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SBM Gallery

Representing living artists working in multiple disciplines.

SBM Gallery showcases thematic group and solo exhibitions of established and emerging artists who create artwork that address issues of community, justice, and love.

SBM Gallery is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of SBM Gallery must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
2025

Exhibitions
Before | During | Now

July/August 2025: exact dates TBA

Before | During | Now

This exhibition is an investigation of how a global pandemic changed (or didn't) our life, world, and art. Each invited artist will include, something they made before the COVID shut down, something they made during lockdown, and something they made after/now. The observation of changing style, theme, materials, and more in the artwork will shed light on what shifted for these artists individually and make comment on what has transformed - or not - in our larger world.
Sara Kaltwasser, Fragile Pedagogies

September - October: exact dates TBA

Sara Kaltwasser

Sara Kaltwasser is a multidisciplinary artist, and art educator. Sara uses painting, installation, research and collage to create works that explore the confluence of education, art, history, and activism. Using the images of educational tools, the landscape, and flags, Sara's works provoke the viewer to consider questions relating the the mythologized histories of whiteness they learn in school, and the ways in which national symbols of power may actually be warnings, printed in our textbooks
Christine Stiver, Kneel

October - November: exact dates TBA

Christine Stiver

Stiver’s human-sized sculptures are a peculiar combination of instantaneous gestures colliding with obsessive repetition. The resulting abstract forms are as much a consequence of happenstance as they are carefully conceived. Starting with green branches that are torqued into orbital shapes and then dried to their most fragile state, Stiver then employs meditative labors such as paper twisting, feathering and stringing tiny polymer fruits onto thread in order to accumulate material for their surfaces. The tension in material and process suggests an attitude of mutability–a cycle of solidifying and releasing control..

November - December: exact dates TBA

Paula Phillips

A fine artist, educator and social justice advocate and activist, Paula specializes in mixed-media artworks that intertwine with and lift up the fundamentals of social justice while honoring and reflecting combinations of her European, Indigenous American and African roots. “Voice’, symbiotic and relational meaning hold integral values and are constant components found in Phillips’ work.  Her art manifests through personal experiences and cultural and professional relationships, producing metaphorical, narrative-based mixed-media paintings. 
History

Before there was SBM Gallery there was:

Sarah B. McCann, curator

Sarah B. McCann is a Baltimore based curator, community artist, and consultant. Her curatorial methodology poses questions to artists as themes for the exhibitions and often includes youth artists and/or a community component. These exhibitions have been nomadic since 2010 and she often partnered with nonprofit spaces to realize each exhibition. Her most recent curatorial endeavor titled, “Art & Spirituality” was conceived of and curated in partnership with the exhibiting artists and the Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University in 2023. In 2025 Sarah will continue to curate in a dedicated gallery space SBM Gallery. All exhibitions facilitated through the gallery will be featured on this website. Documentation of past exhibitions can be found online here.
Curator Sarah McCann in front of one of her mosaics that reads
Photo of Ways of Seeing postcards that included all information in braille