ARP at the BMA for JHU 150 Celebration

Installation of aspects of the Antioch Recovery Project at the Baltimore Museum of Art in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Johns Hopkins University

The work of the Antioch Recovery Project was on display for JHU alums at a special evening at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Danielle Ortiz’s reconstruction of the Hall of Philia fragments took on new life and animacy as an LED pathway on the floor, capturing the mosaics’ original function as floors. Dr. Ella Gonzalez and Maya Kahane’s map of the Global Distribution of Antioch fragments, revised and updated by the digital humanities team of the Sheridan Libraries , was blown up and on display. Visitors took great pleasure in situating the fragments within the wider corpus and walking across the projected images of fragments from the Hall of Philia.

For a more in-depth look at this research see Gonzalez, Ortiz, and Stager, “Research-driven Pedagogy and Public Facing Outcomes: The Antioch Recovery Project” in Gardner and Higgins eds., Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences (2025)