dreaming in times of chaos
Dreamseeds, an ongoing collaboration by Hannah Brancato and Sanahara Ama Chandra, is an art and community healing space that moves people from isolation to collective experiences. In summer 2026, Dreamseeds was the inaugural artists-in-residence for the Baltimore Museum of Art’s new Practicing Place series. We activated the heaviness and possibility of Lexington Market through performances and pop-up craft workshops that weave together embodied making, critical fabulation, and improvisational music within a collectively created sacred space. Learn more about our vision in our project zine.
Photos by FAITH McCorkle and Merrell Hambleton.
creating possibility: a solstice celebration
Above are images from our opening workshop on Saturday, June 20, 2026 was solstice and Juneteenth celebration. We began by honoring Rosetta and Robert, two enslaved people who are known to have been sold and enslaved at Lexington Market; they are memorialized in Oletha Devane and Christopher Kojzar’s sculpture outside the market. After Ama led us in song as we walked through the market, passing out flowers to passersby, we gathered in the Baltimore room for more collective singing. Next was a grounding experience led by Aaron Hill, and experimental ivy weaving and conversation about transformation with Hannah, and in closing, Aaron and Ama facilitated sound healing.
Summer Solstice and Juneteenth Meditation
Resilience is as everyday as the sun rising. You are still here. You are the promise of freedom. You are the promise of summer. How might you make space for joy, growth, and celebration during this time of light? How might your practices today resource you during the inevitable return of darkness?
Photos by FAITH McCorkle and Merrell Hambleton.
what if they still saw wildflowers?
Below are images from our July 10, 2026 workshop, in which participants were invited to honor Rosetta and Robert, two enslaved people whose lives are memorialized in Oletha DeVane and Christopher Kojzar’s “Robert & Rosetta” outside Lexington Market. After a walking processional to the sculpture, the group viewed and discussed archival records to consider what they leave unknown. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s practice of “critical fabulation,” participants were invited to make zines, imagining beyond limited archival records by writing, drawing, and reflecting on Robert and Rosetta’s lives, asking, “what if?”
Photos by FAITH McCorkle.
