The Franklin Square community was recently featured on ABC Baltimore’s “The List” for their participation in the PNC Transformative Art Project. As a recipient of the 2012 grant, Franklin Square has worked with Civic Works, Can Collective, Living Classrooms and artists Emily CD, Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn to create a multi-media sculptural installation that celebrates the power of people and plants.
Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower was recently featured on ABC Baltimore’s “The List.” The tower houses a variety of artist studios and is open to visitors twice a month. An open house will be held tomorrow, January 19, from 1-5pm.
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is currently on display at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
“Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.”
For more information about the exhibit, visit CADVC’s website.
EXCHANGE: a home-based artist residency is a thesis project by Hyejung Jang, a Curatorial Practice MFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA) in partnership with School 33 Art Center. EXCHANGE is designed to explore new ways and potential for forming intimate connections between artists and community members by supporting emerging artists, and integrating contemporary art into everyday life.
This is a two-month long project—from January 23 to March 23, 2013—placing two emerging international artists with two local families in Baltimore. It transforms the home into a fertile platform of new experience, cross-cultural dialogue, social integration, education, and art while the artists live with the host families. The work created by the artist during their residency will be exhibited at School 33 from March 22 to May 25.
The project is currently in the phase of raising funding through a Kickstarter campaign.
Maryland Citizens for the Arts is leading the “500 Art-Full Letters” campaign in order to secure public funding for the arts. The ongoing community project asks people to create handmade letters for their legislators. To learn more or to view some of the letters visit www.artfullletters.tumblr.com.
“Discovery,” organized by Los Angeles-based arts organization RAW, will spotlight Baltimore artists working in film, fashion, music, visual art, hair & makeup artistry, and performance art. The one night event creates a circus of creativity that provides a little taste of everything.
Date: February 7
Time: 8pm-12am
Location: TATU, 614 Water Street, Baltimore, MD
Downtown arts collective, EMP, is opening their first exhibition of 2013 on January 18th. “Reject the Gaze” features the paintings and drawings of local visual artists Lacey Anderson and Sylvia O.
In “Reject the Gaze,” the artists are stylistically juxtaposed yet share a similar effect on the viewer: both Anderson and Ortiz turn notions of the flesh on their head and directly challenge the viewer’s gaze on the female form.
“Reject the Gaze” opens January 18.