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If You Build It, They Will Come

If You Build It, They Will Come

Visionary Artists and Their Environments
Oct. 7, 2023 - Sep. 1, 2024
Zanvyl A. Krieger Main Building

Image Gallery

About the Exhibition

AVAM's current MEGA-Exhibition invites visitors into the handcrafted environments of such visionaries as Zebedee Armstrong, Gayleen Aiken, Ruby C. Williams, Leslie Payne, DeVon Smith, and Baltimore's own Loring Cornish.

The exhibition features an engaging new way for you to connect with the gallery's main theme by using interactive touch-screen maps to explore visionary environments across the country.

our generous sponsors

LANDSCAPE LUMINARIES
George & Holly Stone • Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts

INTUITIVE INNOVATORS
Marilyn Meyerhoff & Sam Feldman

BACKYARD BUILDERS
Whiting Turner Contracting Company

DETERMINED DREAM-WEAVERS
Katie Adams & Tony Schaffer • Bunting Family Foundation • PNC Foundation

TRANSFORMATION TRAILBLAZERS
Stuart Cooper & Rebecca Besson • Ted Delaplaine & Todd Wilson •
Norman J. Fisher & Doris Fisher Foundation • Satchi Royers & William White • Jean Wyman

NEIGHBORHOOD NAVIGATORS
Ann Clapp • Janet Clauson • Jane Daniels • 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 Wes Moore & the State of Maryland

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