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Thursday: Snoscars at MICA, Friday: LUX at Maryland Art Place and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee at Goucher College, Saturday: Stroke (Nicholas Cairns pictured), George Belcher, and Tiffany Black at School 33 Art Center, and an evening honoring John Travolta at MICA, Sunday: Dayna Harris Smith at Gallery CA and more…

SNOSCARS: Station North Oscars
Thursday, November 8, 7-10 pm
Graduate Studio Center Auditorium
To express our sincerest gratitude for your support of the INVITED exhibition, please join us as we celebrate the excellence of the Station North community. Awards will be presented to outstanding members of the community by the Curatorial Practice MFA at MICA. Formal wear is encouraged, so put on your finest and come celebrate with us!!!!! Did I mention this amazing event is being hosted by Station North’s very own Ellen DeGenerate and Amber Alert!!!!!! Red carpet Photo-ops start at 6:30 and the show starts at 7, so get there early to strut your stuff! http://fyi.mica.edu/event/snoscars_station_north_oscars#.UJgPEqWjI20

Screening of Fixing the Future
Thursday, November 8, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Creative Alliance at The Patterson

Did you know: Baltimore is part of a growing national movement to reinvent the American economy? What does this mean? It can mean more local jobs, stronger local businesses, a healthier community and prosperity for all. You can be a part of this movement.

7 – 10pm 7pm Complimentary tasting by Zeke’s coffee and light fare provided by Clementine! First come first served.
7:30pm show. Discussion to follow.
$10 Admission

David Brancaccio (of public radio’s Marketplace and NOW on PBS) visits people and organizations across America attempting a revolution: reinventing the American economy. Baltimore independent businesses and our local money – the BNote – are highlighted as some of the most effective and innovative approaches being used across the country to create jobs and build local prosperity. Come early to sample Zeke’s coffee (featured in the film), nosh on light fare from Clementine and meet other businesses and organizations working on solutions from the film to create a strong local economy.

For tickets visit: www.creativealliance.org/buy-tickets 
Tickets and info: e-mail: [email protected]

LUX Gala at MAP
Friday, November 9 @ 7pm
Exhibition: November 9 – December 15, 2012

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present LUX, MAP’s annual benefit, which in 2012, will be coupled with a full scale exhibition highlighting artists working in photography and digital media.

Artists: Michel Anderson, Kelley Bell, Lynn Cazabon, Tamara Cedre, Larry Cohen, Deepak Chowdhury, Edward DeWitt, Jill Fannon, Matthew Fishel, JM Giordano, Vin Grabill, Ryan Hackett, Joshua Haycraft, Joseph Hyde, Tiffany Jones, Matthew Kern, William Knipscher, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, Jati Lindsay, Kim Llerena, Brandon Morse, Elle Perez, Joseph Parra, Barry Schmetter, Alan Sislen, Graham Slaughter, Christopher Saah, Sylvie van Helden, Tobechi Tobechukwu, and Alex Wein.

To preview this years silent auction visit mapauction.org.

The Gala event will include music, a live auction of ‘LUX’-ury items directed by auctioneer Jeff Heisey, silent auction of featured artists, strolling magician and mentalist-Dick Steiner, a culinary competition coordinated by Chef Jerry Edwards of Chefs Expressions and signature cocktails courtesy specialized recipes by Kettle Hill restaurant and beer provided by Flying Dog.

The evening will exude ‘old Hollywood glamour’ with every guest receiving a ‘LUX’-ury swag bag to complete the evening’s festivities. Original, Ray Lewis prints will be also displayed as guests enter this world-class exhibition and include lush imagery from his “Sun Diaries” series. Valet parking available.  Purchase online: missiontix.com

Perspectives: A Look through Cultural Lenses: Joyce Yu-Jean Lee at Goucher College
Opening: Friday, November 9, 6-9 pm with an Artist’s Talk at 7 pm
In “Perspectives: A Look through Cultural Lenses,” a new exhibit at Goucher College, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee presents divergent views of her American and Chinese heritage through video works. Lee compares perspectives of pictorial space, ideas of illumination, and visual consumption. The exhibit is free and open to the public, and runs in the Silber Gallery on Goucher’s campus from Tuesday, October 30, to Sunday, December 9.
Call 410-337-6477 or visit www.goucher.edu/silber for more information. For more information on Lee, a Baltimore resident and Maryland Institute College of Art instructor, visit www.joyceyujeanlee.com.




FLUX 
Film and sculptural installations by Mihaela Savu, Nick Primo, and Nara Park 
Fox 3 Gallery 
Nov 9 – Nov 19, 2012 
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov 9, 2012 5:00 – 7:00pm

“Highlights of the Baltimore Museum of Art”
Docent Tour with Rachel Rabinowitz
Saturday at 11:30 am
Meet in the Lobby. Free.
Stroke: Gesture, Mark, Muscle
Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:00pm – 6:00pm
School 33 Art Center Main Gallery
Exhibit: November 9-December 29, 2012
Artists: Jim Condron Nicholas Cairns T.J. Donovan Kay Fenton Laura Judkis Matthew Langley Jon Marshalik Steven Pearson Regina Tumasella Carly Witmer
Curated by René Treviño
 Stroke: Gesture, Mark, Muscle The Artists included in these exhibitions all use gesture, intuitive mark making and muscle in creating their work. While the included paintings, drawings and sculpture all have a quality of speed and intuition, that speed and agility is actually the result of years of consistent studio practice and persistent dedication. The word “Stroke” in the title of the exhibit is meant to reference not only a brush stroke, but also any bold gesture that gives the work a palpable sense of energy.
This is a two-part exhibit. Part I is installed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport;
Part II is exhibited at School 33 Art Center.
George Belcher, Solo Exhibition
School 33 Art Center Member’s Gallery
Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3-6pm
Exhibit: November 9-December 29, 2012
School 33 Art Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Lotta Art 2012 Best-in-Show winner George Belcher. This exhibit of drawings, paintings and sculpture investigates advertisements, signs, flags, etc. Belcher alters these loaded images to create new meanings, questions, and stories that push these visuals sources toward the realm of the philosophical and the spiritual. By altering, distorting, and adding to these pre-existing forms of visual communication, the artist transforms them into stories or puzzles in which there is not necessarily a concrete answer or solution. Belcher creates disruptions and divergent courses in our everyday imagery and encourages the viewer out of mindlessness and into a space of re-examination and a new kind of truth.  http://www.school33.org/index.cfm?page=exhibits&section=Upcoming&exhibitID=65 
Tiffany Black: The Shedding Room
School 33 Project Space
Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3-6pm
November 9-December 29, 2012
School 33 Art Center is pleased to present an installation The Shedding Room, a sculptural installation by Tiffany Black.
 “The thrashing in my chest is what made me want to shed in the first place. It happens when I when I witness in person injustices, when I put my faith in another person and they let me down; it happens when the ugliness outweighs the beautiful, and when I realize more and more the very realness of humankind’s submission to cowardice, selfishness, and power lust. The world has broken my heart, and I know I’m not the only one. As humans we struggle to understand, fight against and refuse to accept. Maybe this is why so many of us feel that we are spiritual beings, made of some essence that could never be limited to our physical or cerebral selves. We are more than what the world has given us, and it’s so easy to be let down by what the world has to offer.”
 The artist’s struggle against the world brought a physical urge to stab wood, a cathartic repeated gesture that helped her channel her frustrations and angst and enabled her to begin “letting go”. In Black’s work, an installation of stabbed plywood boards mounted on the walls and floor of the Project Space at School 33 Art Center, she advocates for a holistic cycle of the daily human experience, a cycle that persists as we struggle through new experiences and perceptions and then strain to break free of them, a complete cycle of birth, growth, death, and regeneration. The Shedding Room unites the physical and emotional acts of separation, letting go, making way for regeneration. Here, a path to emotional freedom is physically manifested and celebrated.
Linling Lu: Lilac
November 10–December 22, 2012
Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC
Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2012,  from 6:00–8:00pm.
In the 20th century Western artistic quest to achieve abstraction, one can sense an aspiration to reach the wordless purity of non-representation. This wordlessness was rarely achieved because of the artist’s need to remind the viewer of his or her presence, nor was the work ever fully free of metaphor or symbolism. From this legacy enters Linling Lu. However, Lu’s expectations are markedly different from those of late 20th century Western abstract painters. Lu is not predisposed to see art as an extension of ego and not caught up by the calling of self-expression. Paintings from her series titled, One Hundred Melodies of Solitude, have been compared to the work of artists of the Washington Color School and color field painters of the 1960s and 1970s. Where color field painting was aggressive in relation to the architectural setting, Lu’s circle paintings lure the viewer away from the space in which the work is displayed and into an internal timeless meditative experience.
Linling Lu was born in 1983 in Guizhou Province, China. In 2005 she received a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University. Lu came to the United States in 2006 to attend Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, and received a BFA in painting in 2008. She was awarded an MFA scholarship at the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA, which she completed in May of 2011.
HEMPHILL 1515 14th Street NW Washington DC, 20005 202-234-5601 [email protected] www.hemphillfinearts.com
Maryland Film Festival to honor film legend John Travolta for his outstanding Supporting Actor work in SAVAGES and a lifetime of exceptional achievement in film 7pm Saturday 10 November 2012 MICA Brown Center 1300 West Mt. Royal Ave. Baltimore, MD
A Fundraiser Event for the Maryland Film Festival
The Maryland Film Festival is pleased to announce a unique tribute to Hollywood legend John Travolta Saturday, Nov. 10 at the MICA Brown Center. The main event, a fundraiser to support the work of the Maryland Film Festival, will bring Travolta together with noted filmmaker John Waters for the fifth annual edition of the Maryland Film Festival’s annual signature “Open Conversations.”
 $75 Open Conversation-Only — available by contacting the MFF office or through Missiontix: http://bitly.com/RQBtYJ $300 All-Access Pass — includes preferred seating for Conversation followed by intimate post-Conversation dinner with John Travolta and John Waters.
Contact the MFF office for details and to purchase.
DUO: Bonnie Jones + Asimina Chremos
Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:00pm Show, Doors open at 7:30
Free (donations accepted)
Dance/ Sound/ and Text
Area 405
405 East Oliver Street, Baltimore
Dayna Harris Smith presents Vanilla Backwards A Collection of Unexpected Media
Gallery CA at 440 E. Oliver Street
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 11, 12pm – 3pm
Exhibition Run: November 9 – December 7, 2012
Essential Sunday featuring Barrett Warner and Barbara DeCesare and Gary Blankenburg
Sunday, November 11, 2012 4:00pm
Minas’ Gallery and Boutique
$3
Reading preceded by open mic Julie Fisher hosts
more info [email protected] 443-418-4762
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