What's ha!ppening
News from the Highlandtown Arts District
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Artist Spotlight
Allison Fomich
Allison Fomich is a jewelry maker, sculptor, and upholsterer. She is a professional artist who is inspired by her garden and the passing seasons of the natural world. Her line of preserved botanical jewelry captures the intimate experience with nature with one of a kind specimen and impressions of organic objects in metal. She uses plant materials from her thriving urban container garden, her city garden plot out at Ft. Holabird, Patterson Park and various other spots where city living and green spaces come together locally.
Fomich has an appreciation for Japanese textiles. She sees the printed imagery in the fabrics she uses in her button jewelry line as complimenting the nature motifs used in her metal work and other graphic jewelry. In her studio exploration she creates anything from fine art to small crafts working with all kinds of materials: metal, plastic, latex, leather, vinyl, fabric.
Allison has an MFA in Sculpture from Edinboro University of PA, 2003, her BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, 1998. She started her Tigerlillyshop jewelry lines in 2005.
Fomich was recognized at by the City Paper as Baltimore’s Best Jewelry Designer 2007, she was featured on CNN in 2011 as an example of a successful homegrown business and has been recognized in many online and print publications. She currently is an advocate for handmade as a member of BEST. Together with her husband and young daughter, they have made a sustainable life in the Highlantown Arts District.
You can shop the Tigerlillyshop at the grand opening of the Highlandtown Famer’s Market Grand Opening on June 9th from 4-8pm.
Also, don’t miss her at the Charm City Craft Mafia’s Pile of Craft show June 25th!
Calling All Artists!
Free Fall Baltimore - Deadline: June 30th
The sixth annual Free Fall Baltimore returns on Saturday, October 1 through Monday, October 31, 2011. During the city-wide arts celebration, Baltimore City arts organizations present FREE arts activities including dance, music and theater performances, art exhibitions, free admission to museums, walking tours, festivals and workshops.
Free Fall Baltimore Request for Proposals: Arts and cultural organizations are asked to submit proposals to participate. Free Fall Baltimore applications are due by Thursday, June 30.
BLOCKENSTEIN2011
Saturday June 4, 2011 - 8am to 1pm
3100 & 3200 block of Bank Street (between S. East Ave. and S. Ellwood Ave in Highlandtown*)
Episode 5: The Secret of the Reappearing Monster!
A Monster Community Yard Sale!!
Sellers with tons of bargains, Community resources, Organizations and Non-profits in attendance, Family fun events include face painting, balloons, music performances, and art projects!
Blockenstein’s Annual charity raffle benefiting the Maryland Food Bank! Registrants and attendees are asked to bring canned donations.
Featuring music from Clinton Sowers and friends and a visit by the 101.9 LITE FM Friends & Neighbors van.
Sponsored by the Highlandtown Community Association with special thanks to PNC Bank, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts.
**Block will be closed to traffic and vehicles from 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.**
MTA Stories
Submit your MTA stories for
Roots Fest 2011
Almost everyone in Baltimore has an MTA Story - a personal experience on the light rail, metro, or bus that illustrates how public transportation shapes life in Baltimore. Throughout June, Wide Angle Youth Media in partnership with Thousand Kites will be hosting a toll-free call-in line where anyone can record and share their best MTA Story. To tell your story, call 877-525-8237. In order to bring your story to life, make sure to include plenty of descriptive details about what you saw, heard, and felt.
The stories collected will be uploaded to the project's website: www.mtastories.org, and the best stories will be exhibited in an installation at the Creative Alliance from June 22-26, as part of Roots Fest 2011.
The Grand Opening of the Highlandtown Farmers' Market kicks off a season of exciting changes for the market. The market is moving to Thursday evenings and around the corner from its old location.
New partnerships with the International Resettlement Center, Baltimore Medical Systems and the Southeast Anchor Library are bringing new programming such as international cooking demonstrations, nutrition classes and recipe sharing, entertainment from around the world, family fun activities and more!
THURSDAYS, June 9 - October 13
Grand Opening Celebration, June 9 4 PM
4 pm - 8 pm
400 block of S. Conkling Street
Magnolia Designs June featured Artists:
June 9th - Anne Madison, Jewelry
June 16th - Matt Saindon, Photography
June 30 - George Murill, Paintings
For more information, contact kari@southeastcdc.org or visit here.
Classes & Workshops
String Music Classes
The Baltimore Talent Education Center (BTEC) provides high quality music education at reasonable cost for children who reside in Baltimore City. We host one of the highest rates of student retention – averaging 6 years -- of any music education program in Baltimore. Violin, bass, cello, guitar, piano, and viola lessons at Patterson Park Public Charter and Highlandtown #237. Three class structures: Beginner, Intermediate Small Group and Individual. Pre-K to High School. Fall semester begins week of Sept. 19. For more information, email Kelly AJ Powers baltimoresuzuki@gmail.com, 410-215-2262 or click here.
Spring Garden Workshop
Hone your andamento skills on a garden focal point. Andamento is the visual flow of a mosaic, the product of many things which come together to create a striking effect. In this workshop, we'll create a beautiful focal point for your spring garden -- either a steppingstone or a flat wall piece. We will work with ceramic tile and learn new techniques through a series of demonstrations on nipping, size, choice of color and placement of tesserae or pieces. We'll demonstrate choosing and cutting of substrate, adhesives and materials required for long lasting outdoor work. Grouting will be demonstrated and participants will receive a grout kit to take with them. Beginner or intermediate level.
Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
$95 workshop fee; $35 materials fee
For more information email: cinderart@me.com
From The Blog
Visiting artist Gaia leaves his mark on the Creative Alliance
Exhibitions
June 1 - 30
Summer Solstice Show
@ Romans Place
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June 10 - Aug 15
The 4th Anniversary Group Exhibition
6pm
@ Towson Arts Collective
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Events
June 3
Word is Out - A Pride Celebration
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 4
A Grateful Dead B'Day Party for Robert Hunter
8pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 10
Autumn Range
8pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 10
The 4th Anniversary Group Exhibition
6pm
@ Towson Arts Collective
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June 10
Artistry II
@ Skyloft's
7pm
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June 11
Best Kept Secret presents Fashion Show GALACTICA
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 17
Michael Raitzyk Organ/ic Music Trio: Live CD release
8pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 18
Matt Saindon Opening
7pm to 9pm
@ Ancient Arts and Wellness
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June 18
Superman's Birthday Bash
1pm
@ Southeast Anchor Library
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June 17
Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival
10am
@ Creative Alliance
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June 23
Tony & Janina's American Wedding
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 24
AFTERMATH
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 25
The Miracle Worker
1pm
@ Southeast Anchor Library
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June 25
Thomas C. Scilipoti: 60 Years of Baltimore Photographs
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 25
THE BIG SHOW 2011
7pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 25
Margaret Locklear
6pm
@ Creative Alliance
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June 25
Aaron Gilmartin
6pm
@ Creative Alliance
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Join us for the ha! happy hour the 1st Wednesday of every month. Meet fellow ha! artists & neighbors from 4 - 7 p.m. at The Laughing Pint.
The ha! Steering Committee meets every 1st Wednesday at 4:30PM at Schiavone Fine Art. Artists & neighbors interested in getting involved should email ha@highlandtown.com
ha! Art Venues & Resources
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-2761651
www.CreativeAlliance.org
Crown Cork & Seal
4401 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-327-4141
www.crowncork.com
Highlandtown Community Association
Meeting Address: 3407 Gough Street,
3rd Monday of every month @ 7pm
www.highlandtown.com
Magnolia Desings, llc
Canton Kitchens Building
3211 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
301-370-0115
www.magnoliadesignsllc.com
Mark Supik & Company
1 N. Haven Street
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-732-8414
www.marksupikco.com
Schiavone Fine Art
244 S Highland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-534-2212
www.SchiavoneFineArt.com
Skyloft Gallery & Studios
3703 Bank Street
Baltimore MD 21224
410-276-1193
www.skylofts.net
Southeast Anchor Library
3601 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224-4206
410-396-1580
www.prattlibrary.org
Laughing Pint
3531 Gough Street
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-342-6544
www.laughingpint.com
Veteran Artist Program
3701 Bank Street, Suite C
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-929-3827
www.veteranartistprogram.org
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