It's a pretty quiet week coming up, so I thought I'd highlight a few exhibits the Baltimore City library has available. If art doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will. And I hear you can even pick up a few books there, while you're at it.

This is Our Land: Discovering America and the World Through Original Illustrations from Children’s Books. This traveling exhibition of 80 original artworks by well-known illustrators, from the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C., is on display at the Central Library 400 Cathedral St., through Aug. 2.

A Line in the Sand. This is a photographic exhibit chronicling Maryland’s fight against domestic violence and the people who have led the way, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the House of Ruth. It's at the Central Library through Aug. 9.

From the Ashes of a Dream: Race and Revitalization Since Martin Luther King. The traveling exhibition from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will be at the Orleans Street Branch through Sept. 8.

And for more traditionally bookish events, see the Read Street Calendar.