Rode the Columbia-Baltimore commuter bus to the Inner Harbor. First ride on a public bus since the pandemic started. Jim found an advertisement for the American Visionary Museum in a City of Baltimore tourist magazine some time back and off we went....
But first we climbed up to Federal Hill, right next to the museum, for a panoramic view of the harbor and city.
The museum is housed in three different buildings with a connecting garden. To our surprise and delight we discovered the Jim Rouse Visionary Center housed in one the buildings. Jim Rouse is the founder of Columbia where we live. His vision of a more equal society in the 1960s at a time when Maryland was heavily segregated was truly exceptional. His vision, we learned, was influenced by his stay in Hawaii during his formative years. There he experienced an imperfect but definitely more equal society than in the Southern US.
The visionary arts focuses on what the future will bring to the earth and all life within.
Needless to say, climate change and all its consequences was front and center.
On a ligther note, a sculpture just for me: coffee man.
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