Monday, December 8, 2008

“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.


Sunday, December 7, 2008

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.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

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.


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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.