Shira and Max are both lawyers in New York City. They celebrated their marriage with 200 family and friends on September 8, 2019, at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Preparations at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront and a first look at Federal Hill Park. As we planned the day, I couldn’t help but notice their attention to detail. As I photographed the day, I noticed their attention to detail in every aspect of the wedding day, including a special Michigan display with memorabilia for their wolverine classmates and a late night ice cream bar. One very touching part of the day for me was Shira and Max said deeply personal vows to each other in front of their family and their wedding party before the formal ceremony. You will see and hear these personal vows in the video.
From start to finish, the wedding day was on point. Let’s take a look at highlights from Shira and Max’s wedding day at the American Visionary Art Museum and, of course, contact me here for any of your wedding video or photo needs!
About the AVAM:
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is an art museum located in Baltimore, Maryland’s Federal Hill neighborhood at 800 Key Highway. The museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art (also known as “intuitive art,” “raw art,” or “art brut”). The city agreed to give the museum a piece of land on the south shore of the Inner Harbor under the condition that its organizers would clean up residual pollution from a copper paint factory and a whiskey warehouse that formerly occupied the site. It has been designated by Congress as America’s national museum for visionary art.[1]
AVAM’s 1.1 acre campus contains 67,000 square feet of exhibition space and a permanent collection of approximately 4,000 pieces.[2] The permanent collection includes works by visionary artists like Ho Baron, Nek Chand, Howard Finster, Vanessa German, Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack), Leonard Knight, William Kurelek, Leo Sewell, Judith Scott, Ben Wilson, as well as over 40 pieces from the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre of London. AVAM artists, the museum boasts, include “farmers, housewives, mechanics, the disabled, the homeless. . . all inspired by the fire within.”[3] The museum’s Main Building features three floors of exhibition space, and the campus includes a Tall Sculpture Barn and Wildflower Garden, along with large exhibition and event spaces in the Jim Rouse Visionary Center.
