2026 Visual Cues

Please find photos and visual cues for the Baltimore Convention Center. All of AWP’s sessions and bookfair will take place in this building, with the exception of the AWP Program Directors’ Plenary Assembly and the Writing Organization Council Meeting. These will both take place at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel.

AWP’s main entrance is on the east side of the Baltimore Convention Center at Charles Street Lobby at the corner of South Charles Street and West Pratt Street. This photo was taken on Charles Street.

This is a photo taken outside of the Charles Street Lobby on Charles Street, near the corner of South Charles Street and West Pratt Street. A flat beige cement courtyard leads up to three sets of sliding glass doors.

 

This is a photo of the Charles Street Lobby entrance taken from West Pratt Street.

The photo is taken from West Pratt Street and so the Charles Street Lobby is down a slope and the sliding glass entrance doors are to the right.
 

If you are taking a rideshare to this entrance, it’s better to enter “S Charles Street and W Pratt Street” and to tell your driver to pull onto Charles Street next to the Baltimore Convention Center. The photo below is taken from the Charles Street Lobby Entrance and shows the road where you can be dropped off closest to the entrance. This is a quieter road with a cut-out and should allow attendees to comfortably and safely load or unload from a rideshare.

This photo shows a beige cement courtyard outside of the Charles Street entrance and the Charles Street rideshare drop-off point.

 

This is a photo taken from inside the Charles Street lobby sliding glass doors.

The photo shows a set of sliding glass doors taken from inside the Charles Street Lobby. Directly inside the doors is a gray floor mat.

 

This is a photo of the Charles Street Lobby where registration, the Accessibility Services Desk, and the Help Desk will be located.

The Charles Street Lobby is a large lobby with many windows letting in a lot of natural light. The flooring is a gray square tile. To the left of this photo is an escalator that goes to Level 200. Hall A is shown here, which is the Bookfair exit. To the right is Hall C, the main Bookfair entry.

 

Directly inside of the Charles Street entrance to the left is the area where the Accessibility Desk will be located. Down this hallway to the right is the location of the elevator to Level 100, 200, and 300.

Please find a video of the Charles Street Lobby.

The photo is taken from directly inside the Charles Street lobby entrance. To the left is a glass wall to the outside, to the right is an escalator to Level 200, and in between is a large empty space where the Accessibility Desk will be located.

This is a close-up photo of the tile in the Charles Street Lobby.
Square tiles approximately 1 foot by 1 foot in a gray and beige marble pattern.
 

 


While the Charles Street Lobby entrance off of Charles Street is AWP’s main entrance to the Baltimore Convention Center, there is another entrance off of West Pratt Street that AWP will designate as exit-only. These sets of doors can be accessed by stairs or by a ramp.

Photo showing the stairs to the West Pratt Street exit doors and to the right of the stairs is an accessible ramp.

 

This is a photo of the ramp from the Charles Street Lobby that will allow access to the West Pratt Street exit doors. 

Photo showing a beige concrete ramp with a gray handrail on the left.
 

The Bookfair is located in Exhibit Halls A-D and the main entrance will be Hall C and can be accessed from the Charles Street Lobby. The exhibit hall uses a mix of LED and florescent lighting.
A photo of the exhibit halls, showing the overhead lighting and concrete flooring

The exhibit hall floor is concrete.

A close-up of gray concrete flooring in the exhibit hall.

 

 

 

A photo of the elevator outside the Hall A entrance in Charles Street Lobby. This elevator accesses level 100, 200, and 300.

A photo of the level 100 Charles Street Lobby elevator with the panel of buttons on the left. The elevator is silver metal and the surrounding walls are beige concrete with the same gray and beige tile floor as the rest of the Charles Street Lobby.
 

These are the escalators in the Charles Street Lobby that access Level 200. No strollers, wheelchairs, wheeled carts, or rolling luggage are allowed on the escalators. If you have one of these items, please use the elevator nearest the entrance to Hall A. 

A photo at taken from Level 100 in the Charles Street Lobby of escalators on either side of a set of stairs.

This is the view from Level 200 mezzanine at the top of the escalators from Charles Street Lobby.
Please find a video of the east mezzanine, though please note the skywalk from the Hyatt will be closed by the time #AWP26 takes place
This photo shows a mezzanine hallway on Level 200. To the left in this photo are the escalators from Level 100 and on the right is an elevator that accesses level 100, 200, and 300. The flooring is a hard-pile carpet in grayish-blue and yellow block pattern.

This is a close-up photo of the hard-pile carpet that is used on Level 200 and 300.

A close-up of the carpet, which is a block and stripe pattern in a grayish blue, black, beige, and yellow pattern.

 

Level 200 is simply a mezzanine level with no events taking place here. Please proceed to Level 300 for regular session rooms and to Level 400 for featured events and the Keynote Address.

To access Level 300 from Charles Street Lobby by elevator, take the elevator nearest the entrance to Hall A and take it to 300. To access Level 400 from there, please proceed approximately 350 feet down the Level 300 hallway. Near Room 327, there is an elevator to Level 400. 

A wide hallway is pictured with a set of escalators at the end that lead to Level 300.

 

At the top of the escalators on Level 300, there is a lobby area that will have food & beverage options, in addition to a variety of seating options, including rounds with standard chairs and soft seating.

A photo of the lobby area at the top of the escalators on Level 300. There is a food and beverage stand called The Fresh Café, and mixed seating options surrounding it.

 

Behind the lobby area is a hallway where all regular session rooms are located, meeting rooms 301-329. This particular photo is taken mid-hallway and is facing toward room 310.

Please find a video of the main terrace.

A picture of the Level 300 hallway with the escalator entry on the left of the photo and meeting rooms on the right. There are some small table rounds with chairs placed along the right side of the hallway as well.

 

This is an example of a typical meeting room at the Baltimore Convention Center, though AWP will have these rooms set differently and there will be no risers or staging for the head tables. Please note all Level 300 meeting rooms use LED light.

In all AWP meeting rooms, there will be seats reserved for those with accessibility needs, in addition to wheelchair spaces left at the front and back.

A photo taken at the entrance of a meeting room in the Baltimore Convention Center with the same carpet as the hallway. Gray and metal chairs are set in rows with a center aisle.

 

This is a photo of the chairs used in the Baltimore Convention Center.

A photo of a metal frame chair with seat and back padding in a gray and black pattern. The chair is in a row and linked to the chair beside it.


To access Level 400 ballrooms, you must take the elevator or escalators to Level 300, then proceed down the Level 300 hallway toward room 327. Near room 327, there is an elevator and escalators to Level 400.

A photo of a hallway with rooms 327-329 on the right and an escalator and elevator to Level 400 on the left.

 

The ballrooms where featured events and the Keynote Address are located are on Level 400 and this can be accessed by the elevator and escalator located near room 327.

Please find a video of the Level 400 ballroom foyer.

A photo taken on Level 400 with the escalator and elevator from Level 300 on the left and ballroom entrances on the right.

 

This is a close-up of the carpeting on Level 400.

A triangular pattern of black, gray, and beige.