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Baltimore is a part of an important and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation supported study about the current state of available spaces for artists to develop their work.  Rehearsals, offices, performance – all of it!

Want to learn more about the study itself?

Check out our 3-City Arts Study One Sheet!

The more survey responses we have from Baltimore artists and arts organizations, the more attention we can draw to the strong desire for not just more space but more space that has what artists need and want.

It’s easy.  16 Questions.  10 minutes.

One lucky survey participant, will win a $100 Amazon gift card.  Just for filling out our survey!  

Fill out our short 16-question Survey HERE!

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Countdown to Awesomeness 

Apply by October 10th for Your Chance to Win $2,000

Calling all dreamers. The Awesome Foundation is raising the bar and doubling our normal cash prize to $2,000 for a project that SCREAMS “awesome!” and makes Baltimore an even more awesome place just by existing. We want your wild schemes, your spectacular flights of fancy, your semi-deranged space-monkey rocket launches. We’re looking for Snark-hunters, white-whale stalkers, and King-Kong conquistadors. Something so explosive it’ll make the gunpowder plot look like a pop-gun, so off the wall it’ll bounce off the plaster like Tigger on crack, so far outside the box that right angles start to weep and cry for mercy.

Something like …

“I want to build the world’s largest hammock.” http://www.architects.org/news/constructing-big-hammock

“I want to start a fashion line for diabetics with a cheeky name that makes wearing an insulin pump hotter than toting a Fendi bag.” http://shop.hankypancreas.com/

“I want to recreate the boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark in an urban environment so people can run screaming through back-alleys with a giant plush ball rumbling after them.” http://alleyofdoom.org/

What we don’t want: NOTHING BORING. The usual suspects will be rounded up and shot. No gallery exhibitions unless you’ve found a way to sculpt or paint with molten lava; no travel budgets or research budgets unless you bring back a yeti or resurrect a velociraptor. We think kids are awesome too but unless you’re training them to be ninja pirates, we’re probably the wrong address for funding your after-school program. We love community gardens too but we’d want to see magic beanstalks and we call dibs on all the golden eggs for our kick-ass recipe for glittering french toast. In other words, nothing that’s already been done to death or would get funded by a foundation NOT run by a crew of reckless maniacs bent on world anti-hum-drum-ination.

Got it? Awesome. Collect your inspiration together into concentrated form, go tohttp://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissions/new?chapter=baltimore and tell us why you should get two thousand bucks for it by OCTOBER 10th.

Questions? Email us at awesomebmore@gmail.com

http://www.awesomefoundation.org/chapters/baltimore

facebook.com/AwesomeBaltimore

 

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An example of Kareem’s “step script.”

Last week, ICY team members Sean Barton and Justin Green led two free workshops—one at the Westport Boys & Girls Club and one at the McElderry Park Community Center. Justin led the participants through a thorough history of western lettering, from the Roman era to present day, while Sean brushed out examples of each style.

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Shortly before the Fly Paper Incident, Justin reviews student work.

The younger kids at the Boys & Girls Club were particularly impressive students—they were rapt with attention throughout the entire lecture, and did some beautiful work. We were also able to leave our “Lettering Guide”—tailored to Baltimore—at the Westport Rec Center to remind the kids about the different alphabets they worked on.

In the meantime, work continues at sites around the city. But each wall deserves its own post, so stay tuned.

—ICY Signs