BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is lovingly updated on a daily basis.
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Super Thursday Party at The Walters Art Museum
August 14, 2014 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm FREE
Enjoy music and drinks on the sculpture court, explore the museum, and see the work of outstanding contemporary artists in the area. This event is free and open to the public. Please enter through Centre Street.
See The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Exhibition in its final days (the exhibit is up through August 17!). Take a self-guided tour of the Walters collection. Enjoy music in the galleries of the Walters Art Museum. DJ Paul Labelle, host of Save Your Soul at the Lithuanian Dance Hall in Baltimore, will spin classic funk, soul, and R&B music. Enjoy jazz violinist David Schulman as he translates the museum’s collection into sound.
Baltimore’s own Union Craft Brewery will offer a selection of locally crafted beer. Lite fare will be on sale in Café Q.
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Pulse at EMP Collective
Thursday, August 14th at 8PM – $5
This month’s Pulse features four Baltimore artists: Emily Hall, Lucia Treasure, Ren Pepitone, and Kate Ewald.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Emily Hall – Do Clean Things to Me
A neat and tidy response to Marina Abramovic’s Rhythm 0. Early performance art was blood-streaked and dirty. Watch Emily prove that performance art can be squeaky clean fun! Emily Hall is a Baltimore-based theatre and performance artist. Locally, she presented her work at Centerstage’s 50Fest, Transmodern Festival, Black Cherry Puppet Theatre, Strand Theater, and various other venues. Recently, Hall was the live feed operator for Mabou Mines’s La Divina Caricatura at La MaMa ETC; previously, she was a videography intern for Performance Space 122. In September, Hall will have an installation at the Station North Tool Library as part of Akimbo Festival; in October, she will be directing an adaptation of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover for Annex Theater at Canteen. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Theatre from Towson University and is currently adjunct faculty at Carroll Community College.
Lucia Treasure – Aloette
A clown routine unfolding to the tune of an old and dangerous childhood song pratfalls through the struggle for freedom of the heart. Lucia A Treasure is a Baltimore girl, performer and professional pigeon chaser. She is a member of the Annex Theater company, the co-founder of Hole In The Wall Cabaret, and her original performance work has been presented at Theatre Project, An Die Musik and the Holy Underground in Baltimore, and Performance Space 122 in New York, where she also had the privilege of being mentored by the great performance artist Penny Arcade. Her current work explores the conversation we conduct between our child and adult selves. She would like to inquire about your first memory.
Ren Pepitone – Bathtub Gin
Ren Pepitone is a Baltimore academic who is taking exploration of bodies and consumption from the page to the flesh.
Kate Ewald – Aggressive Intimate
Kate Ewald is a time-based media artist and curator living in Baltimore, MD. With diverse interests in live & expanded cinema, classical structuralist filmmaking, intermedia, mechanical accidents, and homemade video feedback rigs, many of her works violently challenge the conventional assumptions of the spectator as they relate to expectations of narrative, perception, and time. Her curatorial, critical, and academic work is inspired by regular artistic practice/play and a ritualistic study of theoretical philosophies.
ABOUT PULSE: Run by Carly J Bales, Pulse is a regularly-occurring salon for the discussion and development of performance art work in Baltimore. The salons feature 2-4 performance artists a month and are open to everyone. The aim of these salons are to provide a consistent outlet for performance artists to create new work and connect with fellow performers. Pulse also welcomes the larger public to experience and participate in the development of these works-in-progress. Building off of these salons, EMP Collective hosts larger, curated performance events quarterly.
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Artist In Action: Strange Arrangements, New Installations by Dre Britton and Carazas Portal
Subbasement Artist Studios
Friday, August 15 from 6-8 pm
SUBBASEMENT ARTIST STUDIOS is pleased to present, Artist in Action: Strange Arrangement, an exhibition of new installations by Dre Britton and Rodrigo Carazas Portal. These artist represent the first of the SBAS Artist in Action residency program. This program affords artists a place to create, exhibit, and sell their artworks. It brings cultural experiences to the community and creates outlets and venues for youth to create and experience art.
E X A C K T L Y will be our DJ for the opening reception. https://soundcloud.com/
About the Artists:
Dre Britton was born in Baltimore, MD in 1991. Dre studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in pursuit of a BFA in General Fine Arts. His work has been featured in group shows at various galleries including Subbasement Artist Studios “STUDIO MIXX” (2012) Area 405, “KNOWING” (2013); VisArt Kaplan Gallery, “CROSSING THE DISTANCE, A TRANSLOCAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE U.S. & AFGHANISTAN” (2013) He is currently an artist in residence at the Subbasement Artist Studio & VisArt Bresler Residency in Rockville, MD.
Rodrigo Carazas Portal was born in Lima Peru in 1989. He studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) Art Program from 2007 until 2009, when he relocated to the US. He is currently finishing his BFA in Printmaking at George Mason University. Rodrigo’s first solo show “ANTWERP” took place at the Brookland Art Space (DC) during the summer of 2013. Carazas Portal has exhibited his works at Dedalo Barranco, La Universidad Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile, the Tyler Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Brentwood Arts Exchange.
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a r t + c r u s h at Platform Gallery on Friday, August 15 from 7-10 pm
Platform Gallery 116 W Mulberry St, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Platform Gallery is pleased to present a r t + c r u s h, on view at 116 W Mulberry Street. This group exhibition will highlight the concept of the art crush- a phenomenon where an artist would admire, follow, and be inspired by another artist. Following the different ages and stages of art crushes, this exhibition will include the works by painters: Xinyi Cheng, Benjamin Degen, Louis Fratino, and David Humphrey.
Crushes are more popularly recalled as painfully beautiful experiences of infatuation. They are loyal loves from afar that usually end in some sort of odd admiration. Due to the expanse of the internet, crushes can now blossom without even the slightest of communication. To develop an art crush, an artist must be faithfully dedicated to support and awe of another artist’s work and studio practice. Artists have always looked to their superiors and peers for inspiration and guidance. Some have gone so far as to create their own adopted family of generations of past artists that they believe will continue to influence their work. a r t + c r u s h is an investigation into the relationships between the crusher and the crushed.
Exhibition opens August 15th at 7 pm and runs to September 10th. Opening is August 15th from 7 to 10.
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Station North Arts Market @ The Chicken Box
Saturday, August 16 from 1-5 pm
Headed back to school? Need something to fill the walls of your new apartment or to compliment your fall attire? Join us at the Chicken Box for the August Station North Arts Market on Saturday, August 16th from 1-5pm.
This month we will feature work from: Damian Worthy, Laura Melamed, Alice Tarantin, Bryan Robinson, Seanna Tsung, Nick Aumiller, Rowen Haigh, and more!!!
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Charm City Farm and Garden Tour
Saturday, August 16 / Dinner Sunday, August 17
The Bike Tour
Reserve Your Spot : Bike Tour Reservation
August 16, 2014
Time: Registration begins at 8:00 am, ride starts at 8:30 am sharp
Starting Location: Druid Hill Park City Farm, see directions on the main page HERE
Ending Location: Druid Hill Park Swimming Pool
Price: $20.00
Includes route map and garden information, snacks and water for the ride, pre-ride bike safety checks,
breakdown support, bag check and delivery to the pool, a commemorative souvenir, admission to the pool, and refreshments during the pool party!
Parking: To be determined. If you’re able we encourage you to bike over or carpool to the starting location.
The Bus Tour
Reserve Your spot: Bus Tour Reservation
Registration: 10:00am Tour Begins: 11:00am Place: Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory Price: $25.00 box lunch included Parking: To be determined Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2014 *Important: Seats are limited on the bus so make your reservations today. We apologize but we are unable to hold your seat on the bus without cash or check payment.
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Download the Charm City Farm and Garden Tour Reservation Form: CCFGT Registration Form
and send checks made out to EAB (Extension Advisory Board) to:
Charm City Farm and Garden Tour
University of Maryland Extension
6615 Reisterstown Road, Suite #201
Baltimore, MD 21215
For More Info or to Reserve Your Spot, go to the Charm City Garden Tour Website: http://
The purpose of the Charm City Farm & Garden Tour is to provide Baltimore residents with an opportunity to experience the diverse community-managed garden spaces that exist throughout the city, to celebrate the impact of community gardens, and to provide the public with a fun and creative way to experience the local food movement in Baltimore City. Participants will have the option of touring the selected community gardens by bike or on bus. This event is hosted in partnership by staff and volunteers from Baltimore Green Space, the Baltimore Farm Alliance, the Parks & People Foundation, CGRN, Cylburn Arboretum and UME Baltimore City Master Gardeners.
Learn more at the following address: http://
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INTIMATE featuring Gayle Danley, International Poetry Slam Champion
Saturday Aug. 16 @6PM & 8PM / Plus bonus CAKE&CAVA
Join Gayle as she returns to the NEW Single Carrot Theatre for an unforgettable evening of really personal poetry. 18+ Enjoy CAKE&CAVA with Gayle following the 8PM show. Cuz, who doesn’t like a little bubbly with their cake?
$20 General Admission
$15 Artist/Teacher/Student
$5 CAKE&CAVA Immediately following 8PM show at 9:15PM
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Single Carrot Theatre
2600 N. Howard St., Suite 1200
Baltimore, MD 21218
Free parking lots & street parking!
