BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.- The Baltimore Museum of Art launches Cram Sessions, a series of experimental month-long shows featuring works by international emerging artists. Each Saturday at 2 p.m. during the exhibition, the galleries will be transformed into a lively forum where visitors can meet the artists to explore themes raised in the show. Dark Matter, the second installment in the series, explores creative work by hobbyists, gamers, zine-makers, and established artists whose work has a strategic or practical dimension.

Cram Sessions is a series of four experimental month-long contemporary exhibitions featuring works by emerging international artists. Each Saturday, the galleries are transformed into a forum where visitors can interact with the art, the space, and the artists. Dark Matter, the second installment in the series, explores creative work by hobbyists, gamers, zine-makers, and established artists whose work has a strategic or practical dimension. The work is called Dark Matter because it remains largely invisible and goes unrecognized in the art world despite its potential as an agency for social change. The exhibition includes an ingenious Hippo Roller designed to help women transport large containers of water, a bottle-cap pasta project, a zine archive, experimental instruments, objects produced by a knitting collective, and a slide archive of graffiti work from Baltimore City.
This exhibition is organized by Chris Gilbert, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art. It is supported by generous gifts from Ellen W. P. Wasserman and the Baltimore Community Foundation.