Watch Numen: The Healing Power of Plants, a documentary about plants in medicine and how ecology and humans relate in planetary health. Herbalist Leigh Glenn interprets and serves refreshments. 6:30-8:30pm near Annapolis. rsvp for details: 410-757-4070; www.artofearth.wordpress.com. 

  Meet Calvert County art teacher Dona Baker and see her highly regarded ceramics and paintings to celebrate African American History Month. Reception today from 5-8pm; showing thru March 3 W-Su 11am-5pm at CalvArt Gallery, 110 Solomons Island Rd., Prince Frederick: 410-257-7005; www.calvertarts.org. 

  Celebrate the Year of the Snake at Jing Ying’s Open House with Tai Chi, Kung Fu and weapon demonstrations. Kung Fu techniques taught for beginners. Refreshments served. 1-2:30pm at Jing Ying, 1195 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., Arnold: 410-431-5200; www.jingying.org.

  See three up-and-coming African American women artists who repurpose ordinary objects into art that represents family history, black beauty and social pressures at Making It Work. Create your own art from newspapers, plastic bottles and canvas at today’s reception (1-3pm); refreshments served. Showing thru Sept. 14. Tu-Sa 10am-4pm at Banneker-Douglass Museum, 84 Franklin St., Annapolis: 410-216-6180; www.bdmuseum.com.