Exhibit

Go to the usual exhibit and you'll visualize how the artwork hanging on the gallery wall would look hanging on your living room wall. An exhibit installed at both the Columbia Art Center and Howard Community College, "Wear Art," encourages one to contemplate how women would look wearing the exhibited clothing and jewelry. Although this Columbia Festival of the Arts-connected exhibit includes its share of whimsical creations, everything is functional. One might not be inclined to wear these items while mowing the lawn, but they'd make a lady look fashionably distinctive for a night on the town.

'Walking into Light' Landscape iPhoneography by Karen Klinedinst is on view through Aug. 2 at the Adkins Arboretum's Visitors Center, 12610 Eveland Road near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely. A reception will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 22. Hours and information: 410-634-2847, ext. 0; or adkinsarboretum.org . 'Perspectives in Color' An exhibition by Martha Alexander Walker is on view through Sunday, June 23, in the gallery of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd.

For more than 40 years, Georgia O'Daniel Baker deftly designed the costumes for productions at Towson University, regional theaters and beyond. Now an emeritus professor at the school, Baker is the subject of an exhibit that includes more than 50 costumes and sketches. "From the moment Georgia discussed her retirement last year, we felt we had to do a retrospective of her work," said Jay Herzog, head of Towson's theater department. Growing up in the Midwest, Baker took sewing classes in high school and also did some acting.

Go to the usual exhibit and you'll visualize how the artwork hanging on the gallery wall would look hanging on your living room wall. An exhibit installed at both the Columbia Art Center and Howard Community College, "Wear Art," encourages one to contemplate how women would look wearing the exhibited clothing and jewelry. Although this Columbia Festival of the Arts-connected exhibit includes its share of whimsical creations, everything is functional. One might not be inclined to wear these items while mowing the lawn, but they'd make a lady look fashionably distinctive for a night on the town.

Exelon Corp. and Constellation have donated $1.8 million for a new energy exhibit at the Maryland Science Center , the first public display of their charitable commitment to the city and state since the merger between the energy giants closed in March, the companies announced Tuesday. In acquiring Constellation, Exelon promised to maintain the Baltimore company's annual charitable contribution of $7 million in Baltimore and Maryland for at least a decade. The financial commitment was part of a $1 billion package of concessions associated with regulatory approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission.

At Maryland Hall "Connections" and "Landy Hales: Layered Posters" are on view through Friday, Dec. 7, at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. Information: 410-263-5544 or marylandhall.org . 'Just in Time for the Holidays' An exhibit of works by plein-air painters that reflect the quiet, snow-covered environment of the holiday season runs through Dec. 31 at Benfield Gallery, 485 Jumpers Hole Road in Pasadena.

The small wooden trunk is covered with red leather, painted with an ocher floral embroidery and studded with brass nails - and it couldn't have announced its owner's intention more clearly. The 19-year-old Baltimore beauty who packed the trunk with her books and with a black lace mantilla wasn't planning to merely travel between two continents. She was determined to conquer them. On one side of the trunk, plain and simple, is stenciled her birth name, "Elizabeth Patterson. " But on the other side, not one, but two labels declare the trunk to be the property of "Madame Bonaparte, nee Patterson.

The Harford County Cultural Arts Board and the Harford County Commission on Disabilities are seeking submissions for a juried art exhibit, Art Without Boundaries. Interested artists, with or without disabilities, are invited to submit one to two pieces, both two and three dimensional, on Monday, July 8 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Student Gallery in Joppa Hall, Harford Community College, 401 Thomas Run Road, Bel Air. For more information, please contact Harford County Cultural Arts Board Coordinator Natalie Weeks at 410-638-3578 or nfweeks@harfordcountymd.gov . The Art Without Boundaries exhibit is in recognition of the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The "Resident Visual Artists Exhibit 2013" showcases artists who maintain studios at the Howard County Arts Council. They're making art at this Ellicott City facility, but their imaginations roam all over the place. A case in point is Mary Jo Tydlacka, who is well-known for watercolors depicting the historic district in Ellicott City and other sites around Howard County. She travels far from home for the subject matter in the current show, however, with three watercolors and an oil painting that depict Italy.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was, without doubt, the most important rail system in the Civil War's Eastern theater. There's hardly a pivotal battle or event during the four-year conflict in which the B&O didn't play at least some role. Civil War historian and Linthicum resident Daniel Toomey, author of "The War Came by Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War" and curator of war-themed exhibit at Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum, goes a step further. "The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was truly the first front of the Civil War," Toomey writes in his book.

There is so much constant movement in our world that it takes an artist to translate some of that motion into a lasting image. In the aptly titled exhibit "Motion" at the Artists' Gallery in Columbia, painters Rana Geralis and Nancy Lee Davis encourage you to linger and look at the animals, people and cars that ordinarily don't slow down for inspection. This pairing of two artists is at its most concentrated in the side-by-side installation of two very small works that amount to portraits of individual animals: Columbia resident Geralis has a watercolor, "Paint Pony," and Clarksville resident Davis has an oil painting, "Cow Eating.