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Openings and activities in and around Baltimore- March 2014.

5th Prints and Multiples Fair at D center, organized by Open Space. 16 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218 March 8th and 9th, 12pm – 6pm Saturday and Sunday

Springsteen Gallery SPF: Steven Riddle and Val Karuskevich. The exhibition will be on view Friday, March 7, from 7 – 10pm. Held in conjunction with ALLOVERSTREET.

Current Gallery Find No Two Suns: Sophia Belkin and Suzanna Zak, curated by Ginevra Shay and Where We Remain: Twofold Secret, presented by ICA Baltimore. Both opening March 8, 7-10pm

Guest Spot Cookbook Dreams and Inflatable Futures, March 8, 2014 through April 19, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 7-10pm. Featuring Antoine Lefebvre, Robin Cameron, Cybele Lyle, Luca Antonucci, John Bohl, NOWORK, Lauren van Haaften-Schickn Curated by Arts & Sciences Projects

sophiajacob Image of the People: Megan Plunkett, opening March 8th. (for more info go to sj website)

Open Space 5th Prints and Multiples Fair at D:Center Baltimore, March 8-10

Maryland Art Place LIGHT TOUCH curated by Liz Wells,  February 12 – June 22, 2014, Public Reception: March 5, 11-3pm, International Pier of The Baltimore Washington Airport. The presenting artists are: Chrystel Lebas (France/UK), Heidi Morstang (UK), Marja Pirila (Finland), Lynn Silverman (Baltimore), and Frank Hallum Day (Washington, DC)

C Grimaldis Gallery Zhao Jing, March 12 – April 12, 2014 Opening Reception: March 12, 6-8pm

Lease Agreement wanting/waiting: Linda Yun, opening reception: Saturday, March 1, 6pm – 9pm ALSO open Saturday March 8, 4-8pm

School 33  Without Boundary a group exhibition featuring Kyle Bauer, Joan Belmar, Ben Boothby, Ruth Hiller, Andrea Joki, Alison Stigora and Jay Walker,  Roaming Around the Quadrangle a solo-exhibition of recent works by David Brown, and Sticky Fingers  a site-specific installation by Baltimore-based artist Lauren Boilini.  These exhibitions are on display in the galleries from Friday, March 21 through Saturday, May 31, 2014.  An opening reception takes place Friday, March 21, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm.

Contemporary CoHost Lecture Series, at the Baltimore School for the Arts: Mar 05: CoHosts // Brendan Fowler & Nudashank & Mar 27: CoHosts // Wayne White & Gallery CA

Baltimore Clayworks – INDELIBLE, Curated by Mary Cloonan. MARCH 1-APRIL 12, 2014 OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 6-8PM Free and open to the public. Indelible features ceramic artists who employ the techniques of mishima, scraffitto or wax resist underglaze etching. Regardless the method, the result is a design or line imbedded into the flesh of the clay, part of the object and not just on the surface. Invited artists: Elizabeth Benotti ( NH), Mariko Brown (IL), Chandra DeBuse (MO), David Eichelberger (NC), Linda Fahey ( CA), Brett Freund (MD), Rebecca Grant (IL), Bianka Groves (MD), Glynnis Lessing (MN), Laura Jean McLaughlin (PA), Shari McWilliams (WI), Brenda Quinn (NY), Mea Rhea (MD), Yoko Sekino-Bove (PA), Kevin Snipes (IL), Mike Stumbas (MO), Shoko Teruyama (NC), Julie Wiggins (NC) and more to be announced. SOLO GALLERY: CHEERS! An exhibition featuring vessels for brewed beverages and other elixers – traditional steins or pints to the more refined goblets and pilsners. COMMUNITY ARTS GALLERY: WISE WORKS. The artwork created between 2012-2013 during the Creative Aging Program at Zeta Center will be on display.

Jordan Faye Contemporary @ Grey Matter Transcending Place II This four person exhibition featuring works by David Herman, Jenee Mateer, Kate MacKinnon & Lat Naylor Opens at Grey Matter, 302 Federal Street & Guilford on March 15, 6 – 11pm. Show open March 15-April 18.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and PNC Bank announce the return of the annual PNC Transformative Art Prize (previously known as the PNC Transformative Art Project). The award supports communities in their efforts to improve their surroundings with long-term and lasting art projects. Neighborhoods are asked to partner with artists and/or arts organizations to permanently reinvent public spaces using art. New for 2014, the prize welcomes proposals that include transformative performance art. Qualified community-based nonprofits may be granted funding up to $30,000. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 2, 2014 at midnight. The 2014 PNC Transformative Art Prize is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and supported in part by PNC Bank. Additional support is provided by the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development.

Click here for the application and guidelines.

Interested community groups and artists are encouraged to attend the PNC Transformative Art Prize Information Workshop. The workshop will be held at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, located at 10 E. Baltimore Street, 10th floor on Monday, March 24, 2014 at 6pm. Topics will include details on the prize, visual examples of transformative art, and advice on artists and/or arts organization partnerships.

The winning neighborhood groups for the 2013 PNC Transformative Art Project were the Greater Remington Improvement Association and Upper Fell’s Point Improvement Association.

For more information on the PNC Transformative Art Prize, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.promotionandarts.org.

Deadline June 18:

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site is currently accepting proposals for its 2015 season of site-specific artist installations. Maximum funding is $7,500 per project. The deadline for proposals is June 18, 2014. For guidelines and to apply, visit easternstate.org/art.

Deadline: March 31, 2014

Montgomery College Artist-in-Residence Program

The Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus of Montgomery College offers semester-long residencies for visual artists. Fall residencies run from mid-August through mid-December. Spring residencies run mid-January through mid-May. This program provides artists with a dedicated space to pursue their professional art practice within an academic environment. Resident artists may also be granted access to the myriad other studio facilities available in the Cafritz Arts Center on a case-by-case basis. No living accommodations are provided.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Deadline for application is March 31, 2014. There are no fees for participation in this residency.

For further information and the application form visit http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/residencies/

2014 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards

Deadline: April 7, 2014.

The application process is now open for the annual Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards. This competition, produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, awards one of the largest cash prizes given to a visual artist, with a top prize of $10,000. The competition’s founder, Carol Trawick, is committed to annually honoring visual artists with this award.

Artists who are 18 years of age or older and permanent, full-time residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C., are eligible to apply. All original 2-D and 3-D fine art including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, fiber art, digital, mixed media and video will be accepted.

The awards are as follows:
Best in Show – $10,000
Second Place – $2,000
Third Place – $1,000
Young Artists* – $1,000 *Young Artist whose birthday is after April 7, 1984 may be awarded this prize.

The jury will select up to 10 finalists who will be invited to display their work in a group exhibition at Gallery B in downtown Bethesda in September 2014. The three judge panel includes: Tom Ashcraft, visual artist, founding member of Workingman Collective, Associate Professor and the head of Sculpture in the School of Art at George Mason University; Laure Drogoul, interdisciplinary artist, Director of The 14Karat Cabaret, Co-organizer and Curator of the Transmodern Festival; Jeremy Drummond, media artist and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Richmond.

For a full list of eligibility requirements and to apply please visit our website: http://www.bethesda.org/bethesda/trawick-application

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY:

Deadline: April 15, 2014
Open Call––Exhibition opportunity at Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD

Mark, Trace, Impact: Themed Exhibition Series The mark is at the heart of what it means to be human. It led to the development of writing by attaching meaning to lines and scribbles. The mark fulfills a fundamental need to leave a physical trace. It creates impact, a message, or a memory in addition to its material presence.

The Department of Visual Arts and Design is calling for exhibition proposals for the Open Gallery in The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center that address the theme, “Mark, Trace, Impact.” Four exhibitions will be scheduled for the 2014–2015 academic year.

Proposals must be received by April 15, 2014. Applicants will be notified by June 1.

For detailed information about the exhibition space and the application process visit http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/exhibitions/opportunities.html