Opening Reception

Friday, 05.08.2026
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

CLOSING RECEPTION

Friday, 06.12.2026
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

GALLERY HOURS

By Appointment: Joyce Liang | jliang@centralbaltimore.org

In collaboration with the the Jones Falls 2076 project, AREA 405 presents Confluence Reimagining Baltimore’s Waterways, featuring visions from the Jones Falls 2076 River Reimagining Workshops, work by local university students, and contemporary artists Ann Margaret Morris, Ana Paula Teixeira & María Luisa "Mussa" Marín, Bao Nguyen, Valeska Populoh, Rhea Beckett, Jess Keyes & Patrick McMinn, Katie Kisiel, Jonna McKone, and Jordan Tierney. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 8, and close on Friday, June 12, with both events participating in the Station North Second Friday Art Walk from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Jones Falls 2076 is a year-long speculative design project that imagines the state of Baltimore’s Jones Falls River in the year 2076, half a century from now. Its first exhibition The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come was exhibited at the Peale Museum from February 13 to March 30 in 2025.  It presented works made by a collective of artists and researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 2024, anchored in a class co-taught by visual artist Jordan Tierney and environmental anthropologist Anand Pandian.

In 2026, the Jones Falls 2076 project continues to encourage radical dreaming and summon collective action regarding the future of the Jones Falls through two art exhibitions, a series of River Reimagining Workshops, publications and upcoming events in the Fall. 

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.

JONES FALLS 2076

Jones Falls 2076 is a year-long speculative design project that imagines the state of Baltimore’s Jones Falls River in the year 2076, half a century from now. The project encourages radical dreaming and summons collective action regarding the future of the Jones Falls through the River Reimagining Workshops, as well as two art exhibitions and a publication.

Website: jonesfalls2076.org 
Instagram: @jonesfalls2076 
Email: hello@jonesfalls2076.org

Curated by

Anand Pandian, Bruce Willen, Taro Cantú