Creative Alliance

Creative Alliance Creative Alliance is a multi-faceted arts organization that hosts performances, exhibitions, artists in residence, festivals, education programs, and more!
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06/15/2026

Pain don’t hurt, but missing this screening might.

Can I Kick It?: Road House
Wed, Jun 17 | 7:30 PM

Patrick Swayze kicks, philosophizes, and generally makes “bouncer-philosopher” feel like a legitimate career path in this gloriously absurd cult classic. As Dalton, the world’s coolest cooler, he brings zen, throat-ripping, and deeply committed hair to a small-town bar under siege by a local crime boss.

And because this is Can I Kick It?, the film gets scored live, scene-by-scene by DJ 2-Tone Jones, blending hip hop, soul, rock, and more into a one-night-only cinematic remix.

It’s ridiculous. It’s sincere. It’s absolutely perfect.
Come for Swayze. Stay for the soundtrack.

06/14/2026

Home is not a place. It is a feeling you can return to.

You Can Always Come Back Home by twin artists Hope & Faith McCorkle is on view now through June 26. This immersive installation transforms the gallery into something that breathes like a living room, layered, intimate, and full of presence, built from large-scale mixed-media scrolls, domestic objects, inherited furniture, and participatory works.

At the heart is an altar made from their late mother Tonya Wendell McCorkle’s dinner table, alongside a meditative labyrinth and works that move between personal narrative and collective history. Rooted in Black feminist thought and bell hooks’ concept of homeplace as resistance, the exhibition asks a profound question: where is home when the world keeps moving and the people who made it are no longer here?

Watch this video with the artists, then come experience the space in person. It is what art can do at its highest purpose: turn a room into a refuge.

On view through June 26. Tue–Sat, 12–5. Free admission.

Today is the last day. 🦋When The Butterflies Would Visit closes today, June 13. Last chance to spend time with this exhi...
06/13/2026

Today is the last day. 🦋

When The Butterflies Would Visit closes today, June 13. Last chance to spend time with this exhibition rooted in ecological reciprocity and community partnership, created in response to the environmental struggle in Guna Yala, Panama.

This project asks us to reckon with what extractive systems have washed onto shores and into bodies, and to imagine a different way forward, one built on relationship, responsibility, and care. Created in partnership with Yar Burba, an Indigenous ecological research center led by Favio and Desy Arosemena, the work holds a powerful truth: humans, jungle, sea, animals, and spirits form a unity. Everything is alive. Everything has energy.

And yes, today is your last chance to take one of the molas home. Snag one before they fly away.

Not a Creative Alliance member yet? This is your sign to join the family and get your work on the wall.The BIG Show is o...
06/12/2026

Not a Creative Alliance member yet? This is your sign to join the family and get your work on the wall.

The BIG Show is our annual members’ exhibition extravaganza, running July 17–August 29, and it’s open to Creative Alliance members only. For $60, you can become a member, submit your work, and be part of one of our favorite gallery traditions of the year in the largest selling gallery in Baltimore.

But don’t wait. You must be a member before submitting your artwork.

Submission reminders:
One artwork per member
Artwork must be ready to hang at drop-off
Final drop-off day: Thursday, June 18, 2026
No late drop-offs

Become a member. Submit your work. Go BIG.
Time is running out.

Make an instrument with your own hands, then make it sing. 🌿🎶Mud to Music: Ceramic Flute-MakingFri, Jun 12 | 6:00 PMIn t...
06/11/2026

Make an instrument with your own hands, then make it sing. 🌿🎶

Mud to Music: Ceramic Flute-Making
Fri, Jun 12 | 6:00 PM

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn about ceramic musical instruments from the ancient Americas and create your own clay vessel flute (ocarina) using simple hand-building techniques and intuitive tuning. Part sculpture, part sound tool, fully yours.

No experience needed, no music background required. All materials, tools, and firing included. Come get grounded in clay and leave with joy you can play.

Kids in the Hall fans, this is your night.An Evening with Kevin McDonaldSat, Jun 13 | 7:30 PMKevin McDonald, founding me...
06/11/2026

Kids in the Hall fans, this is your night.

An Evening with Kevin McDonald
Sat, Jun 13 | 7:30 PM

Kevin McDonald, founding member of the legendary sketch troupe The Kids in the Hall, brings a raucous stand-up and storytelling set packed with behind-the-scenes KITH stories. Then he closes the night by improvising live with Baltimore’s Highwire Improv for a never-before-seen set.

If you grew up quoting Kids in the Hall, or you just love smart, weird comedy with real history behind it, come through.

Creative Alliance members, this is your moment to go BIG.The BIG Show is our annual members’ exhibition extravaganza, an...
06/10/2026

Creative Alliance members, this is your moment to go BIG.

The BIG Show is our annual members’ exhibition extravaganza, and it runs July 17–August 29 in the largest selling gallery in Baltimore. If you’re an active Creative Alliance member, you’re invited to submit one artwork and be part of one of our favorite gallery traditions of the year.

Members, bring us your weird, beautiful, bold, tender, unruly, perfectly-you work by June 18th. We want to see what you’ve been making.

06/10/2026

If you have been meaning to get to the gallery, this is your nudge.

When The Butterflies Would Visit is on view now through June 13, 2026. It is a project built from environmental urgency and community care, rooted in the fight for Guna Yala and the possibility of living differently, with reciprocity, with relationship, with respect.

Free admission
Tue–Sat | 12–5 PM
Bring a friend. Take your time.

Video Art by Annette Lee

Amythyst Kiah returns to Creative Alliance for an intimate solo performance on Fri, Jun 12 at 7:30 PM.On her new album S...
06/09/2026

Amythyst Kiah returns to Creative Alliance for an intimate solo performance on Fri, Jun 12 at 7:30 PM.

On her new album Still + Bright, the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter explores the vast expanse of her inner world, from Eastern philosophies and spiritual traditions to a near-mystical connection with the natural environment, plus the hard-earned lessons of her self-described “anime-nerd mall goth” years. Produced by Butch Walker, the record blends revelatory storytelling with a darkly cinematic, rootsy alt-rock edge, fuzzed-out guitars and industrial-leaning beats alongside gilded pedal steel and Kiah’s exquisitely graceful banjo work.

If you like music that is fearless, grounded, and unafraid to tell the truth, come bear witness. Tickets are live.

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