 is a project of the Ecological Design Collective, a fiscally sponsored project of Inquiring Systems Inc, 501c(3).

The project is sponsored in part by Chesapeake Bay Trust, T. Rowe Price Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning, and MICA’s Center for Creative Impact.

The art exhibition will be hosted at Area 405 from Friday, May 8th until Friday, June 12th.

Please register to attend our opening reception!

Opening Reception
Friday, 05.08.2026
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Area 405
405 E Oliver St, Baltimore, MD 21202