2025 | Tours & Fun
You must be registered for the conference to sign up for the tours.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & CultureTuesday, December 2nd, 2025 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
$15 | 20 attendees
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum documents, interprets and preserves the complex experiences, contributions and culture of Black people in Maryland. We serve as a catalyst for sustained change by providing programs, exhibitions and bold conversations that educate and challenge. The Lewis stewards more than 14,000 objects and archival records in its collection, including highlights such as the 3,500 vinyl records of The Hecht Jazz Collection, hundreds of African objects in our Harvey and McMillan collections, robust archaeology collections, and Billie Holliday’s own grand piano.
The entirety of the Lewis’ Collection is stored on site in the museum’s “Vault,” which AMIA attendees will get a chance to tour. As an added bonus, attendees will get a private experience of the Lewis’ landmark 20th anniversary exhibit, TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis, and temporary exhibit iWitness: The Media and the Movement, on a day the museum is closed to the general public.
Welcome to the Walters Tour + Art MakingTour
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 12:30pm – 1:30 pm
$12 | 30 attendees
“Welcome to the Walters” tour! Included is a 30 minute galleries tour, and after exploring the Museum, you’ll have the opportunity to design your own dream museum! Using fun art materials and questions that mirror the museums’ behind-the-scenes processes, reflect, plan, and design your own gallery space.
The Walters Art Museum was established in 1934 “for the benefit of the public.” Originally called the Walters Art Gallery, the museum started when Henry Walters bequeathed to the City of Baltimore an extensive art collection begun by his father, William T. Walters, two buildings, and an endowment. Moving through the museum’s galleries, visitors encounter a stunning array of objects, from 19th-century paintings of French country and city life to Ethiopian icons, richly illuminated Qur’ans and Gospel books, ancient Roman sarcophagi, and images of the Buddha. The Walters is also a leader in digitization, releasing high-resolution, digital images of collection objects into the public domain for any use, free of charge, on the works of art site and award-winning manuscripts website Walters Ex Libris.
Tour MARMIA
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 6:00pm – 7:00pm
$10 donation | 20 attendees
Visit the headquarters of community-based regional archive, MARMIA (the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive). You can meet and chat workflows and equipment with MARMIA staff, seeing firsthand where they conduct their work to further the independent nonprofit’s mission to preserve and provide access to the moving images and recorded sounds of the Mid-Atlantic region. Check out our work stations, rare equipment, reference collections, and more!
MARMIA is a 3-5 minute walk from the Parkway where Archival Screening Night will start at 7:15pm.
John Waters Fells Point Walking Tour
Friday, December 5, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00 pm
$10 donation | 30 attendees
Join us for a walking tour of historic Fells Point, the 300-year-old neighborhood and working waterfront that became Baltimore’s own Greenwich Village. See the bars and artist spaces frequented by John Waters and the Dreamlanders in the 1960s. The tour includes locations from “Multiple Maniacs”, Edith Massey’s thrift store, and more! The tour is a collaboration between MARMIA and Baltimore Heritage.
Charm City Cine-melee
Friday, December 5, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Alchemy of Arts
$12 admission | $20 helps support performers
A Baltimore-centric experimental film performance, fusing layered film projections, improvised soundtracks and live remixing of film audio, light installations, and movement. Baltimore-based musicians and performers go toe-to-toe with Baltimore’s experimental filmmakers, collectors, and projectionists, as the Mobtown avant garde meets the Old Bay-stained reels of charm city’s private vaults, closets, attics, and flea markets. This event takes place at The Alchemy of Art gallery, a short walk from the conference hotel in Fells Point, a historic waterfront neighborhood with plenty of great dining options for attendees to grab a quick bite before the performance.
Confirmed performers as of 11/12/2025
Gabriel Bellone
Bob Wagner, Film projections
Tim Wisniewski – Film projections, reel to reel tape machines, electronics
Khristian Weeks – Light installation, objects, electronics
Peter Redgrave – Movement, performance
Liz Meredith – Viola, electronics