2016 OPEN STUDIO TOUR ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: DOTTIE CAMPBELL

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A brief interview with 2016 Open Studio Tour artist: Dottie Campbell

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Artwork by Dottie Campbell

Can you tell us a little bit about the work that you do in your studio?
Since I capture photographs outdoors and develop and print them in another space, I use my studio to review photographs and group them into collections. My photographs are large in size and it’s great to have good lighting and enough space so I can stand back and review the effect of the print to see whether I’m happy with it.
I also use my studio space to work on other ways to use my photographs. I cut my prints into shapes and construct collages from them; I apply various artist materials on top of the ink surface of the prints to create mixed media artworks; I create three-dimensional forms using the natural curl of the photographic paper; I experiment with unique display ideas for photographic work.

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Artwork by Dottie Campbell

What drew you to the medium(s) that you are currently working with?

All of the media I’ve used in my career as an artist has a basis in photography. I have used the camera to collect ideas for painting, drawing, work with fiber, and work with metal. I returned to photography itself as a medium when technology allowed me to create the large prints I had always wanted to make.

What is something that you think is unique about your studio or practice?

My photographic work is a synthesis of the various art forms I have studied and explored. I approach photography as a multi-media artist.
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Artwork by Dottie Campbell

What is one thing you love about being an artist in Baltimore?
I like all the interesting places I can find to photograph here, especially all the water.

What are you most excited about for this year’s Open Studio Tour?
I’m always excited to show my work for the year as a finished and cohesive group of photographs, and the Open Studio Tour provides me with that opportunity. My thanks to all the people who make the Open Studio Tour happen every year.
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Artwork by Dottie Campbell

Visit Dottie Campbell in her studio at the Mill Centre, located at 3000 Chestnut Ave!  Her studio will be open on October 8 & 9 from 10am-3pm.

Click Here To View Dottie Campbell’s Website

Call for Artists: 2016 Monument Lighting Poster Design

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Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore (DPOB) is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPRINT Project, MAP is working with DPOB to offer a unique opportunity for artists of the greater Baltimore metropolitan area.  The image of that artwork will be used to represent the annual Monument Lighting in Baltimore City to be held December 1st, 2016 where the artist will be publicly acknowledged for their work.

Now in its 45th year, The Monument Lighting will feature local entertainers, food, holiday activities, and a spectacular fireworks display. In 2015, nearly ten thousand people attended the event.

MAP only accepts 2-D works – photography, graphic design, print making, painting or similar media for duplication. All works must be no less than 4 x 4” and no more than 20 x 20”. Work should be oriented in a portrait style and sent in a file no less than 300 dpi for print. The final poster dimensions will be 18 x 24 with borders, sponsor logos, and the event copy.

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2016 OPEN STUDIO TOUR ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: MARIA LOUISE HIGH

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A brief interview with 2016 Open Studio Tour artist: Maria Louise High
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Artwork by Maria Louise High

Can you tell us a little bit about the work that you do in your studio?
A majority of the work I do, in either medium, is custom made, taking a single person into consideration during the entire process and creating something special to them even if it is not one of a kind.

In making my Blooms, I am inspired by form and volume and how far I can push that to make a piece that is still wearable in either an everyday context or for a special occasion. I love generous use of rich materials whether they are larger pearls or onyx beading or several layers of tiny seed beading, the layering of texture over the primary volume and form.

Most of my metalwork is done by electroforming and its creative process is opposite to my fabric work in that the texture usually takes first consideration with form and volume following after. In designing this work, I try to focus on personal nostalgia and specifically the way we collect tokens or specimens – sand, shells, pebbles – to remind us of places or people. In creating custom portable objects with a client’s personal specimens, they can share their stories about their tokens as they wear them, rather than having these natural elements sitting in a jar on on a shelf located where little conversation takes place. My production work typically focuses on textures and shapes found in marine life and abstracted to varying degrees.

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Artwork by Maria Louise High

What drew you to the medium(s) that you are currently working with?
It’s been an interesting chain of experience. Painting and illustration led to fabric work and at the request of a friend who was Director of the Woman’s Industrial Exchange, I did some blooms for the shop. So I sort of fell into that, and just worked at creating pieces that were more innovative and unique from what others were doing at the time. It garnered me a commission for a magazine cover and has landed my work in over 20 countries, which still amazes me! Something was still missing, though. After a couple years of that work, I wanted to reinvest in my skills and thought I would take some classes at MICA to further my painting. That’s when I discovered the jewelry department (now the Baltimore Jewelry Center) and everything about it clicked neatly and quickly into my life. I come from a family full of carpenters and ironworkers going back over 100 years, so I guess there’s a genetic component. My tools are just a lot smaller.
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Artwork by Maria Louise High

What is something that you think is unique about your studio or practice?
I do work in two distinctly different media, fabric and metal. Because of switching back and forth, I don’t experience creative block and a break from one medium to work on another keeps the studio busy but balanced. It’s been an interesting journey over the past few months, finally bringing the two media together in a small collection of pieces I am excited to debut during the tour!

 

What is one thing you love about being an artist in Baltimore?
Art is so accessible here. With family roots in Philadelphia, I thought I would naturally end up living there. Then for a time we were planning a move to NYC, but in the end I couldn’t leave Baltimore. It’s been exciting to see the art movement in Baltimore swell and now flow into the maker movement. There is so much going on and it is all one step off of your stoop.
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 Artwork by Maria Louise High

What are you most excited about for this year’s Open Studio Tour?
It’s my first time participating!
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Artwork by Maria Louise High

Maria Louise High is located at 221 East Biddle Street!  Her studio will be open on October 8 from 10am-3pm & October 9 from 3-6pm.

Click Here To View Maria Louise High’s Website

Call for Artists: Mini-Golf in Station North

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Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc. is now accepting qualifications from artists, designers, and other creative community members to be a paid member of a Station North Mini Golf Design/Build Team.

BACKGROUND
Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc. (SNAE) has recently received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts for the implementation of a mini golf course. Activating four highly public sites in Station North, the project will engage artists, designers, and local youth from Baltimore’s preeminent creative community. With partners FutureMakers, educators, and students from four area schools, selected artists will each play a vital role in facilitating the collaborative design of two miniature golf holes, with a total of eight miniature golf holes set to launch in 2017.

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2016 OPEN STUDIO TOUR ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: URSULA W POPULOH

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A brief interview with 2016 Open Studio Tour artist: Ursula Populohursula_populoh-populoh_ursula_youneverknewme_stitchedqueerbaltimore_2016-2
Artwork by Ursula Populoh

Can you tell us a little bit about the work that you do in your studio?

Costume design, piecework and appliqué, embroidery, quilting, painting

What drew you to the medium(s) that you are currently working with?

Any medium with which I work is recycled, salvaged or has been reclaimed. It is an important part of my work to demonstrate with my art that there is plenty of material available for any piece of art if one looks at material differently. Previously used items can be seen as a treasure to be worthwhile to be reworked or to be thrown out. My look at things is the ‘treasure’ look. I love giving new life to textiles in any form possible.

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What is something that you think is unique about your studio or practice?

I am using only recycled, previously used and reused, mended material.

What is one thing you love about being an artist in Baltimore?

It is a vibrant and cultural mixed city.
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Artwork by Ursula Populoh

What are you most excited about for this year’s Open Studio Tour?
To have an opportunity to show and explain my work.
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Artwork by Ursula Populoh

Stop by Ursula Populoh’s studio located at 3708 Kimble Road!  Her studio will be open on October 8 & 9 between 10am – 3pm.

Click Here To View Ursula Populoh’s Website

Call for Artists: Glen Echo Park

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The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture requests proposals from individuals or groups of artists to present exhibitions in the Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery and Park View Gallery spaces at Glen Echo Park for the calendar year 2017. All three galleries serve the artists and the public in connecting patrons to high quality artwork, and generate revenue for both the artists and the Partnership.

Please note that if you have exhibited work in a solo exhibition in one of these galleries within the current or previous calendar year, you are not eligible for consideration for solo exhibition in 2017, but may participate in a group exhibition.

Please submit the proposal by email to Meredith Forster, mforster@glenechopark.org.

Questions may be directed to Meredith Forster at 301.634.2223 or the email address above.

An exhibition panel will review proposals and Partnership staff will contact artists regarding their proposals by September 29, 2016.

Deadline: September 13.

For more information and to apply please visit their website.