ABUNDANCE: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right
Championing Good Honest Work from the Hand and the Heart
Oct. 8, 2022 - Sep. 3, 2023
Zanvyl A. Krieger Main Building
Image Gallery
Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination) Untitled 2005 feather duster; painted plaster, feathers Gift of Robbi Raitt
Nek Chand Untitled (#134) n.d. Mixed media Gift of the National Children's Museum
Charlie Lucas Untitled Mixed media; scrap metal materials Gift of Josh Feldstein
Dean Millien Tin Thing Gorilla 2011 Aluminum foil Collection of Paul Yandura Photo courtesy of Dan Meyers
Anonymous Untitled c. 1850 - 1950 Mixed media; clay glass, metal, found objects Gift of Jon Randall Plummer and Harvey Miller
1997 Oil on canvas Gift of Linda Ortega and Grey Carter
About the Exhibition
AVAM’s 27th original thematic mega-exhibition is a wildly joyful, community-building contemplation of just what constitutes real wealth by exploring what lies at the heart of deep satisfaction, productive happiness, and gratefulness, both individual and collective. Nowhere is the quest for personal freedom in the expression of work, nor the pursuit of joy, more evident than in the creations of artists who have wrought new worlds from modest, often discarded, materials—equipped only with their hands, hearts, and fertile imaginations.
our generous sponsors
CORNUCOPIA
George & Holly Stone • Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts
BOUNTIFUL HARVEST
Marilyn Meyerhoff & Sam Feldman • Robert Meyerhoff & Rheda Becker •
Satchi Royers & Willam White • Whiting Turner Contracting Co.
GRATITUDE FOR EVERY KINDNESS
PNC Foundation • Bunting Family Foundation
LABOUR OF LOVE
Anonymous • Mary Catherine Bunting • Arnold & Alison Richman • Jean Wyman
GRATEFUL GIVERS
Ann Clapp • Janet Clauson • Barbara Denrich • Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation
PUBLIC SUPPORT
The Citizens of Baltimore County & the Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences • Mayor Brandon M. Scott & The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts • The Howard County Government & Howard County Arts Council • Maryland States Arts Council • Maryland State Department of Education • Governor Larry Hogan & the State of Maryland