
HoCo Open 2025
December 13 – February 1, 2025 | Gallery I
Our annual salon-style, non-juried exhibit showcases artwork in a variety of media by Howard County artists. Reception includes live music and refreshments.
Scroll through our past exhibits to check out artwork created by local and regional artists in our past multi-disciplinary thematic, juried, and invitational exhibits.
December 13 – February 1, 2025 | Gallery I
Our annual salon-style, non-juried exhibit showcases artwork in a variety of media by Howard County artists. Reception includes live music and refreshments.
December 13 – February 1, 2025 | Gallery II
An exhibit featuring mixed media works by Cheri Glover, Josef Keyes, and LUSMERLIN.
October 11 – November 16, 2024 | Gallery II
Artists Travis Childers, Jim Doran, Gemma Guiomard, and Emily Tironi playfully explore themes of human nature, societal norms, and identity through small-scale artworks.
October 11 – November 16, 2024 | Gallery I
A biennial juried exhibit, Art Maryland 2024 is a premier showcase for regional artists.
August 23 – September 28, 2024 | Gallery I
Connected Places featured multimedia installations by Sylvia Eken and Sarah Smith.
August 23 – September 28, 2024 | Gallery I
In response to a culture saturated with devices that distance, digitize and disembody, the artists in Compulsory Measures embrace repetition and ritual as mindful strategies to ascertain meaning.
June 10 – August 3, 2024 | Gallery I
Paint It! Ellicott City 2024 showcased artwork created by juried artists during our annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City’s historic district.
June 10 – August 3, 2024 | Gallery II
In Boundless, Christine Lee Tyler and Sookkyung Park explored themes of mortality and human emotion.
April 12 – May 26, 2024 | Gallery I
Our annual Resident Visual Artists Exhibit showcased recent artwork by artists with studios at the Center for the Arts.
April 12 – May 26, 2024 | Gallery II
Unfolding: Dualities featured the artworks of John Chang & Jeffrey Repko.
February 16 – March 30, 2024 | Gallery I
A celebration of Youth Art Month in partnership with HCPSS featuring artwork by K-12 students.
February 16 – March 30, 2024 | Gallery II
In partnership with Howard County Recreation and Parks’ Department of Therapeutic Recreation & Accommodation Services. Mixed media exhibit of artwork by youth and adult artists with disabilities.
December 16 – February 3, 2024 | Gallery I
Our annual salon-style, non-juried exhibit showcased artwork in a variety of media by Howard County artists.
December 16 – February 3, 2024 | Gallery II
URBEX features photographs by Michael Hower and paintings by Greg McLemore.
October 13 – November 18, 2023 | Gallery I
This biennial juried exhibit showcased artists who live and work in Howard County.
October 13 – November 18, 2023 | Gallery II
Shadows of the Almighty featured large-scale paintings and drawings by local Baltimore-based artists, Alpha Massaquoi Jr and Qrcky.
August 18 – September 30, 2023 | Gallery I
An exhibit that featured large-scale artworks by Kwame Kena (Bronx, NY) and Paul Santoleri (Media, PA).
August 18 – September 30, 2023 | Gallery II
Leslie Nolan gives voice and color to concealed emotions. Chantal Zakari explores academia, equity, and power to uncover hidden layers of privilege. Together, their work illuminates the external and internal, the systemic and personal.
June 12 – August 5, 2023 | Gallery I
Paint It! Ellicott City 2023 showcased artwork created by juried artists during our annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City’s historic district.
June 12 – August 5, 2023 | Gallery II
Reflective Moments featured oil paintings by Dani Klebes (North Adams, MA), photography by Matthew Terry (Davenport, Iowa), and photography and film by Margaret Wiss (New York, NY).
April 14 – May 27, 2023 | Gallery II
This multimedia exhibit explored the use of color, texture and form.
April 14 – May 27, 2023 | Gallery I
The Arts Council’s annual Resident Visual Artists Exhibit showcased artists with studios at the Center for the Arts.
February 17 – March 25, 2023 | Gallery I
Presented through an ongoing partnership between Howard County Public School System and the Arts Council, our annual Youth Art Month exhibit featured hundreds of works by HCPSS students in grades K-12.
February 17 – March 25, 2023 | Gallery II
In partnership with Howard County Recreation and Parks’ Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services, this annual exhibit showcased work by youth and adult artists with developmental disabilities.
December 16 – February 4, 2023 | Gallery I
A biennial juried exhibit, Art Maryland 2022 is a premier showcase for regional artists.
December 16 – February 4, 2023 | Gallery II
Intersections featured Caitlin Gill (Towson, MD), Tali Margolin (Brooklyn, NY), Meghan Wilbar (Pueblo, CO), and Kieun Kim (Cockeysville, MD) whose work explored humanity and its relation to materiality.
August 19 – September 24, 2022 | Gallery I
Presented in partnership with EC250 Inc. and the Howard County Historical Society, this commemorative group exhibit celebrated 250 years of Ellicott City.
August 19 – September 24, 2022 | Gallery II
Branching Out featured sculptures and textiles by Jenn Cacciola (Stamford, CT) and George Lorio (Rockville, MD). Cacciola used imagery of trees, branches, and nature to draw comparisons to human portraiture.
June 13 – August 6, 2022 | Gallery I
Paint It! Ellicott City 2022 showcased artwork created by 28 juried artists during our annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City’s historic district.
June 13 – August 6, 2022 | Gallery II
A two-person, multimedia exhibit featuring metal etchings by Washington, DC artist Gaylia Wagner and digital embroidery by Susan Hensel of Minneapolis.
April 16 – May 28, 2022 | Gallery II
Weaving in the Time of Covid: Fiber Arts by the Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore displayed a retrospective of fiber work by 22 members of the Weaver’s Guild of Greater Baltimore created in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 16 – May 28, 2022 | Gallery I
The Arts Council’s annual Resident Visual Artists Exhibit showcased artists with studios at the Center for the Arts.
February 18 – April 2, 2022 | Gallery I
Presented through an ongoing partnership between Howard County Public School System and the Arts Council, this year’s Youth Art Month exhibit featured dozens of works by HCPSS students in grades K-12.
February 18 – April 2, 2022 | Gallery II
In partnership with Howard County Recreation and Parks’ Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services, this annual exhibit showcased work by youth and adult artists with developmental disabilities.
December 18 – February 5, 2022 | Gallery I
HoCo Open is an annual, non-juried exhibit showcasing local artists.
December 18 – February 5, 2022 | Gallery II
This exhibit featured artwork by local artists Stanley Wenocur and Andrew Flanders.
October 16 – November 27, 2021 | Gallery I
A biennial juried exhibit featuring work by Howard County artists.
October 16 – November 27, 2021 | Gallery II
An exhibit featuring photographs and installations by artists Melissa Penley Cormier and Mary McCoy.
August 21 – October 2, 2021 | Gallery I
An exhibit featuring large-scale mixed-media sculptures and installations by Marcia Wolfson Ray and Micaela de Vivero. Ray.
August 21 – October 2, 2021 | Gallery II
Resiliencia featured artworks by Julia Justo, Dulce Pinzón, and Christine Sloan Stoddard.
June 19 – August 7, 2021 | Gallery I
An exhibit featuring artwork created by juried artists during Paint It! Ellicott City, an annual plein air paint-out in Ellicott City’s historic district.
June 19 – August 7, 2021 | Gallery II
Natural Formations featured photographic works by Thomas Pickarski and Peter Stern.