Vend, Send, Mend at SubBasement Studios on Friday, July 1

Vend Send Mend is a fundraiser aimed at raising $8,000 for Doctors Without Borders in relief of Japan's March 11th earthquake disaster. You, one of 100 illustrators and artists, are invited to contribute one work of art using vending machines as a creative starting point.

All 100 original works of art will be featured during a one-night event at Sub-Basement Artist Studios, Baltimore on Friday, July 1st, 2011. The artwork will be raffled off through a gumball machine. Instead of gumballs, ticket holders will receive a ball numbered anywhere from 1 to 100, determining the order they get to choose their piece.

Tickets for the art raffle are being sold through Sub-Basement Artist Studio's website at Sub-Basement Artist Studios.current.

For more info you can also go to http://www.vendsendmend.com.

Photos from School 33's Biennial and Irrelevant Bullshards

Upstairs, in the Member's Gallery... Ryan Browning's Irrelevant Bullshards

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Downstairs, in the Main Gallery - The Studio Artist Biennial

Center painting by Aaron Yamada-Hanff

Work by Matthew Freel, center

Studio Artist Laurie Flannery with her photos

Live Music! and Paintings by Kenneth Yee

Paintings by Susan Faden

Work by Jowita Wyszomirska

Matthew Freel

Hyeseung Marriage-Song

Kenneth Yee

Dierdre Shea, left, and Kenneth Yee

Dierdre Shea

Matthew Freel

Artist Kenneth Yee in his studio with Ian McLean Davis

Studio Artists Aaron Yamada-Hanff and Hyeseung Marriage-Song

Studio Artist Susan Faden

Studio Artist Dierdre Shea with School 33 Director and Curator Rene Trevino

Young Blood reception at MAP June 29 from 6-8 pm

Precipice and Void Deflate, Rob Guevara

Young Blood: Work by recent MFA graduates
Exhibit: June 29 – August 27, 2011

Artists' Talks and Reception Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6pm-8pm

In its fourth year at Maryland Art Place (MAP), Young Blood will show dynamic works by recent Baltimore-area Masters of Fine Arts graduates from the Maryland Institute College of Art, the University of Maryland College Park, Towson University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

This year's Young Blood exhibition includes work by Amy Boone-McCreesh, Jesse Burrowes, Jill Fannon, Rob Guevara, Adam Junior, Linling Lu, Sarah McNeil, Wun Ting Wendy Tai, and Katie Taylor.

Images from the Sondheim 2011 Finalist Exhibit at the BMA

The five finalists for the sixth annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize are Stephanie Barber, Louie Palu, Mark Parascandola, Matthew Porterfield and Rachel Rotenberg. The competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region.

 The 2011 winner will be announced during an award ceremony on Saturday, July 9 at 7pm at The Baltimore Museum of Art, located at 10 Art Museum Drive. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is held in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.

This year marks a smaller batch of artists than ever before - just five - and a surprising range of media - sculpture, two photographers, and two multi media / filmmakers. Every year I think I have the jurors figured out, and every year they throw a curveball. This year I have NO IDEA who will win and that's okay with me. The exhibit of finalists at the BMA is academic, experimental, pretty, gritty, and interactive. If you come to see the exhibit, make sure you take a moment to sniff Rachel Rotenberg's cedar sculptures, to pose in front of Stephanie Barber's camera, to actually wear the headphones, and to look carefully at Palu and Parascandola's photos - you're not always seeing what you think you are seeing.

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Rachel Rotenberg

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Louie Palu (right)

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Stephanie Barber

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Matt Porterfield

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Mark Parascandola (with Stephanie Barber)