Learn How to Purchase City-Owned Property

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The Vacants To Value Program is hosting two workshops for homeowners and potential homeowners.

The Rehab Process: Learn the Proper Steps to Rehabbing a Home in Baltimore City: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 – 6pm – 7pm – South East Anchor Library 3601 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224
Sign up HERE.  Seating is limited and pre-registration is required.

MAP Benefit Exhibit Seeks Artists

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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for “UNDER $500” our upcoming benefit exhibition and artwork sale. Scheduled for Friday, December 13 and Saturday, December 14, 2013, this two-day event is intended to promote the sale of artwork by artists in the Maryland region.

For more information, visit their website.

School 33’s 2013 Call to Artists is open!

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This year’s jurors are Andrea Pollan and Christine Pfister. Deadline for entry is October 18, 2013! For more information on entry guidelines, click here!

Andrea Pollan is a curator, gallerist, art consultant, writer and appraiser based in Washington, DC. She has organized over 200 exhibitions of contemporary art both regionally and nationally and has written numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures. She has managed a large corporate and several private collections.

 
In 2004, after serving as Exhibitions Director at McLean Project for the Arts for
10 years, she opened an acclaimed curatorial space called Curator’s Office in
Washington, DC. It serves both as a curatorial office for offsite exhibitions and
projects and a micro-gallery. In addition to onsite exhibitions, Curator’s Office
participates in the international art fairs and organizes exhibitions off site for
museums, galleries, and arts organizations.

Curator’s Office was identified in December 2006’s Vanity Fair issue as an
important player in “The Art Universe.”

Pollan was trained as an art historian at Yale University. She was the recipient
of a National Endowment for the Arts Arts Administration Fellowship in 1994.
She is a member and has served on the DC Chapter of the ArtTable board.

In 1989, she conceived of the visual component of the Mapplethorpe Protest to project the deceased artists’ images against the walls of the Corcoran Gallery of Art upon the occasion of the exhibition’s abrupt cancellation by the
museum.

Christine Pfister studied at Christie’s Education at Christie’s in New York and since 1995 she has been the Co-Owner and Director of Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Christine Pfister has given lectures, participated on panels and juried many exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Lectures/panels/exhibitions include the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, the American Association of Museums, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, CFEVA, Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA; Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Kunstlerhaus S11, Solothurn, Switzerland, and more. She is active in various cultural organizations including CFEVA, ArtTable and the Maurice Rohrbach Fund.

Pentimenti Gallery exhibits contemporary art by emerging to mid-career artists. The gallery’s exhibitions were reviewed in major magazines and newspapers, such as Art in America, the Art Economist, Timeout New York, the Brooklyn Rail, USA Today, Philadelphia Style Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, and more. The gallery has exhibited nationally at various art fairs: Pulse NY, Volta NY, Texas Contemporary, Miami Project and CONTEXT Art Miami.

 

 

Upcoming Workshop

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The Generational Shift:
Creating New Approaches to Leadership, Funding,
and Audience Participation in the Arts.

 Wednesday, October 30

9:30 am – 3:00 pm

 Howard County Center for the Arts

8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043

 Registration for ArtsLab 2013 is open HERE!

WHAT IS THE FOCUS? 
MCA’s second annual capacity building conference for arts professionals and artists offers an opportunity to explore solutions to the challenges of an already occurring shift in generational demographics.  Participants will look at this shift through the following three lenses:

  1. Approaches to organizational leadership and governance
  2. Trends in philanthropy and in earned income
  3. Changes in audience participation

ArtsLAB was created to engage administrators, artists, trustees, patrons, staff, volunteers, educators, and parents in considering the future of our arts sector, and to ensure that we are the strongest stewards possible of public and private investment.

WHAT TO EXPECT

ArtsLAB is … well, a participatory laboratory (not a “sit-and-listen” conference) that invites you to be a thought leader and be ready to share your perspectives, your insights, your best and novel practices, and actively participate in dialogue with your colleagues!

Here is the shape of the day:

  • Coffee! (and other things to keep your stomach from growling.)
  • Keynote Speech
  • An interactive panel discussion with members of the Maryland arts sector that will explore ideas about generational shifts with each other and the audience.
  • A networking lunch — Eat, work, talk, brainstorm, and prep for the afternoon.
  • Afternoon breakout sessions – Led by facilitators ready with questions and exercises that guide groups to new discoveries and solutions.
  • A wrap up – We will bring all three themes back together to share overall insights from the day that will impact your organization or projects moving forward?

HOW DO I REGISTER?
Registration is just $15 (20% discount for teams of three or more). Here are some things you need to know now:

  • Registration is limited to 120 people, and the slots will be filled in the order that registrations are received. MCA will create a waiting list.
  • You must go through the ArtsLAB 2013 page to register with a Credit Card. (Call us if you need to pay by check — 410-467-6700).

WHY BRING an Inter-generational TEAM?
MCA encourages organizations to send teams of at least three to this event. There will be a 20% discount for TEAMS. Please consider bringing someone newer to the field, someone mid-career, and a veteran of the arts to round out your team. Think of the impact that a team’s multiple perspectives could have on capacity building for your organization, particularly when you consider our theme of “the generational shift.”

Help us develop ArtsLAB – an annual capacity building event for Maryland’s arts sector!!!
We need your participation throughout the day; and, we need your sincere and thoughtful feedback. It will be critical to the growth and lasting impacts of this annual event.

 

MAP Announces Two Calls For Artists

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On behalf of Harbor East Management Group, Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’ for this year’s “Window Wonderland,” a storefront, holiday initiative within the Harbor East corridor. Collectively, MAP & Harbor East are seeking unique, holiday presentations/installations to be placed in a variety of retail locations. Storefront installations will be on view from Friday, November 29, 2013 – Friday, January 3, 2014, with a formal unveiling scheduled for Thursday, December 5.

Selected artists will receive a $500 honorarium from Harbor East and must submit a budget along with their proposal, outlining the expense of their project. During the unveiling on Thursday, December 5 a small jury consisting of Brian Young, Curator of the Fine Arts Program at University of Maryland University College, Jennifer Goold, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Design Center, Deana Haggag, Director for The Contemporary & Aaron Henkin Producer at WYPR and host of “The Signal” will announce a “Best in Show” window installation. The winning artist or artist collective will receive a $1,000 cash prize from Harbor East.

For complete guidelines visit mdartplace.org.

Highlandtown’s 3rd Annual Art Cart Derby Registration Opens

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Highlandtown’s 3rd annual All Ages Art Cart Derby & Art by The Pint is an all ages gravity-powered art cart race and bilingual community arts street festival!

What’s an art cart? An art cart is a homemade cart powered by gravity (no motors or pedals) and designed as a sculpture. Art carts are made using wood, wheels, wire, papier mache, cardboard and your imagination! Previous art carts include a dinosaur, train garden, marble steps, battleship and rocket ship!

Register HERE.