The Loading Dock, Inc.
2 N Kresson St, Baltimore, 21224
Hours & Days of Brickmaking Operations: Noon – 4 pm daily, Tuesday June 28 through July 3rd, extended hours Thursday June 30, noon – 6pm.
Marian April Glebes, in collaboration with Josh Copus, launches the Baltimore Mobile Community Brick Factory. This project is an extension of Glebes’ year-long residency, in partnership with The Loading Dock, at the Baltimore Museum of Arts’ Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center. This extension of a collaborative interdisciplinary project is made possible by a 2015 Rubys Artist Project Grant, an initiative conceived with start-up funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and are a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
The Baltimore Mobile Community Brick Factory will make hand processed bricks, using local Maryland clay, with historic water-struck methods. Participants and visitors are invited to personalize and inscribe their stories in the handmade bricks. The project opens in Brick Hill at an historic machinist parts factory on May 31st. From there, the factory moves to the Baltimore Museum of Art, opening with a day long field trip tracing Baltimore’s brick making legacy with Max Pollock of Details Deconstruction and Eli Pousson of Baltimore Heritage. The factory will remain at the Baltimore Museum of Art until June 20th. On June 25th, there will be a public brick firing and celebration, after which the factory will relocate to The Loading Dock until early July. The bricks made during this project will become part of roving public art installations over the course of the next year.
This project is also supported in kind by Baltimore Clayworks, Friends of Wyman Park Dell and Taylor Clay Products Inc.
About Marian April Glebes: Marian is an artist and educator based in Baltimore, MD. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2009. A widely exhibited artist, Glebes currently facilitates cultural real estate development in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District.
About Josh Copus: Josh is a ceramic artist based in the Asheville area of North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2007 and is a 2006 Windgate Fellow. In 2006 he started making bricks as part of his ongoing Building Community project.
“Now, That’s Cool!” New Acquisitions Unveiled
Wednesday, June 29th
Reginald F. Lewis Museum
830 East Pratt Street : Baltimore 21202
A signed photograph of Frederick Douglass; an 1802 advertisement for two runaway slaves from Frederick County, Maryland; and a door from the former Baltimore NAACP headquarters, nicknamed the “Freedom House,” are just some of the new acquisitions that will be on display in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum’s exhibition, Now, That’s Cool!, June 29 – December 31, 2016. This is the museum’s first show that is comprised wholly of objects from the collection. The vast majority of the 40 plus objects in Now, That’s Cool! will be on display at the museum for the first time.
“This exhibition brings together recently acquired works that reaffirms the museum’s commitment to connecting people to Maryland’s past through the unparalleled journey of the African American experience,” says Charles Bethea, Director of Collections and Exhibitions.
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Summer Show – Opening Reception
Thursday, June 30th : 6-8pm
C. Grimaldis Gallery
523 North Charles Street : Baltimore 21201
C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present a summer group show of new works by Alfonso Fernandez, Julia Garcia, Minku Kim and Jennie Jieun Lee. This exhibition features paintings and ceramic sculpture which showcase the artist’s decisive hand, the classical form and its deconstruction. These experimental compositions are charged with a tension between formal sensibility and visceral emotion, in which moments of figuration are occluded by darkness, color, glazes, pours, drips and mark-makings.
Alfonso Fernandez (b. 1983, Mexico City) received an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, including recent exhibitions at the Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington DC and Circa Gallery, Minneapolis. Alfonso lives and works in Baltimore.
Julia Garcia (b. 1992, Pompano Beach) received an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Baltimore, and Rome, including Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore; Bleecker St Arts Club, New York; The Hole, New York; Blue Mountain Gallery, New York; and Libreria Cascianelli, Rome. Julia lives and works in Beijing.
Minku Kim (b. 1989, Seoul) has shown painting, drawing and sculpture internationally at galleries including The Courtroom, Brooklyn; All Things Project, New York; BrailleBerlin, Berlin; and Current Space, Baltimore. He is a 2017 MFA candidate in Sculpture at The New York Studio School. Minku immigrated to New York in 2005, where he currently lives and works.
Jennie Jieun Lee (b. 1973, Seoul) has exhibited throughout the US and internationally at galleries such as Marlborough Chelsea (Viewing Room), New York; Levy Deval, Brussels; Eleven Rivington, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto; and Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris. Jennie lives and works in Brooklyn.
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The Last Book of Baghdad Release Party
Thursday, June 30: 7 PM – 9 PM
Atomic Books
3620 Falls Rd, Baltimore, Maryland 21211
To celebrate the release of The Last Book of Baghdad: Part Two of the Fallujah Burning Series, author Justin Sirois and editor Haneen Alshujairy will be at Atomic Books in conversation with Bret McCabe.
In the Last Book of Baghdad, Sirois explores a world where, under desperate conditions, a lost collection of poems might be able to save a person’s life. In The Last Book of Baghdad, we see Nisreen Abid robbed of two beloved things: Al Mutanabbi Street—the literary hub of Baghdad—and her husband. With Al Mutanabbi Street in ruins, Nisreen tricks a book printer to help her locate her kidnapped husband while navigating the deadly city. Baghdad is burning out of control. Little does she know, the book she uses as ransom to get her husband back will be the most important book of her life.
“Justin Sirois has some really important things to say, and we need to listen. The Last Book of Baghdad is raw, riveting and revealing. Sirois is a master storyteller with the rare ability to highlight the perspectives of both the oppressed and oppressors. I guarantee that soldiers, policy makers and people who love literate alike will benefit, appreciate and learn from The Last Book of Baghdad.” – D Watkins, author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side
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