A public art project & walking tour, rediscovering hidden streams and histories that run beneath our feet.

Ghost Rivers is a new multi-site public art installation and walking tour by artist Bruce Willen that visualizes a lost stream buried below the streets of Baltimore.

This project reveals the hidden history and path of Sumwalt Run, which now flows entirely through underground culverts beneath the Remington and Charles Village neighborhoods. Through a series of installations, wayfinding markers, and writings Ghost Rivers brings lost landscapes and histories to the surface. Along the way the project draws connections between Baltimore’s watershed, its social history, and the evolving relationships between natural and human environments.