SPARK: Industrial Afterglow

November 6 - December 7, 2025

About the Exhibition

A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring the Ruins, Reverberations, and Futures of Technology and Ecology

Opening Reception November 6th 5-8PM, 2025 | The Peale, Baltimore, MD

SPARK VII: Industrial Afterglow, a collaboration between Towson University and UMBC sponsored by PNC, opening this November at The Peale, brings together over twenty artists working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography, video, textiles, and ecological documentation to explore what lingers in the wake of industrial and technological systems. The exhibition runs November 6 – December 7, 2025.

From bioplastic light sculptures and cyanotype archives to rewilded cityscapes and AI-coded sea monsters, the exhibition casts light—literal and symbolic—on the residues of industry, the reconfigurations of ecosystems, and the speculative futures already blooming in the present. 

As a former industrial port city undergoing rapid urban transformation, Baltimore provides a vital lens through which to consider the aftermath of extractive systems and the possibilities of repair. Industrial Afterglow asks: What remains after infrastructures collapse? How do ecologies adapt and resist? What does it mean to imagine otherwise? By attending to what still glows, hums, or grows through the ruins, this exhibition transforms light from metaphor into method—revealing the unseen, mourning the obsolete, and illuminating paths toward speculative futures.

Spark 7: Industrial Afterglow is curated by Liz Faust.

Participating Artists Include:
Chelsey Barrera, Sue Borchardt, Lynn Cazabon, Cathy Cook, McCoy Chance, Danielle d’Amico, Alexandra Garove, Eunice Hong, Gracie Horne, Jinyoung Koh, Dara Lorenzo, Jenee Mateer, Leah Clare Michaels, Eric Millikin, Timothy Nohe, Edgar Reyes, Sarah G. Sharp, Alexi Scheiber, Samantha Sethi, Jena Burchick, Mariia Usova, and Tara Youngborg.