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THE 2010 JANET & WALTER SONDHEIM ARTSCAPE PRIZE APPLICATION DEADLINE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009

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THE 2010 JANET & WALTER SONDHEIM ARTSCAPE PRIZE

APPLICATION DEADLINE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts presents the fifth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The $25,000 fellowship is awarded to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators working in the Greater Baltimore region. The prize is in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced with The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Approximately six finalists will be reviewed for the prize. Their work will be shown in the Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Galleries of The Baltimore Museum of Art, located at 10 Art Museum Drive. In addition, an exhibition of the semi-finalists’ work will be shown during the Artscape weekend in the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of the Maryland Institute College of Art, located at 1303 W. Mount Royal Avenue. Application deadline is Friday, December 18, 2009, and should be postmarked or hand delivered by 5pm. The prize is part of Artscape, America’s largest free celebration of the arts, taking place Friday, July 16 through Sunday, July 19, 2010 on Mount Royal Avenue and North Charles Street.

The fellowship winner will be selected after a review of the art installed at the BMA and an interview with each finalist by the jurors. The remaining finalists not selected for the fellowship will each receive a $1,000 honorarium. Artist collaborators will receive a single $25,000 prize if chosen as the winner or a $1,000 honorarium that will be equally divided among the members of the group. Jurors will be announced on Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

Applicants should include a CD-Rom containing five jpeg images of work, a one page resume, a signed and completed application and image description form along with the $25 application fee. Image files on the CD should be labeled last name first, first name, and the number corresponding to the description sheet, last. Each image should be sized at approximately 1024” x 768” pixels, no larger than 1Mb per image and must be compatible with both Mac and PC formats. Artists submitting time based works should submit up to 10 minutes of work on a DVD. The 10 minutes may include excerpts from up to five works as long as the combined time totals no more than 10 minutes. No application materials will be returned. Please send materials to The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, 7 East Redwood Street, Suite 500, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.

deadlines/Dates

Announcement of jurors Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Application deadline Friday, December 18, 2009

Announcement of semi-finalists Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Announcement of finalists Tuesday, April 13, 2010

BMA exhibition duration Saturday, June 19, 2010 through Sunday, August 1, 2010

Finalist interviews Saturday, July 10, 2010

Award announcement Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 7pm

Artscape July 16-19, 2010

Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize

The Artscape prize is named in honor of Janet and Walter Sondheim who have been instrumental in creating the Baltimore City that exists today. Walter Sondheim, Jr. had been one of Baltimore’s most important civic leaders for over 50 years. His accomplishments included oversight of the desegregation of the Baltimore City Public Schools in 1954 when he was president of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City. Later, he was deeply involved in the development of Charles Center and the Inner Harbor. He continued to be active in civic and educational activities in the city and state and served as the senior advisor to the Greater Baltimore Committee until his death in February 2007.

Janet Sondheim danced with the pioneering Denishawn Dancers, a legendary dance troupe founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Later, she turned to teaching where she spent 15 years at the Children’s Guild working with severely emotionally disturbed children. After retirement, she was a volunteer tutor at Highlandtown Elementary School. She married Walter in 1934, and they were together until her death in 1992.

The 2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize is supported by The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, Charlesmead Foundation, Ellen Dankert, France-Merrick Foundation, Willard Hackerman, Legg Mason and anonymous.

For more information on the 2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, visit www.artscape.org or call 410-752-8632.

UMD GALLERY HOP! October 23, 5:30 - 8 PM

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This Friday, October 23, 5:30 - 8 PM, the Art Gallery and the Stamp Gallery join forces to present

the first ever UMD GALLERY HOP! Check out two exciting exhibitions of contemporary printmaking

by artists, Karen Kunc, Judy Pfaff, and Brian Shure featured at the Art Gallery and Jessica Vaughn

at the Stamp Gallery.

http://www.thestamp.umd.edu/gallery

http://umdtheartgallery.blogspot.com/

Also on view at the Driskell Center, An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid Career Retrospective

http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/Holder/index.php

3rd Installment of LOS SOLOS SERIES – Merrill Feitell (Baltimore) & Maria Chavez (NYC), Nov 6th

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3rd Installment of LOS SOLOS SERIES – Merrill Feitell (Baltimore) & Maria Chavez (NYC), Friday November 6th, 2009

WHEN: Friday, November 6th, 2008. All shows are open to the public. All shows start promptly at 8:30 pm. $6 admission.

WHERE: All events will take place at the Load of Fun Theater, LOF/t at 120 W. North Ave. Voted “Best New Theater” by the Baltimore City Paper, LOF/t is a new venue established in 2008 to present new works in theatre, performance art, poetry, music and other harder-to-define forms of performance. The theater is housed in the Load of Fun building - a hive of artist studies, grassroots theaters, and visual art galleries.

WHAT: The Los Solos Series is an innovative monthly series of solo performances by groundbreaking female artists including dancers, musicians, writers, filmmakers, conceptual artists, theatrical performers, performance artists, and curators. The series is curated by visual artist Jackie Milad and musician/writer Bonnie Jones.

WHO: The series features nationally and internationally acclaimed artists from Baltimore and throughout the US who are highly innovative within their disciplines. The next show on November 6th features:

MERRILL FEITELL (BALTIMORE) Merrill Feitell’s first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for short fiction. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Byrdcliffe, Bread Loaf, and the Taos Writers Conference. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including the Best New American Voices series and have been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards. She teaches in the MFA program at University of Maryland in College Park and is Fiction Editor at Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. She has spent the past eight years at work on a novel called Any Minute Now. She lives in Baltimore. http://www.merrillfeitell.com/main.php

MARIA CHAVEZ (NYC) Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she harnesses the electro-acoustic sounds of vinyl and needle. Chavez made her NYC debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna’s Phonofemme Festival 2009. She has performed at San Francisco’s Electronic Music Festival, T.I.T.O., a turntable festival in Berlin, STEIM (Amsterdam) and the Kitchen (NYC), and was an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room in 2006. In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon. Fellow sound artist and writer Tara Rodgers will include an interview with Chavez in Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, to be published by Duke University Press in 2009/10. http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez

WEBSITE: For more info: http://www.baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos/

WHY: In the city known for its collaborative zeitgeist, the LOS SOLOS Series hopes to also recognize the strength of its solo performers. This is the third collaborative project for curator/organizers Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad. Previous projects include CHELA art space and Transmodern Festival.

"Do Me A Favor" Solo Exhibit by Christian Herr @ John Fonda Gallery

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"Do Me A Favor"
A Solo Exhibit by Christian Herr

Friday, October 23, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm John Fonda Gallery @ Theater Project 45 West Preston St. Baltimore, MD

Knit Wit at Nudashank - October 23 - November 18, 2009

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Nudashank

Knit Wit
October 23 - November 18
An exhibition of contemporary knit and sewn work

Opening Reception October 23, 2009
7 - 10 pm

Sarah Applebaum
Anthony Record
Nathan Vincent
Jennifer Strunge
Chiara Keeling
Todd Knopke

The James E. Lewis Museum of Art Launches New Website

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The James E. Lewis Museum of Art

Launches New Website

The James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: www.jelma.org. Each month, our site will feature updates on artists, objects in our collections, news and events, online lectures, podcasts, webcasts, artist interviews, Twitters and oral histories. Coming Soon!!! Podcast lectures and interviews on iTunes.

Help us spread the word to colleagues and students.

WHO: The James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University

WHAT: NEW WEBSITE!!!!

WHERE: www.jelma.org

WHEN: Visit anytime ONLINE!!!

For more than a century, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been at the fore of preserving African American art, history, and culture. HBCUs have served as a home and training ground for generations of artists and scholars, who have broadened definitions of art and humanity. Morgan State University is part of that legacy, and today, it continues the tradition.

Please visit our site to learn more about our museum, our collections, special programs, and the museum’s more than half a century of serving a national arts and academic community.

From Bearden, Picasso, Albers, and Erte to Constable, Sargent, and Metsu; from Johnson, Tanner, Dali, and Lawrence to objects that represent centuries of Asia and Africa, the James E. Lewis Museum of Art is where art, histories, and cultures meet.

Free Fall Baltimore through October 31

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15 DAYS REMAINING FOR FREE CULTURAL ARTS EVENTS DURING FREE FALL BALTIMORE

The citywide arts celebration events for October 16 through October 31

The fourth annual Free Fall Baltimore celebration offers residents and visitors an array of free creative arts events in venues throughout Baltimore City. More than 70 organizations have joined to provide entertaining free activities including stilt walking, clay and glassblowing workshops, Latin, African and ballet dance lessons, jazz and classical music concerts, films, lectures, history tours, Edgar Allan Poe themed theatrical shows and free admission to top area attractions. Families that are looking for activities can enjoy more than 100 fun and educational events at local venues until Saturday, October 31. A project of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, the fall arts celebration is sponsored by media partners Maryland Public Television, WBAL-TV 11, WJZ-TV 13, WMAR-TV 2, WUTB-TV 24, Fox45/ CW Baltimore, The Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Urbanite, WYPR 88.1 FM, Radio One (92Q, Magic 95.9, Spirit 1400, WOLB 1010) and CITYpeek.com.

Free Fall Baltimore is a promotional collaboration designed to make art and culture more accessible to area residents and visitors, while introducing young adults and families to a wide variety of cultural experiences.

For a complete schedule of free events for Free Fall Baltimore, call 1-877-BALTIMORE or visit www.freefallbaltimore.com.

FREE FALL BALTIMORE EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS 2009

Friday, October 16 – Sunday October 18

School 33 Art Center Open Studio Tour

A self-guided, two-day tour of more than 100 participating artists throughout Baltimore City on October 17 and 18 from 10am-6pm (studio times vary). A kick-off reception takes place Friday, October 16 from 6pm-9pm at School 33 Art Center, 1427 Light Street. New for 2009: an online GPS map for all studio addresses to print and use for the tour: www.school33.org

Saturday, October 17

Carroll Museums, Inc and Star Spangled Banner Flag House

Make a fun historical day of it and enjoy the Free Family festival at the Flag House with the Free Fall Scavenger Hunt at the Carroll Mansion. Flag House is open from 10am-4pm; Carroll Mansion is open from noon-4pm.

Saturday, October 17 from 12pm-5pm

Baltimore Clayworks – Clayfest!

Guided studio tours, artist demonstrations, exhibitions, collaborative participation in the creation of a community mosaic, children’s activities, “clay Olympics” and more fun at Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Avenue. Registration required at 410-578-1919.

Sunday, October 18 from 1-4pm

Baltimore Classical Guitar Society – Guitar Master Class

Franco Platino, international performer, recording artist and master teacher at 4748 Shelbourne Road. Reserve in advance at www.bcgs.org or call 410-247-5320.

Sunday, October 18 at 7:30pm

Community Concerts at Second – Chamber Concerts

Chamber Music by Candlelight. Planned and performed by members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at 4200 St. Paul Street.

Monday, October 19 at 7:30pm

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University – Opera Potpourri: Opera in French

Peabody Opera Workshop presents a trio of one-act opera including Rameau’s erotic myth Adonis, Gluck’s L’Ivrogne corrige and Donizetti’s Rita at Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, 17 E. Mount Vernon Place.

Wednesday, October 21 at 8pm

Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium with Elizabeth Edwards

Attorney and health care advocate, wife of former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards speaks, at Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, 3400 N. Charles Street.

Thursday, October 22 at 6:30pm

Baltimore Architecture Foundation – Lewis Lecture with Witold Rybczynski

Architectural writer and lecturer, Witold Rybczynski, joins the Baltimore Architecture Foundation for Architecture Week at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.

Thursday, October 22 at 7pm

Baltimore Heritage, Inc. – Baltimore's Historic Theaters

Wally Coberg, an award winning designer and filmmaker by trade and avid Baltimore theater researcher by inclination, will be speaking about Baltimore’s Historic Theaters at the Baltimore School for the Arts Auditorium, 712 Cathedral Street. Free passes may be reserved by calling 410-332-9992 or email hopkins@baltimoreheritage.org.

Saturday, October 24 from 10am-4pm

The Walters Art Museum – Free Family Festival of Champions

Discover your inner superheroes and explore famous characters from ancient Greece to modern times. Celebrate local Baltimore heroes and create artwork honoring champions. Enjoy imaginary journeys with storytellers, musicians and theater groups at The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St.

Saturday, October 24 at 2pm

Baltimore Choral Arts Society – Family Concert and Community Sing-Along

An interactive performance designed for the whole family at the Central Enoch Pratt Library, Main Lobby- 400 Cathedral Street.

Saturday, October 24 at 3pm

Shriver Hall Concert Series – Christopher Taylor, Piano

An innovative musician who brings an active imagination coupled with intensity and grace to music of the past 100 years. The program includes Beethoven, Bermel and Rzewski, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.

Saturday, October 24 at 8:30pm

Dance Baltimore – Thrill the World with Dance Baltimore at the Harborplace Amphitheatre

Dance Baltimore is joining with organizations across the globe to break into the Guinness World Records with the largest performance of one dance by the most people at the same time. With the title currently held by the “hokey pokey,” all efforts are on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Saturday, October 24 at 7pm

Creative Alliance and CityLit Project – Spooky Stories & Creepy Creations at The Great Halloween Lantern Parade. Get in the spirit by creating scary stories with Citylit starting at 3pm and then join friends, bands, stilt walkers and performers parading at 7pm at Patterson Park (Linwood and Eastern avenues). Advance reservations are required for the lantern workshops online at www.creativealliance.org or call 410-276-1651.

Sunday, October 25 from 10am-6pm

American Visionary Art Museum/ Bashi Rose – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

A Celebration through a variety of performing arts media of the museum’s current exhibition: “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” featuring performances from the Maryland Correctional Training Center by Baltimore-based playwright Bashi Rose. American Visionary Art Museum located at 800 Key Highway.

Sunday, October 25 from noon-2pm

Baltimore Women’s Film Festival – “She Should Have Gone to the Moon”

The remarkable story of the pilot and pioneer, Jeri Truhill, who was trained in 1961, as part of NASA’s top secret Mercury 13 program, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts, Landmark Harbor East Theater, 645 S. President Street. Reservations required at www.bwfilmfestival.com.

Wednesday, October 28 at 8pm

Dance Rink – Dracula

Adapted from a vintage Orson Welles radio play, Director/Choreographer Scott rink re-inagines the familiar Dracula tale as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy on Halloween eve, 1950—a unique dance/theatre experience, Baltimore Theatre Project 45 W. Preston St. Free passes must be reserved by calling 410-752-8558. Photo available.

Thursday, October 29 at 7:30pm

Theatre Morgan, Morgan State University

Theatre Morgan presents Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” set in the 1940s during a time of racial and political upheaval, Murphy Fine Arts Center, Turpin-Lamb Theater, 1200 Argonne Drive.

Thursday, October 29 – Saturday, October 31 at 8pm

Strand Theater Company – Halloween Theater Weekend

Graves in the Water, conceived by Alex Hewett & Lynn Morton, and adapted from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, the play invokes the spirit of the season by taking place in a cemetery and speaking for the dead. Special Halloween extra on Saturday, October 31 at 11pm with David Keltz performing Edgar Allan Poe, Strand Theater, 1823 N. Charles Street.

Thursday, October 29 – Saturday, October 31

Single Carrot Theatre – Poe Project

Poe Project is an interactive new work derived from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. The audience will have the opportunity to interact with artists and each other. Thursday, October 29 – Sat Oct 31, 7:30pm, Single Carrot Theatre, 120 W. North Avenue. Reservations recommended at singlecarrot@gmail.com or 443-844-9253.

Friday, October 30 from 5-8pm

Maryland Science Center – Fridays After Five for Free

Tour the exhibit halls, see a planetarium show, take in a live science demonstration--all for free.

(IMAX not included), Maryland Science Center, 601 Light Street. All admissions on a first-come, first-served basis--no advance tickets.

Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31 at 8pm

Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre – The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal

Can all the money in the world buy you happiness? You bet it can. Ask Mrs. Seal. Spoof of the 1950 horror/suspense thrillers at Spotlighters Theatre, 817 St. Paul Street. Advance reservations required at www.freenightoftheater.net.

Saturday, October 31 at 2pm

Baltimore Composers Forum – Sound and Motion II

A collaboration of shared visions between the Baltimore Composers Forum and area choreographers – a dramatic synthesis of dance and music, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive.

The Heroes and Villains Costume Ball! Oct 31. Wind Up Space.

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Host:	Atomic Books
Type:	Party - Holiday Party
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time:	Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 1:00am
Location:	The Windup Space
Street:	12 W. North Ave
City/Town:	Baltimore, MD

The Windup Space and Atomic Books present: The Heroes and Villains Costume Ball!

Dress as your favorite hero or villain! Check in at 9pm for the contest, prizes awarded at 11pm! Judges - James Taylor of Shocked & Amazed and Cheryl Pickles Kinion, makeup designer (Dirty Shame, Minority Report)!

Grand prize - $400 in cash
Prizes also awarded for Best Hero and Best Villain

DJs King Gilbert and Miracle Ear!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156484748276

i.e. Reading Series at the LOF/t Saturday Sept 12

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i.e. Reading Series
120 W North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21201-5813Saturday Sept 12

8:30pm - 10pm

The LOF/t

http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

Tina Darragh - Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.

Doug Lang -
Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.

High Zero Music Fesitval 2009

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High Zero Music Fesitval
September 10th - 13th, 2009

http://www.highzero.org/

Live Performances @ Theater Project (and Various Locations - check guide)

Sept 10 through 13

Sound Installations

at the LOF/t through Sept 14/

Major Concerts
September 10th - 13th, 2009
@ The Theatre Project 45 W Preston St. Baltimore
Click links for detailed set listings.

Thursday Night, September 10th
Doors open 7:30 PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp
Friday Night, September 11th
Doors open 7:30 PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp
Saturday Matinee (Day), September 12th
Doors open 12 NOON, Performances start 1:00 PM sharp
Saturday Night, September 12th
Doors open 7:30PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp
Sunday Night, September 13th
Doors open 7:30PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp

Artists:

From Afar:
Martin Blažíček (Prague): projection
Chris Cooper (Massachusetts): guitar
Michael Evans (NYC): drums
Margarida Garcia (NYC): bass
Hans Grüsel (San Francisco): electronics
Killick (Athens GA): harpeggione
Miya Masaoka (NYC): koto, electronics
Ava Mendoza (San Francisco): electric guitar
Kenta Nagai (NYC): fretless guitar, shamisen
Andrea Neumann (Berlin): inner piano
Morten Olsen (Norway / Berlin): drums, supercollider 3
Christofer Varner (Munich): trombone
Raed Yassin (Beirut / Amsterdam): bass

From Baltimore:
Dave Ballou: trumpet
Nick Becker: moog, electric guitar
Shelly Blake-Plock: guitar
Tom Boram: prepared piano, tap shoes
Rose Burt: reeds
Samuel Burt: clarinets, electronics
Max Eilbacher: sax, violin, electronics
Twig Harper: electronics
Jorge Martins: guitar, wild wave
Melissa Moore: electronics, turntable
Stewart Mostofsky: electronics
Paul Neidhardt: percussion, friction
Kate Porter: cello
Will Redman: drums

INEQUALITIES @ Load of Fun

New installation works by multimedia artists!
Walter Carpenter
Owen Gardner
Jesse Haas
Ayako Katoaka
Jimmy Joe Roche

HighJinx

Workshops
Presentations by visiting and local musicians:
Miya Masaoka (NYC) @ Goucher College
Morten Olsen (Norway/Berlin) @ Peabody Conservatory
Michael Evans (NYC) @ UMBC

REbirth/DEcay and exhibition @ The Hexagon

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September 12th through October 2nd

Opening

Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 6:00pm

September 12th - October 2nd: The Hexagon presents: REbirth/DEcay, an exhibition of local artists who interpret concepts of rebirth and decay, curated by Anna Louise Jiongco. Featured artists include: Sarah El-Jellad, Jared T. Fischer, Brian Casey, Scotbot, and Anna Louise Jiongco.

A recent graduate from Towson University with her BA in Painting, Sarah El-Jellad uses organic transformations of color and space to express gruesome and delinquent figuration. In this exhibition, El-Jellad explores ideas relating to wounds inspired by her mother’s terminal illness and eventual passing away. Many of the “wounds”depicted in this body of work are tumors, which are chosen to reflect the medical and emotional understanding of growth.

Jared T. Fischer studied English literature at Goucher University. Fischer investigates conflicts between material and surface to suggest the rebirth and decay of his own consciousness and working process. Fischer is a mixed-media artist who also explores writing, music, and performance in his art as well as in his band Mr. Moccasin.

Brian Casey is currently a student at the Aveda Beauty School. He uses his experiences with graffiti, fashion, and escapism to create works that layer color and dynamic lines. Many of his works are an interplay of figure and space, blurring the lines between style, fashion, expression and energy.

Scotbot is a current MICA student, originally from Washington, DC. Scotbot is known for DJing high-energy dance parties in DC and uses his talent across mediums to visually promote his musical endeavors. Many of Scotbot's artworks demonstrate the same exuberance and energy
that he invests in creating these dance parties and can easily depict them in his work.

Anna Louise Jiongco is currently a student at Towson University and continuing her photographic studies at MICA. Anna Louise expresses whimsical situations that are a little awkward, humorous, sexual, and surreal. Using abstractions of space and figure, Anna Louise creates spaces reinterpreted as another way of looking at psychological dimensions. Many of her works can be seen as social and emotional critiques more often with performance art and photography but are still highly evident through her paintings as well.

The Hexagon is a community run gallery and performance space in the Station North Arts District of Baltimore, Maryland. The focus of the space is to eliminate segregation in the community by providing a forum for collaboration between artists of diverse backgrounds, to mentor local arts organizers, and to provide educational public arts
workshops. Our facilities and services are made available to all artists who need a place to exhibit, perform, or create their original artwork, especially those who cannot obtain space to exhibit or perform from traditional sources because of financial or other limitations. For more information about the space, please visit http://www.hexagonspace.com.

The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute @ The Strand

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The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute

The Strand Theater

1823 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21201

http://strandtheatercompany.org

Opens Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 8pm.

Can one be opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness?

The Strand Theater is proud to present The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute as the first production of its 2009-2010 season. The Strand Theater has occupied space in the Station North Arts District for one year. In the Strand’s short tenure, it has proven itself as a theater willing to take risks. Only producing new works its first season, the Strand’s second season includes a mix of both published and unpublished works. The Strand has orchestrated a season rich with women’s voices. Three of the four plays produced are written by women and highlight the female perspective. “This season we are putting it all on the line. We want to give Baltimore a reason to see theater, and this season is creative, relatable, and risky,” states Artistic Director, Jayme Kilburn.

The Mercy Seat is a 2002 play by Neil LaBute that was among the first major theatrical responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Set on September 12, the play concerns Ben (Schreiber), a man who worked at the World Trade Center but was away from the office during the attack with his mistress Abby, who is also his boss. Expecting that his family believes that he was killed in the towers' collapse, Ben contemplates using the tragedy to run away and start a new life with his lover. The Mercy Seat continues Neil LaBute’s unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, a man and a woman explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they had lived just the day before.

The Mercy Seat is directed by Danielle Young who is a recent graduate of Frostburg State University and Strand Theater Company Member. Danielle is joined by Lighting Designer and Stage Manager, Alec Lawson, who is a staple at Run of the Mill Theater. Kasey Arnold, who plays the role of Abby Prescott, is making her Baltimore debut after graduating from Christopher Newport University. R. Brett Rohrer stars as Ben Harcourt; this is Brett’s third production with the Strand Theater. Brett has also been seen at Spotlighter’s Theater, Heritage Theater, and Laurel Mill Playhouse, where he served as Board President for two years.

The Mercy Seat opens Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 8pm. The Baltimore debut of The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute begins with a reception prior to the performance with refreshments donated by Joe Squared and Tapas Teatro. Following the performance, a talk back will take place with the cast and crew of The Mercy Seat. The Mercy Seat runs Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays until October 4th.

Production dates:
Thursday, September 10th at 8pm ($5 Preview Night)
Friday, September 11th, 18th, 25th, and October 2nd at 8pm
Saturday, September 12th, 19th, 26th, and October 3rd at 8pm
Sunday, September 13th, 20th, 27th, and October 4th at 2pm

Tickets are $15. Students, Seniors, and Broke are $10. Tickets can be reserved by calling 443-874-4917 or by clicking TICKETS. Enter online code: BROKE to receive discount. Tickets are available one hour prior to each performance at the Strand box office.

The Strand Theater is a community theater dedicated to providing opportunities for women artists, writers, designers and directors. With a focus on producing original works, the Strand hopes to foster a love of theater for a new generation of patrons.

Domestic Treasures @ Metro Gallery. September 12

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Stuff: Domestic Treasures

Metro Gallery
1700 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

http://themetrogallery.net/events/

Opening: Saturday, September 12, 2009 – 7 p.m.

DJ Nugget and DJ Eskimodane play music. 7-10

Baltimore artists Natasha Tylea and Elena Johnston welcome seven notable local artists to showcase their domestic treasures. This exhibition is about the objects that we, as artists, assign meaning to. The private shrines we create in our intimate spaces, studios, and bedrooms. It is important to celebrate not only the artists’ creations, but the stuff that they find inspiration in. These simple objects work together to explain the way these artists interpret themselves. The show will take the form of installations complete with tokens and collections.

Participating Artists:

Monique Crabb takes photographs and is a director of the Current Gallery.
Shaun Flynn is a Baltimore musician who makes posters and sculptures.
Katherine St Paul Hill is a singer of Lexie Mountain Boys, makes drawings, and decorates cakes at Charm City Cakes.
Elena Johnston is an illustrator who publishes art books.
Dina Kelberman is a part of Wham City and makes comics.
Victoria Legrand is the singer for Baltimore band, Beach House.
Stefani Levin is a part of Wham City and makes puppets.
Katie Rose makes drawings, loves maps, and decorates cakes at Charm City Cakes.
Natasha Tylea makes photos, melts metal and mixes music.
Tickets: Free

ABANDON SHIP @ Current continued call for entries

2009-07-13T11:42:00.000-07:00

Opening Reception and continued call for entries

ABANDON SHIP
July 10th – Demolition

Join us for the Reception:
Friday July 10th 7-10pm

Curated by: Michael Benevento + Monique Crabb + Hans Petrich

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY... This is Current, Current, Current...Position 30 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Our vessel is going down! We require immediate assistance....All Hands on Deck!

An exhibition in preparation for the demolition of 30 South Calvert Street. For the past four years, Current has been a breeding ground for cultural production, opening onto countless collaborators, nourishing an ongoing conversation. Like a supernova before the collapse, we prepare for the building's demolition with an ongoing collaborative exhibition that embodies 30 South Calvert. Welcoming you moments before bulldozers consume the building, and we slither out the anus of the temporary shelter, like a colony of parasites discharged onto the city.

This is the last exhibition at 30 South Calvert, an ongoing collaborative installation, which will be demolished with the building (but not the last exhibition for Current).

Artworks will be added throughout the duration of the exhibition, featured artists include:
Adrian Lohmüller, Andrew Liang, Andrew Shenker, Angela Devoti, Aron Fay, Audrey Lea Collins Petrich, Ben Fisher + Lou Joseph + Mary Lewandowski, Dirk Ober, Erin Womack, Gary Kachadourian, Ivan Hernandez Quintela, Jackson Frazier, Jacqueline Schlossman, Jason Kachadourian, Jan Razauskas, Jason Smith, Joe Ride, Julianne Hamilton, Justin Lucas, Kelly Cobb + Mary Smull, Lara Antal, Liz Flyntz, Lotfy Nathan, Neal Reinalda, Phuong Pham, Ryan Patterson, Symmes Gardner, Vestal Abbott, Vishwam Velandy, and more

Organized in conjunction with Offsite Artscape 2009.

We are currently accepting proposals to be installed prior to the opening reception on July 10th, and projects added throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Please visit us at www.currentspace.com under: call for entries to submit:

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Current Gallery
30 South Calvert Street
Baltimore Md 21202

www.currentspace.com
currentspace@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/currentspace

Mailing Address
P.O. box 23821
Baltimore, Md 21203-5821

Volunteers are needed/ NorthScape Festival/Benefit/Sat, July 18th

2009-07-13T11:15:00.000-07:00

Volunteers needed for NorthScape Festival

A Benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Volunteers are needed for the NorthScape Festival on
THIS Saturday, July 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.

A benefit for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation called NorthScape will be held Saturday, July 18th from noon to 1 a.m. at the corner of North Avenue and Charles Street to coincide with ArtScape. The event, featuring non-stop music, performers, food and beer, is free with a suggested donation of $5 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation which seeks a cure and helps improve the quality of life for those with the disease.

Volunteers are needed from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. (Sunday), for set-up, beer sales (21+ only), and chair rentals. All proceeds benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

To volunteer, please contact David at info@stationnorth.org or 410-962-7075. Please indicate when you are available to volunteer - i.e. 8:00 - 11:00 p.m.

More info about NorthScape at www.northscape.org

SINK/ FLOAT at Area 405 / Reception: Thursday, July 16th 8-11pm

2009-07-13T11:10:00.000-07:00

SINK/ FLOAT at Area 405

Area 405 is pleased to announce SINK/ FLOAT, a juried exhibition
of new and existing works by 19 National and International Artists.
In the heat of another Baltimore Summer, work in this show is
both reaction to and incorporation of water and weight.

Artists are:
Adam Nelson, Aric Hiser, Beki Basch, Ben Lock, Bill Pressly,
Christian Benefiel, Elena Volkova, Daniel Sullivan, Marilee
Schumann, Jonathan Taube, Matt Saindon, Morgan
Showalter, Minna Philips, Rollergirl, Ruth Bowler, Ryan
McKibbin, Rick Hornig, Sarah Laing, and Tanya Synar.

Artist Reception: Thursday, July 16th 8-11pm

405 East Oliver Street Baltimore, MD 21202

www.area405.com

info @area405.com

Sink/Float is and Official Artscape Off-site Exhibition
July 16 - August 16, 2009
Gallery Hours during Artscape July 18 & 19 noon- 5pm
all other Sundays noon-3pm or by appointment

This exhibition is made possible in part through the support of Mayor Sheila Dixon and Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts with additional support from the Maryland State Arts Council. Views and opinions expressed byt the artists/grantees are not necessarily those of the aforementioned.

SalsaPolkaLooza, Sat July 25 2pm - 7pm FREE!

2009-07-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

SalsaPolkaLooza

Sat July 25 2pm - 7pm FREE!

Neighborhood Festival for the whole Family! Inside and outside of the Creative Alliance on East Ave Baltimore - 3134 Eastern Ave

410-276-1651 www.creativealliance.org

Come Dance!

¡Pablo Antonio y La Firma – salsa and bachata!

Kids Make Art!

NEW!! CAmm Make your own Music Video!

GIANT Outdoor Kids Mural Painting!

Arte en estambre, the Huichol yarn art taught by Francisco Loza of Mexico!

Pysanky with Halyna Mudryj—her sensational class returns with more prized eggs!

Face painting, too! All free!

Highlandtown Merchants’ Sidewalk Sale – get a free prize!

EBLO- Mi Segunda Casa at John Ruhrah Break Dancing

Bailes de Mi Tierra

Every Body Moves!—Hearing impaired and English as a second language families of Baltimore Medical System premiere their new dance piece made with Quest

And much more!

‘Looza Beer + World Crafts & Cuisine

Little Morocco Café, Fiesta Mexicana, Everything Turkey, Bada Bing Bada Beef polish sausages, Taharka Brothers Ice Cream, and more!

With high quality art making for kids and a new Make Your Own Music Video studio, CA is all about kids at SalsaPolkaLooza, an international celebration of Southeast Baltimore. New this year—Make Your Own CAmm Music Video – with costumes, microphone, and full screen of YOU singing your way to the top of the charts! Also new, Highlandtown Merchants hold their first ever Sidewalk Sale on Eastern Ave, including a free prize for kids! Take a salsa lesson, and dance to incredible salsa and bachata. Listen to top-notch Polka of The Continentals, Caribbean music of St. Veronica’s Youth Steel Orchestra! Folk dance performances from Kalinka (Russia), Ballet Folklorico Mexico Vivo (Mexico), Hellenic Golden Coins (Greece), and Break Dancing with Education Based Latino Outreach’s Mi Segunda Casa kids from John Rurah Elementary! The Patterson bursts at its seams with high quality art activities taught by world-class artists Francisco Loza from Mexico and Halyna Mudryj of Ukrainian descent. Create your own mini-masterpiece and take it home—for free! Inside the theater presents folk dance performances and more. Both galleries and the bar are open! Outside grab a Polish sausage or Falafel dinner and check out Screen Paintings, Huichol art, jewelry, cartoons and more! SalsaPolkaLooza is a bilingual festival with Spanish and English from both stages.

In the event of rain, activities will be moved inside The Patterson.

High resolution images available upon request.

Photo credit: Alan Partlow

Circuit: ART DANCE MUSIC @ Area 404 - June 26 & 27

2009-06-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

Circuit
ART
DANCE
MUSIC

Friday, June 26th &
Saturday June 27th, 2009

Doors open at 7:30pm
$15

DANCE

Liquid Measure, a new dance work by Baltimore Dance Project choreographer Carol Hess, one of "the most exciting choreographers in Baltimore." Dancers Rebecca Dyson and Franki Trout perform up close with unexpected, precise and provocative movement derived from early systems that used parts of the body as measuring instruments.

Rd E3 is a movement installation influenced by the texture and architecture of AREA 405. Lauren Withhart, along with Betty Skeen, use improvisation and perspective to shift the space.

In negotiations with space, time, and manners, dancers attempt to find means of expression and connection with each other in Quad Ruled, by Renée Brozic Barger. The navigation of formal interaction is revealed before the audience in this site-specific work of formulas, congruence and variation. Quad Ruled is danced by the choreographer and Nicole McClam, Graham Pitts, Stephanie Yezek. Dance performed on Friday night only.

MUSIC

J.S. Bach, Marian April Glebes, Timothy Nohe, and Nick Prevas.

ART

Nick Prevas, Nicole Shiflet and Matt Sterling

CURATOR: Timothy Nohe

PHOTOS: Lindsey Vait

This event continues Area 405's commitment to produce and promote arts and cultural programming in Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District.

Area 405 is handicapped accessible.

"Lessons Learned" Premiere July 10 @ Creative Alliance

2009-06-25T06:38:00.000-07:00

Lessons Learned Premiere
       
Host: Kalima Young and Aj Hyde
Start Time: Friday, July 10 at 8:00pm
End Time: Friday, July 10 at 11:00pm
Where: Creative Alliance at the Patterson

"The Girls Inside" Debuts at the Capital Fringe Festival

2009-06-25T06:35:00.000-07:00

The Girls Inside Debuts at the Capital Fringe Festival

Four Teenage Girls. All Incarcerated.

What: The Girls Inside

Who: Starring Adena Goode, Jo Higbee, Ayanna Hardy, Zurin Villanueva, Anastasia Stewart, and Adriene Brathwaite

Directed by Anastasia Wilson
Stage Manager is Solomon HaileSelassie
Produced and Written by Leayne Freeman

When:Sunday, July 12th at 3:15pm
Thursday, July 16th at 5:15pm
Friday, July 17th at 8:45pm
Sunday, July 19th at Noon
Saturday, July 25th at 3:15pm

Where: The Bodega - at The Trading Post
1013 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Take the red, green, or yellow line to Gallery Place - Chinatown and walk two blocks north.

Tickets: Tickets cost $15.00 and can be bought online at http://www.capfringe.org/

The Girls Inside Publicist: Krista McKim, (310) 562-1362, PRthegirlsinside@gmail.com

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Open Studio Day on JULY 2 5-9 PM

2009-06-25T06:32:00.000-07:00

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Open Studio Day on JULY 2 FROM 5-9PM

Everyone is invited to Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Open Studio Day on First Thursdays to see talented local artists as they showcase one-of-a-kind artwork. On Thursday, July 2 from 5-9pm, guests can visit artists’ studios, purchase pieces of art or take a tour of the historic tower. There will be original paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and more, available for purchase. Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, located at 21 S. Eutaw Street is a facility managed by Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower has graced the skylines of Baltimore for 98 years. Today, it houses visual and literary artists. This month’s artists include Najwa Al-amin (oil & acrylic), Milton Allette (acrylic), Barbara Bryan (playwright), Linda Day-Clark (digital photography), Lauren DeMarsh (oil & acrylic), Martha Dougherty (watercolor), John David Ehlers, Jr. (oil, acrylic, & charcoal), Brian Glazer Gerber (oil & acrylic), Keith Haller (oil, acrylic and watercolor), Kevin Haller (oil, acrylic & watercolor), Cynthia S. Padgett (oils & pastels), Yvonne Thomas (photography), Patricia Truitt (oil & acrylic) and James Williams (oil).

UPCOMING OPEN STUDIO DAY

Thursday, July 2 from 5-9pm

Thursday, August 6 from 5-9pm

Thursday, September 3 from 5-9pm

Saturday, October 17 from 1-5pm

Saturday, November 7 from 1-5pm

Saturday, December 5 from 1-5pm

This historic structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower was completed in 1911 and was the tallest building in Baltimore at the time. It has been a Baltimore landmark ever since. The tower was built by Captain Isaac Emerson, the inventor of the headache remedy Bromo Seltzer. The most interesting feature is the still-functioning tower clock, the face of which displays the word Bromo Seltzer instead of numbers. Each of the clocks’ faces measure 24 feet in diameter, one foot larger than the clock faces on London’s Big Ben. The famous clock atop the tower holds its own separate historic registration.

For information on the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.bromoseltzerartstower.com.

OFF THE WALL @ the Whole Sat, April 18

2009-04-11T19:04:00.000-07:00

Art that Grows from the Floor and Drips from the Ceiling
curated by Emily C-D

Opening SATURDAY APRIL 18TH, 7-11pm
with performances that will explore the vertical plane
thru May 17th, hours by appointment

@ the WHOLE gallery
405 W. Franklin St.
3rd Floor of the H&H Warehouse
Baltimore

CONTACT
Emily C-D: 443-803-3086, shout@emilycd.com
http://wholegallery.blogspot.com/

Exhibiting Artists:

Alzaruba
Jeanne-Marie Burdette
Gina Denton
Liz Ensz
Matt Gemmell
Annie Gray
Jill Greenberg
Rebecca Habtour
Jen Kirby
Edward Knapp
Christina Martinelli
Sarah Matson
Kaitlin Murphy
Freda Mohr
Ellen Nielsen
Phuong Pham
Rachel Schmidt
Melissa Webb
Liz Zacharia

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Emily C-D

www.emilycd.com

Double Dagger @ the Zodiac THURSDAY, MARCH 5

2009-03-05T09:07:00.000-08:00

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

Double Dagger (playing some brand new songs)

The New Flesh (reunited, now with 100% more Dubin!!!!!)

Sick Weapons (mems. Fascist Fascist, Blood Baby)

Sioux City Pete & the Beggars (actually from Sioux City)

THE ZODIAC, BALTIMORE

1726 N. Charles St.

Free. Huh? That's right, it's free!

21+ only (sorry)

9:00 PM

www.myspace.com/thezodiacbaltimore

UMCP Visiting Lecture Series: Karen Yasinsky Thursday March 5

2009-03-05T08:40:00.000-08:00

The University of Maryland Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents Karen Yasinsky

Thursday 5th March 5.00 p.m. Room 2309 Art/Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Karen Yasinsky works primarily with animation and drawing. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY; UCLA Hammer Museum, LA; Kunst Werke, Berlin; the Sculpture Center, NY and at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio. Her animations have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals including the MoMA, NYC, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the New York Underground Film Festival. Her work can be found in several books including No. 1: First works by 363 Artists, Armpit of the Mole and >>fast forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation grant and teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film/Media Studies. She works with Mireille Mosler, Ltd., NY and Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich. She is also a founding board member of the Gunk Foundation, a private foundation for public art.

Karen Yasinsky's solo exhibition 'I Choose Darkness' opens March 3rd at Mireille Mosler, Ltd (New York) and runs until April 11th 2009

The Art Sociology building is inside the beltway, 9 miles from downtown Washington and 32 miles from downtown Baltimore. It is located next to lot 1 on the western end of the university of Maryland, College Park, near the intersection of Route 193 (University Boulevard) and Adelphi Road.

All lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and offered on a first come first serve basis. For more information contact the Department of Art at 301.405.7790; e-mail artdept@umd.edu or visit www.art.umd.edu/va09

Strange Fruit, March 5 School 33

2009-03-05T08:33:00.000-08:00

School 33 Film Series - Thursdays, March 5, 19, and April 2 | 6:30pm School 33 will feature a three part series of films documenting the Civil Rights movement and its impact on American life, culture, and politics. This series also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, and is held in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination April 4, 1968. This event is free and open to the public but seating is limited so please RSVP. For more information please contact School 33 Art Center at 410-396-4641 or go to our website www.school33.org. March 5th | 6:30 | free | Strange Fruit | 57 minutes, 2002 | Producer/Director: Joel Katz Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.

The Baltimore Cabaret at Frazier's

2009-02-23T13:10:00.000-08:00

The Baltimore Cabaret at Frazier's

Fundraiser for AWP -- One Night Only!

Ron Tanner & AWP
Friday, February 27, 2009
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Frazier's On The Avenue
919 W. 36th St.
Baltimore, MD
4104677318
rtanner@loyola.edu

www.tannertoys.com

Writers who double as musicians? Musicians who write and compose? Baltimore has it all! The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) will host a Baltimore event celebrating the intersection of writing and music.

Featuring performances by Madison Smartt Bell, Victoria Vox, Ron Kipling Williams, Todd Whaley, Linda Joy Burke, Michael Kimball, Adam Robinson, Jen Michalski, Rahne Alexander and more!Also, a rarity, the winner and the two finalists of the Flannery O'Connor Award are all Baltimoreans and they will be present to read their works at the event.

To speak to someone about the event, contact Ron Tanner, AWP's president and a faculty member at Loyola College. He can be reached via e-mail at rtanner@loyola.edu.

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) has been advocating for writers in the community and writers in academe for over forty years. AWP seeks to make creative writing an important part of daily life and an integral part of school curriculums. AWP represents over 28,000 independent writers, over 80 writing conferences and centers, and over 400 writing programs in the U.S., Canada, and England. Despite its tremendous success, AWP has been operating with a dangerously small endowment. Therefore, it has undertaken a series of fundraising events to build that endowment and ensure that the organization can continue (and expand) its advocacy work

CAmm Cine Lounge

2009-02-23T06:05:00.000-08:00

CAmm Cine Lounge
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave
Baltimore, MD 21224
Info and registration: www.creativealliance.org
410-276-1651

1st Mondays: Mar 2, Apr 6
CAmm Cine Lounge
Hosted by Stacie Gentzler, Black Ink Films
See or bring new film or work in progress (max 15 min) and have a critical conversation with peers. Film industry guests share tips. Networking power hour, and the bar is open! Hands on CAmm Cage gear demos! 7pm. $8, $6 mbrs.

Carl Grubbs & Lafayette Gilchrist @ The Radisson

2009-02-23T06:00:00.000-08:00

Carl Grubbs & Lafayette Gilchrist's Hometown Jazz!
The Radisson at Cross Keys
5100 Falls Road
Baltimore,. Maryland 21210
(410) 532-6900
Saturday, February 28, 7 PM

Dinner concert features Carl Grubbs & Lafayette Gilchrist in a Celebration of Maryland's Jazz Traditions - the music of Eubie Blake, Chick Webb and Carl Grubbs. Featuring Mike Formanek on bass and Eric Allen on drums

$40 w/dinner - $25 show only

Retrospective of Works by John Berndt

2009-02-23T05:54:00.000-08:00

Retrospective of Works by John Berndt
Emily Harvey Foundation (Gallery)
537 Broadway at Spring Street - 2nd floor
New York, NY 10012
Wednesday April 15th – Thursday April 30th
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 2PM – 6PM

Opening reception and free concert: Friday April 17th, 7PM-10PM
Performance Nights: Friday April 24th and Saturday April 25th, 7PM-9PM
($6 admission for each night)

This April, the Emily Harvey Foundation presents the first major retrospective of works by John Berndt (b. 1967). Berndt’s vital and idiosyncratic cultural activity over the last thirty years has touched nearly every aspect of experimental culture. Best known to the public as a prolific musician, composer and improviser and as a key organizer in the scene around the international High Zero festival, Berndt’s work from the very beginning also involved the creation of coherent novelties in a broader range of media, including personal behavior, film, visual art, text, installation and a variety of non-musical performance genres. Driven by his unique philosophy and collaborations, his panoramic sensibility is the subject of the show.

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Berndt’s mother is a cognitive neuropsychologist who exposed him to ideas about cognition, perception and experimental method; between her influence, and a precocious interest in paradoxes, his earliest creative work had an unusually open-ended, existential, and experimental flavor. At age 11 he began composing electronic music soundscapes and language experiments, and at age 13 his musical work was premiered on the radio. Thus began a lifetime public obsession with unusual perceptions, novel compositional structures, and the evocation of unlabeled states of mind.

As a teenager in the mid-80s, Berndt became the youngest member of the international Neoist movement, contributing as a core member to the development of its philosophy and participating in many Neoist events and publications over a roughly ten-year period. Neoism was an avant-garde cultural/political movement, comparable to Fluxus or Situationism, albeit more militant and with qualitatively different content. Neoism often involved the deliberate adoption of falsehoods, mythologies, mind games, and hoaxes. Shortly after co-organizing the Neoist-related “Art Strike, 1990-1993,” Berndt essentially left the movement because his interests had shifted to more honestly liberating (albeit equally strange) content. He also came into his own at this time as a cultural organizer and impresario.

In the early 90’s, Berndt became a student of the philosophy of Henry Flynt, the visionary philosopher and original author of “Concept Art.” This relationship, which has recently deepened into collaboration, had a huge effect on the clarification of Berndt’s thought, and led to an increased emphasis on rationally reconstructable lines of argument within his delirious oeuvre. Berndt began to write sincere philosophy, and to frame his varied activities as manifestations of a unified, radical sensibility of consciousness.

At the same time, his technical abilities developed. Berndt became a student of world-renown avant-garde saxophonist Jack Wright and of experimental instrument inventor Neil Feather. Through these relationships, he dramatically broadened his approach, developing extended technical ability on a variety of instruments, and developing novel approaches to sound production. He also became an advocate of non-idiomatic, freely improvised music (though still actively involved in other approaches), performing in hundreds of freely improvised concerts and on many recordings, including collaborations with leading figures.

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In Ecstatic Thought Experiments, 1989 – 2009, the Emily Harvey Foundation brings together the dimensions of Berndt’s work over a twenty year period, ranging from micro- to macro- experiences: A large installation submerges visitors in a uniquely disorienting visual space. A small book, made especially for the exhibit, contains descriptions of impossible objects. Novel optical illusions give the visitor new experiences. A dance solo continues fluidly forever without repeating. Original instruments expose new aesthetics and performance possibilities. Theoretical texts frame lived experience in ways that are destabilizing to faith in conventional knowledge.

From this swarm of content, aligned with no official cultural movement, emerges for the first time the picture of an individual developing a radical philosophy through all available channels. The exhibit is also enriched by three nights of concerts, covering a broad range of Berndt’s heterogeneous solo and collaborative projects, starting with an opening concert on Friday April 17th, and continuing with two nights on April 24th and 25th.

For more information, see www.johnberndt.org

Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Semi-finalists Announced

2009-02-11T13:24:00.000-08:00

The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Announces Semifinalists

Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announce the semifinalists for the fourth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The prize will award a $25,000 fellowship to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators working in the Baltimore region. The winner of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize will be announced on Saturday, July, 11 at 7pm at The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Semi-finalists

Seth Adelsberger, Baltimore, MD

Alzaruba, Baltimore, MD

BDC (Baltimore Development Cooperative), Baltimore, MD

Lisa Blas, Washington, DC

Rachel Bone, Baltimore, MD

Jessica Braiterman, Beltsville, MD

Travis Childers, Fairfax, VA

Mary Coble, Washington, DC

R.L. Croft, Manassas, VA

Alyssa Dennis, Baltimore, MD

Liz Ensz, Baltimore, MD

Leslie Furlong, Baltimore, MD

Ryan Hackett, Kensington, MD

Christian Herr, Lancaster, PA

Jason Horowitz, Arlington, VA

Jessie Lehson, Baltimore, MD

Kim Manfredi, Baltimore, MD

Katherine Mann, Baltimore, MD

Baby Martinez, Washington, DC

Sebastian Martorana, Baltimore, MD

Lisa Moren, Baltimore, MD

Ellen Nielsen, Baltimore, MD

Louie Palu, Washington, DC

Molly Springfield, Washington, DC

TwoCan Collective, Baltimore, MD

Karen Yasinsky, Baltimore, MD

Approximately six finalists will be selected for the final review for the prize. Artists’ work will be shown in the Thalheimer Gallery of The Baltimore Museum of Art. An exhibition of the semifinalists’ work will be shown in the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of the Maryland Institute College of Art during the Artscape weekend, July 17-19. The prize is in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced with The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

This year’s jurors are Ellen Harvey, Valerie Cassel Oliver and Elisabeth Sussman. 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 has recently closed. 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.

Dates

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, 200

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, Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, Willard Hackerman c/o Whiting-Turner Contracting, and Legg Mason.

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

Propositions @ Area 405

2009-02-09T12:56:00.000-08:00

Propositions
Area 405

Propositions
Area 405
405 East Oliver Street
Baltimore, MD

February 15th - March 29th, 2009

Opening reception: Saturday, February 21st, 2009, 7-10pm
Artist talk: Saturday, February 21st, 2009, 6-6:30pm

Show runs:

.Additional information can be found at www.propositionsatarea405.com.

Propositions is an exhibition curated by Stephen G. Dewyer and features works by Neal Reinalda, Ding Ren, Glenn Shrum and Elena Volkova at Area 405, a not-for-profit and artist-run gallery in Baltimore, MD. Propositions exhibits works that investigate the function of propositions. The absence of spatial qualifications in a proposition means that a proposition locates a placeless space. A proposition identifies its subject with a space always-already in transition. Artists in propositions produce works that locate in a liminal, third space of transition from the everyday to the uncanny and vice versa; the application of boundaries to boundless space and vice versa; semblance to dissemblance and vice versa; and, between the interval of light becoming shadow and vice versa. Propositions intends to locate works within the present that negate certain ends in occupation.

RARE AND SWEET AND ROTTON TO THE CORE -The 14Karat Cabaret, @ MICA BBOX

2009-02-09T12:11:00.000-08:00

A special presentation of
The 14Karat Cabaret as part of MICA's newest exhibition - Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums: The Works of Laure Drogoul.

Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
9 - 11:30 p.m.
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
BBOX, Gateway Building
1601 Mount Royal Avenue

The 14Karat Cabaret is an ongoing series of performances, music, dance, film, and video in an informal nightclub setting established in 1989 by MICA alumna Laure Drogoul ‘81 and Maryland Art Place. This special performance will take place in MICA's new BBOX performance space and includes films by Martha Colburn and Catherine Pancake and performances by Naoko Maeshiba, Steve Bradley, puppeteer Sarah Jennings, and Snacks.

Event Details:
Tickets go on sale in the Gateway lobby at 7:00 p.m. day of the show. Tickets are $7. Limited free seating is available for MICA students with advance reservations by sending their name and MICA ID number to eds@mica.edu. The Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries will be open until 9:00 p.m. before the cabaret. Seating will begin at 8:30 p.m.

Visit www.mica.edu/drogoul for more information.

BLACK TO OUR ROOTS @ Creative Alliance at The Patterson

2009-02-09T11:36:00.000-08:00

BLACK TO OUR ROOTS:
AWARD-WINNING FILM SCREENING & PREMIER BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT

Presented by BlackOut Studios, HABESHA, and Creative Alliance.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 eastern Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21224
www.creativealliance.org
(410)276-1651
Friday, February 27, 2009
Doors: 7:00pm Screening: 8:30pm

Admission: Advance: $10, $8mbrs
Door: $12,$10mbrs
Determined to transcend her environment, Atlanta teen Sylvia Dorsey finds herself on a soul-searching mission with a group of other youth to Ghana. Tonight’s event features a marketplace with Diasporic cuisine and an Afrobeat DJ. Capoiera Angola-an Afro-Brasilian martial arts, panel discussion, and live reggae by Proverbs and guests follows. Dinner sold sep.

About Black to Our Roots (2008, 57 min): An inspirational story that follows Atlanta teen Sylvia Dorsey who is frustrated by the violence and drug abuse that surrounds her. Determined to transcend this environment, she finds herself on a soul-searching mission as she travels with a group of other Atlanta youth to Ghana. While in Ghana, the youth are confronted with several challenges that test their patience and change their lives forever. They must adapt to living conditions that America has ill-prepared them for, learn to appreciate things they took for granted and address the misconceptions that exist about both Africans and African-Americans. Black to Our Roots was made by Tre Subira, Director of the Digital Center for Urban Experience at LaSalle University who recently relocated to Baltimore from Atlanta.

AWARDS:

Best Documentary-- American Black Film Festival, Spaghetti Junction Film Festival, San Diego Black Film Festival, Audience Choice Award--International Black Docufest

Media Contacts:

Olu Butterfly Woods Black Mission Media (410)236-3775 olu@blackoutstudios.com www.blackmissionmedia.com
Kristen Anchor, Creative Alliance kristen@creativealliance.org, 410-276-1651

Fantastical Imaginings @ Loyola College

2009-02-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

Fantastical Imaginings

Julio Fine Arts Gallery

Loyola College

4501 North Charles
Baltimore, MD
Feb. 19. - March 28.
410-617-2799.

Gallery talk and reception Friday, Feb. 27, from 5 – 7 p.m.

A traveling exhibition curated by J. Susan Isaacs and launched at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, “Fantastical Imaginings” features the work of artists who are inspired by fantasy, driven to create whimsical and imaginary worlds through their work. Artists included in the Julio Art Gallery exhibit include Marilyn Holsing, A.D. Loveday, Serena Perrone and Hiro Sakaguchi. Their influences range from outsider art and surrealism to graphic novels and cartoons.

Julio Fine Arts Gallery is located on Loyola’s North Charles Street campus. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., and Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. For more information on this exhibit and other gallery programs, contact Gallery Director Kay Hwang at 410-617-2799.

Mise-en-scène @ Paperworks Gallery

2009-02-06T14:24:00.000-08:00

Artists: Guillaume Pallat, Lillian Bayley Hoover, and Audrey Collins Petrich

Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston Street
www.paperworkgallery.com

Exhibition Dates: February 7 - March 7, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb. 7, 7-9 p.m.

Stemming from the theater, the French term mise en scène literally means "putting on stage." When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement – sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting.

Mise-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. These are all the areas overseen by the director, and thus, in French film credits, the director's title is metteur en scène, "putter on scene."

E / Il-lusive Spaces Mónica López-González

2009-01-27T19:40:00.000-08:00

E / Il -lusive Spaces

Color film photographs
by Mónica López-González

February 2-28, 2009

An die Musik

409 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, MD 21201
Opening: Thursday February 5th from 6 to 8pm

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

2008-12-08T09:35:00.000-08:00

“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

2008-12-07T07:48:00.000-08:00

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

2008-12-06T14:01:00.000-08:00

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

2008-12-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

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)

2008-12-03T05:15:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-17T07:25:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-17T07:16:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-13T13:51:00.000-08:00

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!

2008-11-13T13:23:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-10T14:25:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-05T07:29:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-03T12:53:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-03T12:47:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-03T12:30:00.000-08:00

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)

2008-10-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T09:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T07:25:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T07:19:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T07:11:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-28T06:55:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-27T09:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-21T12:58:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-21T09:20:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-21T08:22:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-14T07:46:00.000-07:00

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
.

"Drawing Fusion" @ The Gallery / CCBC

2008-10-14T06:59:00.000-07:00

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.

FREE screening of the Gary Hustwit directed documentary "Helvetica"

2008-10-06T11:54:00.000-07:00

"HELVETICA"
The Charles Theater
Sunday, October 19 6 pm
Free

FREE screening of the Gary Hustwit directed documentary "Helvetica"
as part of the FREE FALL BALTIMORE series of events in October.

The screening and special panel discussion afterward will take place Sunday, October 19, at 6pm at The Charles Theater (1711 N. Charles Street, 410-727-FILM). Ticket information available soon. Check www.CityLitProject.org.

“Helvetica” explores typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Discussion After Screening

Jed Dietz, Director of the Maryland Film Festival and President of the Producer’s Club of Maryland

Ed Gold, Director, Ampersand Institute for Words and Images and Director, MFA in Integrated Design, University of Baltimore

Gregg Wilhelm, Executive Director, CityLit Project and Publisher, CityLit Press

Moderated by Aaron Henkin, “The Signal,” WYPR

For more information about this free screening, please call 410-274-5691.

ANGELO SOLERA: El Camino @ Minas

2008-10-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

ANGELO SOLERA: El Camino

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street

Saturday, October 4 / 5:00 pm / free

Angelo Solera reads from his autobiographical book El Camino (The Journey). The inspiration for the book came after walking a 400 -mile mystical pilgrimage journey to Santiago of Compostela.

"I did not write this book,” he says. I simply held the pen and pushed the tabs on my computer, listening through mu soul and writing the message coming from within ".

Solera is a local Latino community activist, health care advocate, former political candidate and now an author as well.

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-732-4258
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
Hours:
Weds. - Sunday 11 - 6.
Mondays by Appointment
Closed Tuesdays.

Loyola Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections

2008-09-30T10:47:00.000-07:00

Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College presents: Loyola Collects:
Selections from the Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections
Exhibition Dates: October 6 – October 26, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 5 – 7 pm

Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College in Maryland is pleased to present Loyola Collects: Selections from the
Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections. This exciting exhibition will include works of nineteenth-century French artists such
as Honoré Daumier, Alponse LeGros and Dominique Jouvet-Magron as well as drawings of Minimalist, Agnes Martin and Abstract Expressionist,
Morris Louis. The exhibition will also feature lithograph prints by Irving Amen, Hollis Sigler and various other prints and photographs from
contemporary artists such as Suzanne Marshall, Joy Laville, Ed Ruscha, Matthew Sugarman, Grace Hartigan, M. Jordan Tierney, Joseph Hyde and
Sarah Hobbs.

We are also proud to include in the exhibition several items of rare furniture, including a collection of “Morris Chairs” (ca.1933) designed
by Gilbert Rohde (1894-1944) for the Troy Sunshade Company, and an adjustable “flip top” floor lamp designed and manufactured by Kurt
Versen (1901-1997) around 1935; Rohde, a noted American industrial designer, is widely known as an innovative furniture maker, and is
perhaps best known for his design of the clock tower for the Herman Miller Company, Zeeland, Michigan in 1931. Both Rohde’s and Versen’s
pieces should provide a fascinating glimpse at the work of some of America’s foremost designers of the early decades of the twentieth
century.

Julio Fine Arts Gallery is located on the Loyola College campus at 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210. Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm. For more information about the exhibition and gallery programs, contact Gallery Director, Kay Hwang at
(410) 617-2799.

Charm City Kitty Club presents VOTE KITTY!

2008-09-27T17:48:00.000-07:00

Charm City Kitty Club presents
VOTE KITTY!
Fri-Sat Oct 3-4


Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224
Phone: 410-276-1651

The Kitty Club kicks off our 7th season of knicker-twisting fun with a
celebration of the day Baltimore became Suffragette City-the ground breaking
convening of Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton and other
voting-rights activists in Charm City in 1906! Featuring the burlesque moves and
jazz vocals of Cherry Bomb, the thought-provoking theater of Susana Cook, the
musical stylings of local bard Reina, and much, much more! Tear off your chads.
Vote early! Vote often! VOTE KITTY! 7pm Kitty Cocktails, 8pm Show. $12,
$10mbrs.www.charmcitykittyclub.com

CAmm Salon and Cinema Lounge

2008-09-26T12:51:00.000-07:00

1st Mondays CAmm Cine Lounge
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave.
(410)276-1651
www.creativealliance.org
Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1

Lounge, the vibrant film gathering formerly at Gardel's, moves to The Patterson, joining its lively following to the CAmm Salon's detailed critiques. Cinema Lounge's Stacie Gentzler (Black Ink Films) hosts! Bring your new film or work in progress (max length 15min) and have a critical conversation with peers. Networking power hour finishes the night! Bring business cards, headshots, and
press packets for our info exchange tables! Bar is open. Oct 6: Guests Jamie Horrigan & Kevin Hill of Studio Unknown talk audio shop. 7pm. $8, $6 mbrs.

Public Moves Federal Hill

2008-09-26T12:26:00.000-07:00

Public Moves Federal Hill
Sunday October 26th
Federal Hill & American Visionary Art Museum
www.publicmoves.net

Find a neighbor, grab a friend, and take your family to re-charge your inner batteries by JOINING US on Sunday, October 26 for an extraordinary event: Public Moves Federal Hill, created by Shua Group and hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum. Public Moves Federal Hill is a community performance atop Federal Hill featuring Baltimoreans of all ages and colors, shapes and sizes, backgrounds and experiences. The performance is inspired by the everyday movement we see on the hill and each person will play a part in creating it. Join us and...
* SHARE a moment of community with total strangers...
* PLAY inside a moving mass of people...
* RE-DISCOVER the amazing sensation of moving along a steep hill...
* DO SOMETHING SO DIFFERENT from the ordinary you will not soon forget...
* and have FUN!

And when weʼre done, come along for a FREE visit to the American Visionary Art Museum, and be a part of Fall For Art day at the museum. What's required? Show up to one rehearsal on Federal Hill in October (see details on sign up page) and free up your afternoon on Sunday, October 26th for the event. Find our more and sign up at: www.publicmoves.net

Stories From The Woods

2008-09-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Stories From The Woods

curated by Alex Ebstein
October 3 - October 31
Current Gallery
30 S.Calvert
Baltimore, MD 21202

Opening reception, October 3 from 7 - 10 pm

Exhibiting Artists: Bonner Sale, Christine Buckton Tillman, Emily Nachison, Emily Slaughter, John Bohl, Annie Gray Robrecht

Stories From The Woods investigates a fascination with the natural world. The showcased artists explore a contemporary reinterpretation of nature, while simultaneously drawing from past folklore and classic painting. Through stylized, representational, sculpture, narrative paintings, and whimsical installation pieces by a group of invited, regional artists, Stories from the Woods seeks to transform the space into a platform for these fantastical narratives.

MYSTICAL CIRCUITRY: MIND, BODY, AND ART

2008-09-26T12:03:00.000-07:00

MYSTICAL CIRCUITRY: MIND, BODY, AND ART
School 33 Art Center & the Library
Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 10am-6pm

School 33 Art Center and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts are pleased to announce a public program in conjunction with the closing reception of Vision Quest curated by Jason Hughes. Mystical Circuitry: Mind, Body, and Art is a full day of activities including a film screening, panel discussion, and yoga workshop. This program is in collaboration with The Library and is free and open to the public.

12 – 1:30pm | film screening – Ram Dass: Fierce Grace at School 33

2 – 3:30pm | panel discussion on with audience Q&A at School 33

4 – 5:30pm | Vinyasa Yoga Workshop at The Library

School 33 Art Center is located at 1427 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230 | 410-396-4641 | www.school33.org

The Library is located at 1401 Light Street Baltiore, MD 21230 | www.thelibraryproject.net

About the Program

The film Ram Dass: Fierce Grace chronicles the life of Richard Alpert, a Harvard professor who in 1963 was removed from his position at that institution for conducting controversial psychedelic drug research. He later traveled to India where he met his guru Maharaj ji, who renamed him Ram Dass ("Servant of God"). Best known for his 1971 best seller “Be Here Now”, Ram Dass became an inspiration to people around the world. Seating is limited so please contact School 33 Art Center to RSVP by Thursday, October 2, 2008 at school33@promotionandarts.com.

The topic Mystical Circuitry: Mind, Body, and Art will be an intriguing panel and group discussion revolving around various issues addressed in the film and throughout the featured exhibition. Mysticism, the paranormal, transcendence, and consciousness are some of the topics that panelists will discuss and engage in with the audience.

LOS SOLOS SERIES /KRISTEN ANCHOR & VANESSA PLACE

2008-09-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

LOS SOLOS SERIES
presented by Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad
Friday, 10/3/08, 8:30pm, $6 sug.donation

KRISTEN ANCHOR (Balto)
VANESSA PLACE (LA)

Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Chas. Village

baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

KRISTEN ANCHOR will present a short program of film and video including work by herself, Rahne Alexander, Sabine Gruffat, Mary Billyou and more! Kristen Anchor is a Baltimore video artist and musician. Her goofy, political videos have screened all over the U.S. and appeared on several independent film compilations. She's the drummer for The Degenerettes Baltimore's all-girl underground garage group.

VANESSA PLACE is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2) and the forthcoming Conceptualisms: An Ill-Conceived Guide to Kinda Conceptual, Post-Conceptual, Extant and Taxonomical Writings, etc., in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse).

ADDITIONAL SERIES ARTISTS INCLUDE:

* Fursaxa
* Melissa Moore
* Kristen Anchor
* Vanessa Place
* Kara Feely
* Hadieh M. Shafie
* Sawako
* Sarada Conaway
* Susan Alcorn
* clyde forth
* Brooke Sietinsons

CityLit Project at the Baltimore Book Festival

2008-09-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

CityLit Project at the Baltimore Book Festival
September 26, 27, and 28, 2008

Eastside Circle and East Park
For complete schedule and information,
visit www.CityLitProject.org or call 410.274.5691

Zazen Boys play the Talking Head

2008-09-25T12:03:00.000-07:00

Zazen Boys play the Talking Head
Thursday, October 2nd, 9 p.m.
407 E. Saratoga St.

A Japanese band formed by former Number Girl guitarist and vocalist
Mukai Shutoku, the Zazen Boys' music blends complex rhythmic songs
reminiscent of math rock with extended improvisational songs. The
perfect follow up for fans of the High Zero Festival, the Zazen Boys
show will begin at 10 p.m., with doors at 9 p.m., on October 2nd. Two
Japanese camera crews from major networks will also be in tow that
night as part of a televised documentation of their overall tour.

Number Girl was one of the most influential indie rock bands in Japan,
accordingly Zazen Boys has a big following in Japan. Their newest
album (released 9.17.2008) with Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) was
recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, NY.

This is the first time the Zazen Boys have ever played show in
America, so it's momentous occasion for the band and for Baltimore!

For more information, check out http://www.myspace.com/zazenboys and
http://www.talkingheadclub.com/.

Baltimore Book Festival, Magazine Stand

2008-09-25T11:57:00.000-07:00

Baltimore Book Festival,
Friday, September 26, 5-9pm
Saturday and Sunday, September 27-28, 11am-7pm

Chromatic Experience

This year's Magazine Stand is curated by Chris Day and Molly O'Connell of Closed Caption Comics. Chromatic Experience will feature self-published artists’ books and zines for purchase.

It’s at the Baltimore Book Festival located directly across from the Washington Monument (south side) 600 block N. Charles St.

Go to http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com for all of the other events taking place at the festival.

DOCUMENTARY: Vincent Who?

2008-09-23T20:00:00.001-07:00

The Inter-Asian Council of the Johns Hopkins University will be hosting Curtis Chin, the director of Vincent Who? and will be holding a showing of the documentary with Q&A session afterward.

Who is Vincent Chin?
Vincent Chin was a Chinese American living in Detroit. In 1982 he was brutally assaulted by two drunk men, former autoworkers who had recently been laid off due to the competition experienced by Japanese automakers. The two men saw Vincent and believed him to be Japanese and proceeded to attack him. Vincent Chin died in the incident.

25 Years Later
Vincent Chin never saw justice. Both men were eventually acquitted of all charges in 1986. Today, this case not only is an injustice to not only the Asian American communities but to others as well. Especially in Baltimore, where racial profiling and tensions in the community still exist, it is an important issue to discuss.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
3301 North Charles St.
Charles Commons Multi-Purpose Room
1-3pm

Contact: iacjhu@gmail.com

Is You Is or Is You Ain't

2008-09-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

Location: Creative Alliance at The Patterson
Brought To You By: Creative Alliance
Phone: 410-276-1651
Event Website: Click here
Cost: FREE!
Dates & Times:09/13/2008 - 10/25/2008 :: 05:00 PM
Description: A semi-naked woman glides through a swimming pool with a shark-fin on her head. Toy figures reenact a murder on an urban street. Estranged lovers from a French film are captured as line drawings in a shaky loop. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t is the Creative Alliance’s first major touring exhibition, seven works on video by artists of national and international significance, from Baltimore and elsewhere. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t explores the zone between play-acting and metamorphosis, a place where we go to pretend we’re something other than what we are, or to change ourselves altogether. It’s a safe place, a retreat, a place where by fictionalizing ourselves we can speak truth with something close to fearlessness. Shifting and proxy identities become both tools for liberation and defensive strategies, part of an instinctual reaction towards self-preservation in an environment of constant flux. The artists included in Is You Is or Is You Ain’t strike postures of pathos, resistance and irreverence. Winter in America, by Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Kambui Olujimi, uses toy figures to tell the heartbreaking, true story of a sidewalk robbery that left one man dead. Beyond the obvious irony, the story gains visceral power for being told at one remove. Similarly, Karen Yasinsky’s line drawing animation, Oh, Juliette, captures the fraught emotional space between a man and a woman in an almost-still moment from Jean Vigo’s Atalante. The transgendered cast of Kalup Linzy’s KKQueens Survey populates a call center surveying artists about their relationships, sex lives and art world habits. Mustache2, by the film collective AnC, is a satirical, ultimately poignant narrative about a cabinet salesman who advises a protégé to “find his own way” while maintaining a barely credible façade of optimism. Becoming more than herself, Simone Montemurno takes on the shark’s sleek power along with the homemade shark-fin on her head, deftly transforming the threatening into the sensuous. Laura Parnes mirrors a blissful family overlooking a pastoral landscape with wildlife footage of animals stampeding from danger to suggest how we’ve lost touch with a primal—and critical—instinct for peril. Zoë Charlton assumes the poses of famous nudes from the art historical canon flipping the vulnerability of the artists’ model to question her own place as an African American woman artist. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t was curated by Kristen Anchor and Jed Dodds (Creative Alliance), and Christopher West (Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), with special thanks to NYC powerhouse Mari Spirito. The exhibition premiered in Indianapolis April 2008.

Bright-Shiny New @ Paperwork Gallery

2008-09-23T09:51:00.000-07:00

Bright-Shiny New

Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Opening Reception: Friday September 19th, 6-8pm
Exhibition run September 19th - October 30, 2008

Jaime Bennati
Jessie Lehson
Joseph Letourneau
Janna Rice
Allison Wade
Daniel Wallace

www.paperworkgallery.com
paperworkgallery@yahoo.com

FIRE IN THE BELLY

2008-09-23T09:10:00.000-07:00

FIRE IN THE BELLY
Fire on Stage with The Last Poets & 5th L, Olu Butterfly, Wombworks and More!

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224
410-276-1651
09/26/2008 - 09/27/2008 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
http://www.creativealliance.org

The impact of Baltimore’s 1968 riots is still felt. The drumming, music and protest poetry of Black Arts Movement founders The Last Poets laid the groundwork for hip-hop, slam poetry and the black spoken word movement. They’re joined by high-powered synchronized poets 5th L, neo-feminist avant poet Olu Butterfly, DishiBem Traditional Contemporary Dance Group, youth performers from Wombworks and others, echoing the reverberations of the uprising on our stage. Discussion follows.

MAYOR’S CULTURAL TOWN MEETING HIGHLIGHTS THE ARTS AND TOURISM Tuesday, October 7, 2008

2008-09-23T09:00:00.000-07:00

MAYOR’S CULTURAL TOWN MEETING HIGHLIGHTS THE ARTS AND TOURISM

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7-9pm
The Walters Art Museum

Mayor Sheila Dixon, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance invite residents, artists and community leaders to the seventh annual Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting. This year’s meeting reveals the important role the arts play in Baltimore’s tourism industry. The meeting takes place Tuesday, October 7 from 7-9pm at The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street.

During the Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting, Sam Rogers, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for the Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association, unveils the organization’s fall/winter campaign and cultural tourism initiative. Afterward, Mayor Dixon discusses the state of the arts in Baltimore. The evening concludes with Mayor Dixon answering questions from the audience.

The Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first served basis.

For more information on the Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.promotionandarts.com.

20th annual BALTIMORE Open Studio Tour 2008

2008-09-23T08:54:00.000-07:00

BALTIMORE OPEN STUDIO TOUR 2008

Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19, noon-5pm

Kick-Off Reception and Block Party for Baltimore Open Studio Tour 2008

on Friday, October 17 from 5-8pm at School 33 Art Center at 1427 Light Street

School 33 Art Center, Mayor Sheila Dixon, and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts presents the 20th annual BALTIMORE Open Studio Tour 2008. Everyone is invited to visit Baltimore area artists and their studios during the citywide tour on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 from noon to 5pm. This annual tour features more than 140 Baltimore artists and their collections for viewing or purchase. During this event, guests can experience a unique and personal behind-the-scenes look at participating artists’ studios. Baltimore Open Studio Tour is a part of Free Fall Baltimore.

Maps with artist’s names, studio locations, and media of all participating artists will be available at School 33 Art Center and other locations around the city. A complete schedule of this year’s artists and their studios will be listed on the School 33 Art Center website at www.school33.org.

In addition, an exhibition and silent auction showcasing a sampling of work by artists on the tour will be held at School 33 Art Center at 1427 Light Street on Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19, 2008. The exhibition reception and block party takes place on Friday, October 17 from 5–8pm at School 33.

For more information about Open Studio Tour, visit www.school33.org or call 410-396-4641.

The Sixth Annual CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

2008-09-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

The Sixth Annual CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

Exhibition Dates: September 16-October 25, 2008

Gallery Talk: Friday, September 26: 6 pm / Reception 7 pm

September 12, 2008—Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present the Sixth Annual Curators’ Incubator program, featuring this year’s curators Rebecca Weber and the curatorial team Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash.

This annual program remains dedicated to promoting the talent of emerging curators within our community, recognizing the obstacles that face curators as they work to gain experience, while providing encouragement and guidance throughout the curatorial process. After being selected through a competitive two-phase application process, curators are mentored by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC)—a voluntary committee comprised of respected local artists, writers and educators—helping them to strengthen and clarify their original proposals in preparation for an exhibition at MAP and publication of critical writing in a program catalogue. The Curators’ Incubator program recognizes the significant relationship that exists between a curator and an artist and illustrates the contributions each makes in realizing a curatorial vision.

About This Year’s Exhibitions:

Curator Rebecca Weber presents Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, an exhibition that addresses the ubiquitous use of surveillance in contemporary society and the issues that are raised regarding security and a person's civil liberties. “Through humor, sarcasm, beauty, and a critique of power, the six artists included in Invisible Omniscience have taken on the challenge that art as a subversive practice must. To challenge the powers that aim to protect us with secret observation: this is the call to arms of this new generation of artists who seek to balance their own anxieties and fears with the promise of democratic freedoms from unreasonable intrusion into collective and individual privacy."

Participating artists include: William Betts, Christa Erickson, Leslie Furlong, Brendan Howell, Frank Klein and Eric Parnes.

Co-Curators, Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash ask the question, “In the face of constant change, how do individuals contribute to the shape of society? As catalysts, what responsibilities do artists assume in shaping the future?” These questions have been addressed as part of AFRIKATALYST: A Collective Perspective, an exhibition featuring work from educators whose mission focuses on the transmission of cultural information to the generations that follow. “Based in the nation’s capital, AFRIKATALYST introduces the visual representation of a contemporary renaissance art movement forging positive connections between productive individuals and ideas. The visionary work of master painter, James Phillips, will join works by a cadre of emerging artists in an intensely futuristic conversation. Drawing from areas of personal interests as diverse as engineering, history, and sociology, the work of the collective stresses the spiritual interconnections of all people as fundamental to survival and transcendence.”

Participating artists include: Johnnie Bess, Christian Braneon, Jonathan Edwards, Jamille Shaka Jones, Akil E. Kennedy, Nate Mathews, James Phillips, William Nathaniel Thomas IV and Jeffrey Vinson.

Please plan to join us at 6 pm, Friday, September 26th for a Gallery Talk led by this year’s curators, followed by a Reception at 7 pm.

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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a non-profit center for contemporary art established in 1981 to: develop and maintain a dynamic environment for regional artists to exhibit their work, nurture and promote new ideas and new forms, and facilitate rewarding exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.

MAP is located at 8 Market Place in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live! Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm. There is no admission charge. To learn more about this exhibition and MAP’s future programming, please access our website: www.mdartplace.org or call: (410) 962-8565.

VIVA EL CINE LATINO @ the Creative Alliance

2008-09-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

CA's third annual Viva el Cine Latino brings a night of local videos made by and about Baltimore Hispanics to The Patterson!

Creative Alliance's Por la Avenida / On the Avenue present

VIVA EL CINE LATINO
In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month!
Thu Oct 9
8pm $8, $6 mbrs, stus, snrs.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave
Info: 410-276-1651  www.creativealliance.org

In partnership w/ Carrera East, Wide Angle Youth Media & Adelante Familia

From the first documentary made by and about the Latino community in Baltimore
to this year's ground breakers, we salute Baltimore's Latino leaders young and
old on the big screen! The first of its kind, Adelante Familia's Opening Roads /
Abriendo Caminos (2002) documents Latino life in Charm City.  Mauricio Osorio's
The Room (2007) won at last year's CAmm Slamm, and his Elizabet (2007)
co-directed by David Long, tells the comical story of cultural miscommunications
between a hopeful young Colombian and his American future father-in-law.  Middle
and high school students from Carrera East's Mi Espacio afterschool program
working with Wide Angle Youth Media take the camera and tell it how it is,
exposing their lives from school to the streets.

Sowebo Arts is proud to announce its First Show at The Baltimore Pho

2008-09-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

Sowebo Arts is proud to announce its First Show at
The Baltimore Pho
1116 Hollins Street
Baltimore, 21223

Opening With a reception 6-8 pm on Thursday, Sept 25th and running through Nov 11th at the Baltimore Pho in Sowebo's own Hollins Market.

Kim Tyson, a long time supporter of art in SoWeBo, and designer of this year's Poster Auction poster border, is hanging a one-woman wonderland at the Pho. Her whimsically, colorful paintings and wood cuts turn Baltimore's premier Vietnamese restuarant into a bright oasis.

If you have never been to The Baltimore Pho, the long vacant Cultured Pearl has been transformed into Baltimore’s newest (and best) Vietnamese restaurant. Now is the time come visit and enjoy a free beverage and tasteful sampling of Pho while perusing Kim's original paintings and woodcuts.

Come join us for a fine first time at The Baltimore Pho!

Ignite Baltimore #1

2008-09-23T05:42:00.000-07:00

Ignite Baltimore #1

If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say to Baltimore? What if you only had 20 slides and they rotated automatically every 15 seconds?

On October 16th at 6 pm, 16 artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, writers, bloggers, and philosophers will answer this challenge at Ignite Baltimore #1. The event will take place at The Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave in Baltimore's Station North Arts District.

What is Ignite?

Cities all over the world are organizing Ignite events, where thought leaders come together to share what they know and make new connections. Full details can be found at ignitebaltimore.com. The official Ignite website is ignite.oreilly.com.

Ignite will be webcast live the night of the event on http://www.RADARREDUX.net.
RADARREDUX is a program of the Greater Baltimore Cutlural Alliance in partnership with Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins University.

Ignite #1 Speakers

Full topic descriptions and speaker biographies are available at
http://ignitebaltimore.com/speakers,
but here's a summary:

* Aaron Henkin - 20 Favorite Baltimore Stories
* Clarence Wooten - 12 Hard-Won Lessons of Entrenepeurship
* Rev. Amy Sens - (Interesting) Stuff You (Probably) Didn’t Know about the Bible
* Mario Armstrong
* Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson - How to Start a Revolution: Urban Interactions in the New American City
* Dave Troy - The Emerging Hive-Mind
* Bill Mill - Overcoming Cognitive Bias
* Brent Halliburton - 100 mistakes I will try not to make again
* Bryan Liles - From Waterfall to Agile - A Journey to Productivity
* Yair Flicker - Optimizing the Speed and Performance of Web Applications
* Michael Jovel - Let’s get physical
* Prescott Gaylord - Stop making green building and construction so hard
* Jimmy Gardner - Have a great idea? What are you gonna do about it?
* Lionel Foster - “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”
* Janna Howley - Safe, healthy, nutritious food for everyone
* Eileen Wold - Exploring the energy industry landscape

Ignite #1 Schedule

6 pm: Mingling, drinks, and free food (light dinner fare, courtesy of our sponsors)
7 pm: First wave of presentations
7:50 pm: Mingling, drinks, and free food
8:15 pm: Second wave of presentations
9:00 pm: Informal festivity/merriment

Sponsors

Ignite Baltimore #1 has been made possible through the generous support of Intridea, Greater Baltimore Technology Council, Roundhouse Technologies, and Smart Logic Solutions

Tickets
Admission is free, but please RSVP via EventBrite so we know how much food to order.

Get Involved!

The Architecture of Memory: A Writing Workshop

2008-09-23T05:35:00.000-07:00

The Architecture of Memory:
A Writing Workshop

Chezia Thompson-Cager

Saturday, October 4
2:00 - 5:00 pm

Free Admission
Call (410) 783-5720 to register

The Contemporary Museum will explore oral histories and the art of storytelling with a free workshop, The Architecture of Memory: A Writing Workshop, led by poet and scholar Chezia Thompson-Cager on Saturday, October 4, 2008. Through conversation and group exercises, Chezia Thompson-Cager will help participants translate memories into a story format and harness their "creative voice." Thompson-Cager says that the workshop "seeks to illuminate the real power that the individual has to master her or his own personal language and to use it to create a more humane world environment."

The Architecture of Memory will be held in conjunction with the museum's upcoming exhibition My Life in Fiction: New and Recent Works by Kianga Ford. The exhibition will explore how geography, social circumstances, and perception are used in storytelling.

Chezia Thompson-Cager is a professor of poetry at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has received numerous awards including the Baltimore Poetry for the People Association "Legacy Award," Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry, The Experiment in International Living research grant in Nigeria, and a Wye Humanities Fellowship.

Workshop Information
The workshop is designed to be intergenerational for ages 15 and older. No prior creative writing experience is required. Admission to The Architecture of Memory is free, but advanced registration is required. Workshop will be held at the Contemporary Museum. To register, contact the museum at 410-783-5720 or rhaywood@contemporary.org by October 2, 2008. Space is limited!

The Architecture of Memory is supported by the Maryland Humanities Council.

Lyle Kissack Work Rhymes @ MINAS

2008-09-18T11:45:00.001-07:00

Lyle Kissack
Work Rhymes
MINÁS Gallery
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
September 20 –October 26, 2008
Reception: Saturday, September 20
7:30 – 10:30 pm

Lyle Kissack exhibits recent photographic drawings. Kissack creates his images by swinging a disposable camera in an arc, then altering the photographs by removing emulsion and adding ink drawings. The resulting effect is one of both motion and permanence.