“Everyone an Artist?” /Collaboration between Art on Purpose and 13 local colleges and universities.

“Everyone an Artist?”
Collaboration between Art on Purpose and 13 local colleges and universities.

Baltimore—Everyone an Artist? Is the question Art on Purpose, an organization dedicated to using art to bring people together around issues and ideas, poses to faculty and students from thirteen Baltimore area colleges and universities in a groundbreaking project exploring the relationship between art, creativity and just being human.

A total of nine Everyone an Artist? exhibitions will be held between February and May 2009, the culmination of work that began more than two years ago. The exhibitions will feature hundreds of works by college students throughout the region presented alongside art by Denise Tassin, the Art on Purpose Resident Artist for this project.

“An inter-collegiate creative project of this scope is unprecedented here in Baltimore,” comments Art on Purpose Director and Everyone an Artist? curator Peter Bruun. “Our hope is not only to explore an interesting philosophical question about the nature of being an artist, but to get college students to interact with each other and take advantage of other campuses in the area.”

Artist in Resident Denise Tassin

Denise Tassin, an extraordinarily prolific Baltimore artist who has exhibited her work nationally, is a recipient of multiple Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her work is included in prominent collections such as The Baltimore Museum of Art and has been featured at Evergreen Museum, Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, University of Maryland College Park, and many other venues.

Tassin’s work is marked by its seemingly endless variety including drawings, found objects, performances, complex installations, and open-ended collaborations. She has an unflagging commitment to serious play, completing such tasks as building an over-sized dollhouse covered with hundreds of paper dolls and entirely carpeting a bicycle while leaving it fully ride-able.

Tassin spent fall 2008 meeting with students, hosting studio visits, presenting lectures about her work, working in direct collaboration with students in their classrooms, and creating new work for the spring 2009 exhibitions. “I have long wanted to do something that looks at the fundamental relationship between being an artist and a creative thinker,” says Peter Bruun. “Denise’s talent and experience are a perfect fit and the college communities, exactly the right group to engage.”

Gormley Gallery at College of Notre Dame of Maryland
The Art of Collecting
January 28 to March 6, 2009
How our accumulation of stuff takes on meaning and says things about who we are. Selections from artist Denise Tassin’s vast collections of objects and materials, and a variety of college student works including from Towson University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Loyola College in Maryland, and more. A reception will be held Thursday, February 5, 4:30-6:00pm.

Loyola/Notre Dame Library
I Remember Mama
February 1 to March 6, 2009
Art and objects tinged with nostalgia, harkening back to childhood memories we all can relate to. The exhibition features a selection of small sculptures by Denise Tassin, and work about childhood by students from Towson University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and elsewhere. A reception will be held Thursday, February 5, 4:30-6:00pm.

Stevenson University Art Gallery
They’re Playing My Tune
March 2 to April 4, 2009
Drawings and other constructions by Denise Tassin and college students from across the Baltimore region created directly from listening to music and in response to other forms of art and performance. An opening reception will be held Thursday, March 5, 6:00-8:00pm.

Johns Hopkins University
We’re Not Alone
March 23 to April 12, 2009
Art that happens when individual creative efforts enlist natural forces as a component of making. The exhibition includes a series of “worm drawings” by Denise Tassin shown alongside abstract works by Towson University students, and drawings made by machines engineered by Johns Hopkins University students. A reception and demonstration of machine drawing will be held Thursday, March 26, 5:00-7:30pm.

Maryland Institute College of Art
An Everything Installation
March 28 to April 25, 2009
Artist Denise Tassin works with current students enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Post-Baccalaureate Program to create a “project room” where all is considered, and nothing rejected out of hand. An opening reception will be held Saturday, March 28, 3:00-6:00pm, and the installation will be open for the general public on two additional dates.

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Art from Art
March 30 to May 2, 2009
Artists inspired by one another, across disciplines and in surprising directions. An exhibition in the UMBC Student Center Gallery of a suite of ten prints by Denise Tassin shown alongside words by students enrolled in Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminar. A reception that includes a performance by the UMBC percussion Ensemble will be announced soon.

Coppin State University
More Than One
April 6 to May 2, 2009
How multiplicity builds rhythm, normalcy, and an awareness of infinite possibility. The exhibition includes works by Denise Tassin alongside projects by college students from Coppin State University, the Community College of Baltimore County, Morgan State University, and other Baltimore region colleges and universities. The show will be in the Percy Julian Lobby, Ceramic Studio and Courtyard, and a reception including dance and music performances will be held Monday, April 6, 6:00-8:00pm.

Towson University
Best Drawing
April 13 to May 3, 2009
Denise Tassin and students taking college-level drawing classes across Baltimore share what they consider to be their “best” drawings. The installation will be shown on the third floor of Towson University’s Center for the Arts. A reception, including a dance performance by Towson students incorporating Tassin sculptures installed on the Center for the Arts’ first floor, will be held on a date to be announced soon.

The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville
Sandbox
April 30 to May 7, 2009
Works made when individuals work side-by-side, back and forth, with one another, joined together in creative play and discovery. The exhibition includes a variety of collaborative projects of all sorts by artist Denise Tassin and college students from across the Baltimore region. A reception will be held Thursday, May 7, 6:00-8:00pm.

Storytellers @ Paperwork Gallery

Storytellers
Group exhibition
curated by Dana Reifler, Cara Ober, and NY Artist Rudy Shepherd
Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 12 from 7-9 p.m.

Exhibiting Artists: Nicole Barrick, Rachel Bone, Jeffrey Kent, Ridley Howard, Josh Weiss, and Saya Woolfalk.

The artists hail from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York and utilize a narrative approach to drawing.

www.paperworkgallery.com

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Announces Jurors -Application Deadline Approaching- December 12, 2008

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Announces Jurors

Application Deadline Approaching- December 12, 2008

 

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize announces the jurors
for 2009.  The panel consists of three accomplished jurors from the art
industry.  This year's jurors are Ellen Harvey, Valerie Cassel Oliver and
Elisabeth Sussman.  The fourth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
is designed to assist area visual artists in furthering their careers by
awarding a $25,000 fellowship.  The deadline for applications remains open
until Friday, December 12, 2008.  The prize will be awarded to an artist or
artist collaborators working in the Baltimore region on July 11, 2009, 7pm
at the Baltimore Museum of Art.      

Ellen Harvey is a New York-based artist with an extensive exhibition history
that includes solo shows at the LUXE Gallery(2007); New York, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (2005), Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum at Philip
Morris (2003), New York; and De Chiara Gallery (2000 & 2001), New York.  She
has been included in many significant group exhibitions including the
Whitney Biennial 2008; Generation 1.5 at the Queens Museum of Art (2007),
New York; Block Party at the Bellwether gallery (2002), New York; and
Superduper New York at Pierogi 2000 (2000).  In 1999, Ms. Harvey
participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study
program, after which she spent the following two years working on her now
famous New York Beautification Project, a brilliantly straight-forward
public art project where she "tagged" already graffiti covered spots with
small 5" x 7" intricately detailed oval landscapes.  She has other works in
the public art collections of both New York and Chicago.  She has also won
several awards and her artwork has been reviewed often in publications such
as The New York Times, Art in America and New York Magazine.  She is
currently represented by LUXE Gallery, New York; Magnus Müller, Berlin;
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany; and Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

Valerie Cassel Oliver is Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston (CAMH), where she has been assembling acclaimed exhibitions since
2001.  Included among them are Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in
Contemporary Art (2003), Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since
1970 (2005), Black Light White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art;
as well as Cinema Remixed and Reloaded. Black Women and the Moving Image
since 1970, which is currently on view at the museum in Houston.  She was
also a member of the curatorial team for the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the
Whitney Museum of American Art.  Prior to her tenure at CAMH, she was the
director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and curated several lecture series and symposia including
Witness: Art/Activism (1998), Lesbian Identity and the Landscape of
Homophobia (1998), Jurassic Technology (1998), The Performative Object
(1998), Culture of Empire/Culture of Resistance (1998), Reality/Virtual
Reality (1997), and Sound Mining: Unearthing Extended Voice (1996).  She has
authored books that accompany a variety of her curatorial projects, and has
served as a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1988
to 1995).

Elisabeth Sussman is Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; where her most recent curatorial
effort William Eggleston: Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video,
1961-2008 is currently on view.  Ms. Sussman's remarkable career spans more
than three decades and includes curating or co-curating such seminal
exhibitions as Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes (1993), the 1993 Biennial
Exhibition, Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror (1996), Keith Haring (1997) and
Gordon Matta-Clark (2007) all at the Whitney Museum of American art; as well
as the landmark retrospectives of the works of Eva Hess (2001), which won
the International Art Critics Association First Prize for the best
monographic exhibition retrospective outside of New York, and Diane Arbus
(2003) for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  In addition to authoring
several publications that accompany her curatorial projects, she has
contributed essays to countless other volumes.  In 1999 she was a Fellow of
the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and a Scholar at the Getty
Research Institute in 2003.  She has taught at M.I.T., Tufts and Harvard
Universities.

 

Deadlines/Dates

Application deadline                       December 12, 2008

Announcement of semi-finalists        February 12, 2009

Announcement of finalists               April 14, 2009

Finalist interviews                          July 11, 2009

Award announcement                    July 11, 2009, 7pm

BMA exhibition duration                  June 20 - August 16, 2009

MICA exhibition duration                 July 17 - August 2, 2009

Artscape                                     July 17-19, 2009

 

The 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is made possible through the
support of The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation,
anonymous, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, the
Charlesmead Foundation, Ellen Dankert, the France-Merrick Foundation,
Willard Hackerman c/o Whiting-Turner Contracting, and Legg Mason.  

For the 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize application, visit
www.artscape.org or call 410-752-8632. 

Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan @ Metro Gallery

Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Metro Gallery
1700 North Charles St.
Baltimore, Maryland
www.myspace.com/metrogallery

Sunday Dec 7 -- 8 pm FREE!!!!!!

Electric Junkyard Gamelan plays original groove driven music on invented
instruments. 
With lilting melodies, syncopated strings, funky bass lines and layers of
interlocking rhythms played on such musical oddities as the Kachapitar, the
Sitello, the Clayrimba, Rubarp, Big Barp and an arsensal of percussion
instruments fashioned from found objects. They produce a fresh new sound
that tantalizes the ears and eyes of all.

LOS SOLOS SERIES , 4th Installment featuring SAWAKO (NYC) and SARADA CONAWAY (Balto)

free "makeovers" from the series by Sarada Conaway

LOS SOLOS SERIES
4th installment
Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Cha. Village
baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos
Friday, 12/5/0, 8:30pm
$6 sug.donation
featuring Japanese Electronica artist and local conceptual artist:

SAWAKO (NYC)
SARADA CONAWAY (Balto)


"Listening to Sawako's "nana" was one of
the most beautiful sound experience
I've had in a long time. (Andrew Deutsch)

SAWAKO (NYC) Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR(USA) and Anticipate (USA). She had collaborated with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, RF, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Radiosonde, among others. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig.

SARADA CONAWAY (Baltimore) Sarada Conaway is an artist and independent curator working in Baltimore MD. Her work focuses on removing boundaries between everyday life and art. Her current body of work is a large-scale collaboration with residents of standard apartment buildings. Ms. Conaway received her BFA from the Tyler College of Art and is recent graduate of the University of Maryland MFA program. For the Los Solos Series she will be presenting a lecture demonstration of some of her conceptual artworks.

Framed Reality @ MAP

Framed Reality
December 2-January 31, 2009
Gallery Talk: 6 pm, Friday, December 12 / Reception, 7 pm

Framed Reality, an exhibition featuring the work of four figurative painters who draw inspiration from various sources, including childhood memories, folklore, and narrative. Although distinctly different in their approach and painting styles, each artist’s work will evoke a unique and highly personal response from viewers. Participating artists include: Daniel Finch, Brian Martin, Becky Slemmons, and Nora Sturges.

Daniel Finch appropriates popular imagery from his formative teenage years growing up in the 1970’s to create paintings that reflect on past memories as observed from a current perspective. His large scale works represent modern archetypal characters and events with historic or mythical relevance created by joining pixilated painting segments to reveal such familiar icons as King Kong, Evel Knievel and Bruce Lee. Finch comments, “my paintings are, in great part, a search for the remnants of masculine identity transmitted to me through the media icons of my generation.”

Brian Martin’s paintings are based on memories of growing up in several suburban neighborhoods throughout America. The artist’s perception of these communities as cold and isolated is sharply contrasted to the safe and supportive paradigm intended by these planned neighborhoods. This sentiment is conveyed in the striking paintings he constructs of empty playgrounds and vacant hallways. Martin remarks, “the disparity between this ideal and the actual experience of life in these communities is the focus of my art.”

Becky Slemmons is a narrative painter whose outlet for storytelling is realized through creating art. She says, “the stories we tell, our mythologies, are metaphors for what matters to us, distilled from our experience of being human.” Her most recent work was inspired by folklore and lesser-known customs in which the artist searches for truths throughout multiple cultures. This work draws from a seventeenth century Welsh courting ritual of spoon-giving, which the artist has adapted to incorporate tales of her own invention based on this custom. In order to bring her characters to life in her paintings, Slemmons must fully understand them, often writing down stories, making their costumes and shooting video for reference. This highly personal experience allows the artist to see how each of her fictitious characters might feel in the situations with which they are confronted. Working from video stills, Slemmons captures key cinematic moments to depict in her paintings and in her storytelling.

Nora Sturges’ detailed paintings place contemporary figures in historical period settings. Her rich, small paintings are often inspired by narrative, and are filled with details that exemplify the artist’s whimsical humor, bringing an interesting perspective to imaginary events and situations. In Marco Polo’s Travels, Sturges creates a series of paintings of imaginary adventures which was originally inspired by the narrative and subject matter of Italo Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities. “The paintings have since grown to encompass personal experience of travel and displacement, as well as ideas taken from the actual Travels of Marco Polo, a book with many contemporary parallels.” Also included in the exhibition is the series, A View from the Road, paintings that represent travel snapshots depicting the memorable and less than memorable things tourists see and choose to document while traveling. Quiet Cities is the third series that will be exhibited, inspired partly by the artist living in Baltimore, it “explores the human inhabitation of the environment and the process of urban growth and decline.”

WHEN ABSENCE BECOMES PRESENCE @ WPA

WHEN ABSENCE BECOMES PRESENCE
Washington Project for the Arts Presents:
Experimental Media Series
curated by Sonja Simonyi + Niels Van Tomme
November 20 – December 23, 2008
Washington Project for the Arts
2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036
Gallery Hours: Tues-Fri 11-4pm (closed Thanksgiving weekend)

Opening Reception: Thursday November 20th, 7-9pm @ WPA
Screening & Curator’s Talk: Thursday, December 11, 6pm @ The Phillips Collection

The fourth annual Experimental Media Series "When Absence Becomes Presence," is an exhibition that explores the play between two separate, but linked conditions of absence and presence, and which reflects upon the very nature of time based media. Curators Sonja Simonyi + Niels Van Tomme have selected a staggering variety of experimental artworks that include sound art, music, literary readings, video art, as well as a mysterious sound recording.

Artworks from: Herman Asselberghs, The Conet Project, Paul Chan, Martin Creed, Andrea Geyer, Ibro Hasanovic, Miranda July, Damir Niksic, and Douglas Ross

To be announced: screening of selected works and a discussion with the curators at The Phillips Collection on Friday, December 11, at 6pm. During the screening, the Kraft Prize for New Media and the WPA Experimental Art Prize will be presented to two winning artists from the When Absence Become Presence Call for Entries competition.

AGENDA: QUEERING POPULAR MEDIA

AGENDA: QUEERING POPULAR MEDIA
Current Gallery
30 South Calvert Street
Baltimore Md 21202

Opening Reception: Friday, November 14, 7 pm

Exhibition Dates: November 14 - December 5, 2008


Baltimore, MD ~ Current Gallery is pleased to present Agenda: Queering Popular Media curated by Jamillah James for Frontier Projects. The exhibition examines how queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans) subjectivity informs, and is mediated by, evolving technology, the media, and popular culture. Through mining the formal and narrative conventions of film and television, revisiting printed matter as a traditional means of communication, and addressing symptoms of immediacy precipitated by the digital age, the participating artists in Agenda create autonomous spaces for play, discourse, and protest in which identities and histories are fluid.

Agenda also considers the traditional definition of "queer"—to make strange. The experimental opportunities afforded by new media (installation, performance, video, and internet-based art) provides the critical apparatus to question matters of representation and agency, the influence to radicalize other art making practices, and the platform to subvert and eschew aesthetic conventions.

Agenda documents the present state of collective (un)consciousness, with its interest attuned to the quandary of visibility and a cultural obsession with "others" outside of the self. The collapse of public and private is expected, and surveillance spells opportunity. By refitting the lens through which popular culture and the media are viewed and rabidly consumed, and re-calibrating the gaze, the artists featured in Agenda affirm that the personal is indeed political.

Participating artists include: Rahne Alexander, Davey Ball & Levi Barringer, Owen Brightman, Alan Calpe, Dynasty Handbag, Edie Fake, Michael Farley, Kristen Galvin, K8 Hardy & Wynne Greenwood, Gabriel Held, Michael Lent, LTTR (K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Müller, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lanka Tattersal), Sarah McKiel, Dylan Mira & Latham Zearfoss, Rebecca Nagle, PILOT TV, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Liz Rosenfeld, Mariadele Arcuri Rossoni, Christopher Schulz, Xavier Schipani, Emily Shinada, Hayley Silverman, Jeffrey Augustine Songco, Ryan Trecartin, Victor Van Bramer, Lex Young, and Latham Zearfoss.

The Opening Reception 7 pm, Friday, November 14, with performances by participants Owen Brightman, Rebecca Nagle, and Michael Farley with Dazzlestorm.


Supplemental Screenings:
11/22, 7 pm PILOT TV, a 2004 Chicago (trans-)feminist experimental media conference
11/23, 7 pm Paris is Burning, the 1987 Jenny Livingstone documentary about drag balls held by African-American and Latino-American men in New York City
11/29, 7 pm Sexy, Wiggy, Desserty (1982-1992), an anthology of works by seminal underground queer video artist Tom Rubnitz
11/30, 7 pm I-BE AREA¬ (2007), the critically acclaimed 100-minute video by artist Ryan Trecartin

Charm City Craft Mafia presents the second annual Holiday Heap!

Charm City Craft Mafia

Saturday (November 15th) to St. John's Church
2640 St. Paul Street
10am - 5pm for Holiday Heap.

Holiday Heap is an indie craft fair featuring a jury-selected group of more than 50 of the country's most renegade crafters, selling their own handmade jewelry, screenprinted apparel, stuffed toys, cermaics, knitwear, paper goods and so much more!

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Open Studio Day

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Open Studio Day
21 S. Eutaw Street
Saturday, December 6
11am-4pm.

During this holiday show, local and regional artists showcase their unique paintings, photographs, sculptures, and more! Guests can visit studios, meet the artists, purchase artwork great for holiday gifts or take tours of the newly renovated tower. The 97-year-old building has been transformed to house visual and literary artists. This month’s featured artists are Najwa Al-amin (oil & acrylic), Milton Allette (acrylic), W. Scott Broadfoot (oil), Barbara Bryan (playwright), Linda Day-Clark (digital photography), John David Ehlers, Jr. (oil, acrylic, and charcoal), Brian Glazer Gerber (oil & acrylic), Keith Haller (oil, acrylic and watercolor), Kevin Haller (oil, acrylic and watercolor), Meaghan Harrison (mixed media), Cyhthia S. Padgett (oils & pastels), Pearl Regmi (oil, acrylic and watercolor), Sarah Richards (writer print & radio), Yvonne Thomas (photography) and Patricia Truitt (oil & acrylic).

Chris & Don: A Love Story

The Johns Hopkins University Film & Media Studies Program Presents A Special Screening of Chris & Don: A Love Story, a film by Guido Santi & Tina Mascara.
Followed by Question & Answer Session with the filmmakers and Don Bachardy
Friday, November 14, 7PM
Room 110, Hodson Hall
Homewood Campus
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street

Co-Sponsored by:
Homewood Arts Program
Department of English
Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Writing Seminars

Glitterama!5 @ Creative Alliance

Glitterama!5
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave. HiTown B'more
410-276-1651 www.creativealliance.org

Nov 22 

Greggy Glitterati hosts an evening of wonderment!  An eccentric, eyepopping and always unpredictable variety show! Air Heart's Mara Neimanis flies through
aerial artistry! The Dextrous Duo of Liz & Brent-stars of our own Marquee Ball-offer death defying balances and gymnastics! Strange Powers shows off her
Poodle Hoop Troop hula-hooping. Comedic burlesque vamper Shortstaxx, boylesque star Paco Fish, Gilded Lily's Little Luna and chanteuse Ultrasharlat (formerly
with the Swingin Swamis). 2 Shows! 7 & 10pm. $12, $10 mbrs.

Caleb Stine's 'Round the Mountain @ Creative Alliance

Caleb Stine's 'Round the Mountain Creative Alliance at The Patterson 3134 Eastern Ave. HiTown B'more 410-276-1651 www.creativealliance.org  Sat Nov 15  Caleb Stine is rising fast in Baltimore's exploding music scene. Headlining tonight, he digs into America's vital musical roots with pre-eminent hammer dulcimer player Ken Kolodner, traditional Irish fiddle player Jim Eagan & fellow Irish players Dan Isaacson and Danny Noveck, with The Baltimore Shape Note Singers and a few more special Baltimore folk and traditional musicians. From Appalachian ballads to Irish reels, shape note singing to murder ballads, this is a night of American music in the raw: real music made by real people. 8pm. $17, $15 mbrs. Adv tix sug. 
http://www.calebstine.com/

ZOЁ CHARLTON, DAVID LEVINTHAL, GABRIEL de la MORA @ Conner Contemporary Art

ZOЁ CHARLTON, DAVID LEVINTHAL, GABRIEL de la MORA @
Conner Contemporary Art

opening reception:
Friday, November 14th: 6-8pm.
valet parking available.

David Levinthal:
artist talk + champagne reception:
Saturday, November 15th: 11am.
rsvp appreciated.

Zoë Charlton:
artist talk + champagne reception:
Saturday, November 15th: 2pm.
rsvp appreciated.

Conner Contemporary Art
1358-60 Florida Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
v: 202-588-8750

LOS SOLOS SERIES / HADIEH SHAFIE (Balto) KARA FEELY (NYC)

LOS SOLOS SERIES
presented by Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad
Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Chas. Village
Friday, 11/7/08, 8:30pm, $6 sug.donation

HADIEH SHAFIE (Balto)
KARA FEELY (NYC)

baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

KARA FEELY Kara Feely is a writer, director and designer for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws inspiration from experimental writing and music composition strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews and radio broadcasts.

HADIEH SHAFIE Hadieh M. Shafie was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983, leaving post revolutionary Iran at the height of war with Iraq and social/political unrest. The themes explored in Shafie's work are the temporary nature of memory, history and personal experiences related to otherness and loss.

17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference @ Towson

17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference

Saturday, November 8

Towson University's University Union

Registration opens at 8:30am. Keynote address at 9:00am.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Larry Doyle

Larry Doyle is the author of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper, soon to be released as a film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere as Beth. He was a writer and producer for "The Simpsons" for four years and now writes for The New Yorker magazine. He recently won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Session topics include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazine and journals, agents and publishers, and blogging. Sign up the day of the conference for quick critiques to improve your stories, essays, and poems.

For more information or to register, go to http://www.baltimorewritersconference.org.

Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and reception. (Student registration rate available with valid school ID!)

Don't miss the area's premier day-long opportunity for literary artists to improve their craft, learn about the business, and network with industry professionals and other writers!

For more information, contact Geoffrey Becker at gbecker@towson.edu or 410.704.5196.

Gregg Wilhelm, CityLit Project

David Everett, Johns Hopkins University

Geoffrey Beck, Towson University

Salvage @ Gallery Imperato

SALVAGE
hair drawings by Youngmi Song
mixed media assemblage by M. Jordan Tierney
Gallery Imperato
921 e. fort ave. suite 120
Baltimore, md 21230

October 24 - December 6, 2008

Using recycled items in art has been seen many times before. However, never has it been presented with such intrigue and sophistication. Artists Youngmi Song and M. Jordan Tierney act as scavengers, salvaging items that would otherwise be disposed of and turning them into something both meaningful and beautiful. Loose strands of hair, found objects, and remains of 19th century houses are rescued, re-purposed, and given new life.

With fallen hairs from her own head, Youngmi Song painstakingly creates simple images on Korean mulberry paper. Images of furniture, trees and barns are impeccably and tediously rendered with individual strands of hair, giving the false appearance of drawings done with a
No. 2 lead pencil. While her early training focused on traditional Korean art, Youngmi began using mulberry paper in a contemporary manner while studying at MICA. Combining this historically used paper with the innovative use of that which her own body produces creates a connection between the past and present.

M. Jordan Tierney collects reclaimed timbers from renovated 19th century houses to create woodcarvings and constructions, an integral part of her work. She combines them with found objects such as old light fixtures, porcelain, furniture parts, tin tiles and other items to form three-dimensional assemblages. With their time worn surfaces, they seem to be relics of an event and appear to have accumulated naturally over time. By combining actual salvaged items with wood carvings fabricated to look like salvaged items, Tierney makes reference to the world as "a constantly shifting sedimentary process of alternating layers of natural and man-made systems".

Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS @ The Art Gallery at University of Maryland College Park

Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS
The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
Art/Sociology Building
College Park, MD

Opening Reception

Wednesday November 12, 6-8 pm

The Art Gallery presents Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access featuring prints and installations by Argentinean artist Mirta Kupferminc and text by Saúl Sosnowski. The exhibit is a dialogue between image and text and offers visitors a unique experience to enter a world of appearances, of truths, and of veiled secrets. The exhibition opens Wednesday, November 12, and continues through Saturday, December 20, 2008.

The exhibition is designed as a conceptual journey around a limited edition artist book, Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word. The book is an open conversation between texts by Sosnowski and images by Kupferminc in dialogue with writings by Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Kabbalistic notions. Kupferminc met Sosnowski when a mutual friend brought him to visit her studio in 2002. Though she did not mention her interest in Jewish mysticism to Sosnowski at that time, upon returning to the U.S., he mailed her a book he had authored titled Borges y la Cábala : La Búsqueda del Verbo. From this exchange, she began to explore connections in the book and her interests in everyday visual inquiry, literature, and mysticism. Of their collaboration on Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word, Kupferminc stated, "It is very hard to explain what the book is. It has a world inside. It's a journey with so much energy and such a profound true connection..."

The book will be displayed in its entirety, along with several installations designed to surround the viewer in the texts and images from the book. In Seeking Access, the visitor is invited to step into a labyrinth installation formed in the shape of the Hebrew letter Aleph. Thirty two access possibilities guide to the center and the corridors showcase images and texts. In the Endless Universe, the viewer sees images repeat exponentially toward infinity.

Sosnowski writes about the collaboration: "In joining Borges and Kabbalah, it is imperative to recognize the distance that separates faith and theology from literature and art, as well as 'the Kabbalist' from those who promote it as spiritual self-help and indulge in exercises that plainly mark the passage of time. When cognizant of the difference, when suitably and spiritually trained to cut through material barriers, then, and only then, will the true seeker be empowered to discover and unveil alternate views of the world, and make inroads into the sobering chronicles of the Diaspora, where many of the Kabbalistic texts were written."

Talk:
Saúl Sosnowski in conversation with Mirta Kupferminc
Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm
Room 2309 Art-Sociology Building

Euphoria @ Senator Theatre

Euphoria presented by Creative Alliance and Senator Theatre The Senator 5904 York Rd. Thu Nov 13 at 7:30 pm. & Sat Nov 15 at 2pm. $10 (Tickets available through The Senator) The genre-jamming film Euphoria by Baltimore producers/educators Lee Boot and Stacy Arnold is the focus this weekend. Euphoria begins by asking “are you happy?” and takes off on a journey through the American landscape—the one that surrounds us and the one inside us. Synchronized swimmers inhabit an underwater jungle of neurons; Teddy Bears hover in arcs of electricity, and real people share how their lives have been transformed by pursuing what is meaningful and engaging to them. As Boot untangles the elements necessary for emotional survival, the meaning in our own lives becomes refreshingly tangible. Co-sponsored by UMBC, The Institute for Integrative Health, MICA and The Center for Integrative Medicine.

Amanda Burnham: Denominator @ Loyola

Amanda Burnham: Denominator
Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College 
4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm.
(410) 617-2799.
Exhibition Dates: November 3 – December 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5 – 7 pm

An exhibition featuring the artist’s newest work on paper as well as an
installation drawing on site at the Gallery.

Burnham’s work offers a unique perspective on contemporary American
landscapes, reflecting ways individuals are affected by the
ever-increasing sense of shock and alarm in corporate culture.  Her
complex, multi-layered compositions depict cities and suburbs in which
nature is present but dominated by corporate brands, logos and graffiti.
In her work, the physicality of the natural world is blurred and
unclear, leaving the viewer immersed in an abstract illustration of
natural surroundings – the viewpoint of one desperately attempting to
escape from the alienating voices of commercial America.

Her work plays with the striking incongruity between what is real and
what is advertised in America.  Burnham explains, “I thought about the
false promise of advertising, as well as telling ironies exposed by
unplanned environmental juxtapositions such as glossy billboards
advertising luxury goods to speeding commuters planted in neglected
roadside urban spaces.”

Also on exhibit is a selection of Burnham’s constructed paintings, Front
Lines and Gulf, in which she constructs the pictorial landscape of
cities and suburbs haphazardly, utilizing saturated paint and cardboard
constructions to reflect on individual alienation in contemporary life.

Into the Light / Into the Dark

Into the Light / Into the Dark
School 33 Art Center
1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230
school33@promotionandarts.com
410-396-4641
October 30 – December 13, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 2008 6 – 9pm

Curated by Timothy Nohe as part of ’s Annual Open Call for Curators.
Featured Artists include: Phil Davis, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, John Sturgeon, and Christian Valiente Sound Concert Performance: Saturday, November 1, 2008 8 – 9pm in conjunction with opening reception.
The Everyday Instrument Workshop with Tim Nohe: Saturday, Nov. 8^th and 15^th 1 – 4pm ($10 pre-registration required)
Electronic Sewing with Bonnie Crawford Kotula: Saturday, November 22^nd 1 -4pm ($20 pre-registration required)
For more information or to reserve your spot please contact School 33 Art Center

Chris & Don: A Love Story- Press Release

The Film & Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University presents a special screening of Chris and Don: A Love Story, November 14, 7PM, Room 110, Hodson Hall, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles Street. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with filmmakers Guido Santi and Tina Mascara, and portrait painter Don Bachardy, one of the subjects of the film. The event is co-sponsored by the Homewood Arts Program; Homewood Art Workshops; Department of English; Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; the Writing Seminars; and the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance.

Stephen Holden, in the New York Times, described the film as a "tender, extremely touching . . elegantly structured documentary."

Robert Koehler, in Variety, called it "a particularly beguiling real-life gay love saga. Made with gentle grace and sensitivity . ."

Admission is free. Donations to the Christopher Isherwood Foundation are welcome. (www.isherwoodfoundation.org)

For more information, please contact the JHU Film & Media Studies Program at
410 516-5048
or
http://sites.jhu.edu/film_media/

A trailer for the film is available at: http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/chris&don/

And a July 9, 2008 interview with Don Bachardy on WHYY is available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92343122

BALTIMORE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION TO MEET WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

BALTIMORE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION TO MEET WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
Wednesday, October 22 at 4pm

• The Baltimore Public Art Commission holds October meeting. The commission is responsible for the administering of the city’s 1% For Public Art Program, as well as the review and approval of all gifts of permanent public art to the City of Baltimore.

• Benton Building
  417 E. Fayette Street, 8^th Floor
  Phoebe B. Stanton Board Room

• Approval of 07/30/08 Meeting Minutes

• Proposed gift of public sculpture honoring William Donald Schaefer with a presentation by artist Rodney Carroll and landscape architect Carol Macht, followed by discussion and vote.
• Presentation by Bob Quilter of the Baltimore City Planning Department & Paul Dombrowski of the Baltimore Development Corporation of significant Baltimore City development over the next few years.

The members of the Baltimore Public Art Commission are Darsie Alexander, a curator; Charles Brickbauer, an architect; Alex Castro, a designer and architect; Walter Daly, an architect and master planner; Elford Jackson, an engineer; Anne Perkins, an attorney and civic leader; Jann-Rosen Queralt, an artist and professor; Ken Royster, a visual artist; and Steve Ziger, an architect.

GARY KACHADOURIAN; LIFE-SIZED PRINTS AND ASSORTED DRAWING PROJECTS

GARY KACHADOURIAN; LIFE-SIZED PRINTS AND ASSORTED DRAWING PROJECTS

October 27 through December 5, 2008
RECEPTION, November 1, 4-6pm
Gormley Gallery / Fourier Hall
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
4701 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210
Gallery Hours, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm
Call 410-435-0100 for weekend hours
www.ndm.edu/gormleygallery

Cliff Evans: E M P Y R E A N @ THE LIBRARY

Cliff Evans: E M P Y R E A N
October 17 - November 2

THE LIBRARY
1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230

The Library (Baltimore, MD) and Curator's Office (Washington, DC)
are pleased to co-present Empyrean, a five-channel HD video projection
by noted New York based artist Cliff Evans.

Gallery Hours | Thursday - Saturday | 4 - 8 pm or by appointment

http://thelibraryproject.net/
http://www.curatorsoffice.com/

Part of Brushfire, a project organized by Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Sneak Preview Benefit and All-Star Cast Cabaret!! Jay Dreams @ Creative Alliance

Sneak Preview Benefit and All-Star Cast Cabaret!! Jay Dreams (Pancake, 2008)

Sat Nov 8 TWO SHOWS! 7pm &10pm. $20, $18 mbrs.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson

3134 Eastern Ave. Hi'town B'more

Info and tix: (410)276-1651

www.creativealliance.org

New 16mm short film from the director of Black Diamonds! Plus cabaret with Goddess and She, K Love, Reina Williams, Jai Brooks, Fyre and more!

Motorcycles, polyamory, strip clubs, tiny dogs, lipstick, dead-end jobs! The writing/directing team Jai Brooks and Catherine Pancake offer a hometown sneak preview of their sure-to-be-a-hit gender-bent and erotic brew of 16mm film, animation, and digital video dissecting the ups and downs of relationships in Baltimore’s African-American queer community with tragicomedy razor-sharp wit! Beautifully shot on 16mm film, Jay Dreams mashes lyrical eroticized imagery with deadpan haikus searing the B-more social scene. This film adaptation of Jai Brooks’ popular ‘dating haikus’ stars a who’s who list of the African American performance in Baltimore! Following the preview, a red hot cabaret with NYC queer celebs Goddess and She with luminaries of Baltimore’s African American queer scene (and film cast members!): K Love the Infinite, Reina Williams, Fyre, and Jai Brooks taking the stage with rap, soul, spoken word, and more!!

Catherine Pancake is a local award-winning artist whose nationally-distributed 2006 eco-documentary “Black Diamonds” won multiple national awards including a selection as part of the Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC (moma.org.) She also curates Baltimore’s Transmodern Festival, is a founding member of the Charm City Kitty Club and performs in the local experimental music scene.

Jai Brooks is a local writer and humorist best known for his work on the stage at the Charm City Kitty Club. He has been writing and performing poetry for over 15 years with stage time in Baltimore, Washington DC, and Philadelphia.

God-des and She are a NYC based Hip Hop and Soul duo who have been touring the globe promoting there unique music for the past 7 years. Their hard work has paid off with appearances on Showtime”s “L Word” series, nomination for an MTV music award, and critical acclaim from Billboard magazine for their recent album distributed by international online label The Orchard.

http://www.god-des.com/ .

Narrrowhouse Reading / Verb Slap

Narrrowhouse Reading in D.C.

Verb Sap
Magus Magnus

 clearing without reverasl
Cathy Eisenhowe

Saturday, October 25
6:00pm - 9:00pm

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC
www.civilianartprojects.com/

Narrow House says "we are super excited to have Magus Magnus' book out for the world to read. It’s a strange and beautiful book – and it took us way to long to spend that Maryland State Act Council grant on it. I’m doubly thrilled because we get to share the glory with Edge Books – one of the best poetry publishers in the US. Cathy Eisenhower's clearing without reverasl will debut on the same day. "

2ND Sunday Reading Series: Deanna Nikaido, Ian Hochberg, & Raven Baker

Deanna Nikaido

2^ND Sunday Reading Series: Deanna Nikaido, Ian Hochberg, & Raven Baker

MINÁS

815 W. 36th Street

Sunday, October 12 / 4:00 pm / $3.00

Deanna Nikiaido is the author of “Vibrating With Silence” (Writers Lair Books) and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design with a degree in Illustration. She has always loved the mystery of linking the inner world with outer world and looks for way to throw paint on the invisible. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies such as Family Pictures, Beltway Poetry and Urbancode Magazine. (http://www.deannanikaido.com)

Ian Hochberg’s poetry reflects the many uphill challenges he has faced in life. He is a member of the Maryland Writers Association and a member / volunteer of the Creative Alliance. He is a graduate of MICA and the proud father of two children.

Raven Baker grew up in that also-ran for the nation's capital, Havre de Grace, MD. These days she lives in Baltimore, covering arts and music for the City Paper, Beatbots.com and the U.K.'s Fact Magazine.

Hosted by Julie Fisher of poetryinbaltimore.com. An open reading follows.

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-732-4258
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
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"Drawing Fusion" @ The Gallery / CCBC

Drawing Fusion
The Gallery at CCBC Q Building
Catonsville, Maryland
October 13 through November 15
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday,
443-840-4246.

The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville presents “Drawing Fusion,” an invitational exhibit of contemporary drawing in fusion with self, ideas, space, culture, place, technology and varied media. The exhibit will be on display from Monday, Oct. 13 through Saturday, Nov. 15 in the Q Building at CCBC Catonsville, 800 S. Rolling Road. A reception with the artists will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in the Gallery at CCBC Catonsville.

Curated by Diana Marta, the exhibit features the works of Y. David Chung, Espi Frazier, Emily Hunter, Gary Kachadourian, Craig A. Kraft, Nancy Linden, Erik S. Miller, James E. Murphy, Jr., Cindy Rehm, Hadieh Shafie and Richard Zandler. Robert Jason Fagan wrote the publication that accompanies the exhibit.