BmoreArt’s Picks: September 6-12
This Week: Penn Eastburn at BSC Cocktail Gallery, Brent Crothers closing at Chesapeake Gallery, SPARK: New Light artist reception at The Peale, Telling Our Story opening at the Driskell Center, Kei Ito opening reception at Gallery in the Sky, EX-tend EX-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay opening reception at TU Center for the Arts Gallery, Sisters Freehold presents “Us/Them” by Carly Wijs at Graffiti Warehouse, opening event for TU MFA Exhibition at Rhizome DC, Junk in the Trunk + Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence opening receptions at Baltimore Clayworks, and an opening reception for Mina Cheon with Kim Il Soon at Katzen Gallery — PLUS Call for Solo Exhibition at the Torpedo Factory and more featured opportunities.
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 updated on a daily basis. To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
MICA LAB Award Winner, Penn Eastburn ongoing through October @ Baltimore Spirits Co. Cocktail Gallery
Without a doubt one of the core things that makes Baltimore a beautiful city is it’s arts and culture community. From The Baltimore School of The Arts to MICA to its often gritty community theater scene, this creative group of people define a large part of what makes Baltimore so unique. As Baltimore Spirits Co. partner, Max Lents puts it, “It’s always been apparent to us that Baltimore’s soul and spirit is inextricable from its artistic youth; so what better way to invest in our city’s future than to empower young artists within our community?”
For this reason, Baltimore Spirits Co. created the first every Baltimore Spirits Co. LAB Award, a $10,000 cash grant to support a bourgeoning artist, as a part of MICA’s Graduate Competitive Awards and Fellowships. Lents explains, “Without a shadow of doubt, Baltimore Spirits Company was born from the vibrant creative community of Baltimore. We consider ourselves artists as much as anything else, and we’ve been lucky to find some success in following our creative passions…and we’re excited to support a special artist that’s invested in the local community.”
Earlier this Summer, the grant was awarded to MICA graduate student, Penn Eastburn, who will be using the money to open a framing shop with an emphasis on supporting local artists’ access to custom framing for their work. Eleven Eleven, his future frame shop, will be “ an artist-run space offering community workshops, exhibition and event space, and ultimately, a residency program.”
As part of the award, Penn will be hanging a curated art show in the BSC Cocktail Gallery through August and September. The show will open Friday, August 26th and will feature a special cocktail menu for the evening. Lents continues, “For Penn, the pinnacle of this whole thing was probably winning the prize, but for us, it’s hanging his show. We’re so excited to showcase the first winner of the BSC LAB Award at home in our tasting room. It’s a remarkable intersection of so many things that make BSC and Baltimore unique. We’re very much looking forward to seeing what he accomplishes from here.”
Brent Crothers: Searching for a History | Closing Reception Tuesday, September 6 • 4-6:30pm | Ongoing through September 7 @ Chesapeake Gallery
The Chesapeake Gallery is excited to host a wonderful exhibition of sculptures titled, “Brent Crothers: Searching for a History”. While guests are on campus to view the exhibit it the Chesapeake Gallery, we would like to make everyone aware of a few other locations at HCC where Crothers’ work can be viewed. These include two outdoor locations and one indoor. Please see the map below for details on where to discover all the fantastic artworks across campus. Exhibition runs through September 7, 2022.
Spark: New Light exhibition | Artists Reception Wednesday, September 7 • 5-8pm | Ongoing through September 25 @ The Peale
Explore the creative vision of 24 artists at SPARK: New Light, presented by Towson University, UMBC, and PNC Bank, August 13 through September 25 at The Peale.
SPARK: New Light will ignite your imagination. Discover photographic time capsules and microscopic organisms that glow in the dark, investigate delicate bamboo paper sculptures and a post-apocalyptic future, learn about a Chinese-American who fought in the Civil War and the disappearance of Holland Island, and enjoy room after room of additional artworks.
Artists featured in this fifth annual family-friendly SPARK exhibition include Mark Burchick, Lynn Cazabon, Irene Chan, Grace Doyle, Adam Droneberg, Carrie Fucile, Alexandra Garove, Danielle Hawk, Fahmida Hossain, Ahlam Khamis, Jinyoung Koh, Diane Kuthy, Kathy Marmor (with Penny Rheingans), Jenee Mateer, Lisa Moren (with Tsvetan Bachvaroff, Dan Deacon, and Woody Lissauer), Kat Navarro, Timothy Nohe, Sookkyung Park, Corrie Francis Parks, Chris Peregoy, Foster Reynolds-Santiago, Lynn Tomlinson, and J. Yablonsky.
SPARK: New Light is curated by Catherine Borg.
SPARK: New Light is made possible by a generous grant from PNC Bank.
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